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2025 Spring Plants

Over 50 different species of native flowers, grasses, trees and shrubs are available for sale!

We ask that you email with a list of the species you'd like or any questions.

More species will be added throughout the season.  

 Current inventory available for download: 

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Plant Sales in Progress

Greenhouse visits available by appointment.

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Yarrow - Achillea millefolium

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  • Wet Mesic to Dry

  • Full Sun to Partial Shade

  • 3' Height

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  • White summer bloom

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1 gallon pots - $12.00

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Nodding Onion - Allium cernuum

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  • Wet Mesic to Dry

  • Full Sun to Partial Shade

  • 1.5' Height

  • Pink summer bloom

  • Graceful bowing blooms

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4" pots - $6.00

1 gallon pots - $12.00

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Prairie Onion - Allium stellatum

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  • Mesic to Dry

  • Full Sun to Partial Shade

  • 1.5' Height

  • White summer bloom

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4" pots - $6.00

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Big Bluestem - Andropogon gerardii

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  • Wet Mesic to Dry

  • Full Sun to Partial Shade

  • 7' Height

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1 gallon pots - $12.00

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Canada Anemone - Anemone Canadensis

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  • Wet Mesic to Dry

  • Full Sun to Part Shade

  • 2' Height​

  • White spring, summer blooms

  • Will spread by rhizome and naturalize where it is planted

 

4" pots - $6.00​​

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Thimbleweed - Anemone cylindrica

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  • Mesic to Dry

  • Full Sun to Partial Shade

  • 2' Height

  • White summer bloom

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5" pots - $7.00

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Pasque Flower - Anemone patens

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  • Mesic to Dry

  • Full Sun to Part Shade

  • 2' Height​

  • Purplish-white early spring blooms

  • One of the first blooms of the year

  • Great rockery plant

 

 

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4" pots - $6.00​

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Pussytoes - Annetaria plantaginifolia

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  • Mesic to Dry

  • Full Sun to Part Shade

  • 6" Height​

  • White early spring blooms

  • Good ground cover, will tolerate some foot traffic

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4" pots - $6.00​

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Columbine - Aquilegia canadensis

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  • Mesic to Dry

  • Full Sun to Full Shade

  • 2' Height

  • Red summer bloom

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1 gallon pots - $12.00

4" pots - $6.00

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Swamp Milkweed - Asclepias incarnata

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  • Wet Mesic to Mesic

  • Full Sun to Part Shade

  • 4' Height​

  • Pink summer blooms

  • Host plant for Monarch butterfly

  • Fragrant, delicious smelling flowers

 

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4" pots - $6.00​

1 gallon pot - $12.00

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Prairie Milkweed - Asclepias sullivantii

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  • Wet Mesic to Mesic

  • Full Sun

  • 3' Height​

  • Pink summer blooms

 

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4" pots - $6.00​

1 gallon pot - $12.00

 

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Common Milkweed - Asclepias syriaca

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  • Mesic to Dry

  • Full Sun to Part Shade

  • 4' Height​

  • Pink summer blooms

  • Host plant for Monarch butterfly

  • Fragrant, delicious smelling flowers

 

4" pots - $6.00​

1 gallon pot - $12.00

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Butterfly Milkweed - Asclepias tuberosa

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  • Mesic to Dry

  • Full Sun to Part Shade

  • 2' Height​

  • Orange summer blooms

  • Host plant for Monarch butterfly

  • Top-tier landscape plant​

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4" pots - $6.00​

1 gallon pot - $12.00

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Whorled Milkweed - Asclepias verticillata

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  • Mesic to Dry

  • Full Sun to Part Shade

  • 2' Height​

  • White summer blooms

  • Host plant for Monarch butterfly

  • Iowa's most widespread milkweed

 

 

 

4" pots - $6.00​​​

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Heart-leaved Aster - Aster cordifolius

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  • Mesic to Dry

  • Partial to Full Shade

  • 3' Height

  • Blue late summer bloom

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1 gallon pots - $12.00

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White Wild Indigo - Baptisia Alba

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  • Mesic to Dry

  • Full Sun to Part Shade

  • 4' Height​

  • White summer blooms

  • Beautiful landscape plant​​

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4" pots - $6.00​​​​

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Cream Wild Indigo - Baptisia leucophaea

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  • Mesic to Dry

  • Full Sun to Part Shade

  • 2' Height​

  • Cream early summer blooms

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4" pots - $6.00​​​​

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Yellowfruit Sedge - Carex annectens

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  • Wet Mesic

  • Full Sun

  • 6' Height​

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6" pots - $8.00

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Illinois Tick Trefoil - Desmodium illinoense

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  • Mesic to Dry

  • Full Sun to Partial Shade

  • Purple blooms Mid-Summer

  • Up to 6' tall

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4" pots - $6.00

1 gallon pots - $12.00​

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Flowering Spurge- Euphorbia corollata

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  • Mesic to Dry

  • Full Sun to Partial Shade

  • 3' Height

  • White summer bloom

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4" pots - $6.00​​

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Rattlesnake Master- Eryngium yuccifolium

