Indiana native wildflowers

Another Rudbeckia? Yes, and a very good one! Even though they may look similar to you, they offer different qualities that may suit your garden better than others.  - Var. fulgida is long flowering botanical variety, the latest of all Rudbeckias -...

Trouble free and no maintenance perennial for sunny or half-shade garden. One of the amsonias with the richest floral display and winners of Amsonia trials at Chicago Botanical Gardens (Richard Hawke). 3' tall and wide, vase shaped clumps, blue flowers...

Tough grass for any situation - sun, half shade, shade, and any soil from dry to moist. And also great solution for dry shade! For sun location needs more moisture. The ideal conditions are moist, fertile soil and some little shade during the day, where...

Robust native wildflower and long-lived perennial with large ornamental leaves, great for birds and pollinators. Flowering stems can reach 9', while the deeply cut leaves stay at the base clump about 2-3' wide. Basal coarse leafs can be up to 24" long...

Robust fern that can reach royal size of 6' of height and 3' wide. Award of Garden Merit by Royal Horticultural Society (UK, 1993). The size depends on the soil and moisture, in average moist soil it can be only 2' tall and wide. Loves moisture and best...

Beautiful spring perennial with deeply cut pale lila-lavender flowers, south central Indiana genotype. Forms regular mounds, usually 0.25' tall x 0.5' wide (can be a bit taller or wider too). 2" long linear leaves are everegreen, the base becomes...

Willow-leaved Bluestar, is three times beautiful plant - first for spring flowers, second for summer foliage, and third for its fall color. The leaves are more narrow than has Amsonia tabernaemontana, and remind of willow. Willow-leaved Bluestar performs...

Tall prairie grass with blue-green leaves, purplish-red flowers from August/September till February. Height without flowers usually around 5', up to 7' with flowers, 2-3' wide. Warm season grass (develops in hot part of the year, sprouts late). Dense...

Not very common native wildflower and very interesting perennial. Large palmated leaves (up to 10", the biggest leaves are at the base), one single upright stem with small white and fragrant flowers (up to 0.5-0.75"). Flowers in June to end of July (or...

Cute little wildflower, with regular mounds covered by small, pinkie-nail size yellow flowers. Usually forms clumps about 0.5- 0.75' tall and wide, small partially-evergreen leaves. Flowers continuously from May to August, with the peak in early to mid...

Wild Quinine - for no reason overlooked and underestimated native perennial! Again, it had to be famous landscape architect from abroad (Piet Oudolf, Holland and others, who immediately spotted it's beauty and included this perennial gem into charming...

Wild form of tall phlox, for better support of pollinators and wildlife and naturalization. Smaller flowers of pink tones attract butterflies, hummingbirds and other pollinators, but according to our observation, natural selection 'Jeana' is even better...

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...

Lovely goldenrod with different look - narrow grassy leaves and flat inflorescenses. True pollinator magnet! Usually around 3' tall x 1-2' wide (2' in dry soil, 4" tall in moist soil. Flowers in late summer to fall This wildflower is native to most...

Native wildflower to central and eastern USA and Canada with good ecological value. 3' tall, 1.5' wide, pink or purple flowers show up in June, July and August. Full sun, half sun, half shade, medium moist to moist soil. This perennial loves moist soil,...

Probably the best tall Joe Pye Weed for the garden conditions - it tolerates summer heat and droughts much better than other Eupatorium and stays in good shape for the whole season (except extreme summer droughts). In garden conditions usually doesn't...

Superb plant, even short-lived and re-seeding perennial or biennial. This plant was honored with All-America Selection winner in 2003 and a Gold Medal winner at the 2003 Fleuroselect trials in England! 3' tall x 1.5-2' wide, branched clumps, covered with...

Summer and early fall flowering perennial, reaching height of 1'-1.5' and 0.5'-1' of width. Fragrant reddish-pink flowers usually in July - August, or up to September, the foliage dies back shortly after the end of flowering. Full sun, half shade,...