Maryland Native Plants for Meadows: Eragrostis spectabilis – Purple Love Grass
Glorious Grasses Eragrostis spectabilis – Purple Love Grass Eragrostis spectabilis, also called purple love grass, is a warm-season bunchgrass with flat, coarse, basal leaves, followed by soft reddish-purple flowers in a loose, open inflorescence in August....
Maryland Native Trees for Spring: Cercis canadensis – Eastern Redbud
Spring Blooming Trees Cercis canadensis – Eastern Redbud Cercis canadensis, also known as eastern redbud is a deciduous, multi-trunked understory tree that displays brilliant clusters of rose-pink flowers on bare branches in early spring, before the foliage...
Maryland Native plants for spring: Mertensia virginica – Virginia Bluebells
Maryland Native Plants for Spring Mertensia virginica – Virginia Bluebells Mertensia virginica, also called Virginia bluebells, is easily naturalized in moist, shady areas and works well in wildflower gardens. It is a native wildflower found in moist...