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Fall Blooming

Fall Blooming perennial Wildflowers and Prairie Grasses continue to color the landscape.  The following native species traditional bloom during the fall season, in the months August, September and October.

  • LOBELIA CARDINALIS | Cardinal Flower
    $0.00 Choose Options LOBELIA CARDINALIS | Cardinal Flower
    Lobelia named after the 16th century herbalist, Matthias von Lobel     Click Here for Detailed Info Sun...

  • LIATRIS SQUARROSA | Scaly Blazingstar
    $0.00 Choose Options LIATRIS SQUARROSA | Scaly Blazingstar
    Liatris is of an unknown derivation.     Click Here for Detailed Info Sun Exposure               Prairie, Savanna Soil...

  • LIATRIS SPICATA | Marsh Blazing Star
    $0.00 Choose Options LIATRIS SPICATA | Marsh Blazing Star
    Marsh Blazing Star (Liatris Spicata)  - Also known as Dense Blazingstar.  Grows from 1 to 5 feet in height on mesic praries and along marsh edges. Rose-purple flowers bloom from July to September.Liatris is of an...

  • LIATRIS PYCNOSTACHYA | Prairie Blazingstar
    $0.00 Choose Options LIATRIS PYCNOSTACHYA | Prairie Blazingstar
    Liatris is of an unknown derivation.   Click Here for Detailed Info Sun Exposure               Prairie, Savanna Soil...

  • Meadow Blazingstar
    $0.00 Choose Options LIATRIS LIGULISTYLIS | Meadow Blazingstar
    Liatris is of an unknown derivation.   Click Here for Detailed Info Sun Exposure               Prairie, Savanna Soil Moisture Wet...

  • Button Blazingstar, Rough Blazingstar
    $0.00 Choose Options LIATRIS ASPERA | Rough Blazingstar
    Also known as:  Button Blazingstar, Rough Blazingstar, Gayfeather, Button Snakeroot, Tall Gayfeather   Click Here for Detailed Info Sun...

  • LESPEDEZA CAPITATA | Roundheaded Bushclover
    $0.00 Choose Options LESPEDEZA CAPITATA | Roundheaded Bushclover
    "Roundheaded Bushclover, Roundheaded Lespedeza, Dusty Clover"     Click Here for Detailed Info Sun...

  • KUHNIA EUPATORIODES | False Boneset Buy premium seeds and plants from native wildflower nursery, IonXchange.com
    $0.00 Choose Options KUHNIA EUPATORIODES | False Boneset
    "False Boneset, Western False Boneset" Kuhnia named after Dr. Adam Kuhn and eupatorioides from its similarity to Eupatorium. Found throughout the entire country on dry prairies and plains and in open, rocky woods. Cream to...

  • JUNCUS TENUIS | Path Rush
    $0.00 Choose Options JUNCUS TENUIS | Path Rush
    Path Rush (Juncus Tenuis) is a native perennial rush is typically 4-12"" tall.  It is often densely tufted with erect to ascending stems that are light to medium green, slender, glabrous, and unbranched. The leaves...

  • Rose Mallow - Hibiscus militaris Perennial plant that survives the Midwest winters!
    $0.00 Choose Options HIBISCUS MILITARIS | Rose Mallow
    "Rose mallow, Halberd Mallow, Mallow Rose, Water Mallow, Swamp Mallow (not to be confused with marsh mallow)"     Click Here for Detailed Info Sun...

  • Oxeye Sunflower - Heliopsis helianthoides in full bloom at Ion Exchange native seed and plant nursery in northeast Iowa.
    $0.00 Choose Options HELIOPSIS HELIANTHOIDES | Ox eye Sunflower
    Ox-eye Sunflower, False Sunflower" Heliopsis from the Greek word helios for "sun" and opsis for "appearance". Helianthoides also from the Greek meaning "like Helianthus", the sunflower.   Click Here for Detailed...

  • HELIANTHUS OCCIDENTALIS | Western Sunflower
    $0.00 Choose Options HELIANTHUS OCCIDENTALIS | Western Sunflower
    Helianthus is from the Greek word helios meaning "sun" and anthos for "flower" and occidentalis meaning "western".   Click Here for Detailed Info Sun...

  • HELIANTHUS MOLLIS | Ashy Sunflower
    $0.00 Choose Options HELIANTHUS MOLLIS | Ashy Sunflower
    Helianthus is from the Greek word helios meaning "sun" and anthos for "flower".     Click Here for Detailed Info Sun...

  • HELIANTHUS MAXIMILIANII | Maximilian Sunflower
    $0.00 Choose Options HELIANTHUS MAXIMILIANII | Maximilian Sunflower
    Helianthus is from the Greek word helios meaning "sun" and anthos for "flower". Maximilianii named after Prinz Maximilian van Wied-Neu, discoverer of this plant.   Click Here for Detailed Info Sun...

  • HELIANTHUS LAETIFLORUS | Showy Sunflower
    $0.00 Choose Options HELIANTHUS LAETIFLORUS | Showy Sunflower
    Helianthus is from the Greek word helios meaning "sun" and anthos for "flower".   Click Here for Detailed Info Sun...

