Indiana native wildflowers

Easy to grow and very showy beardtongue. Versatile and adaptable. Tolerant to heat, humidity and black walnut. Blooming Time: from late May to late June. Size: 18" tall x 12" wide, airy clusters of changeable multicolored purple-pinkish-white...

This interesting perennial is reminiscent of aloe (it's also called "false aloe") or a "weird" agave (another name is Agave virginica). The most ornamental part of the plant is the rosette of succulent leaves that have dark red-brown spots. The flowering...

Also called Shreve's Iris, this native bog iris has violet-blue flowers with yellow-white crests in midsummer. The fragrant blooms attract pollinators and can be used as a good cut flower. Slowly spreads to form colonies. Deer- and rabbit-resistant...

This easy-to-grow deciduous native shrub is adaptable to many soils, including clay or shallow soils, though it prefers consistently moist mediums. The 4- to 12-inch flower clusters resemble pie plates composed of many small, creamy white florets, and...

This robust coral bells is an excellent groundcover, with light green leaves and whitish flowers. It forms clumps of larger, hairy, evergreen or partially evergreen, light green/chartreuse colored leaves, and flowers in late summer through early fall...

A very showy and underused native perennial, Helianthus mollis has big yellow flowers, very hairy stems and leaves, and a long flowering season. One of the shorter perennial sunflowers, it forms clumps that slowly spread by rhizomes and can...

This adaptable native wildflower perennial has great wildlife benefits, and its flowers, leaves, and seedpods are all considered ornamental. It grows in bushy clumps, with pink flowers that appear for 3 weeks in late summer. Very adaptable. Very good...

Also called prairie bundleflower or prairie mimosa, this bushy native wildflower perennial has very fine, fern-like foliage and fluffy white flowers that are followed by ornamental, compound, twisted seedpods. The seedpods are dark brown-black and...

Purple prairie clover is a showy, native North American perennial. It grows in slender-looking, upright clumps, with fine leaves and cylindrical spikes of purple flowers. Drought tolerant. This is a pollinator favorite plant - the pollen and nectar...

This native wildflower is a very showy plant that has big, golden yellow flowers and a long flowering season. It grows in clumps of light green, hairy leaves. For sunny flower beds with drier/drained soils, wildflower gardens, meadows or prairies. It is...

This fall flowering clematis has fragrant, cream-white flowers in late summer through early fall (flowers are 1.25" in diameter). This is the ideal substitute for the invasive Clematis ternifolia (sweet autumn clematis) introduced from Japan. The native...

This is a taller and slender-looking perennial that has white/white-pink turtlehead flowers in August to September. Grows into narrow, upright clumps that slowly spread by rhizomes.  The best uses are in shade gardens, woodland gardens, bog gardens,...

Robust wetland sedge for moist to wet soils. Carex vulpinoidea forms regular clumps that have an evergreen look. The leaves are bright green and narrow, and it bears attractive fox tail-shaped seed heads in May/June (don't last long). Some...

Marsh marigolds are hardy and quite common perennials that can be found throughout the whole northern hemisphere, thriving in temperate zones. Caltha palustris has leathery, light green, round leaves and large, golden-yellow flowers in late...

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...