2025 Spring Plants
Over 50 different species of native flowers, grasses, trees and shrubs are available for sale!
We ask that you email with a list of the species you'd like or any questions.
More species will be added throughout the season.
Current inventory available for download:
Plant Sales in Progress
Greenhouse visits available by appointment.
6" pot - $8.00
5" pot - $7.00
1 gallon pot - $12.00
1 gallon pot - $12.00
6" pots - $8.00
1 gallon pots - $12.00
Yarrow - Achillea millefolium
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Wet Mesic to Dry
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Full Sun to Partial Shade
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3' Height
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White summer bloom
1 gallon pots - $12.00
Nodding Onion - Allium cernuum
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Wet Mesic to Dry
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Full Sun to Partial Shade
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1.5' Height
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Pink summer bloom
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Graceful bowing blooms
4" pots - $6.00
1 gallon pots - $12.00
Prairie Onion - Allium stellatum
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Mesic to Dry
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Full Sun to Partial Shade
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1.5' Height
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White summer bloom
4" pots - $6.00
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Big Bluestem - Andropogon gerardii
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Wet Mesic to Dry
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Full Sun to Partial Shade
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7' Height
1 gallon pots - $12.00
Canada Anemone - Anemone Canadensis
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Wet Mesic to Dry
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Full Sun to Part Shade
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2' Height
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White spring, summer blooms
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Will spread by rhizome and naturalize where it is planted
4" pots - $6.00
Thimbleweed - Anemone cylindrica
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Mesic to Dry
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Full Sun to Partial Shade
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2' Height
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White summer bloom
5" pots - $7.00
Pasque Flower - Anemone patens
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Mesic to Dry
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Full Sun to Part Shade
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2' Height
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Purplish-white early spring blooms
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One of the first blooms of the year
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Great rockery plant
4" pots - $6.00
SOLD OUT
Pussytoes - Annetaria plantaginifolia
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Mesic to Dry
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Full Sun to Part Shade
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6" Height
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White early spring blooms
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Good ground cover, will tolerate some foot traffic
4" pots - $6.00
Columbine - Aquilegia canadensis
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Mesic to Dry
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Full Sun to Full Shade
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2' Height
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Red summer bloom
1 gallon pots - $12.00
4" pots - $6.00
Swamp Milkweed - Asclepias incarnata
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Wet Mesic to Mesic
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Full Sun to Part Shade
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4' Height
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Pink summer blooms
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Host plant for Monarch butterfly
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Fragrant, delicious smelling flowers
4" pots - $6.00
1 gallon pot - $12.00
Prairie Milkweed - Asclepias sullivantii
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Wet Mesic to Mesic
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Full Sun
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3' Height
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Pink summer blooms
4" pots - $6.00
1 gallon pot - $12.00
SOLD OUT
Common Milkweed - Asclepias syriaca
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Mesic to Dry
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Full Sun to Part Shade
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4' Height
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Pink summer blooms
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Host plant for Monarch butterfly
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Fragrant, delicious smelling flowers
4" pots - $6.00
1 gallon pot - $12.00
SOLD OUT
Butterfly Milkweed - Asclepias tuberosa
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Mesic to Dry
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Full Sun to Part Shade
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2' Height
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Orange summer blooms
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Host plant for Monarch butterfly
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Top-tier landscape plant
4" pots - $6.00
1 gallon pot - $12.00
SOLD OUT
Whorled Milkweed - Asclepias verticillata
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Mesic to Dry
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Full Sun to Part Shade
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2' Height
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White summer blooms
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Host plant for Monarch butterfly
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Iowa's most widespread milkweed
4" pots - $6.00
Heart-leaved Aster - Aster cordifolius
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Mesic to Dry
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Partial to Full Shade
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3' Height
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Blue late summer bloom
1 gallon pots - $12.00
White Wild Indigo - Baptisia Alba
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Mesic to Dry
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Full Sun to Part Shade
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4' Height
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White summer blooms
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Beautiful landscape plant
4" pots - $6.00
Cream Wild Indigo - Baptisia leucophaea
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Mesic to Dry
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Full Sun to Part Shade
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2' Height
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Cream early summer blooms
4" pots - $6.00
Yellowfruit Sedge - Carex annectens
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Wet Mesic
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Full Sun
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6' Height
6" pots - $8.00
Illinois Tick Trefoil - Desmodium illinoense
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Mesic to Dry
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Full Sun to Partial Shade
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Purple blooms Mid-Summer
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Up to 6' tall
4" pots - $6.00
1 gallon pots - $12.00
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Flowering Spurge- Euphorbia corollata
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Mesic to Dry
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Full Sun to Partial Shade
