Stokesia laevis Re-introduce native to the cool forests

native to the cool forests and clearings of the southeast

is a compact deciduous shrub grown for an early flood of delicate pink-to-white bloom

Nothing else in the garden will look quite like the vine hung with red maple keys that never came from a maple

Prunus incisa

the big-leaved

Stokesia laevis Re-introduce native to the cool forestsStokesia laevis is one of those rare native perennials that marries toughness with elegance, a plant that has stood its ground in the Southeastern pinelands for ages yet looks as though it belongs in the most refined cottage border. Native to the sandy, open woods and pine savannas of the Carolinas, Georgia, and the Gulf coastal plain, this Stokes' aster rises each spring from tidy, semi evergreen rosettes of glossy leaves before sending up broad,