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  • Mesic to Dry

  • Full Sun

  • 4' Height

  • White summer bloom

  • Striking blooms and foliage​​​

4" pots - $6.00​​

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Bottle Gentian - Gentiana andrewsii

  • Wet Mesic

  • Full Sun to Partial Shade

  • 2' Height

  • Blue summer/fall bloom

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4" pots - $8.00

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Cream Gentian - Gentiana flavida

  • Wet Mesic to Dry

  • Full Sun to Partial Shade

  • 3' Height

  • Cream summer/fall bloom

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4" pots - $6.00

5" pots - $7.00

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Prairie Smoke - Geum triflorum

  • Mesic to Dry

  • Full Sun to Partial Shade

  • 8" Height

  • Red spring flowers, dramatic blooms

  • Great rockery plant

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4" pots - $6.00

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Prairie Alumroot - Heuchera richardsonii

  • Wet Mesic to Dry

  • Full Sun to Partial Shade

  • 2' Height

  • Cream to Yellow flowers in the Spring and Summer ​

 

4" pots - $6.00

1 gallon pots - $12.00​​​

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Rose Mallow - Hibiscus laevis

  • Wet Mesic to Mesic

  • Full Sun to Partial Shade

  • 5' Height

  • White and Pink in the Summer and Fall 

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5" pots - $7.00

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Blue Flag Iris - Iris shrevei

  • Wet Mesic to Mesic

  • Full Sun to Partial Shade

  • 3' Height

  • Blue Summer Blooms 

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4" pots - $7.00

1 gallon pots - $20.00

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Michigan Lily - Lillium michiganense

  • Wet Mesic to Mesic

  • Full Sun to Partial Shade

  • 5' Height

  • Red-Orange Summer Blooms 

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4" pots - $10.00

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Wild Bergamot - Mondarda fistulosa

  • Wet Mesic to Dry

  • Full Sun to Partial Shade

  • 4' Height

  • Purple Summer Blooms 

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4" pots - $6.00

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Eastern Prickly Pear - Opuntia humifusa

  • Dry

  • Full Sun to Partial Shade

  • 6'' Height

  • Yellow Summer Blooms 

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3" pots (from seed) - $5.00

Cactus pad - $3.00

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Foxglove Beardtongue - Penstemon digitalis

  • Wet Mesic to Mesic

  • Full Sun to Partial Shade

  • 3' Height

  • White Spring Blooms 

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4" pots - $6.00

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Large Flowered Beardtongue - Penstemon grandiflorus

  • Mesic to Dry

  • Full Sun to Partial Shade

  • 3' Height

  • Pink Summer Blooms 

  • Great Landscape plant

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4" pots - $6.00

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Woodland Phlox - Phlox divaricata

  • Wet Mesic to Dry

  • Partial Shade to Full Shade

  • 1' Height

  • Blueish-White Spring Summer Blooms 

  • Blue or white flowers available

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4" pots - $6.00

1 gallon - $12.00

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Prairie Phlox - Phlox pilosa

  • Wet Mesic to Dry

  • Full Sun to Partial Shade

  • 2' Height

  • Pink Spring/summer blooms

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4" pots - $6.00

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Obedient Plant - Physostegia virginiana

  • Wet Mesic to Mesic

  • Full Sun to Partial Shade

  • 4' Height

  • Pink Summer Blooms

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4" pots - $6.00

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Jacob's Ladder - Polemonium reptans

  • Wet Mesic to Dry

  • Full Sun to Partial Shade

  • 1' Height

  • Blue Spring Blooms 

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4" pots - $6.00​

6" pots - $8.00

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Solomon's Seal - Polygonatum biflorum

  • Mesic to Dry

  • Full Sun to Full Shade

  • 4' Height

  • Cream Summer Blooms 

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4" pots - $6.00

5" pots - $7.00

1 gallon pots - $12.00

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Prairie Cinquefoil- Potentilla arguta

  • Mesic to Dry

  • Full Sun to Partial Shade

  • 2' Height

  • Cream or white Summer and fall Blooms 

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3" pots - $5.00

1 gallon pots - $12.00​

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Common Mountain Mint- Pycanthemum virginianum

  • Wet Mesic to Mesic

  • Full Sun to Partial Shade

  • 3' Height

  • White Summer and fall Blooms 

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4" pots - $5.00

1 gallon pots - $12.00

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Wild Petunia- Ruellia humilis

  • Mesic to Dry

  • Full Sun

  • 1' Height

  • Purple Summer Blooms 

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4" pots - $5.00

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Little Bluestem - Schizachyrium scoparium

  • Mesic to Dry

  • Full Sun to Partial Shade

  • 3' Height

 

4" pots - $6.00

1 gallon pots - $12.00

 

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Early Figwort - Scrophularia lanceolata

  • Wet Mesic to Dry

  • Partial Shade to Full Shade

  • 3' Height

  • Small, red summer blooms

  • Super source of nectar for pollinators like hummingbirds

 

4" pots - $6.00​​​​

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Wild Senna - Senna hebecarpa

  • Wet Mesic to Mesic

  • Full Sun to Partial Shade

  • 5' Height

  • Yellow Summer Blooms

 

