Colorful Maryland Native Plants Geranium maculatum Geranium maculatum, ‘chatto’ wild geranium, is a herbaceous perennial cultivar of Geranium maculatum. It has dark green foliage and pale pink to lilac colored flowers. The flowers are saucer-shaped...
Colorful Maryland Native Plants Dicentra eximia Dicentra eximia, Bleeding Heart, is a native wildflower with a fern-like, grayish-green foliage and pink to purplish heart-shaped flowers. The heart-shaped flowers bloom in the late spring. Bleeding Hearts do not...
Maryland Native Plants for Spring Amelanchier canadensis Amelanchier canadensis, Serviceberry is a deciduous multi-stemmed shrub or small tree. In the early spring, white blooms emerge. The blooms are followed by edible berries. The berries mature from green to...
Colorful Native Plants for Maryland Cercis canadensis Cercis canadensis, redbud, is deciduous, multi-trunked tree. The tree displays clusters of rosy-pink flowers in early spring. The redbud flowers are then followed by bean-like dry seedpods, which can remain...
Fragrant Native Maryland Plants Cephalanthus occidentalis Cephalanthus occidentalis, Buttonbush, is a deciduous shrub with an open-rounded habit. The leaves emerge in the late spring, and the flowers pop up in the early to mid summer. The shrub has unusual...
