Oh, where to begin with this one! Full sun is six or more hours of direct sunlight. Many of our native plants prefer this condition. This is just a small list to get you started. As always, deer and rabbit resistant is not a guarantee that they will not browse it.
Bulbs:
Allium cernuum - Nodding Onion 🦌🐇
Edibles:
Fragaria virginiana - Wild Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana 'Intensity' - Wild Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana 'Port Huron' - Wild Strawberry
Gaylussacia baccata - Black Huckleberry
Monarda fistulosa - Wild Bergamot 🦌
Vaccinium angustifolium - Lowbush Blueberry
Grasses:
Andropogon gerardii - Big Bluestem 🦌
Andropogon virginicus - Broomsedge 🦌
Eragrostis spectabilis - Purple Love Grass 🦌
Panicum virgatum - Switchgrass 🦌
Schizachyrium scoparium - Little Bluestem 🦌
Sorghastrum nutans - Indian Grass 🦌
Sporobolus heterolepsis - Prairie Dropseed 🦌
Perennials:
Achillea millefolium - Common Yarrow 🦌
Baptisia tinctoria - Wild Indigo 🦌🐇
Asclepias syriaca - Common Milkweed 🦌
Asclepias tuberosa - Butterfly Weed 🦌🐇
Aster ericoides - Heath Aster 🦌🐇
Aster ericoides 'Snow Flurry' - Heath Aster Cultivar 🦌🐇
Aster oblongifolius - Aromatic Aster 🦌🐇
Aster oblongifolius 'October Skies' - Aromatic Aster Cultivar🦌🐇
Aster oblongifolius 'Raydon's Favorite' - Aromatic Aster Cultivar 🦌🐇
Callirhoe involucrata - Poppy Mallow
Chrysopsis mariana - Maryland Aster 🦌
Echinacea pallida - Pale Purple Coneflower 🦌🐇
Echinacea purpurea - Purple Coneflower
Eryngium yuccifolium - Rattlesnake Master 🦌
Geum triflorum - Prairie Smoke 🦌🐇
Liatris scariosa var. novae-angliae - New England Blazing Star 🦌
Liatris spicata - Blazing Star 🦌
Monarda bradburiana - Eastern Bee Balm 🦌🐇
Monarda punctata - Spotted Horsemint 🦌🐇
Oligoneuron rigidum var. rigidum - Stiff Goldenrod
Optuntia humifusa - Prickly Pear 🦌
Penstemon hirsutus - Hairy Beardtongue 🦌🐇
Phlox subulata 'Emerald Cushion Blue' - Creeping Phlox 🦌
Phlox subulata 'Fort Hill' - Creeping Phlox 🦌
Phlox subulata 'Snowflake' - Creeping Phlox 🦌
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium - Threadleaf Mountain Mint 🐇
Ratibida pinnata - Gray Coneflower 🐇
Solidago flexicaulis - Zig Zag Goldenrod 🦌
Solidago speciosa - Showy Goldenrod
Sedges:
Carex appalachica - Appalachian Sedge 🦌
Carex bicknellii - Bicknell's Sedge 🦌
Carex texensis - Texas Sedge 🦌
Shrubs:
Amelanchier laevis - Allegheny Serviceberry
Arctostaphyllos uva-ursi - Bearberry
Arctostaphyllos uva-ursi 'Massachusetts' - Bearberry Cultivar
Ceanothus americanus - New Jersey Tea
Comptonia peregrina - Sweet Fern 🦌🐇
Diervilla lonicera - Bush Honeysuckle
Myrica pensylvanica - Bayberry
Potentilla fruticosa - Cinquefoil Cultivars 🦌
Prunus maritima - Beach Plum 🦌
Rhus aromatica 'Gro-Low' - Fragrant Sumac Cultivar 🐇
Rhus copallinum - Winged Sumac
Rosa carolina - Pasture Rose
Trees:
Celtis occidentalis - Common Hackberry
Juniperus virginiana - Eastern Red Cedar 🦌
Prunus virginiana - Chokecherry
Vines:
Parthenocissus quinquefolia - Virginia Creeper
Top Row: Spotted Horsemint, Zig Zag Goldenrod, Threadleaf Mountain Mint
Second Row: Bush Honeysuckle, Sweet Fern, Nodding Onion
Third Row: Winged Sumac, 'Snow Flurry' Heath Aster, Wild Bergamot
Bottom Row: Rattlesnake Master, 'Raydon's Favorite' Aromatic Aster, Gray Coneflower
photos: KMS Native Plants LLC
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