List of All Fall 2026 Species

The lovely and adaptable native bittersweet vine! Not to be confused with the similar looking invasive Asian bittersweet, our vines are pure Americ...

A.k.a. Marsh blazing star. A classic gayfeather in appearance with possibly the prettiest foliage of the native liatris. The tall bloom spikes are ...

A thornless raspberry with showy purple blooms! Leaves look more like a maple than a rose, and turn light yellow in the fall. A mounding form and c...

A.k.a. desert false indigo-bush and bastard indigo bush*. A woody nitrogen fixer with dark, butterfly bush-like bloom spikes! Can be allowed to gro...

A showy, native clematis that blooms profusely with small, white flowers! Prefers part sun/shade but tolerates full sun. Can be grown up/through sh...

A cute runnering shrub with fern-like, fragrant leaves! Adaptable to most soils barring hardpan clay, but prefers slightly acidic, sandy soil. Indi...

A.k.a. smooth rose mallow. A lovely native hibiscus closely related to the better known swamp rose mallow. A wetland species, it can adapt to mesic...

A.k.a. flower-of-an-hour and fame-flower. A small, dry soil loving plant with succulent leaves and bright pink flowers on slender bloom stalks. Re...

Not a denizen of mountains, despite the common name- mountain mint is an adaptable and pollinator friendly plant. Will happily populate bare soil, ...

A.k.a. turkeyfoot. A tall, adaptable prairie grass that hosts a wide variety of insects, including many skippers. Favored by a wide variety of graz...

A striking shrub for moist soils! Berries are bright red and often remain on bushes through fall and into winter. Forms upright, multi stemmed bush...

A manageably sized oak tree that produces nuts at 3-5 years! A barrens species, they have a broad regional range that in Indiana is restricted to t...

A generally adaptable aster that blooms densely with quarter-sized purple flowers. Attractive to bees and butterflies, and a valuable source of fa...

The cornerstone of dry shortgrass plantings itself! Stays short, but fills dry plantings well. Adapts to most soil textures, but will not tolerate ...

A.k.a. red osier dogwood. A dogwood oft planted decoratively for its red bark! New growth has the brightest color bark, so established plants may b...

A.k.a. sand coreopsis. The signature bright yellow blooms of coreopsis in a hardy native package! A generally triennial plant that prefers poor soi...

A pink blooming native spirea bush! Does best in moist soils in full sun. Can be pruned to encourage more blooms, and dead headed to encourage a se...

This distinctive shrub has a long bloom time and is generally adaptable. A small colony of plants may be dotted with blooms for multiple months! Pr...

A.k.a. Illinois rose, wild climbing rose, and prairie rose. A lovely native rose that whose arching habit forms a bush ~4’ tall when left to its ow...

A.k.a. purple passion flower. A vine native to the south of the state with a striking and intricate purple flower. Often “well behaved” in Indiana,...

A short, adaptable nitrogen-fixer with small but bright purple blooms. Hardy, easy to grow in poor soils, and drought tolerant. Reseeds in favorabl...

A.k.a. swamp milkweed and rose milkweed. A mid-sized, showier milkweed that is a perfect landscaping alternative to common milkweed! Has attractive...

A showy, blue blooming plant that tolerates dry, rocky soil, and hosts a number of caterpillars! Large, showy seed pods are valuable for winter in...

A fast growing, smaller willow that bears its famous fuzzy catkins in the spring! Can be trained as an erect shrub or a small tree. Perfect to plan...