Find the right native plant for your patch of North Carolina

Brilliant orange milkweed for hot, dry, sunny spots — and a monarch host plant.

The classic golden daisy with a dark eye — cheerful, tough, and easy from seed.

Electric-red spikes for stream edges and rain gardens — a hummingbird favorite.

Airy spires of starry white bloom over handsome maple-shaped leaves in spring shade.

A low, long-blooming gold-star groundcover for shade and woodland edges.

A towering late-summer giant crowned with dusky-rose flower domes alive with butterflies.

A carnivorous curiosity of NC's rare bogs and seepage wetlands.

Ragged crimson crowns on aromatic foliage — a mountain hummingbird magnet.

Blue spring spires of a sandy-soil specialist — and host to rare elfin butterflies.

A graceful native shrub with fragrant white wands and brilliant crimson fall color.

Hooded white blooms for wet shade — and the host plant of the Baltimore checkerspot.

Airy, ferny foliage smothered in yellow daisies — tough and long-blooming.