  • HELIANTHUS GROSSESERRATUS | Sawtooth Sunflower
    $0.00 Choose Options HELIANTHUS GROSSESERRATUS | Sawtooth Sunflower
    Sawtooth Sunflower (Helianthus grosseserratus) can be distinguished from other Sunflowers by its red, smooth stems can be aggressive and may not be suitable for small landscape plantings.  Can reach 6 feet or more...

  • HELENIUM AUTUMNALE | Sneezeweed
    $0.00 Choose Options HELENIUM AUTUMNALE | Sneezeweed
    Sneezeweed, Staggerwort, Swamp Sunflower Helenium comes from the Greek name for this plant, named after Helen of Troy; autumnale meaning "of autumn", named for its blooming time.   Click Here for Detailed...

  • GENTIANA QUINQUEFOLIA | Stiff Gentian
    $0.00 Choose Options GENTIANA QUINQUEFOLIA | Stiff Gentian
    Genus named for the ancient King Gentius of Illyria, the discoverer of the medicinal properties of these plants.   Click Here for Detailed Info Sun...

  • GENTIANA FLAVIDA | Cream Gentian
    $0.00 Choose Options GENTIANA FLAVIDA | Cream Gentian
    Genus named for the ancient King Gentius of Illyria, the discoverer of the medicinal properties of these plants.   Click Here for Detailed Info Sun...

  • GENTIANA ANDREWSII | Bottle Gentian
    GENTIANA ANDREWSII | Bottle Gentian
    "Bottle Gentian, Barrel Gentian, Blind Gentian, Cloistered Gentian"   Click Here for Detailed Info Sun...

  • EUPHORBIA COROLLATA | Flowering Spurge
    $0.00 Choose Options EUPHORBIA COROLLATA | Flowering Spurge
    "Flowering Spurge, Flat-topped Spurge, Milk Purslane, Milkweed, Snake Milk, Tramp's Spurge, White-flowered Milkweed, Wild Hippo" Mostlike after Euphorbus, a physician to King Juba of Namidia and from the Latin corollata,...

  • EUPATORIUM RUGOSUM | White Snakeroot
    $0.00 Choose Options EUPATORIUM RUGOSUM | White Snakeroot
    "White Snakeroot, Deerwort, Poolwort, Rich Weed, Snake Weed, Squaw Weed, White Sanicle" Greek, from the name of the King of Pontus, Eupator and rugosum from the Latin for "wrinkled", most likely referring to the appearance...

  • EUPATORIUM PURPUREUM | Sweet Joe Pye
    $0.00 Choose Options EUPATORIUM PURPUREUM | Sweet Joe Pye
    "Sweet Joe Pye Weed, Boneset, Gravel-root, Hempweed, Jopi Root, Jopi Weed, Kidney Root, King-of-the-Meadow, Queen-of-the-Meadow, Marsh Milkweed, Motherwort, Quillwort, Skunk Weed, Stink  Trumpet Weed, Quillwort and...

  • EUPATORIUM PERFOLIATUM | Boneset
    $0.00 Choose Options EUPATORIUM PERFOLIATUM | Boneset
    "Boneset, Agueweed, Crosswort, Indian Sage, Thoroughwort, Throughwort" Greek, from the name of the King of Pontus, Eupator and perfoliatum from per (through) and folium (leaf) referring to the way the stem grows "through"...

  • EUPATORIUM MACULATUM | Joe Pye Weed
    $0.00 Choose Options EUPATORIUM MACULATUM | Joe Pye Weed
    Joe Pye Weed, Spotted Joe Pye Weed, King-of-the-Meadow, Queen-of-the-Meadow, Thoroughwort Perennial, 2 - 6 feet, stem purple or purple-spotted, purple-brown flowers in flat-topped clusters bloom from July through September...

  • EUPATORIUM COELESTINUM | Mist Flower
    $0.00 Choose Options EUPATORIUM COELESTINUM | Mist Flower
    Rather hairy plant from 3 to 6 feet. White blooms from late summer to first frost. Common in dry upland prairies, old fields and open woods. Does best where sites have been disturbed through intensive grazing...

  • EUPATORIUM ALTISSIMUM | Tall Boneset
    $0.00 Choose Options EUPATORIUM ALTISSIMUM | Tall Boneset
    Rather hairy plant from 3 to 6 feet. White blooms from late summer to first frost. Common in dry upland prairies, old fields and open woods. Does best where sites have been disturbed through intensive grazing...

  • ERYNGIUM YUCCIFOLIUM | Rattlesnake Master
    $0.00 Choose Options ERYNGIUM YUCCIFOLIUM | Rattlesnake Master
    "Rattlesnake Master, Button Snakeroot, Yucca-leaf Eryngo, Corn Snakeroot, Water-eryngo, Rattlesnake Flag, Rattlesnake Weed" Eryngium from the Greek word for "a prickly plant" and yuccifolium from the Greek word for yucca...

  • ECHINACEA PURPUREA | Purple Coneflower
    $0.00 Choose Options ECHINACEA PURPUREA | Purple Coneflower
    "Purple Coneflower, Black Samson, Red Sunflower" Echinacea from the Greek word for "sea urchin" or "hedgehog" referring to the spiny chaff at the center of these flowers. Purpurea also from the Greek for the word meaning...

