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  • 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...

  • CASTELLIJA COCCINEA | Indian Paintbrush
    $0.00 Choose Options CASTELLIJA COCCINEA | Indian Paintbrush
    Indian Paintbrush (Castellia Coccinea (Indian Paintbrush) is currently found infrequently in open woodlands and meadows. Blooms bright red from May to August. The roots of this plant can penetrate the roots of other plants,...

  • CASSIA MARILANDICA | Maryland Senna
    $0.00 Choose Options CASSIA MARILANDICA | Maryland Senna
    Maryland Senna, Yellow flowers about 1" across, grows in moist open areas along prairie streams, open moist thickets and shaded areas in southern part of the Tall grass Region into northern Illinois and Iowa. Can reach 6...

  • CASSIA HEBECARPA | Wild Senna
    $0.00 Choose Options CASSIA HEBECARPA | Wild Senna
    Grows to 4 feet in favorable conditions on stream banks and in open woods from July to August.   Click Here for Detailed Info Sun...

  • 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...

  • CAREX VULPINODEA | Fox Sedge
    $0.00 Choose Options CAREX VULPINODEA | Fox Sedge
    Fox Sedge (Carex Vulpinodea) - Tussocks with fine-textured bristly fruiting heads like a fox's tail. Good colonizer of disturbed, open, moist ground.   Click Here for Detailed Info Sun...

  • CAREX TRIBULOIDES | Blunt Broom Sedge
    $0.00 Choose Options CAREX TRIBULOIDES | Blunt Broom Sedge
    Blunt Broom Sedge (Carex Tribloides) is common in habitats that include wet woodlands, areas adjacent to semi-shaded vernal pools, moist meadows in wooded areas or along rivers, powerline clearances in wooded areas, wet...

  • CAREX STRICTA | Tussock Sedge
    $0.00 Choose Options CAREX STRICTA | Tussock Sedge
    A slender, 1-3 ft. grass-like plant with a cluster of brown seed capsules clinging high on the stem. Stems bearing greenish or brownish spikes of inconspicuous flowers above dense tufts of grass-like leaves. Green leaves are...

  • CAREX STIPATA | Awl- fruited Sedge
    $0.00 Choose Options CAREX STIPATA | Awl- fruited Sedge
    Awl Fruited Sedge is a streamside sedge with a husky inflorescence. It is similar to Carex vulpinoidea in appearance, but the perigynia and scales have different appearances under the dissecting scope...

  • CAREX SPRENGELII | Long beaked Sedge
    $0.00 Choose Options CAREX SPRENGELII | Long beaked Sedge
    Long beaked Sedge (Carex Sprengelii) with long, thin beaks, long culms with pendant spikelets, and fibrous plant bases help to identify this species. Often found in sugar maple forests and othe rich woodlands...

  • CAREX SCOPARIA | Broom Sedge
    $0.00 Choose Options CAREX SCOPARIA | Broom Sedge
    Broom Sedge (Carex Scoparia) native perennial sedge is 1 This native perennial sedge is 1½–2½' tall, forming tight bunches of flowering culms with alternate leaves. Vegetative shoots are relatively...

  • CAREX LURIDA | Lurid Sedge
    $0.00 Choose Options CAREX LURIDA | Lurid Sedge
    This native perennial sedge forms a tuft of basal leaves and one or more culms up to 2½' long. Each culm is stiff, 3-angled, glabrous, and unbranched; its edges are rough underneath the inflorescence. Along the lower...

  • CAREX LUPULINA | Hop Sedge
    $0.00 Choose Options CAREX LUPULINA | Hop Sedge
    Hop Sedge (Carex Lupulina) grows in tufts and is somewhat variable. Found in stream and pond edges, lake shores, swamps, ditches, and wooded ravines.     Click Here for Detailed Info Sun...

