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Meadow beauty

Rhexia virginica

Meadow beauty

Peganum from Henfield, England, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Eastern ninebark

Physocarpus opulifolius

Eastern ninebark

Eastern ninebark is easily grown in average, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. It is an upright, somewhat coarse, deciduous shrub noted for its exfoliating bark which peels in...

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Passionflower

Passiflora incarnata

Passionflower

This species is one of 300+ within the genus and most are tropical, luckily this one is native to Ohio.  Passionflower prefer sun and average garden soil.  Although they are late to emerge in...

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Spicebush

Lindera benzoin

Spicebush

At The Holden Arboretum, Lindera benzoin, spicebush, is one of the most common shrubs in our natural areas. There are fine plantings of spicebush in the Arlene and Arthur S. Holden...

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Red-osier dogwood

Cornus sericea ‘Ruby’

Red-osier dogwood

This cultivar was introduced in 1988 and was selected for its layering habit, bright red stems and uniform rounded form. Red stems provide some much need color in a snow-covered winter landscape.  Small white flowers appear in the...

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