Description

These plant packages will contain a combination of short flowers and grasses (1-2′ tall) selected to provide a welcoming environment for bees and other pollinators. Plants will be chosen from a selection that are vigorous and healthy at the time of shipment. Select either Mix 72 with a half flat each of flowers and grasses containing a total of 72 plants, or Mix 144 with a full flat each of flowers and grasses containing a total of 144 plants. Plants are plugs, provided in 6-packs.

Selections will likely include plants from the following list (and others):

Flowers

• Allium cernuum (Nodding Onion)
• Allium stellatum (Prairie Onion)
• Asclepias verticillata (Whorled Milkweed)
• Campanula rotundifolia (Harebell)
• Cerastium arvense (Field Chickweed)
• Fragaria virginica (Wild Strawberry)
• Galium boreale (Northern Bedstraw)
• Geum triflorum (Prairie Smoke)
• Liatris cylindracea (Dwarf Blazing Star)
• Liatris punctata (Dotted Blazing Star)
• Lobelia spicata (Pale Spiked Lobelia)
• Moehringia lateriflora (Grove Sandwort)
• Packera plattensis (Prairie Ragwort)
• Penstemon gracilis (Slender Beardstongue)
• Phlox pilosa (Prairie Phlox)
• Potentilla arguta (Prairie Cinquefoil)
• Ruellia humilis (Wild Petunia)
• Symphyotrichum oblongifolium (Aromatic Aster)
• Symphyotrichum sericeum (Silky Aster)
• Viola pedatifida (Prairie Violet)

Grasses

• Bouteloua dactyloides (Buffalo Grass)
• Bouteloua gracilis (Blue Grama)
• Bromus kalmii (Prairie Brome)
• Carex brevior (Plains Oval Sedge)
• Carex sprengelii (Sprengel’s Sedge)
• Juncus tenuis (Path Rush)
• Koeleria macrantha (June Grass)