All Spring Preorder Species

Closely related to the true sunflowers that it resembles. A short lived and adaptable perennial that attracts a wide variety of pollinators. Can be...

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

An easy to grow woodland wildflower with small but often fragrant blooms. Rarely bothered by herbivores, and can spread rapidly in disturbed condit...

A flat topped goldenrod with distinctive, rounded leaves that often take on showy colors in the fall. Adaptable to soil type and moisture with deep...

A wetland plant with a long bloom time and unique pink flowers said to resemble a monkey’s face. A distinctive addition to pond edges and rain gard...

An evergreen sedge partial to wetlands and woodlands. The spiky seed pod is easy to spot in stands of wetland plants, and the seeds are regularly e...

One of the first blooming spring flowers! Bright yellow flowers and green foliage are conspicuous,  particularly when few other plants have put on ...

An impressively tall coreopsis that blooms later than it’s smaller cousins, but with similar flowers that are spectacular when blooming en mass. Su...

This standup grass is often planted for winter interest, as its tall seed stalks that remain upright longer into the winter than big bluestem. The ...

A.k.a. stiff sunflower or prairie sunflower. Their showy, sunflower-like flowers are fragrant and bloom 1-2 months. Host plant of multiple butterfl...

An adaptable woodland grass that grows even in deep shade. Easily recognizable by its seed heads in the later half of the year. Light: Part Sun/Sha...

A white, small flowered aster that blooms profusely in late summer-early fall. The narrow leaves give patches of Heath aster an appealing texture. ...

A lovely blooming, emergent aquatic plant that does not tolerate drying out. Forms colonies and can spread rapidly by rhizome, so a good first wetl...

A.k.a. northern plains blazing star and Rocky Mountain gayfeather*. A striking liatris oft touted as a “Monarch magnet”! This adaptable blazing sta...

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 sunflower with showy leaves, flowers, and smooth, red stems that can reach exceptional heights. Like other sunflowers, it supports a wide variety...

A.k.a. muskingum sedge*. A distinctive, showy, fairly tall sedge that hosts several species of moth, butterfly, and skipper! Prefers part sun/shade...

A dominant grass of tallgrass prairies, it’s plumes of seeds are showy in their later stages. Valuable as an insect host and for winter habitat. Ta...

An adaptable, distinctive legume that hosts a variety of moths, skippers, and the eastern tailed blue butterfly! A beneficial addition to any dry p...

A.k.a. white doll’s daisy and false chamomile*. Not actually an aster, though it’s flowers resemble white asters or small daisies and it attracts a...

A.k.a. Bicknell’s sedge and copper-shouldered oval sedge. A shorter sedge that prefers dryer soils. An excellent shorter sedge for shortgrass prair...

A.k.a. rosin weed. A hardy plant that matures faster than other Silphium (such as prairie dock and compass plant) and may tolerate drought even bet...

A stunning, distinctive plant with large (3’’) sunflower-like blooms on an impressively tall inflorescence (up to 10’). Bloom stalks make up most o...

A.k.a. wapato and broadleaf arrowhead. A vigorous wetland species with showy white flowers, well suited to bank naturalization and stabilization. P...