Beautiful spring shade plant that can be used as a shallow-rooted ground cover. Likes more organic/rich soil. Attractive to butterflies, as well as people. Deer tend to leave it alone, but rabbits like to nibble it.
Beautiful early blooming flower for your shade garden, but foliage may die back in the summer so plant with other shade tolerant plants that persist through summer heat.
This species attracts several pollinators. Both the flowers and foliage are fragrant. Easy to grow. Edible and medicinal. Not favored by deer. Spreads easily.
Rare in Missouri's natural areas. A beautiful plant with multiple seasons of interest with blue-green foliage that has wonderful texture from early spring to late fall, bright spring blooms, and cute round seed balls in the fall. Like other Baptisia, it t
Wildlife magnet - attracts lots of butterflies, bees, other pollinating insects, and birds. Short-lived perennial, but will reseed and move around the garden. May need to be staked in moist, high-nutrient soil.
Can be pruned a few times a year, and even hedged. Prolific reseeder. A study in KC showed that Symphyotrichum is one of the plant genera in our area that attracts the largest number of different bee species.