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Spring Blooming

Native Wildflowers and Prairie Grasses can provide vibrant color throughout the seasons. 
The following native species traditionally bloom in the spring, in the months of April, May and June.

  • VIOLA PEDATIFIDA | Prairie Violet
    $0.00 VIOLA PEDATIFIDA | Prairie Violet
    Prairie violet is perennial from a short underground stem above stringy roots. Plants are usually about five or six inches tall. The long-stalked leaves are divided into narrow segments. Early in the season each plant bears...

  • Ohio Spiderwort
    $0.00 Choose Options TRADESCANTIA OHIENSIS | Ohio Spiderwort
    Common Name: Spiderwort, Cow Slobber, Indian Paint, Job's Tears, Blue Jackets, Widow's Tears, Moses in the Bulrushes, Dayflower, Trinity Flower. Scientific Name:  Tradescantia Ohiensis (Named in...

  • TRADESCANTIA BRACTEATA | Prairie Spiderwort
    $0.00 Choose Options TRADESCANTIA BRACTEATA | Prairie Spiderwort
    Prairie Spiderwort (Common Name) | Tradescantia Bracteata (Scientific Name) reaches 2 to 3 feet tall and prefers sandy or rocky prairies, open rocky oak woodlands; mostly in the Tallgrass biome from western Illinois...

  • STAPHYLEA TRIFOLIA | Bladdernut
    $0.00 Choose Options STAPHYLEA TRIFOLIA | Bladdernut
    Leaves are opposite, pinnately compound with three (rarely 5) ovate or obovate leaflets that are 2 to 4 inches long. Leaflet margins are serrate.Flower is green-white, bell-shaped and small, borne on dangling 2 inch long...

  • $0.00 Choose Options SPARGANIUM EURYCARPUM | Giant Bur Reed
    (PLS) Very common throughout the entire US, Here in Allamakee county it is much less common than it is in the Lakes Region of Iowa. Can reach 4 feet tall and has distinctive, large, bur-shaped fruits. Leaves are very stiff...

  • SMILACINA RACEMOSA | False Solomon's Seal
    $0.00 Choose Options SMILACINA RACEMOSA | False Solomon's Seal
    "False Solomon's Seal, Golden Seal, Job's Tears, Solomon's Plume, Treacle Berry, Wild Spikenard, Zigzag" Smilacina comes from a Greek word meaning "small and thorny"; a misnomer because this plant has no thorns but it...

  • PHLOX PILOSA | Prairie Phlox
    $0.00 PHLOX PILOSA | Prairie Phlox
    "Prairie Phlox, Downy Phlox" Phlox comes from the Greek word for "flame", most likely referring to the flowers' brilliant color.   Click Here for Detailed Info Sun...

  • PHLOX DIVARICATA | Woodland Blue Phlox
    $0.00 PHLOX DIVARICATA | Woodland Blue Phlox
    Woodland Blue Flox (Phlox divaricata) is known by several common names including Woodland Phlox, Wild Blue Phlox.   Click Here for Detailed Info Sun...

  • PETALOSTEMUM CANDIDUM | White Prairie Clover
    $0.00 Choose Options PETALOSTEMUM CANDIDUM | White Prairie Clover
    White Prairie Clover, Thimbleweed, White Tassel Flower"   Click Here for Detailed Info Sun Exposure               Prairie,...

  • PENSTEMON GRANDIFLORUS | Large-flowered Beardtongue
    $0.00 Choose Options PENSTEMON GRANDIFLORUS | Large-flowered Beardtongue
    Penstemon comes from two Greek words, penta meaning "five" and stemon meaning "stamen". Grandiflorus is after the Latin word meaning "with large flowers". Can grow to 3 feet with pale pink flowers on a tall stem. Toothed...

  • Swamp Betony - Wood Betony | Pendicularis canadensis
    $3.00 Choose Options PEDICULARIS CANADENSIS | Wood Betony
    Pendicularis canadensis - Wood Betony has yellow, showy flowers that are easy to spot in full boom in meadows in the spring because of the unusual flowers and foliage, it has a striking appearance. Habitats include...

