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The one and only! This native echinacea is widely beloved for its adaptability and beautiful, iconic blooms. A cornerstone of butterfly gardens, it...

A native lobelia with showy red flowers- favored by swallowtail butterflies and hummingbirds! Adaptable to soil type, but requires wetter than aver...

A.k.a. bergamot or beebalm. A lovely, easily grown monarda that attracts equally flashy pollinators including skippers, butterflies, hummingbird mo...

A lovely, generally easy to grow plant that takes several years to reach its full potential. The flower’s unusual deep calyx and red color make the...

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

The classic common milkweed- an adaptable host to monarch butterflies with fragrant flowers for you and your pollinators! Will form a colony, and r...

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

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.k.a. three-leaved stonecrop. A star groundcover with showy leaves and striking white blooms! Grows thickly in part sun/shade and bright shade. Pl...

A short penstemon with delicate pink flowers, excellent for planting on garden edges or along walkways. Like all penstemon, the tubular flowers are...

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 shorter, white flowering milkweed that tolerates poor soil and dry conditions! Can spread rapidly in open areas, but tends to form loose colonies...

An iconic spring woodland flower with delicate but showy pale purple blooms! Prefers fertile soils, but can adapt to drier, poorer soils. Naturaliz...

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

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 deer resistant species with delicate flowers that will readily reseed in rich, moist soils. Excellent late summer/early fall blooms to feed polli...

A.k.a. button snake-root. At the height of their bloom, flowers are absolutely alive with pollinators! A perfect native replacement for yucca, thou...

An adaptable and showy spiderwort! Can bloom almost continuously from late May to early July, though only a few flowers will be open at once. May h...

A.k.a. foxglove beardtongue! A generally adaptable plant topped with white foxglove-like flowers. Resistant to deer and rabbits, and attractive to ...

An iconic flower that is gaining steam even outside of the native plant community! Said to resemble a ‘fairy wand’, prairie blazing star’s flowers ...

A.k.a. wild blue phlox. A late spring blooming, showy woodland wildflower. Prefers higher quality bright forest understory, but adapts well to fert...

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 beautifully clumping short grass with fine, sprawling leaves. Very rarely reseeds even in garden beds, making it a prime grass for landscaping. F...

A.k.a. button or tall blazing star. Perhaps Indiana’s most wodespread blazing star (next to dense blazing star), rough blazing star is easy to grow...