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Echinacea pallida Common Name: Pale Purple Coneflower In late spring to mid-summer, tall bare stems are topped with single, showy lavender pink flowers with drooping petals and cone-shaped brown seed heads. It makes a good cut or dried flower. If old flower heads are not removed the seeds are eaten by... [ More Info ]

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Echinacea purpurea Common Name: Purple Coneflower Purple Coneflower is a perennial favorite! Robust and drought-tolerant, this species is native to the midwestern and southeastern United States. Prefers full sun to partial shade in fertile, well-drained soils. Purple Coneflower is easy to naturalize... [ More Info ]

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Elaeagnus angustifolia Common Name: Russian Olive Russian Olive is a small, thorny shrub or small tree. Its stems, buds, and leaves have a dense covering of silvery to rusty scales. Highly aromatic, creamy yellow flowers appear in June and July and are later replaced by clusters of abundant, egg-sha... [ More Info ]

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Eleocaris palustris Common Name: Creeping Spike Rush Native Creeping Spike Rush forms dense tufts of smooth, upright, unbranched stems, to two feet in height. Flowers from June through August. Seedheads are brown, scaly and conical and provide food for waterfowl. Creeping Spike Rush is distinguished fr... [ More Info ]

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Elymus canadense Common Name: Canada Wild Rye This fast-growing prairie grass is not only attractive, it also serves as an excellent native nurse crop for prairie seedings. The beautiful curving seedheads on five foot tall stalks resemble cultivated rye. Grows on an incredible range of soils, in... [ More Info ]

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Elymus virginicus Common Name: Virginia Wild Rye Similar to Canada Wild Rye, this graceful grass grows in full sun or moderate shade. Excellent for stabilizing disturbed soils in woodland situations, the plants grow in almost any soil and does particularly well in slightly moist soils along woodlan... [ More Info ]

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Equisetum hyemale Common Name: Horsetail Vigorously spreading clumps of cylindrical, gray-green to bright green stems with cream-colored bands accented by black fringe. Stems turn bronze in winter; flowers are cone-like spikes at the stem tips. Adapts to full sun or part shade but thrives ... [ More Info ]

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Eryngium yuccifolium Common Name: Rattlesnake Master Rattlesnake Master is a Midwest native plant which occurs in rocky woods, prairies and glades. It was a common plant of the vast, tallgrass prairie. Rattlesnake Master has bold, basal rosettes of parallel-veined, bristly-edged, sword-shaped leaves re... [ More Info ]

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Euonymus alatus 'Compacta' Common Name: Dwarf Burning Bush Dwarf Burning Bush is a compact, slow growing shrub. The dark green leaves turn rose-red in fall. Excellent as a hedge, screen, or accent to evergreens.... [ More Info ]

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Euonymus atropurpurea Common Name: Eastern Wahoo Eastern Wahoo is a shrub or small tree that blooms in the spring with small purple flowers followed by scarlet red fruit that is enjoyed by birds. Eastern Wahoo has brilliant red fall foliage.... [ More Info ]

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Eupatorium coelestinum Common Name: Mist Flower One of the shortest of all the Eupatoriums, this native perennial version of the annual ageratum gives a good show of color from mid-summer to early fall with flat-topped flower heads of tufty, dense clusters of bright blue-violet flowers. Excellent ... [ More Info ]