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Drought Tolerant
Achillea millefolium
Common Name: Yarrow
Fragrant white flowers that attract native bees and predatory insects. Great plant for a managed meadow.
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Allium cernuum
Common Name: Nodding onion
Nodding pink flowers. Use in woods' edge, meadows, average garden soil.
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Allium stellatum
Common Name: Prairie Onion
Allium stellatum is a diminutive bulb with narrow grass-like leaves. In summer flower scapes tower above the foliage bearing 2-3” umbrella shaped flower clusters. The white, lavender or pink florets are star shaped and a…
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Amsonia hubrichtii
Common Name: Thread leafed bluestar
Multiple heads of blue star-like flowers, great glowing yellow fall color.
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Andropogon gerardii
Common Name: Big bluestem
Classic grass of the tall grass prairies, tolerates a wide variety of soils in full sun, good livestock forage.
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Andropogon virginicus
Common Name: Broom sedge
Short, warm season bunch grass, with golden fall color. Tolerates drought and poor soils.
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Antennaria neglecta
Common Name: Field pussytoes
Prairie species best suited to dry, sunny locations; tough. Attracts bees, butterflies, and other insects.
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Asclepias tuberosa
Common Name: Butterfly weed
Bright orange, butterfly magnet, superbly drought tolerant, a personal favorite.
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Asclepias verticillata
Common Name: Eastern whorled milkweed
Fine foliage on un-branched stems. Creamy white flowers. Larval host and nectar source for the monarch butterfly.
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Aster cordifolius
Common Name: Blue wood aster
Good naturalizer for woods' edge and shade, does well in dry conditions. Lovely arching flower stems brighten up the shade.
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Aster divaricatus
Common Name: White wood aster
Good native groundcover for woods' edge and shade, does well in dry conditions. Provides a mass of small white flowers to usher in the fall season.
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Aster laevis
Common Name: Smooth blue aster
Early blooming, tolerant of a variety of conditions.
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Aster macrophyllus
Common Name: Big leaf aster
Vigorously growing aster has large heart shaped basal leaves, can form dense carpets.
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Aster macrophyllus 'Twilight'
Common Name: Twilight big leaf aster
Aster macrophyllus ‘Twilight’ begins the growing season as a rosette of large heart shaped basal leaves. For a month or so plants look like an attractive coarse textured groundcover. Upright stems elongate…
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Aster oblongifolius
Common Name: Aromatic aster
This species tolerates drought, poor soils, and the heat. Aromatic foliage.
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Aster oblongifolius 'October Skies'
Common Name: Aromatic aster
Compound mound, with bluer flowers than Raydons.
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Aster oblongifolius 'Raydons Favorite'
Common Name: Aromatic aster
One of the best aster selections out there, flowers early and long, neatly mounded.
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Aster pilosus
Common Name: Frost aster
Aster pilosus is a shrubby native wildflower with erect or arching stems. It is often described as a weedy species and if all humans were environmental stewards it might have no merit. In reality though, disturbance happens and this troup…
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Aster spectabilis
Common Name: Showy aster
Bright violet single, graceful blooms encircle a yellow disk near the top of arching stem with grass green foliage. Found along pond's edge, stream banks, and open meadows. Perfectly simple, and simply perfect. Shared with us by our friend Jas…
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