Excellent carpeting plants for woodland gardens. Flowers are tubby maroon jugs concealed beneath the heart shaped deciduous leaves that rise 6" on silky petioles. Our native wild ginger is reputed to be an alternate food plant for the beautiful Pipevine Swallowtail____ZONE 4

A wonderful butterfly plant , drought tolerant and difficult to transplant once established it is a favorite with monarch butterflies and should be planted in big drifts .___ZONE 4

Pawpaw, grown for its tropical looking foliage, large flowers, edible tasty fruits and most of all to attract Zebra Swallowtail butterflies. These amazingly long tailed butterflies eat nothing else as larvae. If they don't find you, go out and net a few females, bring them home and release them. They are seldom virgins when you catch them and will usually start a colony as long as sufficient food is available and you introduce a bit of genetic diversity. Releasing a single female is not likely to be successful. Don't panic unduly about upsetting ecosystems, butterflies are often blown hundreds of miles outside their natural range, netting a few and moving them changes little.

Large, showy lavender flowers on a short, one foot tall plant.___ZONE 4