Wildflowers add so much beauty to our yards and gardens while providing food to our local wildlife, primarily butterflies, bees and hummingbirds.
Before planting wildflowers, get to know your site and select species best suited to the amount of sunlight, moisture and soil type. Take note of the height of the wildflowers and design accordingly, with the lowest species to the front and the tallest to the middle or back. Remember to include larval host plants, the food plants for caterpillars. Learn more about attracting pollinators and our pollinator garden packs.
When designing your wildflower space consider planting species in minimum groupings of three. Groups of flowers create a better show of blooms, aid in cross-pollination for seed production, and create nectar “targets” and are more frequently visited by pollinators.
Wildflowers for Shade
Wild Ginger Wild Ginger & Foam Flower Wild Hyacinth Wild Geranium Great Soloman’s Seal Bride’s Feathers Spring Beauty Blood Root Toothwort Jack-in-the-pulipt Great Soloman’s Seal Bellwort Mayapple Blue Lobelia Bottle Gentian Dutchman’s Breeches Red Trillium Spring Beauty Trout Lily Woodland Phlox Wood Mint Wild Columbine
See our fern stock for your shaded/woodland gardens.
Wildflowers for Sun
Wild Onion Sundrops Rattlesnake master Prairie Buttercup Prairie Smoke Golden Alexander Blue Vervain Foxglove Penstemon Canada Anemone Culvers Root Branched Coneflower Anise Hyssop Blue Lobelia Obedient Plant Turtlehead Yarrow Mistflower Joe-pye Weed Harebell Common Milkweed Hairy Penstemon Milk Vetch & Hoary Vervain Blanket Flower Grey-headed Coneflower Blue False Indigo Rough Blazing Star Lance-leaved Coreopsis Compass Plant Wild Bergamot Dense blazing Star Hoary Vervain Spiderwort Hedge Nettle Black-eyed Susan Prairie Coneflower Prairie Clover Bee Balm Canada Lily Tick Trefoil Purple Coneflower Helenium Marsh Marigold Michigan Lily Eastern Prickly Pear Wild Strawberry Ironweed Swamp Milkweed
Wildflowers for Wetland/Wet Areas/Ponds/Shoreline
Pitcher Plant Pitcher Plant Blue Vervain Blue Flag Iris Marsh Hibiscus Fragrant Water Lily Pond Lily Swamp Milkweed Marsh Marigold Monkey Flower Virgin’s Bower Turtlehead Joe-pye Weed Pickerel Weed Cardinal Flower