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3' Height
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White summer bloom
4" pots - $6.00
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Rattlesnake Master- Eryngium yuccifolium
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Mesic to Dry
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Full Sun
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4' Height
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White summer bloom
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Striking blooms and foliage
4" pots - $6.00
Bottle Gentian - Gentiana andrewsii
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Wet Mesic
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Full Sun to Partial Shade
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2' Height
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Blue summer/fall bloom
4" pots - $8.00
SOLD OUT
Cream Gentian - Gentiana flavida
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Wet Mesic to Dry
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Full Sun to Partial Shade
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3' Height
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Cream summer/fall bloom
4" pots - $6.00
5" pots - $7.00
Prairie Smoke - Geum triflorum
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Mesic to Dry
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Full Sun to Partial Shade
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8" Height
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Red spring flowers, dramatic blooms
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Great rockery plant
4" pots - $6.00
SOLD OUT
Prairie Alumroot - Heuchera richardsonii
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Wet Mesic to Dry
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Full Sun to Partial Shade
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2' Height
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Cream to Yellow flowers in the Spring and Summer
4" pots - $6.00
1 gallon pots - $12.00
Rose Mallow - Hibiscus laevis
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Wet Mesic to Mesic
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Full Sun to Partial Shade
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5' Height
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White and Pink in the Summer and Fall
5" pots - $7.00
Blue Flag Iris - Iris shrevei
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Wet Mesic to Mesic
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Full Sun to Partial Shade
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3' Height
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Blue Summer Blooms
4" pots - $7.00
1 gallon pots - $20.00
Michigan Lily - Lillium michiganense
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Wet Mesic to Mesic
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Full Sun to Partial Shade
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5' Height
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Red-Orange Summer Blooms
4" pots - $10.00
Wild Bergamot - Mondarda fistulosa
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Wet Mesic to Dry
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Full Sun to Partial Shade
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4' Height
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Purple Summer Blooms
4" pots - $6.00
Eastern Prickly Pear - Opuntia humifusa
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Dry
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Full Sun to Partial Shade
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6'' Height
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Yellow Summer Blooms
3" pots (from seed) - $5.00
Cactus pad - $3.00
Foxglove Beardtongue - Penstemon digitalis
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Wet Mesic to Mesic
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Full Sun to Partial Shade
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3' Height
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White Spring Blooms
4" pots - $6.00
Large Flowered Beardtongue - Penstemon grandiflorus
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Mesic to Dry
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Full Sun to Partial Shade
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3' Height
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Pink Summer Blooms
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Great Landscape plant
4" pots - $6.00
SOLD OUT
Woodland Phlox - Phlox divaricata
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Wet Mesic to Dry
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Partial Shade to Full Shade
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1' Height
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Blueish-White Spring Summer Blooms
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Blue or white flowers available
4" pots - $6.00
1 gallon - $12.00
Prairie Phlox - Phlox pilosa
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Wet Mesic to Dry
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Full Sun to Partial Shade
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2' Height
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Pink Spring/summer blooms
4" pots - $6.00
SOLD OUT
Obedient Plant - Physostegia virginiana
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Wet Mesic to Mesic
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Full Sun to Partial Shade
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4' Height
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Pink Summer Blooms
4" pots - $6.00
Jacob's Ladder - Polemonium reptans
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Wet Mesic to Dry
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Full Sun to Partial Shade
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1' Height
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Blue Spring Blooms
4" pots - $6.00
6" pots - $8.00
Solomon's Seal - Polygonatum biflorum
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Mesic to Dry
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Full Sun to Full Shade
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4' Height
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Cream Summer Blooms
4" pots - $6.00
5" pots - $7.00
1 gallon pots - $12.00
Prairie Cinquefoil- Potentilla arguta
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Mesic to Dry
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Full Sun to Partial Shade
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2' Height
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Cream or white Summer and fall Blooms
3" pots - $5.00
1 gallon pots - $12.00
SOLD OUT
Common Mountain Mint- Pycanthemum virginianum
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Wet Mesic to Mesic
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Full Sun to Partial Shade
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3' Height
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White Summer and fall Blooms
4" pots - $5.00
1 gallon pots - $12.00
Wild Petunia- Ruellia humilis
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Mesic to Dry
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Full Sun
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1' Height
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Purple Summer Blooms
4" pots - $5.00
Little Bluestem - Schizachyrium scoparium
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Mesic to Dry
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Full Sun to Partial Shade
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3' Height
4" pots - $6.00
1 gallon pots - $12.00
Early Figwort - Scrophularia lanceolata
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Wet Mesic to Dry
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Partial Shade to Full Shade
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3' Height
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Small, red summer blooms
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Super source of nectar for pollinators like hummingbirds
4" pots - $6.00
Wild Senna - Senna hebecarpa