  • Carex lacustris, Lake Sedge
    $0.00 Choose Options CAREX LACUSTRIS | Lake Sedge
    Lake Sedge (Carex Lacustris) is a stout perennial with triangular stems 5-12 dm. in height. Leaves are coarse, M-shaped, bluish-green, 1 m. or more long, and 8-15 mm. wide. Basal sheaths are reddened and have open,...

  • CAREX HYSTRICINA | Porcupine Sedge
    $0.00 Choose Options CAREX HYSTRICINA | Porcupine Sedge
    Porcupine Sedge (Carex Hystricina), a native perennial sedge forms a dense to loose tuft of culms with alternate leaves; there are both fertile and vegetative shoots. spikes yellow in coloration; prickly in appearance...

  • CAREX GRISEA | Inflated Narrow-leaf Sedge
    $0.00 Choose Options CAREX GRISEA | Inflated Narrow-leaf Sedge
    Inflated Narrow Leaf Sedge (Carex Grisea) is a common and widespread species that grows frequently with C. amphibola and infrequently with C. corrugata. When growing near the other species, C. grisea usually inhabits sandier...

  • CAREX GRAYI | Gray's Sedge
    CAREX GRAYI | Gray's Sedge
    Gray's Sedge (Carex Grayi) has spiked flowers that look like the medieval weapon of the same name. Soil moisture is a direct correlation to the healthiness of the plant, particularly as it grows. Established plants are...

  • CAREX FRANKII | Frank's Sedge
    $0.00 Choose Options CAREX FRANKII | Frank's Sedge
    Frank's Sedge (Carex Crinita) grows well in moist soil, gravel bars, along streams, pond margins, fens, river bottoms, prairie swales, wet meadows.     Click Here for Detailed Info Sun...

  • CAREX CRISTATELLA | Crested Oval Sedge
    $0.00 Choose Options CAREX CRISTATELLA | Crested Oval Sedge
    Crested Oval Sedge (Carex Cristatella) is readily distinguished from most other species of sect. Ovales by the widely spreading perigynia and the globose spikes, but immature specimens are frequently mistaken for other...

  • CAREX CRINITA | Fringed Sedge
    $0.00 Choose Options CAREX CRINITA | Fringed Sedge
    Robust with long, nodding spikes and strap-like leaves. Striking in appearance. Fringed Sedge (Carex Crinita) is robust with long, nodding spikes and strap-like leaves. Striking in appearance.   Click Here for...

  • Carex Comosa - Bottlebrush Sedge
    $0.00 Choose Options CAREX COMOSA | Bottlebrush Sedge
    Bottlebrush Sedge grows in wet places, including meadows and many types of wetlands. Tolerates deeper water than most common species and is good for retention basins. This sedge produces clumps of triangular stems up to 100...

  • CAREX BREVIOR | Plains Oval Sedge
    $0.00 Choose Options CAREX BREVIOR | Plains Oval Sedge
    Plains Oval Sedge (Carex Brevior) generally low growing sedge for dry open areas.     Click Here for Detailed Info Sun...

  • CAREX BLANDA | Dewey | Woodland Sedge
    $0.00 Choose Options CAREX BLANDA | Dewey | Woodland Sedge
    Dewey (Carex blanda) is the most common and widespread of all members of sect. Laxiflorae. It is often locally abundant and capable of being somewhat weedy in areas where it is frequent. It growns in the most diverse...

  • CAREX BICKNELLII | Bicknel Sedge
    $0.00 Choose Options CAREX BICKNELLII | Bicknel Sedge
    Carex Bicknellii     Click Here for Detailed Info Sun Exposure               Prairie Soil Moisture Mesic, Dry...

  • CAREX BEBBII | Bebb's Sedge
    $0.00 Choose Options CAREX BEBBII | Bebb's Sedge
    Bebb's Oval Sedge, Carex bebbii   Click Here for Detailed Info Sun Exposure               Prairie Soil Moisture Wet Mesic,...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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...