Quick index to Red Dirt Collective giveaway seed packet native species
Native flowers
- Asclepias tuberosa, Butterfly Milkweed
- Perennial
- Can take several years to flower
- One to two feet tall
- Sun
- Water: dry to medium dry
- Can die of overwatering
- Leaves may die back in summer from no water, then returns from root after rain or next year
- Host plant for Monarch butterflies and other milkweed specialists
- Callirhoe involucrata, Perennial Winecup
- Perennial
- One to two feet tall (can be mowed in a lawn too)
- Sun
- Water: dry to wet
- Leaves may die back in summer without water, but returns from root after rain or next year
- Coreopsis lanceolata, Lance-leaf Coreopsis
- Short-lived perennial
- One to two feet tall
- Sun
- Water: medium to wet
- Leaves may die back in summer without water, but returns next year from roots or new plants from abundant seed
- Cynanchum laeve, honeyvine milkweed)
- Perennial
- Vine, only flowers when climbing, four to eight feet
- Sun to part sun
- Water: dry to wet
- Attracts aphids, can be a trap crop for a garden
- Host plant for Monarch butterflies and other milkweed specialists
- Desmanthus illinoensis, Illinois Bundleflower
- Perennial
- Two to five feet tall
- Sun to part sun
- Water: medium to wet
- Echinacea purpurea, Purple Coneflower
- Perennial
- One to two feet tall
- Sun to part sun
- Water: medium to wet
- Indigofera miniata, Scarlet Pea
- Perennial in my experience
- Half a foot tall (can be mowed in a lawn too)
- Sun: sun to part sun
- Water: dry to medium
- Heterotheca subaxillaris, Camphorweed
- Annual
- One to three feet tall
- Sun
- Water: dry
- Polansia dodecandra, Red-whiskered Clammyweed
- Annual
- Two to four feet tall
- Sun
- Water: dry to medium-dry
- Ratibida columnifera, Mexican Hat
- Perennial
- One to three feet tall
- Sun
- Water: dry to medium
- Leaves may die back in summer without water, but returns next year from roots or new plants from abundant seed
- Verbesina enceloides, Cowpen Daisy
- Annual
- Three to five feet tall
- Sun
- Water: dry to medium
- Vernonia baldwinni, Western Ironweed
- Perennial
- Four to six feet tall
- Sun
- Water: dry to medium
- Leaves may look sad in summer without water, but returns next year from roots
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