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Wild Lily of the Valley is a common groundcover in North American boreal forests, producing small white flowers and differing from the true European species.
Common Selfheal is a widespread herb in the mint family, historically utilized in European traditional medicine for its purported wound-healing properties.
Sheep Laurel (Kalmia angustifolia) is a low evergreen shrub of eastern North America known to be toxic to livestock, particularly sheep, with deep pink flowers appearing in early summer.
The most cold-hardy cactus in the United States, native from Massachusetts to Florida, surviving temperatures to -30°F and producing yellow flowers atop sprawling green pads.
Common Cinquefoil (Potentilla simplex) is a trailing perennial native to eastern North America, bearing five-petaled yellow flowers and palmately compound leaves with five toothed leaflets.
A widespread prickly pear across the western Great Plains from Canada to Mexico, tolerating extreme cold and noted for its variable flower colors ranging from yellow to magenta.
Wild violets are herbaceous perennial plants native to eastern North America, easily recognized by their heart-shaped leaves and distinctive purple or blue asymmetrical spring flowers.
Mahonia repens is a low-growing western North American evergreen shrub that spreads by rhizomes to form groundcover colonies, closely related to M. aquifolium but rarely exceeding 30 cm in height.
Common speedwell (*Veronica persica*) is a low-growing Eurasian weed that was introduced to North America and is notable for its small, bright blue striped flowers.
Sand Cherry is a low, spreading shrub native to the Great Lakes region of North America, specifically adapted to thrive in sandy, exposed coastal and inland dunes.
Kalmia angustifolia is a low-growing North American heath-family shrub historically toxic to livestock—hence the common name—producing clusters of rose-pink flowers across boggy and rocky habitats.
Opuntia humifusa var. humifusa, known as devil's tongue, is a low-growing eastern US cactus recognized by its yellow flowers and cold-hardy, juicy red fruits.
Common Chickweed (Stellaria media) is a European annual naturalized on every continent, ranked among the world's most widespread weeds and eaten as a potherb since at least medieval times.
