North Hempstead Beach Park

This park’s promenade along the waterfront boasts raised planting beds with a variety of native plants.

Click the links below to learn about each native plant.

Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia fulgida)

Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea)

Garden Phlox (Phlox paniculata)

Common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)

Blazingstar (Liatris spicata)

Common Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)

Threadleaf coreopsis ‘zagreb’ and ‘moonbeam’ (Coreopsis verticillata)

Summersweet (Clethra alnifolia)

River birch (Betula nigra)