Native Seeds
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Black Eyed Susan Seed
$5.00 Add to cartRudbeckia hirta
Description: This brightly yellow flowered opportunist thrives in disturbed sites. Note this is a biennial, it completes its life cycle in two years. However, it will reseed. Daisy-like blooms are about two to three inches wide. Cones of flowers become seed heads that attract birds. Serves as a host plant for at least 15 species of lepidopterans, including the wavy-lined emerald and the silvery checkerspot.
Habitat
Habitat and Wetland Indicator Status: Disturbed habitats, meadows and fields, woodlands (FACU)
Light: Sun, Part Shade
Soil Type and Moisture: Moist to dry, well-drained soils. Juglones tolerant. Dry, Moist.Characteristics
Bloom Color: Red, Orange, Yellow
Bloom Period: June, July, August, September, October
Mature Height: 2 feetGermination: Cold, Moist Germination for 30 days
Wildlife: Attracts birds and butterflies. Host plant for the Bordered Patch and Gorgone Checkerspot.
Other Features: Deer ResistantSold As: approximately 1,000 seed per packet
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Blue Wood Aster Seed
$7.00 Add to cartSymphyotrichum cordifolium
Description: This pale blue to purple flower blooms late in the season and provides color to gardens in autumn. It serves as a great late-season nectar source for pollinators. Native habitats include upland meadows and upland forests. Readily seeds itself.
Habitat
Habitat and Wetland Indicator Status: Disturbed habitats, forest edges, forests, meadows and fields (NI)
Light: Part Shade, Shade
Soil Type and Moisture: Clay, Loam, Sand. Moist.Characteristics
Bloom Color: Pale Blue, Purple
Bloom Period: August, September, October
Mature Height: 3 feetGermination: Cold, Moist Germination for 60 days
Wildlife: Attracts pollinators such as butterflies. Special value to native bees. Supports Conservation Biological Control.
Other Features: Deer Resistant, Drought Tolerant, Fire TolerantSold As: approximately 50 seeds per packet
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Common Milkweed Seed
$5.00 Add to cartAsclepias syriaca
Description: This tall milkweed is a favorite of monarchs and many other pollinators. It is one of the easiest and fastest to establish compared to other milkweed. Blooms between June and August. Habitats include fields, along roadsides, and open ground.
Habitat
Habitat and Wetland Indicator Status: Disturbed habitats, forest edges, meadows and fields (UPL)
Light: Sun, Part Shade
Soil Type and Moisture: Medium to fine sandy, clayey, or rocky calcareous soils. Also found in well-drained loamy soils. Moist.Characteristics
Bloom Color: Pink, Purple
Bloom Period: June, July, August
Mature Height: 6 feetGermination: Cold, Moist Germination for 30 days
Wildlife: Attracts butterflies. Host plant to the Monarch. Nectar source for the Dion Skipper, Yellow-banded bumblebee, and Half-black Bumblebee.
Other Features: Deer Resistant, Drought TolerantSold As: approximately 500 seeds per packet
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Foxglove Beardtongue Seed
$7.00 Add to cartPenstemon digitalis
Description: A well known tough-as-nails plant with a grow-anywhere attitude. Pretty trumpet flowers that range from white to pink. Great for native bees and a host plant for the Chalcedony Midget Moth and great for native bees. On Dr. Robert Gegear’s plant list.
Habitat
Habitat and Wetland Indicator Status: Disturbed habitats, meadows and fields (FAC)
Light: Sun, Part Shade
Soil Type and Moisture: Fertile, well-drained loans, clay loams, and sand. Acid preferably but tolerates lime. Dry, Moist, Wet.Characteristics
Bloom Color: White
Bloom Period: June, July
Mature Height: 4 feetGermination: Cold, Moist Germination for 30 days
Wildlife: Attracts hummingbirds and bumblebees. Special value to native bees. Nectar source for Golden Northern Bumblebee, Yellow-banded Bumblebee, and the Half-black Bumblebee.
Other Features: Deer Resistant, Drought Tolerant, Shade TolerantSold As: approximately 2,500 seeds per packet
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New England Aster Seed
$7.00 Add to cartSymphyotrichum novae-angliae
Description: Another late season bloomer with stunning bright purple flowers. Easily to identify pre-bloom by leaves that nearly encircle a hairy stem. Another attractor of numerous pollinators and a host plant for the Crescent butterfly. Serves as a nectar source for monarchs. Best planted in meadow gardens or as backdrop to shorter plants such as the purple coneflower due to leaves dropping as it grows. Prune this plant early in the season to promote bushy growth. Notice: does not do well in dry soils. Also a prolific self-seeder; prune seed heads before they are ripe to decrease unwanted seedlings.
