Native Plant Garden

WSSC's Native Plant Garden for Butterflies and Birds

Bug With help from CIVICUS, WSSC created a native garden for butterflies and birds at Brighton Dam, 2 Brighton Dam Road, Brookville, MD 20833.

Butter Fly The site at Brighton Dam was chosen because those who wish to boat, hunt and/or horseback on WSSC's watershed property must have a watershed permit which can be purchased at the Visitors' Cabin at Brighton Dam.

The garden is 15’ by 30’. The plants are native to Maryland and the Mid-Atlantic region, including:

Swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata)	Butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa)	Wild Indigo (Baptisia australis)	Sweet Pepperbush (Clethra alnifolia)

White Turtlehead (Chelone glabra)	Joe Pye-Weed (Eupatorium dubium)	Cranesbill (Geranium maculatum)	Spicebush (Lindera benzoin)

Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis)	Beebalm (Monarda didyma)	Beardtongue (Penstemon digitalis)	Summer Phlox (Phlox paniculata)

Moss phlox (Phlox subulata)	Black chokeberry (Photina melanocarpa)	Fragrant Sumac (Rhus aromatica)	Staghorn Sumac (Rhus typhina)

Coneflower (Rudbeckia fulgida)	Chokeberry (Aronia melanocarpa)	Hibscus (Hibscus moscheutos)	Viburnum (Viburnum dentatum)

Coreopsis (Coreopsis grandiflora)	Coreopsis (Coreopsis verticillata)	Wood Aster (Eurybia divaricata)	Ironweed (Veronica noveborancensis)

New England Aster (Aster novae-angliae)