 

4" pots - $6.00

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Blue-Eyed Grass - Sisyrinchuym campestre

  • Mesic to Dry

  • Full Sun to Partial Shade

  • 6'' Height

  • White/Blue Summer and fall Blooms 

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4" pots - $7.00

5" pots - $8.00

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Prairie Cord Grass - Spartina pectinata 

  • Wet to wet mesic

  • Full Sun to Partial Shade

  • 7'' Height

  • Works well near water

  • Great competitor with Reed's Canary grass

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4" pots - $6.00

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Hoary Vervain - Verbena stricta

  • Mesic to Dry

  • Full Sun to Partial Shade

  • 2' Height

  • Purple Summer and fall Blooms 

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2 gallon pots - $22.00

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Culver's Root - Veronicastrum virginicum

  • Wet Mesic to mesic

  • Full Sun to Partial Shade

  • 5' Height

  • White Summer  Blooms 

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4" pots - $6.00

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Common Violet - Viola sororia

  • Wet mesic to Dry

  • Full Sun to Full Shade

  • 4" Height

  • Classic Spring Bloomer

  • Widely adaptable to sun and soil conditions

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1 gallon pots - $12.00

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Golden Alexanders - Zizia aurea

  • Wet Mesic to Mesic

  • Full Sun to Partial Shade

  • 3' Height

  • Yellow Spring/Summer  Blooms 

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4" pots - $6.00

5" pots - $7.00

1 gallon pots - $12.00​​

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Trees, Shrubs, and Vines

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Buckeye - Aesculus glabra

  • Wet Mesic to Mesic

  • Full Sun to Partial Shade

  • 30' Height

  • Yellow Blooms, large fruit

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1 gallon pots - $15.00

2 gallon pots - $22.00

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False Indigo - Amorpha fruticosa

  • Wet Mesic to Dry

  • Full Sun to Full Shade

  • 12' Height

  • Purple Summer Blooms 

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1 gallon pots - $15.00

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Paw Paw - Asimina triloba

  • Wet Mesic to Mesic

  • Full Sun to Partial Shade

  • 15' Height

  • Fall Fruit

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5" pots - $10.00

6" pots - $12.00

1 gallon pots - $15.00

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Shagbark Hickory - Carya ovata

  • Wet Mesic to Mesic

  • Full Sun to Partial Shade

  • 70' Height

  • Fall Fruit

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1 gallon pots - $15.00

2 gallon pots - $22.00

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American Hazelnut - Corylus americana

  • Wet Mesic to Mesic

  • Full Sun to Partial Shade

  • 16' Height

  • Pink Blooms, Fall Fruit

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1 gallon pots - $15.00

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Cockspur Hawthorn - Crataegus crus-gali

  • Wet Mesic to Mesic

  • Full Sun 

  • 30' Height

  • White Spring Blooms

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4" pots - $10.00

1 gallon pots - $15.00

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Kentucky Cofeetree - Gymnocladus dioicus

  • Wet Mesic to Dry

  • Full Sun 

  • 70' Height

  • Good replacement for ash trees

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1 gallon pots - $15.00

2 gallon pots - $22.00

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Shrubby St. John's Wort - Hypericum prolificum

  • Wet Mesic to Dry

  • Full Sun to Partial Shade

  • 4' Height

  • Beautiful Yellow Blooms

  • Very hardy shrub

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4" pots - $10.00

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Black Walnut - Juglans nigra

  • Wet Mesic to Mesic

  • Full Sun

  • 85' Height

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1 gallon pots - $15.00

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Virginia Creeper - Parthenocissus quinquefolia

  • Wet Mesic to Mesic

  • Full Sun to part shade

  • 30-50' Vine

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1 gallon pots - $15.00

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American Sycamore - Plantanus occidentalis

  • Wet Mesic to Mesic

  • Full Sun

  • 100' Height

  • Ames Landmark Tree Seed Source

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4" pots - $10.00

1 gallon pots - $15.00​

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American Plum - Prunus americana

  • Wet Mesic to Dry

  • Full Sun tp Partial Shade

  • 25' Height

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1 gallon pots - $15.00

2 gallon pots - $22.00

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Pasture Rose - Rosa carolina

  • Wet Mesic to Dry

  • Full Sun tp Partial Shade

  • 2' Height

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4" pots - $10.00

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Swamp Rose - Rosa palustris

  • Wet Mesic to Mesic

  • Full Sun tp Partial Shade

  • 5' Height

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4" pots - $10.00

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Weeping Willow - Salix babylonica

  • Wet Mesic to Mesic

  • Full Sun tp Partial Shade

  • 50' Height

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1 gallon pots - $15.00

2 gallon pots - $22.00

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Meadowsweet - Spiraea Alba

  • Wet Mesic to Mesic

  • Full Sun tp Partial Shade

  • 4' Height

  • White summer blooms

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1 gallon pots - $15.00​

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Riverbank Grape - Vitis riparia

  • Wet Mesic to Mesic

  • Full Sun tp Partial Shade

  • Long vining plant

  • Fall Grape harvest​

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1 gallon pots - $15.00

2 gallon pots - $22.00

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