Indiana native wildflowers

This native woodland perennial grass spreads very slowly and forms clumps that have a light, airy structure. The leaves are gray-green; the long panicles of satin-silver flowers often flop to one side and turn brown-yellow with age. ...

Boltonias are great plants for adding color to the garden in the fall. Related to Asters, they are covered with 3/4" aster-like white flowers. The green-gray leaves are ornamental too. This clumping perennial slowly spreads by rhizomes (not...

An upright perennial with clusters of pale lilac to whitish, fragrant flowers, aromatic minty leaves, and stems that do not branch much. This plant can bloom for very long time. Provides excellent pollinator support, offering pollen and nectar to a...

Originally named Aster ptarmicoides, this plant was re-named to Solidago ptarmicoides in 1981 as a result of research by two botanists, Brouillet and Semple, who realized that this plant belongs to the goldenrod family. For more confusion, another...

Swamp Milkweed is a true pollinator magnet; the pink to pink-purple flowers offer nectar to many types of insects. Hummingbirds are occasional visitors too. It's an important plant for monarch larvae - monarch butterfly caterpillars have the highest...

Showy native perennial with a long flowering period and the best blazing stars for wet soils. Long unbranched spikes of lilac-purple flowers shoot up to the sky; the flowers start to bloom from the tip to the bottom. Excellent cut flower, attractive to...

Long blooming perennial for dry soil. Regular clumps, hairy stems and daisy-like flowers with many petals and a sage-like scent. The flowers are ¾ to 1½ inches across and are bright yellow. Offers very good pollinator support and provides...

Strictly upright woodland beardtongue. Never flopping, it boasts thick rosettes of basal leaves and long stems with tubular pink-purple flowers (sometimes white-pink). There aren't many woodland Penstemons, so this one brings a nice extension of the...

Easy, modest and very showy-looking native perennial and wildflower with elegant drooping petals and big (2-3”) flowers. It has a beautiful, airy structure, and the stems with big yellow flowers often dart in the wind. It usually doesn't grow...

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...

Easy to grow prairie plant. The lobed compound leaves mostly stay at the base; the stems branch at the top and bear crème white flowers with yellow centers. The whole plant is covered with white hair, so the leaves look a bit gray-green. Each...

This modest native perennial prefers some shade, but will do fine even in full sun. It is also very drought tolerant. The 5-petaled white flowers with greenish centers are followed by oval thimbles that mature to fluffy seeds and are dispersed...

Quite common perennial plant in the wild, but not so common in our yards. Forms nice bushy clumps of green leaves with thin flowering stalks above the leaves. Flowers are small, green-white, and generally insignificant. The reason why this native...

Long-lived perennial with a tap root, slender habitus, and narrow hairy leaves. Rosy-pink (sometimes more or less pale) flower with drooping petals and orange-greenish centers. Heat, humidity, and drought tolerant perennial. Flowers 2 to 4 weeks...

A favorite spring ephemeral wildflower with smooth bluish-green leaves and clusters of heavenly blue bells with pink buds. This perennial forms nice erect clumps and becomes dormant in the summer (it will appear again in the spring). Perfect herbaceous...

Truly the star spring perennial! Big four-petal yellow flowers (1-2" in diameter) and hairy gray-green lobated leaves, what a great combo! This wildflower blooms alongside Polemonium reptans and Mertensia virginica, which creates a marvelous blue-yellow...

Well-known spring flowering perennial with nice mounding habit, delicate fern-like divided leaves and blue bell-shaped flowers. Spreads slowly by short rhizomes, more often it will reproduce by seed. Great pollinator plant, effective ground covering,...

Lovely mounding grass with narrow green or blue-green foliage. Late summer flowers are unremarkable; the fluffy seed clusters are more ornamental. Valuable coppery/amber foliage in the fall. Native Americans used to dry the leaves for winter insulation...