Growing Conditions

Sand love grass is similar to common Purple Love Grass (Eragrostis spectabilis), but is more robust and taller. Up to 4' tall (usually about 3') x 2-3" wide clumps of fine leaves, purple tinted flowers right above the foliage, flowers in July to August...

Selection features bigger and slightly more fuzzy leaves (4") and good adaptability to different site conditions. Underused smaller native groundcover. Blooming Time:  flowers in May to June, each flower is about 1" in diameter. Flowering stems die...

Underused smaller native groundcover with fairly big flowers. Best in leaner, less fertile soils and somewhat drained soils. 12-16" tall x 24" wide clumps, basal leaves grow very densely and form ground covering mat. Flowers in May to June, each flower...

Unique perennial of true tall grass prairies! Surprisingly, it belongs to the Carrot Family (Apiaceae), but it has an unusual look due to the thicker, strap-like leaves, mostly concentrated in rosettes or at the base of the tall stems (leaves are...

Wonderful late flowering native perennial for average to drier soil. Good sized, well behaved, attractive to butterflies and pollinators. Very ornamental and still very underused native wildflower. Also called Hyssop-leaved Thoroughwort. 3' tall x 1...

Earlier blooming fall aster for drier soil. Slowly forms wider clumps. Purple-blue 1"+ flowers on wiry stems. Blooming Time: June/July to July/August (depending on your zone and soils), flowers for about 3 weeksSize: about 20" tall and wide, slowly...

Late-blooming native perennial with blue flowers and misleading name - this aster stays in clump and doesn't creep. Adaptable to light conditions - from full sun to light (dappled) shade. Best in dry or somewhat drained soils.   Blooming Time:...

Wild strawberry is a low growing 4-7” tall perennial, and spreads widely by runners (stolons) which root to form new plants. In time will form large colonies. Edible native wildflower, indigenous to Eastern North America - you can find it in...

Norhern Bedtstraw is perennial native to USA and Eurasia too. It is creeping, dense plant, 18-24" tall x 12-18" wide. It prefers half shade and somewhat drained soils with average moisture  (medium to moist). It is adaptable to many soil types, but...

True native biennial - forms rosettes in the first year, blooms the second year and persists by re-seeding. Unique airy and wiry structure moves in the wind. Small white-pink flowers attract hummingbirds, native bees and small birds. Blooming Time:...

Unique, light, wiry structure with a rich blooming and very long flowering season (June to frost), fast growth, pure white flowers. Shorter-lived perennial that can reseed, or can be grown as an annual and re-planted every year. Nowadays you can find...

Unique light wiry structure, very long flowering season, fast growth, cute white flowers resembling butterflies; attracts hummingbirds. Simply a great plant for your garden! The 'Summer Breeze' cultivar is very rich and abundant, flowering for the whole...

Short-lived/biennial native wildflower, valuable for long and late blooming period and fast establishing Leaf rosettes in the first year, blooms the second year and persists by re-seeding. Unique 6'+ airy and wiry structure moves in the wind. Small...

Very pretty mounding ground-cover perennial with bigger lilac-pink flowers. It forms lovely clumps, and in good conditions also spreads by rhizomes to create colonies. The flowers are quite big and showy (1-1.5“), and the leaves are highly...

Smaller drooping flowers with purple calyxes and short cream-pink petals. Can be used as groundcover in moist soils. Quite an ornamental plant and the parent plant of several cultivars with bigger flowers. Native wetland Avens, that likes moisture and...

Short-lived perennial or biennial with long blooming period. Highly attractive to variety of pollinators. Native to south central USA and part of Midwest. Blooming Time: June/July to September Size: erect clumps about 2-3' tall x 1.5-2' wide...

An easy to grow and quite fast-growing perennial. Forms clumps of winged stems with leaf rosettes bearing bright yellow daisy-like flowers at the end of summer (branches form at the top only). The wild form of sneezeweed looks the best in wild...

Showy native perennial sunflower, with spreading growth, high ecological value. Ideal for half shade garden, woodland edge and for naturalization. This sunflower will reach usually 4-5' of height (in ideal conditions 6') and up to 3' width, slowly...