• How to identify the plant using its Leaf Description & Flower Shape
• How the plant helps support local wildlife & ecosystems
• How to care for it including how much to water it

(Download the Quick Fact Sheets for the plant species in your Habitat Lab & include them in your Learning Station Maintenance Binders.)

Sensory Garden Autumn Joy Sedum Lamb’s Ear Lavender Mountain Mint Rosemary Spearmint Woodland Stonecrop more suggestions…	Songbird Garden Black-eyed Susan Cardinal Flower Great Blue Lobelia Little Bluestem Pink Muhly Grass Purple Coneflower more suggestions…	Pollinator Garden Anise Hyssop Bee Balm Beeblossom Blanket Flower False Sunflower Goldenrod Lanceleaf Tickseed Narrowleaf Sunflower more suggestions…
Butterfly Garden Blue Mistflower Dense Blazing Star Hoary Vervain Miss Huff Lantana New England Aster Red Sage Rose Vervain Stokes Aster more suggestions…	Caterpillar Garden Blue False Indigo Blue Vervain Fennel Common Yarrow False Nettle Golden Alexander Passionflower Vine Swamp Rose-mallow Woolly Dutchman’s Pipe more suggestions…	Monarch Garden Butterfly Milkweed Common Milkweed Swamp Milkweed Whorled Milkweed Milkweed Comparison Chart
Frog & Toad Bog Christmas Fern Eastern Red Columbine Heartleaf Foamflower Horsetail Joe-pye Weed Lady Fern Lizard’s Tail Southern Woodfern Spiderwort Wild Ginger more suggestions…	Trees & Bushes American Beautyberry Buttonbush Flowering Dogwood Longleaf Pine Mapleleaf Virburnum Mock Orange Oakleaf Hydrangea Rabbiteye Blueberry Red Chokeberry Serviceberry Spicebush Sweet Pepperbush Yaupon Holly Virginia Sweetspire Wax Myrtle White Fringetree Winterberry	Similar Species Although moss, algae, mushrooms (fungi) and lichens are often thought of as plants, they do not have the same shape and structure as common plants like wildflowers, bushes or trees. These differences have led to these groups of organisms being classified into four different Kingdoms (or categories). Learn more about these Similar Species…

These plant suggestions are based on the greatest benefit the plants provide for backyard wildlife. Many of these plant species provide food sources for many types of wildlife including butterflies, caterpillars, native bees, other pollinators, hummingbirds, and other songbirds. Learn more with our Plant Purpose Chart!

Learn why it is important to Plant Native Plants instead of non-native species whenever possible!

Leaf Description Chart & Flower Shapes Chart

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Leaf Description Chart	Flower Shape Chart