All Spring Preorder Species

An aster perfect for adding blooms to woodlands or shady forest edges! Flowers are large for an understory plant, but smaller than showier asters s...

An elegant goldenrod with an excellent arching form at home on wooded edges. As is typical of goldenrods, it supports a wide variety of pollinators...

A tall, moisture loving plant with striking purple flowers that adapts well to average garden beds. Valuable as a late season bloomer and an insect...

The white flowering cousin of the better known pink turtlehead. A lover of fertile, wet soils that tolerates seasonal flooding. Host of the regiona...

A.k.a. Smooth Blue Aster (Aster laevis). A hardy, late blooming aster with light blue to pale lilac flowers. Tends to remain upright on its own bet...

A lovely addition to wet sites, the large, pink, snapdragon-like flowers are said to resemble the heads of turtles. Blooms in the fall, will still ...

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 showy bloomer with attractive foliage. Extra floral nectaries attract some insects that are generally not attracted to flowers. Generally support...

An adaptable plant that has no particular affinity for mountains, despite the common name. Attracts a wide variety of pollinators, and will readily...

A cheery, deer resistant late season bloomer. Petals have distinctive lobed ends. An excellent late summer-early fall bloomer often used in rain ga...

A.k.a. prairie coreopsis, stiff coreopsis, and prairie tickseed. The classic large, yellow coreopsis flowers from a plant that thrives in dry, poor...

A.k.a. common ironweed. Blooms with conspicuously vivid purple flowers. Wild plants are most often seen in wet areas with seasonal flooding, but th...

A.k.a. wild oats, inland oats, and river oats. A lovely grass for shady areas, it’s distinctive seed heads are easily spotted and last into the win...

An unassuming, small flowered woodland aster that nonetheless attracts and hosts a wide variety of insects. Easily grown and reseeds well in open g...

A.k.a. dwarf goldenrod. All the fun of a goldenrod in a short plant! An adaptable species that supports a wide variety of pollinators and host inse...

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 moisture loving vervain that tolerates seasonal flooding. Flowers are small, but bloom in succession for a long period of time and appeal to many...

A shorter sunflower with the bright yellow blooms signature to the family! One of the least competitive of the sunflowers, it may be outcompeted in...

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. cutleaf coneflower. A tall coneflower at home in wet prairies and floodplains. Spreads well by rhizome in optimal conditions, and is excelle...

A.k.a. ashy sunflower. An adaptable sunflower in miniature! Foliage is a notable grey-green or blue-green, so a population of downy sunflower stand...

A.k.a. plume goldenrod and yellow top. Don’t want to wait for fall goldenrod blooms? Then plant some early goldenrod to get the party started in mi...

A robust, adaptable sedge with a clumped form that makes it ideal for landscape borders. Spreads well in disturbed habitats, so is well suited for ...

A moisture loving plant that flowers with handsome crowns of white. Attracts a variety of pollinators, and tolerates seasonal flooding. Leaves have...