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

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

As the common name implies, this goldenrod blooms in an impressive plume of golden flowers. Tolerant of dry, poor soil- it will grow taller in fert...

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

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

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. savannah blazing star. A taller, adaptable blazing star whose thistle-like flowers are favored by butterflies. Tolerates poor soil, but adap...

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

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

A variable woodland goldenrod that blooms best in part sun/shade. Tolerates full shade well, and may be the most shade tolerant Midwest goldenrod. ...

A shorter plant excellent for adding butterfly and pollinator support to drier woodland edges and part sun slopes. A relative of the better known G...

A shorter, drought resistant grass valued for its purple-tinted spray of seeds. Shows the best color when planted in dense, single species clumps a...

An adaptable, drought resistant grass with a generally small stature- the seed stalk makes up most of the height. Notable for the bright color of i...

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 shade tolerant, late summer-fall blooming aster with distinctive large basal leaves! Excellent and oft used to fill in empty understory as it for...

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 ...