Potted Plants

Spring 2025 Preorders Open January 1st! Choose from dozens of native plants that have been grown from seed hand collected from local remnant prairies! Most plants come as thee packs of 2.5″ wide by 3.5″ deep pots. Some plants may also have additional container offerings.

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  • Clumps of prairie dropseed growing on a fall prairie

    Prairie Dropseed, Sporobolus heterolepis

    $15.00

    It’s hard to beat Prairie Dropseed when it comes to gardening with native plants. Its lovely growth habit forms a tussock of slender green leaves in the summer before sending up delicate feathery seed heads.  I’ve always said that the way the leaves grow makes it look like someone buried a troll head in the…

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  • SOLD OUT! Prairie Ironweed

    Prairie Ironweed, Vernonia fasciculata

    Prairie Ironweed is a stunning sight to see! With a striking purple and regal stature, it stands out beautifully among the golden sunflowers with which it often blooms. It can stand up to six feet tall, making it a very good backdrop plant. It has a special relationship to native bees and is a host…

  • prairie onion in bloom

    Prairie Onion, Allium stellatum

    $15.00

    Prairie onion is a common resident of dry gravely slopes. Starting the season as a few nondescript flat leafs, it soon develops a nodding pod of papery flowers. Mid-summer, it pulls itself upright and bursts open into a firework display of star-shaped flowers. Colors range from white, to pink, to lavender. Its visual interest lasts…

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  • SOLD OUT! prairie turnip in bloom

    Prairie Turnip Pediomelum esculentum

    $24.00

    The prairie turnip is one of those special plants that carries with it a very rich story. It is called timpsila by the Lakota, tipsinah by the Dakota, and the French called it pomme de terre. Should you be lucky enough to find one, you know that you are standing on a prairie remnant that…

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  • SOLD OUT! Purple Prairie Clover

    Purple Prairie Clover, Dalea purpure

    $15.00

    Purple prairie clover is a staple of the tall grass flower community. It grows readily in a wide range of soil types, from rich mesic soil, to dry sandy hills. It is a very important food source for many pollinators including the federally endangered rusty patched bumblebee. Size: 24″ Sun: Full, Partial Soil: Medium, Medium-Dry,…

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  • SOLD OUT! rough blazing star in bloom

    Rough Blazing Star, Liatris aspera

    $15.00

    Rough blazing star is one of five different species of liatris that is native to Minnesota, along with meadow blazing star, prairie blazing star, dotted blazing star, and cylindric blazing star. Of the five, it tends to be found on sites that are dry, but not as dry as the sites that dotted blazing star…

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  • SOLD OUT! Showy sunflower in bloom

    Showy Sunflower Helianthus pauciflorus

    $15.00

    Showy sunflower is a beautiful medium sized sunflower well adapted to drier well drained sites. It spreads by seed and rhizomes which makes it best suited for open prairie environments. In a small landscape planting it is likely to get out of control. In an open prairie setting it adds interesting texture to drier sites…

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  • Side-oats grama in bloom

    Side-oats Grama, Bouteloua curtipendula

    $15.00

    Side-oats is unique among grasses native to Minnesota. In mid-summer they produce a bloom of tiny orange flowers that dangle from what will become their seeds! It is a relatively short, clump forming native grass that is an attractive compliment to shorter statured flowers. It pairs well with other short native grasses like little bluestem,…

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  • SOLD OUT! Silky aster in bloom

    Silky Aster, Symphyotrichum sericeum

    $15.00

    Silky asters emerge in May from a cluster of fuzzy basal leaves. They are velvety soft and give off a beautiful silver sheen. As the year progresses, the plant stretches into long thin branches, taking on an almost bush-like stature, with small silver leaves. Finally, in late summer the show really gets going with a…

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  • Smooth blue aster in bloom

    Smooth Blue Aster Symphyotrichum laeve

    $15.00

    Smooth blue aster gets its name from its smooth leaves. Many other asters (and many other prairie plants in general!) have leaves that are rough to the touch. For example, a very close visual cousin of smooth blue aster is sky blue aster, but a dead giveaway is feeling the leaves. Sky blue aster will…

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  • Stiff goldenrod in bloom

    Stiff Goldenrod, Oligoneuron rigidum

    $15.00

    Stiff goldenrod is a versatile and hearty resident of many prairies. Its characteristic flat topped flower makes it easy to distinguish from other goldenrods. Not only does it produce prolific blossoms that are almost always covered with pollinators, it puts on a stunning show in the fall. its leaves turn a wonderful range of colors…

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  • SOLD OUT! thimbleweed on the autumn prairie

    Thimbleweed, Anemone cylindrica

    $15.00

    Thimbleweed is one of two flowers that formed the inspiration for the name of our business. The pasque flower and thimbleweed are both anemones and sometimes go by the name “windflowers.” Both plants tend to grow in dry hilltop settings. There they face reduced competition and have evolved to thrive in the dry windy landscape…

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