Ostrya virginiana (Ironwood) Wet Prairie & Sedge Meadow Warrior Plants With visitors from many different

With visitors from many different types of pollinators from bees to hummingbirds

An excellent texture plant for any woodland garden

Carex jamesii (Grass Sedge) can do well in deep shade as it develops early in the spring and blooms before the canopy trees have fully developed their leaves

to produce more than one-third of our food products

but when it blooms it can really give a unique display in your native garden

Ostrya virginiana (Ironwood) Wet Prairie & Sedge Meadow Warrior Plants With visitors from many differentOstrya virginiana (Ironwood) is a native understory tree typically found on dry rocky slopes of our oak woodlands. It can be used extremely well in shade and woodland gardens for that sub canopy naturalized texture. It can also perform well as mid level visual screens. This tree gets its common name from the extremely hard and dense wood. Another common name, Eastern Hop Hornbeam comes from it's hop like seed pods. Sun Exposure Prairie Savanna Soil