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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 wetland sedge that puts on obvious brown spikelets. It’s bunching habit and mildly contrasting foliage color makes it showy to some extent and ex...

 A taller, clumping sedge with lush seed heads that can adapt to mesic conditions. The wind dispersed seeds are fluffy when they mature in the fall...

A.k.a. grey headed coneflower and prairie coneflower. A tall but nonetheless delicate coneflower, it has a long bloom period and is broadly appeali...

A.k.a Prairie phlox. A midsized phlox that tolerates more sun than its woodland relatives. Obligate host of the rare and colorful prairie phlox flo...

A.k.a. sweet coneflower and fragrant coneflower. Well known from cultivars sold in traditional nurseries, this is the wild type of the hardy and lo...

A.k.a. winged lythrum. A native loosestrife with distinctive light purple blooms. It generally only has a few flowers on each stalk open at once, w...

A distinctive, short, white flowering goldenrod with thin leaves. Grows in dry, shortgrass prairies in well drained soil that contains sand or grav...

A.k.a. white lettuce. Light: Part Sun/Shade, Shade Soil Moisture: Wet Mesic, Mesic, Dry Mesic Soil Type: Loam, Sandy Loam, Rocky Loam Height: 2’-5’...

A.k.a. dotted St. John’s Wort. An adaptable plant with clusters of fairly small yellow flowers. Flowers attract small bees, and the caterpillars of...

A.k.a. Jerusalem Artichoke. An easily grown native food crop with excellent wildlife support, sunchokes are generally adaptable as long as they hav...

A short, bunching rush known for persisting in marginal conditions. Tolerant of clay soil, mild to moderate foot traffic and compaction, and some d...

Public Sale Exclusive: Preorder customers gain early access during preorder pickups. Purple Poppy Mallow: A.k.a. wine cups. Large, cupped flowers ...

A.k.a. savanna blazing star. A taller, adaptable blazing star whose thistle-like flowers are favored by butterflies. Tolerates poor soil, but adapt...

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, wetland loving, comparatively short Joe-pye weed! Like other Joe-pye weeds, it is attractive to pollinators, including butterflies. Spread...

 A.k.a. narrow-leaved loosestrife and fen loosestrife. At home in moist prairies, floodplains, and shallow wetlands. Adapts well to cultivation whe...

A hardy, drought resistant plant once established, though it may take multiple years to do so. With distinct, deeply lobed leaves and an infloresce...

A short, drought tolerant legume with small pink flowers in showy bunches! Needs soil with decent drainage. Perfect to plant alongside other short,...

A distinctive, short, white flowering goldenrod with thin leaves. Grows in dry, shortgrass prairies in well drained soil that contains sand or grav...

Unique leaves and height make this member of the snapdragon family a standout in restored areas! These hardy plants form robust colonies, and flowe...

A.k.a. cup rosinweed. A taller plant with sunflower-like flowers. So called because the broad leaves hold water where they meet at the stem, where ...

A shorter grass that is often planted for it’s spikey seed heads, and generally does not form dense stands. Puts on growth earlier than most prairi...

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...