Habitat
Habitat and Wetland Indicator Status: Disturbed habitats, meadows, and fields (FACW).
Light: Sun, Part Sun.
Soil Type and Moisture: Moist soils. Moist.Characteristics
Bloom Color: Purple
Bloom Period: August, September, October
Mature Height: 6 feetGermination: Cold, Moist Germination for 60 days
Wildlife: Attracts butterflies, hummingbirds, and bees. Nectar source for Monarch butterflies. Host to the Pearl Crescent and Checkerspot butterflies. Special value to native bees and honey bees.
Other Features: Drought Tolerant, Salt TolerantSold As: approximately 50 to 100 seeds per packet
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Red Columbine Seed
$7.00 Add to cartAquilegia canadensis
Description: One of the first few plants to provide nectar for pollinators in the spring. Larval host for the columbine Duskywing butterfly. Habitat includes dry to mesic woodlands. Best to cut back flowering stems after blooming to promote regrowth. Note: can increase rapidly from self seeding. Likely to not see flowers till the second season after planting.
Habitat
Habitat and Wetland Indicator Status: Cliffs, Balds, or ledges forests, ridges or ledges, shores of rivers or lakes, talus and rocky slopes, woodlands (FACU)
Light: Part Shade to Shade
Soil Type and Moisture: Moist, rocky soils, but will grow in dry, nutrient poor soil. Dry, Moist.Characteristics
Bloom Color: Red, Yellow
Bloom Period: March, April, June, July
Mature Height: 3 feetGermination: Cold, Moist Germination for 60 days
Wildlife: Food source for pollinators. Attracts hummingbirds.
Other Features: Deer Resistant, Drought Tolerant, Shade TolerantSold As: approximately 600 seeds per packet
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Rose/Swamp Milkweed Seed
$5.00 Add to cartAsclepias incarnata
Description: Beautiful pink flowers with a fragrance reminiscent of bubblegum, this milkweed, as well as the others listed, are a host plant of the monarch butterfly. Very high pollinator value and is on Dr. Robert Gegear’s plant list. Prefers medium wet to wet soil. All milkweeds listed are on Dr. Robert Gegear’s plant list.
Habitat
Habitat and Wetland Indicator Status: Marshes, meadows and fields, shores of rivers or lakes, swamps, wetland margins (edges of wetlands) (OBL)
Light: Sun, Part Shade
Soil Type and Moisture: Rick, wet, muddy to average garden moisture. Thrives in mucky clay soils. Prefers neutral to slightly acidic soil but tolerates heavy clay. Moist, Wet.Characteristics
Bloom Color: Pink, Purple
Bloom Period: June, July, August
Mature Height: 6 feetGermination: Cold, Moist Germination for 30 days
Wildlife: Food source for pollinators. Attracts butterflies and hummingbirds. Host plant to Monarch and Queen butterflies. Nectar source for Dion Skipper, Yellow-banded Bumblebee and Half-black Bumblebee). Special value to native bees and honey bees. Supports conservation biological control.
Other Features: Anaerobic Tolerant, Deer ResistantSold As: approximately 600 seeds per packet
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Showy Goldenrod Seed
$7.00 Add to cartSolidago speciosa
Description: One of the showiest species of goldenrod that occur within the United States. A late bloomer occurring from late summer to the middle of autumn. A pollinator and bird favorite! Also on Dr. Robert Gegear’s plant list. Also, contrary to popular belief, goldenrods do not cause hay fever. Goldenrods are important features of the landscape, as they provide ecosystem services late in the season when other plants are dying off.
Habitat
Habitat and Wetland Indicator Status: Disturbed habitats, meadows, and fields (NI)
Light: Sun, Part Shade
Soil Type and Moisture: Rocky or clay soils. Moist.Characteristics
Bloom Color: Yellow
Bloom Period: September, October, November
Mature Height: 5 feetGermination: Cold, Moist Germination for 60 days. Surface Sown.
Wildlife: Attracts birds and butterflies. Special value to native bees and honey bees. Nectar source for the Half-black bumblebee. Supports conservation biological control.
Other Features: Deer ResistantSold As: approximately 50 to 100 seeds per packet