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Wet Mesic to Mesic
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Full Sun to Partial Shade
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5' Height
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Yellow Summer Blooms
4" pots - $6.00
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Blue-Eyed Grass - Sisyrinchuym campestre
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Mesic to Dry
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Full Sun to Partial Shade
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6'' Height
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White/Blue Summer and fall Blooms
4" pots - $7.00
5" pots - $8.00
Prairie Cord Grass - Spartina pectinata
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Wet to wet mesic
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Full Sun to Partial Shade
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7'' Height
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Works well near water
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Great competitor with Reed's Canary grass
4" pots - $6.00
Hoary Vervain - Verbena stricta
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Mesic to Dry
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Full Sun to Partial Shade
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2' Height
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Purple Summer and fall Blooms
2 gallon pots - $22.00
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Culver's Root - Veronicastrum virginicum
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Wet Mesic to mesic
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Full Sun to Partial Shade
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5' Height
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White Summer Blooms
4" pots - $6.00
Common Violet - Viola sororia
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Wet mesic to Dry
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Full Sun to Full Shade
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4" Height
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Classic Spring Bloomer
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Widely adaptable to sun and soil conditions
1 gallon pots - $12.00
Golden Alexanders - Zizia aurea
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Wet Mesic to Mesic
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Full Sun to Partial Shade
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3' Height
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Yellow Spring/Summer Blooms
4" pots - $6.00
5" pots - $7.00
1 gallon pots - $12.00
Trees, Shrubs, and Vines
Buckeye - Aesculus glabra
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Wet Mesic to Mesic
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Full Sun to Partial Shade
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30' Height
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Yellow Blooms, large fruit
1 gallon pots - $15.00
2 gallon pots - $22.00
False Indigo - Amorpha fruticosa
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Wet Mesic to Dry
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Full Sun to Full Shade
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12' Height
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Purple Summer Blooms
1 gallon pots - $15.00
Paw Paw - Asimina triloba
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Wet Mesic to Mesic
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Full Sun to Partial Shade
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15' Height
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Fall Fruit
5" pots - $10.00
6" pots - $12.00
1 gallon pots - $15.00
Shagbark Hickory - Carya ovata
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Wet Mesic to Mesic
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Full Sun to Partial Shade
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70' Height
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Fall Fruit
1 gallon pots - $15.00
2 gallon pots - $22.00
SOLD OUT
American Hazelnut - Corylus americana
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Wet Mesic to Mesic
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Full Sun to Partial Shade
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16' Height
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Pink Blooms, Fall Fruit
1 gallon pots - $15.00
Cockspur Hawthorn - Crataegus crus-gali
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Wet Mesic to Mesic
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Full Sun
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30' Height
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White Spring Blooms
4" pots - $10.00
1 gallon pots - $15.00
Kentucky Cofeetree - Gymnocladus dioicus
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Wet Mesic to Dry
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Full Sun
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70' Height
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Good replacement for ash trees
1 gallon pots - $15.00
2 gallon pots - $22.00
Shrubby St. John's Wort - Hypericum prolificum
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Wet Mesic to Dry
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Full Sun to Partial Shade
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4' Height
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Beautiful Yellow Blooms
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Very hardy shrub
4" pots - $10.00
Black Walnut - Juglans nigra
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Wet Mesic to Mesic
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Full Sun
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85' Height
1 gallon pots - $15.00
SOLD OUT
Virginia Creeper - Parthenocissus quinquefolia
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Wet Mesic to Mesic
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Full Sun to part shade
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30-50' Vine
1 gallon pots - $15.00
SOLD OUT
American Sycamore - Plantanus occidentalis
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Wet Mesic to Mesic
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Full Sun
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100' Height
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Ames Landmark Tree Seed Source
4" pots - $10.00
1 gallon pots - $15.00
American Plum - Prunus americana
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Wet Mesic to Dry
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Full Sun tp Partial Shade
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25' Height
1 gallon pots - $15.00
2 gallon pots - $22.00
Pasture Rose - Rosa carolina
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Wet Mesic to Dry
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Full Sun tp Partial Shade
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2' Height
4" pots - $10.00
Swamp Rose - Rosa palustris
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Wet Mesic to Mesic
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Full Sun tp Partial Shade
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5' Height
4" pots - $10.00
Weeping Willow - Salix babylonica
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Wet Mesic to Mesic
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Full Sun tp Partial Shade
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50' Height
1 gallon pots - $15.00
2 gallon pots - $22.00
Meadowsweet - Spiraea Alba
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Wet Mesic to Mesic
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Full Sun tp Partial Shade
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4' Height
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White summer blooms
1 gallon pots - $15.00
Riverbank Grape - Vitis riparia
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Wet Mesic to Mesic
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Full Sun tp Partial Shade
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Long vining plant
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Fall Grape harvest
1 gallon pots - $15.00
2 gallon pots - $22.00