Wildflowers
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
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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
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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
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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