  • Bush's Coneflower - Echinacea paradoxa
    $0.00 Choose Options ECHINACEA PARADOXA | Bush's Coneflower
    Echinacea from the Greek word for "sea urchin" or "hedgehog" referring to the spiny chaff at the center of these flowers. Paradoxa from the Latin, paradoxus for "strange" or "unexpected".   Click Here for Detailed...

  • CROTALARIA SAGITTILIS | Rattlebox
    $0.00 Choose Options CROTALARIA SAGITTILIS | Rattlebox
    "Rattlebox, wild Pea, Locoweed" Crotolaria from the Greek crotalon meaning "a rattle" in refernce to the loose seeds inside the pod. Sagittilis is from the Latin meaning "like an arrowhead" referring to the shape of the...

  • Tall Coreopsis - Coreopsis Tripteris
    $0.00 Choose Options COREOPSIS TRIPTERIS | Tall Coreopisis
    Coreopsis from the Greek meaning "having the appearance of a bug", referring to the buglike shape of the seeds. Found throughout the Tallgrass Region, blooms from June to September. C. tripteris can reach 10 feet under...

  • COREOPSIS TINCTORIA | Plains Coreopsis
    $0.00 Choose Options COREOPSIS TINCTORIA | Plains Coreopsis
    Coreopsis from the Greek meaning "having the appearance of a bug", referring to the buglike shape of the seeds. Found throughout the Tallgrass Region, blooms from June to September. Beekeepers use this species as a good...

  • CHELONE GLABRA | Turtlehead
    $0.00 Choose Options CHELONE GLABRA | Turtlehead
    Turtlehead, Balmony, Bitter Herb, Codhead, Fish Mouth, Shellflower, Snakehead, Snake Mouth, Turtlebloom Chelone from the Greek for tortoise and glabra from the Latin word meaning smooth, referring to lack of hairs or...

  • CASSIA FASCICULATA| Partridge Pea
    $0.00 Choose Options CASSIA FASCICULATA| Partridge Pea
    Golden Cassia, Large-flowered Sensitive Pea, Prairie Senna, Senna Pea, Wild Sensitive Plant. Chaemacrista from the Greek word meaning "low crest"; fasciculata from the Latin word meaning "grouped together in bundles", most...

  • CAMPANULA ROTUNDIFOLIA | Harebells | Wildflower Gardening
    CAMPANULA ROTUNDIFOLIA | Harebells
    Curiously, this species is named for the round leaves at the base of the stem which are rarely seen.. Most of the visible leaves are actuallu quite narrow Light blue to purple blooms on rock ledges, beaches and meadows from...

  • CAMPANULA AMERICANA | Tall Bellflower
    $0.00 Choose Options CAMPANULA AMERICANA | Tall Bellflower
    Campanula comes from the Latin campana and means "little bell". Americana means "of America" meaning the first identification of this species happened in America. Many branches on a slender, straight stem produce these...

  • 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...

  • BOLTONIA ASTEROIDES | False Aster
    $0.00 Choose Options BOLTONIA ASTEROIDES | False Aster
    White to pink ray flowers and dome-shaped yellow disk flowers blooming from July through October; grows from 1 to 5 feet and prefers sandy or gravelly wet to moist places from Saskatchewan and Manitoba to Maine and south to...

  • BIDENS CERNUA | Nodding Bur Marigold
    $0.00 Choose Options BIDENS CERNUA | Nodding Bur Marigold
    From the Latin bidens meaning "two-toothed" and cernua meaning "nodding". Common to open mudflats, marsh edges, wet ditches and streambanks throughout the Tallgrass region. Blooms from late August until the firost. Can...

  • $0.00 Choose Options BECKMANNIA SYZIGACHNE | American Slough Grass
    American sloughgrass (Beckmannia Syzigachne) is characteristically found in damp habitats such as wet ground or shallow water and at the margins of ponds, lakes, and streams but may also grow along ditches. It is considered...

  • ASTER UMBELLATUS | Flat Topped Aster
    $0.00 Choose Options ASTER UMBELLATUS | Flat Topped 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. Found throughout the Tallgrass Prairie...

  • ASTER SIMPLEX | Panicled Aster
    $0.00 Choose Options ASTER SIMPLEX | Panicled 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. Found throughout the Tallgrass Prairie...

  • ASTER SHORTII | Short's Aster
    $0.00 Choose Options ASTER SHORTII | Short's 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. Found throughout the Tallgrass Prairie...

  • ASTER SERICEUS | Silky Aster
    ASTER SERICEUS | Silky 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. Also known as Symphotrichum sericeum...

  • ASTER SAGITTIFOLIA | Arrow Leaved Aster
    $0.00 Choose Options ASTER SAGITTIFOLIA | Arrow Leaved 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. Found throughout the Tallgrass Prairie...

  • ASTER PUNICEUS | Swamp Aster
    $0.00 Choose Options ASTER PUNICEUS | Swamp 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. Found throughout the Tallgrass Prairie...