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Welcome to the Nursery!

We grow our own native plants from locally collected native seed.  Shop online, visit us by appointment or we can come to you.  Pre-orders ensure the plants you want are available in the Spring - browse now!

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Plants for Shade

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You don't have to fill your shade with hostas - Minnesota is home to hundreds of beautiful native species that want to relax under the trees.  Enjoy blooms in the spring and amazing foliage all year.

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Flowers

White snakeroot (Ageratina altissima)

Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)

Tall bellflower (Campanula americanum)

Sweet joe pye (Eutrochium purpureum)

Virginia bluebells (Mertensia virginica)

Sweet cicely (Osmorhiza claytonii)

Wild blue phlox (Phlox divaricata)

Jacob's ladder (Polemonium reptans)

Figwort (Scrophularia spp.)

Zig-zag goldenrod (Solidago flexicaulis)

Heart-leaved aster (Symphyotrichum cordifolium)

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Ground covers

Wild strawberry (Fragaria virginiana)

Fringed loosestrife (Lysimachia ciliata)

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Grasses and Sedges

Sprengel's sedge (Carex sprengelii)

Bottlebrush grass (Elymus hystrix)

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Plants for Sun

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Sunny Site?  Great!  From a small pollinator garden to a full-blown prairie we have the plants that will fill your space with color, habitat and joy.

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Flowers

Anise hyssop (Agastache foeniculum)

Prairie onion (Allium stellatum)

Leadplant (Amorpha canescens)

Thimbleweed (Anemone cylindrica)

Pasqueflower (Anemone patens)

Prairie sage (Artemisia ludoviciana)

Swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata)

Butterfly-weed (Asclepias tuberosa)

Whorled milkweed (Asclepias verticillata)

White wild indigo (Baptisia alba)

False aster (Boltonia asteroides)

False boneset (Brickellia eupatorioides)

Marsh marigold (Caltha palustris)

Harebell (Campanula rotundifolia)

Partridge pea (Chamaecrista fasciculata)

Prairie coreopsis (Coreopsis palmata)

White prairie clover (Dalea candida)

Purple prairie clover (Dalea purpurea)

Showy tick-trefoil (Desmodium canadense)

Purple coneflower (Echinacea angustifolia)

Tall boneset (Eupatorium altissimum)

Common boneset (Eup. perfoliatum)

Joe pye weed (Eutrochium maculatum)

Northern bedstraw (Galium boreale)

Prairie smoke (Geum triflorum)

Sneezeweed (Helenium autumnale)

Stiff sunflower (Helianthus pauciflorus)

Hairy golden aster (Heterotheca villosa)

Prairie alumroot (Heuchera richardsonii)

Round-headed bush clover (Lespedeza       capitata)

Rough blazing star (Liatris aspera)

Meadow blazing star (Liatris pycnostachya)

Blue lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica)

Wild mint (Mentha arvensis)

Monkeyflower (Mimulus ringens)

Wild bergamot (Monarda fistulosa)

Spotted bee balm (Monarda punctata)

Evening primrose (Oenothera biennis)

White goldenrod (Oligoneuron album)

Stiff goldenrod (Oligoneuron rigidum)

Foxglove beardtongue (Penstemon   digitalis)

Showy beardtongue (Penstemon   grandiflorus)

Obedient plant (Physostegia virginana)

Jacob's ladder (Polemonium reptans)

Virginia mountain mint (Pycnanthemum   virginianum)

Yellow coneflower (Ratibida pinnata)

Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta)

Small skullcap (Scutellaria leonardii)

Figwort (Scrophularia spp.)

Cup plant (Silphium perfoliatum)

Blue-eyed grass (Sisyrinchium campestre)

Heath aster (Symphyotrichum ericoides)

Smooth blue aster (Symphyotrichum laeve)

Panicled aster (Symph.  lanceolatum)

New England aster (Symph. novae-angliae)

Ontario aster (Symphyotrichum ontarionis)

Sky blue aster (Symph. oolentangiense)

Silky aster (Symphyotrichum sericeum)

Tall meadow rue (Thalictrum dasycarpum)

Blue vervain (Verbena hastata)

Hoary vervain (Verbena stricta)

Ironweed (Vernonia fasciculata)

Golden Alexanders (Zizia aurea)

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Ground covers

Canada anemone (Anemone canadensis)

Prairie pussytoes (Antennaria neglecta)

Wild strawberry (Fragaria virginiana)

Fringed loosestrife (Lysimachia ciliata)

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Grasses and Sedges

Big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii)

Side-oats grama (Bouteloua curtipendula)

Blue grama (Bouteloua gracilis)

Copper oval sedge (Carex bicknellii)

Plains oval sedge (Carex brevior)

Purple love grass (Eragrostis spectabilis)

Grass-leaved goldenrod (Euthamia   graminifolia)

Rattlesnake master (Eryngium yuccifolium)

Sweetgrass (Hierochloe odorata)

Junegrass (Koeleria macrantha)

Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum)

Little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium)

Indian grass (Sorghastrum nutans)

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Vines 

Am. bittersweet (Celastrus scandens)

Virgin's bower (Clematis virginiana)

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Shrubs 

New Jersey Tea (Ceanothus americanus)

Meadowsweet  (Spiraea alba)

High bush cranberry (Viburnum trilobum)

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Native Seeds

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We can help you select the right mix for your site. 

Call for a consultation 507-217-3876

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