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Native Wildflower Seeds & Plants

Native plants adapt to the local climate and soil conditions where they naturally occur. They provide nectar, pollen, and seeds that serve as a food source for native butterflies, insects, birds and other wildlife.  In comparison, common horticultural plants do not provide energetic rewards for their visitors and often require insect pest control to survive.

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  • HERACLEUM MAXIMUM | Cow Parnsip
    $0.00 Choose Options HERACLEUM MAXIMUM | Cow Parnsip
    Heracleum from the Greek for a kind of plant like Hercules, thought to be for this species' hardiness and size. Greek legends say Hercules also used this species as a medicine. Pliny the Elder considered this species to be...

  • HEPATICA ACUTILOBA | Hepatica
    HEPATICA ACUTILOBA | Hepatica
    Hepatica is attractive and easy to identify because of its three-lobed leaves.. The typical flower color is blue but the white-flowered form is common also.     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...

  • GLYCYRRHIZA LEPIDOTA | Wild Licorice
    $0.00 Choose Options GLYCYRRHIZA LEPIDOTA | Wild Licorice
    "Licorice root, American Licorice, Sweet Wood" Glycyrrhiza is from the Greek word glycys meaning "sweet" and rhiza meaning "root". Lepidota means "scaly".     Click Here for Detailed Info Sun...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • GAURA BIENNIS | Biennial Guara
    $0.00 Choose Options GAURA BIENNIS | Biennial Guara
    Biennial Gaura (Gaura biennis) grows to six feet in it's second year. with small pink flowers and establishes a prairie planting.  Completes its life-cycle in two years; however will distribute numerous seeds while...

  • GALIUM BOREALE | Northern Bed Straw
    GALIUM BOREALE | Northern Bed Straw
    The tiny white flowers of this perennial form dozens of dense clusters about half an inch wide. The clusters are found at the tips of the many branches. Narrow Leaves from stems about a foot long arise in tufts from shallow...

  • FILIPENDULA RUBRA | Queen of the Prairie
    $0.00 Choose Options FILIPENDULA RUBRA | Queen of the Prairie
    Queen of the Prairie (Filipendula Rubra) is a native perennial plant, unbranched and ranges between 3-6 feet tall. The central stem is smooth and sometimes reddish. Prefers full or partial sun, and wet to moist...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Pale Purple Coneflower
    $0.00 Choose Options ECHINACEA PALIDA | Pale Purple Coneflower
    Echinacea from the Greek word for "sea urchin" or "hedgehog" referring to the spiny chaff at the center of these flowers. Pallida is from the latin word for "pale". Perennial; reaches 2 to 3 feet; leaves are mostly basal...

  • Narrow Purple Coneflower - Echinacea Angustifolia
    $0.00 Choose Options ECHINACEA ANGUSTIFOLIA | Narrow Purple Coneflower
    Narrow Purple Coneflower (Echinacea Angustifolia) - Found mostly in the northern portions of the Tallgrass Region on recently burned areas or where the soil has been disturbed. Blooms are purple to pink (rarely white) and...

  • 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...

  • DESMODIUM ILLINOENSE | Illinoise Tick Trefoil
    $0.00 Choose Options DESMODIUM ILLINOENSE | Illinoise Tick Trefoil
    Desmodium from the Greek for "long branch or chain" and canadense meaning "of Canada". Favors moist or mesic portions of the Tallgrass Prairie, flowers from June through September. generally reaches about three feet, but...

  • DESMODIUM CANADENSE | Showy Tick Trefoil
    $0.00 Choose Options DESMODIUM CANADENSE | Showy Tick Trefoil
    Desmodium from the Greek for "long branch or chain" and canadense meaning "of Canada". Favors moist or mesic portions of the Tallgrass Prairie, flowers from June through September. generally reaches about three feet, but...

  • DESMANTHUS ILLINOENSIS | Illinois Bundleflower
    $0.00 Choose Options DESMANTHUS ILLINOENSIS | Illinois Bundleflower
    Illinois Bundleflower, Illinois Acacia, Prairie Mimosa, Pickle-weed" Common, almost weedy in disturbed prairies, pastures and sandy thickets. Averages 3 feet but can reach 5 feet or more with ideal conditions. Blooms from...

  • DELPHINIUM VIRESCENS | Prairie Larkspur
    DELPHINIUM VIRESCENS | Prairie Larkspur
    "Prairie Larkspur, Plains Larkspur" Delphinium from the Greek for Dolphin referring to the shape of the flower. Virescens from the Greek word for "greenish", referring to the color of the flower. Early bloomer, from May to...

  • DECODON VERTICILLATUS | Swamp Loosestrife
    $0.00 Choose Options DECODON VERTICILLATUS | Swamp Loosestrife
    From the Greek "deca" for ten and "odus" for tooth; "verticillatus" from the the greek word meaning "whorled". Perennial, shrubby herb, a rare part of the northern Tallgrass region, being found only on the Paleozoic Plateau...

  • 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...

  • COREOPSIS PALMATA | Prairie Coreopsis
    $0.00 Choose Options COREOPSIS PALMATA | Prairie Coreopsis
    Prairie Coreopsis, Tickseed, Stiff Tickseed, Stiff Coreopsis" Coreopsis from the Greek meaning "having the appearance of a bug", referring to the buglike shape of the seeds. Palmata means "palmate", like fingers radiating...

  • COREOPSIS LANCEOLATA | Lanceleaf Coreopsis
    $0.00 Choose Options COREOPSIS LANCEOLATA | Lanceleaf 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, large yellow flowers bloom from June through July. Beekeepers use this...

  • CLEMATIS VIRGINIANA | Virgin's Bower
    $0.00 Choose Options CLEMATIS VIRGINIANA | Virgin's Bower
    Virgin's Bower, Old Man's Beard From the Greek klema meaning "vine branch" and the Latin virginiana meaning "of Virginia". Blooms from May through August. White flowers with four shall petals and greenish-white sepals.The...

  • CICUTA MACULATA | Water Hemlock
    CICUTA MACULATA | Water Hemlock
    Water Hemlock, Beaver Poison, Carotte a Moreau, Cowbane, Musquash root, Spotted Cowbane, Spotted Hemlock Cicuta from the ancient Latin for poison hemlock and maculata from the Latin meaning "spotted or mottled", referring...

  • 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...

  • Buttonbush | Cephalanthus Occidentalis Wildflower
    $0.00 Choose Options CEPHALANTHUS OCCIDENTALIS | Buttonbush
    Buttonbush, Common Buttonbush, Globeflowers, Honey-balls, Pond Dogwood, Swamp Sycamore From the Greek kephale meaning head and occidentalis meaning western or of the western hemisphere. Found in most of the northeastern...

  • CELASTRUS SCANDENS | Bittersweet
    $0.00 Choose Options CELASTRUS SCANDENS | Bittersweet
    Climbing Bittersweet, Climbing Orange Root, Fever Twig, Fever Twitch, Staff Vine, Waxwork From the Greek for a type of evergreen plant and scandens from the Latin for climbing. Found throughout the Tallgrass region,...

  • CEANOTHUS AMERICANUS | New Jersey Tea
    $0.00 Choose Options CEANOTHUS AMERICANUS | New Jersey Tea
    Ceanothus from an ancient name, the meaning of which has been lost and from americanus meaning "of America". Found on prairies and prairie remnants and along the borders of woods and rocky sites. Blooms from late May to...