  • OSMORHIZA CLAYTONII| Sweet Cicely
    $0.00 Choose Options OSMORHIZA CLAYTONII| Sweet Cicely
    Osmorhiza is from the Greek word for "sweet-smelling root" referring to the root of O. longistylis. The odor of O. claytoni is distinctly more turnip-like.     Click Here for Detailed Info Sun...

  • Missouri Primrose
    $0.00 OENOTHERA MACROCARPA | Missouri Evening Primrose
    Missouri Evening Primrose blooms spring through summer. Showy, trailing plants bloom with large, yellow, fragrant flowers up to 4". Great selection for dry sites: rock gardens, dry planting beds and container gardens...

  • OENOTHERA BIENNIS | Evening Primrose
    $0.00 Choose Options OENOTHERA BIENNIS | Evening Primrose
    Night Willow-herb, Large Rampion, Tree-primrose, King's Cure-all, Scurvish"     Click Here for Detailed Info Sun...

  • MIMULUS RINGENS | Monkey Flower
    $0.00 Choose Options MIMULUS RINGENS | Monkey Flower
    "Monkey Flower, Monkey Face, Gape Plant"     Click Here for Detailed Info Sun Exposure               Prairie, Savanna Soil...

  • LUPINUS PERENNIS | Wild Lupine
    $0.00 Choose Options LUPINUS PERENNIS | Wild Lupine
    Lupinus is the Latin name for this plant genus and perennis is from the Latin for "continuing through the years".   Click Here for Detailed Info Sun...

  • LUDWIGIA ALTERNIFOLIA | Seedbox
    $0.00 Choose Options LUDWIGIA ALTERNIFOLIA | Seedbox
    "Seedbox, Bushy Seedbox, False Loosestrife, Rattlebox, Smooth Seedbox"     Click Here for Detailed Info Sun...

  • Blue Flag Iris
    $0.00 Choose Options IRIS SHREVEI | Blue Flag Iris
    Blue Flag Iris (Iris Shrevei) - Iris is from the Greek word for "rainbow" and shrevei is in honor of Ralph Shreve. Commonly found in the marshy areas of the Tallgrass prairie, I. shrevei blooms from May to June and can...

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    $0.00 Choose Options HEUCHERA RICHARDSONII | Prairie Alumroot
    "Prairie Alumroot, American Sanicle, Cliffweed, Ground Maple, Rock Geranium" Heuchera after Johann Heinrich von Heuchera, early German medical botanist and richardsonii after Sir John Richardson, 19th century explorer of...

  • GEUM TRIFLORUM | Prairie Smoke
    $0.00 Choose Options GEUM TRIFLORUM | Prairie Smoke
    "Old Man's Whiskers, Johnny Smokers, Long-plumed purple Avens"     Click Here for Detailed Info Sun...

  • GERANIUM MACULATUM | Wild Geranium
    $0.00 Choose Options GERANIUM MACULATUM | Wild Geranium
    Wild Geranium, Alum Bloom, Alum Root, American Kimo Root, Chocolate Flower, Crane Bill, Crowfoot, Culver Root, Dove's Foot, Love Knot, Pigeon Foot, Red Robin, Rock Weed, Sailor's Knot, Shame Face   Click Here for...

  • EPILOBIUM GLANDULOSUM | Northern Willow Herb
    $0.00 Choose Options EPILOBIUM GLANDULOSUM | Northern Willow Herb
    Northern willow Herb" Epilobium from the Greek meaning "upon or above the pod" referring to the manner in which the flowers keep blooming above the seed pods as they develop lower on the flower spike. An herbal tea made...

  • Midland Shooting Star
    $0.00 Choose Options DODECATHEON MEADII | Midland Shooting Star
    "Midlanbd Shooting Star, American Cowslip, Birdbills, Johnny Jump, Pride-of-Ohio, Rooster Heads" Dodecatheon after the Greek word for "twelve Gods" and Meadii in honor of Dr. Richard Mead, early English physician and...

