Salt-Tolerant Plants
Use of de-icers as well as saline soils create physiological drought for plants. These plants have high tolerances to salt.
Annuals (8)
Butterfly Attracting (81)
Creative Containers (52)
Drought-Defiant (87)
Midwest Native (84)
Salt-Tolerant Plants (26)
Shade-tolerant (54)
Trees & Shrubs (74)
Artemisia schmidtiana
Common Name: Silver Mound Artemisia
Soft, feathery foliage of Silver Mound Artemisia forms a compact, silky, cushion-like mound. It has many applications in the landscape including edging, rock gardens or a filler plant for hot, dry areas. It has long been one of the most popular silve...
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Buxus microphylla ''Winter Gem''
Common Name: Winter Gem Boxwood
Very cold hardy and densely branched, Winter Gem Boxwood is a great evergreen shrub for small topiaries and trimmed hedges in the landscape. Different cultivars offer broad variety of mature heights, all with moderate growth. Salt-...
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Calamagrostis acutiflora ''Karl Foerster''
Common Name: Karl Foerster Feather Reed Grass
Karl Foerster Feather Reed Grass is a stately, upright ornamental grass that makes a great addition to any landscape. Can be used informally with naturalized landscapes or in formal mass plantings....
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Dianthus gratianopolitanus ''Firewitch''
Common Name: Firewitch Dianthus
Maximum color impact from Firewitch Dianthus, a German cultivar. Firewitch Dianthus offers one of the bluest-foliaged, most heat-tolerant and most tolerant of varying soil conditions of the many types of Dianthus. Prolific blooms extend throughout th...
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Festuca cinerea ''Elijah Blue''
Common Name: Elijah Blue Fescue
Elijah Blue Fescue is a clumping ornamental grass with outstanding icy-blue leaf color. Heat tolerance, evergreen quality and unique foliage color makes it perfect for edging borders or mass planting as a ground cover. Buff colored flowers rise above...
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Hemerocallis ''Chicago Apache''
Common Name: Chicago Apache Daylily
Chicago Apache Daylily is a perennial award winner, and for good reason. Plants offer abundance of large, five-inch diameter blossoms, vibrant deep red color and hardiness in a variety of climates and soils. Low-maintenance and easy-to-grow, pest res...
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Hemerocallis ''Rosy Returns''
Common Name: Rosy Returns Daylily
Rosy Returns Daylily is a hybrid of Stella de Oro, so you expect bloom strength, but it's got something more -- the ability to rebloom from early June right up to frost! Large, 4" flowers bloom from early summer until hard frost. Excellent in massed ...
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Hemerocallis ''Double Orange''
Common Name: Double Orange Daylily
Double Orange Daylily offers brilliant orange, double flowers! Large, 4" flowers bloom from early summer until hard frost. Excellent in massed plantings or naturalized....
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Hemerocallis ''Happy Returns''
Common Name: Happy Returns Daylily
Happy Returns Daylily is a hybrid of Stella de Oro, so you expect bloom strength, but it's got something more -- the ability to rebloom from early June right up to frost! Large, 4" flowers bloom from early summer until hard frost. Excellent in massed...
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Hemerocallis ''Stella d'Oro''
Common Name: Stella d'Oro Daylily
Stella d'Oro Daylily is a great choice for a variety of well-drained soils in full sun to part shade. Dwarf, everblooming variety with multitudes of dainty, canary-yellow flowers. By far one of the best daylilies available. The Stella D'Oro daylily h...
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Heuchera 'Crimson Curls'
Common Name: Coral Bells
'Crimson Curls' has ruffled and curled warm bronze foliage with contrasting crimson undersides. Sprays of small creamy-white flowers appear in late spring and summer. Excellent in the border, filling between plants and under shrubs and trees....
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Heuchera 'Rave On'
Common Name: Coral Bells
Rave On Heuchera produces more flowers than any other heuchera in trials. This plant blooms the heaviest in late spring, with masses of deep pink flowers on tall stems. The leaves are deep greenish purple with a very heavy silver overlay. Easy to gro...
