SHRUBS

This small shrub helps stabilize dunes. It attracts thrushes, wrens, robins and waxwings. The plant grows low to the ground and spreads out widely but slowly, via surface rhizomes. Hummingbirds and butterflies like its evergreen leaves and red berries. 

This large shrub is a popular nectar site for butterflies and bees. Its foliage is dark green in summer, and purplish in the fall. It produces clusters of creamy white flowers in spring. The berry-like fruit turns bluish-black, offering food for birds in fall and early winter.  

This large shrub is a popular nectar site for butterflies and bees. Its foliage is dark green in summer, and purplish in the fall. It produces clusters of creamy white flowers in spring. The berry-like fruit turns bluish-black, offering food for birds in fall and early winter. 

This plant grows in thickets. It provides shelter and nesting sites for birds and small mammals. Eastern bluebirds, cardinals, Northern flickers, and downy woodpeckers eat its berries. Butterflies use it as a larval host plant. It also attracts native bees.  

This native plant (also known as Rosa blanda, smooth rose, meadow rose, or prairie rose), comes closest to a "thornless" rose, with only a few thorns at its base. It grows to more than three feet high, providing good cover for birds.

This upright, rounded shrub, native to the Midwest, does well in dry sandy to clay soil. The attractive gray-green foliage and purplish-blue flower spikes in early summer serve as a host to caterpillars, a nectar source for butterflies, and a food source for birds.