  • CALTHA PALLUSTRIS | Marsh Marigold
    $0.00 Choose Options CALTHA PALLUSTRIS | Marsh Marigold
    From the old Greek caltha meaning "cup" and from the Latin palustris meaning "of the marsh". Marsh Marigolds (Caltha Pallustris) are showy yellow flowers bloom rather early in the spring, from April through May. They are a...

  • BROMUS CILIATUS | Fringed Brome
    $0.00 Choose Options BROMUS CILIATUS | Fringed Brome
    (PLS) Fringed Brome (Bromus Ciliatus) has a drooping florets oat-like appearance. Cool-season, clump-forming grass. Often with conifers such as cedars Drooping florets oat-like appearance. Cool-season, clump-forming grass...

  • BOUTELOUA GRACILIS | Blue Grama
    $0.00 Choose Options BOUTELOUA GRACILIS | Blue Grama
    (PLS) Blue Grama (Bouteloua Curtipendula) is an important, drought-resistant, short grass in the mixed prairies and throughout the Great Plains and Southwest. It can be confused with Hairy grama Grass (B.hirusta), which is...

  • BAPTISIA LEUCOPHAEA | Cream Wild Indigo
    $0.00 Choose Options BAPTISIA LEUCOPHAEA | Cream Wild Indigo
    Cream Wild Indigo (Baptisia Leuchophaea) is found on prairies throughout the Tallgrass region with cream-colored, drooping 1- to 2-inch flowers on a one foot spike from May to June. Can reach 3 feet in height, but is...

  • BAPTISIA LEUCANTHA | White Wild Indigo
    $0.00 Choose Options BAPTISIA LEUCANTHA | White Wild Indigo
    From the Greek baptizein meaning "to dye"; refers to the historical economic use as a poor indigo dye and leucantha, meaning "white-flowered". White Wild Indigo (Baptisia leucantha) is found throughout the Tallgrass Prairie...

  • BAPTISIA AUSTRALIS | Blue Wild Indigo
    $0.00 Choose Options BAPTISIA AUSTRALIS | Blue Wild Indigo
    From the Greek baptizein meaning "to dye"; refers to the historical economic use as a poor indigo dye.and "Australis", of Australia. Found on prairies throughout the Tallgrass region, this species is the more southerly...

  • ASTER ERICOIDES | Heath Aster
    $0.00 Choose Options ASTER ERICOIDES | Heath Aster
    From the Greek, "Aster" in reference to the shape of the flower and its bracts. At least 200 species are found across North America with dozens in the Tallgrass Praire region alone     Click Here...

  • ASTRAGALUS CANADENSIS | Canada Milkvetch
    $0.00 Choose Options ASTRAGALUS CANADENSIS | Canada Milkvetch
    Canada Milkvetch (Astragalus canadensis) Sometimes referred to as Canadian Milkvetch. A legume found throughout the Tallgrass Prairie region on wet to dry prairies and in open woods, along roadsides and in open areas that...

  • ASCLEPIAS VERTICILLATA | Whorled Milkweed
    $0.00 Choose Options ASCLEPIAS VERTICILLATA | Whorled Milkweed
    Whorled Milkweed (Asclepias verticillata) Generally less than two feet tall with slender, usually unbranched stems and several thread-like leaves originating at each point along the stem. Small, stalked clusters of usually...

  • Butterfly Milkweed
    $0.00 Choose Options ASCLEPIAS TUBEROSA | Butterfly Milkweed
    Butterfly Milkweed (Ascleipias tuberosa) is found throughout the Tallgrass Prairie region in open areas, usually in prairies or remnants of prairies. It is showing up now along old country roads and abandoned roads and...

  • AQUILEGIA CANADENSIS | Columbine
    $0.00 Choose Options AQUILEGIA CANADENSIS | Columbine
    Columbine (Aquilegia Canadensis) - Drooping red flowers with 5 long, curved spurs; reaches 2 feet in height and prefers rocky woods and slopes. Found from Manitoba through Quebec and southward through the US. Distinctive...