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Heuchera 'Citronelle'
Common Name: Coral Bells
Large, rounded, lobed leaves are neon-bright shade of chartreuse. Topped by small creamy-white bells in mid- to late-summer are showy season after season on compact plants....
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Heuchera micrantha 'Palace Purple'
Common Name: Coral Bells
Unique deep purple foliage with dark red stems fade to bronzed green in hot summers. Small pink and white flowers bloom in spring and last into the summer....
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Heuchera X villosa 'Miracle'
Common Name: Miracle Heuchera
Heuchera 'Miracle' goes through several changes in leaf coloration throughout the seasons. In the spring, the young foliage is lime to chartreuse with red accents in the center. As the foliage matures, it turns brick red with a bright chartreuse to g...
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Heuchera X villosa 'Caramel'
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'Caramel' is a vigorous, clump-forming coral bells cultivar that features unique apricot foliage and light pink flowers. Its lobed, rounded leaves form a basal mound. Plants spread nicely to fill areas fully. Leaves emerge gray-red in spring and matu...
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Heuchera X villosa 'Southern Comfort'
Common Name: Southern Comfort Heuchera
Southern Comfort is a unique and colorful variety of coral bells with large, nine inch leaves that are a warm golden caramel with hot pink undersides. This variety thrives in intense heat and humidity and tolerates some sun once established....
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Liriope spicata
Common Name: Lilyturf
Lilyturf is a rhizomatous, grass-like perennial which forms a clump of narrow, arching, glossy, dark green leaves. Erect flower spikes with pale lavender to white flowers arise, somewhat hidden, among the leaves in late summer. Lilyturf flowers often...
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Morella pennsylvanica
Common Name: Northern Bayberry
Northern Bayberry is a long-lived, slow-growing deciduous shrub with green foliage, inconspicuous yellow male flowers and small blue fruits or seeds. The greatest bloom is in late spring, with fruit and seed production starting in the summer and cont...
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Pennisetum alopecuroides ''Foxtrot''
Common Name: Foxtrot Fountain Grass
Foxtrot Fountain Grass forms large, upright clumps topped in midsummer with 60-inch tall tan plumes. P. 'Foxtrot' has proven to be an outstanding, non-spreading, long-lived and reliable performer with much more vigor than typical P. alopecuroides....
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Schizachyrum scoparium
Common Name: Little Bluestem
Little Bluestem is one of the best small, non-spreading, clump-forming native grasses. Little Bluestem's blue-green leaves turn reddish orange in the fall. Fluffy silver seed heads are ornamental through winter. Easy to establish and perfect in short...
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Schizachyrum scoparium ''The Blues''
Common Name: The Blues Little Bluestem
The Blues Little Bluestem is one of several outstanding new selections of Little Bluestem grass, each with more intense grayish-blue summer foliage and deeper bronzy-red fall foliage. Sturdy, upright growth habit. The Blues Little Bluestem is nice co...
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Sedum spectabile ''Autumn Joy''
Common Name: Autumn Joy Sedum
Autumn Joy Sedum is one of the best-known and well-used sedums. Super tough for borders of late summer. Flower clusters begin a soft rose and mature to a deep brick red. Autumn Joy Sedum harmonizes well with the late summer colors of ornamental grass...
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Tilia americana
Common Name: American Basswood
American Basswood is a tall stately tree has dark green leaves. In late spring, American Basswood has fragrant yellow flowers with fine, high-quality nectar attract bees and other pollinators. In the fall, color may be a deep yellow....
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Waldsteinia fragaroides
Common Name: Barren Strawberry
Barren Strawberry is a good, general-purpose groundcover for full sun to partial shade. Barren Strawberry is a native that forms a slow spreading mat with small, yellow early spring flowers. Foliage is evergreen, but tends to turn bronze cold winter ...
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Yucca glauca
Common Name: Soapweed
Soapweed or Yucca offers a bright stalk of creamy white flowers that protrude from a center stalk within the plant's cluster of blue-green, blade-shaped leaves....
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