#midwest native plants

[snekdood]

hey if ur in the midwest or more specifically missouri here’s some websites i’ve found helpful for finding native seeds and live plants (they’re not all in missouri or the midwest specifically but have some seeds from around here too bc truly human made borders are fake and plants go wherever they want so):

wildseedproject.net

mowildflowers (this websites cool bc they’ll deliver live plants to you if you live nearby enough and they also go to different places around missouri all year to sell plants at festivals or events or whatnot)

nativewildflowers.net

swallowtailgardenseeds.com

strictlymedicinalseeds.com

toadshade.com

treeseeds.com

ouriquesfarm.com

putnamhillnursury.com

sugarcreekgardens.com

prairiemoon.com

seedvilleusa.com (also on etsy)

mybutterflylady on etsy

everwilde.com

and if u ever need help or info or whatever about plants or even find a place to exchange plants and buy some on a forum check out dave’s garden

if anyone knows any other websites and wants to add them on i’d totally appreciate that c: !

(i will update this with more websites too if i come across any)

[porchprairie]

First prairie plant sprouts of the year! These are spiderwort

[laughing-thrush]

Mind my company doesn’t ship plants- but we do have some spare shirts available for shipping! Limited, so plant nerds get in there. The spicebush joke still tickles me, ngl, so glad we were able to print some!!

Plant pickup is in Geist in central Indiana, so local peeps are welcome to browse our preorder too of course 👍👍👍 As always, I am happy to field native plant questions!

[sorryclarence]

Flower Bed Landscape in Milwaukee An example of a mid-sized rustic drought-tolerant and full sun side yard brick flower bed in summer.

[wildlifetracker]

Bog plants, with their names in Ojibwe

[tinyurbanwilderness]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/21/world/iyw-rufous-hummingbird-tipping-point-extinction-earth-day/index.html#:~:text=The%20Rufous%20hummingbird%20lost%20two,if%20conservation%20doesn't%20improve.

Plant NATIVE honeysuckle, not the ones you buy at Home Depot or Lowe’s. You can find them at local native plant sales or online at native plant nurseries.

Update since this is going viral:

The hummingbirds in my restored yard habitat visit ALL of the native flowers in my yard, so it doesn’t strictly have to be honeysuckle. They just tend to like flowers with trumpet shapes.

[aisling-saoirse]

Eastern Camas - Camassia scilloides

Eastern Camas/Wild Hyacinth is a lesser known relative to the famous western species C. quamash. While this plant is native throughout the Midwest, especially around the Mississippi river, it is generally restricted to wet meadows, stream banks and the occasional open woodland with moist acidic rich soils.

The Eastern Camas is a perennial bulb forming member of the asparagecea family, unlike the Hyacinth which the common name derives this species only really propagates via seed. In terms of appearance the plant typically holds a single raceme (think stalk) that ends in 30-40 flowers. As for size of the plants scientific studies have found a noticeable morphology in appearance between where said seeds are sourced. Seeds collected from the Ozark populations tend to have taller individuals than those found in Illinois bottomlands, this study suggests that Camas populations found further south adapted without glaciation and inhabited a location for a much longer time period without physical change. What an interesting hypothesis!

Camas are well known for their edible bulb, the western 'common Camas' is famous for its ethnobotanical use amoung indigenous peoples, the Eastern Camas is no different. The Camas bulb is edible, when eaten raw it can be gummy but sweet, indigenous methods of preparation require a slow cook over 48 hours which render the bulb to a flavor reminiscent of chestnuts. Bulbs can also be dried and made into flour as well. I would never remove camas from their habitat personally: I enjoy their beauty, I'm not indigenous and have heard members of eastern tribal diaspora upset over the removal of their ancestors' foodway, and most importantly beginners often confuse this species with the death camas: Zigadenus venenosus.

So if you live around the Midwest, look for beautiful fields popping up around April-May, you may get a chance to see something wonderful.

[sweetgreen-m]

done over fall break

[wakandamama]

So apparently I've been foraging and eating wild onions wit eggs my whole life because I am Native and not because I'm Black....

[shoutsthedustflake]

I was at Lurie Garden today, standing by my favorite patch of mountain mint, when an older couple wandered up behind me and one of them went "look at all the bees!" and immediately, from way over by what I know is a big patch of flowering chive (because I spend most of my work breaks at the garden) a little kid yells "SO MANY BEES!" and all 3 of us just had to laugh.

So many bees!

[oh-captn]

bee balm

[bumblebeeappletree]

Leslie Pilgrim, the founder and director of Neighborhood Greening in Minneapolis, Minnesota, shares five tips for how to get your garden ready for native planting this fall, and to ensure it survives the harsh Midwestern winters.

Video: Fee Films LLC for Bring Me The News.

[porchprairie]

Spring sprouts! We're due for frost or near-frost later this week, and it might be the last one so I'm getting these babies ready for planting:

Spiderwort sprouts with sand coreopsis in the background. These are by far the most mature of my seedlings

Prairie clover & a variety of bee balms, which I planted only a few weeks ago--they did indeed germinate as easily as promised and are growing crazy fast

[littlecrazymostlybug]

A little native bee feeds from a purple coneflower! I love these little guys, but they're so hard to get in focus!!!!

[wildlifetracker]

Flowers of the tall grass prairie

Butterfly milkweed, prairie coreopsis, leadplant, wild bergamot, white prairie clover, and prairie rose