  • ANGELICA ATROPURPUREA | Angelica
    $0.00 Choose Options ANGELICA ATROPURPUREA | Angelica
    Angelica (Angelica atropurpurea) - A relatively rare find today in swampy woodlands of the northern Tallgrass region. Tiny green-white flowers in large round heads from May to September. Can grow to 6 feet with a hollow...

  • ANEMONE VIRGINIANA | Tall Thimbleweed
    $0.00 Choose Options ANEMONE VIRGINIANA | Tall Thimbleweed
    Tall Thimbleweed (Anemone Virginiana) A. virginiana, A. cylindrica and A. riparia are all very similar. Ironically, "Tall Thimbleweed" is the one of the three species that is the shortest, reaching only about three feet in...

  • ANEMONE CYLINDRICA | Thimbleweed
    $0.00 Choose Options ANEMONE CYLINDRICA | Thimbleweed
    Thimbleweed, Long fruited Anemone (Anemone cylindrica) - Very common throughout all of Eastern North America, Thimbleweed has showy white flowers and can grow to about two feet in height. It prefers moist environments...

  • ANEMONE CANADENSIS | Canada Anemone
    $0.00 Choose Options ANEMONE CANADENSIS | Canada Anemone
    Canada Anemone (Anemone Canadensis) is very common throughout all of Eastern North America.  Canada Anemone has showy white flowers and can grow to about two feet in height. It prefers moist environments in the prairie...

  • AMORPHA FRUTICOSA | False Indigo
    $0.00 Choose Options AMORPHA FRUTICOSA | False Indigo
    False Indigo (Amorpha Fruiticosa) is common in moist prairie thickets and along streams and rivers in prairies throughout the Tallgrass Region. Not as common east of Illinois.  Large, bushy shrubs can reach 10 feet,...

  • AMORPHA CANESCENS | Leadplant
    $0.00 Choose Options AMORPHA CANESCENS | Leadplant
    Leadplant (Amorpha Canescens), A shrubby perennial, often as an undergrowth of Big Bluestem, Leadplant reaches 3 feet. Stems become large (1/2 inch) and woody with age; compound leaves with numerous small leaflets...

  • ALLIUM CANADENSE | Wild Garlic
    $0.00 Choose Options ALLIUM CANADENSE - Wild Garlic
    Wild Garlic (Allium Canadense) is found throughout the tallgrass prairies in open woods and thickets. White to pink flowers bloom from May to July and it can grow as high as two feet. The long, grass-like leaves can reach 18...

  • AGROPYRON TRACHYCAULUM | Slender Wheat Grass
    $0.00 Choose Options AGROPYRON TRACHYCAULUM | Slender Wheat Grass
    Slender wheatgrass is a short-lived, native, perennial bunchgrass that is widely distributed. It was the first native grass to be grown under cultivation. Sun...

  • AGASTACHE FOENICULUM | Annise Hyssop
    $0.00 Choose Options AGASTACHE FOENICULUM | Anise Hyssop
    Anise Hyssop (Agastache Foeniculum) is in the Mint family and produces many showy purple flower spikes over fragrant, dark green foliage.  Excellent for semi-shaded spots or in full sun, this biennial will reproduce...

  • ACORUS CALAMUS | Sweet Flag
    $0.00 Choose Options ACORUS CALAMUS | Sweet Flag
    Sweet Flag (Acorus Calamus) is an aromatic, colony-forming perennial 1 to 4 feet tall with leaves like a cattail. Flowers are very tightly bunched on a long, thin spadix. Grows at pond edges and in wet fields throughout the...

  • ACHILLEA MILLEFOLIUM | Yarrow
    $0.00 Choose Options ACHILLEA MILLEFOLIUM | Yarrow
    Yarrow, (Achillea Millefolium) is very common to fields, pastures, disturbed areas, roadsides, previously disturbed prairies and open sites throughout the Tallgrass biome. Tiny white flowers in umbels at the top of the plant...