Strawberry Bush
Seeds are eaten by songbirds, wild turkeys and small mammals. Attractive pink-red fruit opens to reveal orange berries.
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Fall Plant Sale at Pennypack Environmental Center
Native plant sale at PEC's Fall Festival and Arts & Crafts Show. Sales support education and restoration at the center.
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Carolina Sweetshrub
Butterflies nectar at the blooms. Other insects also feed at the flowers, especially beetles.
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Switchgrass
Provides excellent cover year round. This is a larval host plant for various Skipper butterflies and the Common Wood-Nymph. (NC Ext)
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Short-toothed Mountain Mint
Attract bees, butterflies, and other pollinators; truly a pollinator favorite. Spreads in sunny garden. Leaves and flowers used for tea.
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Phlox
Phlox stolonifera, or creeping phlox, is a spreading, mat-forming phlox which is native to wooded areas and stream banks.
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Bee Balm
Native perennial pink or red summer blooms that attract pollinators, and can be used as tea.
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Woodland Sunflower
Native perennial with yellow mid-summer blooms that are fast spreading for meadow, naturalized areas.
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Tall Tickseed
Native perennial with yellow mid-summer blooms that reach five to eight feet tall.
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