Native Plants of the Southeast

The Pecan is a stately Southern shade tree that, in time, produces bountiful harvests of rich, buttery nuts - plant two varieties for pollination.Pecan Tree Sapling is nursery-grown by Wade Greens in Lineville, Alabama, cared for by hand and shipped healthy and ready to...

Persimmons hand you honey-sweet fruit in October after everything else is done, on a tree that needs almost no spraying and glows orange in fall.Asian persimmons are the ones to plant for eating fresh: non-astringent 'Fuyu' and 'Jiro' can be eaten crisp like an...

Glowing orange persimmons picked at the right stage, with a honey-cinnamon sweetness and a texture that ranges from crisp to spoonable custard.Know which type you have, because this is the source of nearly every persimmon complaint. NON-ASTRINGENT Fuyu-type fruit is squat and flat, and...

Purple Coneflower is a native prairie perennial whose bold, long-lasting blooms feed pollinators and finches - tough, reliable, and beautiful.Purple Coneflower Bare-Root is nursery-grown by Wade Greens in Lineville, Alabama, cared for by hand and shipped healthy and ready to thrive. Available in Bare-Root...

The fast-growing River Birch is prized for its beautiful peeling, cinnamon-toned bark and excellent tolerance of wet sites.The river birch (Betula nigra) is a fast-growing native shade tree with striking peeling, cinnamon-colored bark. Adaptable and tough, it handles wet soils well and adds year-round...

Rudbeckia lights up the garden with golden, dark-eyed daisies for weeks on end - a tough native beloved by pollinators.Rudbeckia bring vivid, long-lasting color to gardens and arrangements, grown with care at our Lineville, Alabama farm. They're pollinator-friendly and a cheerful addition to beds,...

The Serviceberry offers a four-season show - spring blossoms, sweet summer berries for you and the birds, and fiery fall color.Serviceberry (Amelanchier) is a native multi-season tree with spring flowers, sweet summer berries, and fiery fall color. It feeds pollinators and birds and stays...

'Little Gem' brings full-size fragrant magnolia flowers to a compact tree that fits a courtyard and blooms from spring into fall.'Little Gem' is a dwarf Southern magnolia with the same glossy dark leaves and bronze felted undersides as the full-size species, on a narrow...

Willow and Nuttall oaks grow shade fast for oaks, drop small tidy leaves, and hand the yard deep red color every November.These two native red-group oaks are the practical choice for large shade in the South. Willow oak has narrow, willow-like leaves that rake...

Witch hazel opens spidery yellow flowers in late fall and winter when nothing else is blooming, then turns clear gold each autumn.Witch hazel is a large native shrub or small multi-stemmed tree that flowers on bare or nearly bare branches in the cold months,...

A Southeast native evergreen that holds its leaves and its berries straight through winter.Yaupon Holly (Ilex vomitoria) is one of the toughest evergreens native to the Southeast - glossy small leaves, dense branching, and scarlet berries on female plants that persist into spring. It...