Plant Profile: Sweet Birch (Betula lenta)
Karen Sweet birch is a deciduous tree also known as black birch, cherry birch, mahogany birch or spice birch, and is native to eastern North America from southern Maine and Ontario,…
Plant Profile: Flowering Ash (Fraxinus dipetala)
Flowering ash, also called California ash and two-petal ash, is a deciduous small tree or large shrub native California, northwestern Arizona, southern Nevada, Utah and norther Baja California where it…
Plant Profile: Bluebloosom (Ceanothus thyrsiflorus)
Blueblossom, also known as wild/California lilac, is an evergreen shrub endemic to southern Oregon to southern California where it grows in open woods and chaparral of coastal mountains. It is…
Plant Profile: Redbay (Persea borbonia)
Redbay is an evergreen tree or large shrub native to coastal areas of southeastern US where it grows in sandy low woods, swamps, pond margins, and pine savannas from North…
Plant Profile: New York Aster (Aster novi belgi AKA Symphyotrichum novi-belgi)
New York aster, also called Michaelmas daisy, is a herbaceous perennial native to the Atlantic Coastal Plain from Maine to Georgia where it grows in low areas, moist meadows, thickets,…
Plant Profile: Allegheny Serviceberry (Amelanchier laevis)
This deciduous tree is native to eastern North America from Nova Scotia and Ontario, south to Georgia and west to Kansas where it grows in woodland edges, thickets, rock outcroppings,…
Plant Profile: Engelmann Oak (Quercus engelmannii)
Engelmann oak, also known as mesa oak and Pasadena oak, is rare tree native to the open woods and chaparral in the foothills of Southern California and northern Baha California.…
Plant Profile: Sand Pine (Pinus clausa)
Sand pine is a coniferous shrubby tree native to areas in Florida, Georgia, and Alabama where it grows in the infertile very well-drained soils of ridges, barrens, and dunes. It…
Plant Profile: New England Aster (Aster novae-angliae aka Symphyotrichum novae-angliae )
New England aster, also called Michaelmas daisy, is a herbaceous perennial native to much of the US from the Rocky Mountains to the East Coast where it grows in a…
Plant Profile: Eastern Redcedar (Juniperus virginiana)
Eastern redcedar is an evergreen coniferous tree native to the woodland edges, old fields, meadows, and rocky ground of eastern North America from Nova Scotia and Ontario, south to Florida…