The Plant Store will re-open for sales the week of May 13th, 2024 for local pickup

  • Please see the Using the Plant Library  page  for some tips on how to make the most of the information here to select species for creating a healthy native plant community suited to the conditions of your site.
  • I'm currently working on shifting the store part of this site over to more complex software that will allow for filtering by multiple plant traits and making wish lists of species you would like to order, so please bear with me when it comes to announcing the exact species offerings for 2024 (there will be lots, including some species not previously offered).
~ Echinacea pallida, Pale Purple Coneflower
~ Echinacea pallida, Pale Purple Coneflower
~ Echinacea pallida, Pale Purple Coneflower
~ Echinacea pallida, Pale Purple Coneflower

~ Echinacea pallida, Pale Purple Coneflower

Echinacea pallida 

Pale Purple Coneflower

  • Average to very dry soils
  • Full Sun or very light shade
  • 36” tall, 10” to 18” wide
  • Mid summer blooming
  • Beginner Friendly, Meadow or Dry Meadow ecosystems

With a historical range that includes the mid west prairie ecosystems, Echinaceas are introduced in Ontario but are both extremely well adapted to garden conditions and hugely popular with local pollinator species.

Slightly earlier blooming than their cousins Echinacea purpurea, this Coneflower has a distinctive texture, with narrow, drooping flower petals and narrow, rough leaves. They thrive in hot, dry settings and are loved by bees and butterflies, as well as by seed feeding bird species.

Please check out the Prairie Moon listing https://www.prairiemoon.com/echinacea-pallida-pale-purple-coneflower-prairie-moon-nursery.html for more details.

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Allium stellatum, Prairie Onion
Amorpha canescens, Downy False Indigo
Anaphalis margaritacea, Pearly Everlasting
Artemisia ludoviciana, Silver Wormwood 
Asclepias hirtella, Tall Green Milkweed
Asclepias syriaca, Common Milkweed
Asclepias tuberosa, Orange Butterfly Weed
Asclepias verticillata, Whorled Milkweed
Astragalus canadensis, Canada Milk Vetch
Baptisia tinctoria, Small Yellow Wild Indigo
Bouteloua curtipendula, Side-Oats Grama
Ceanothus americanus, New Jersey Tea
Coreopsis lanceolata, Lance-leaved Tickseed
Dalea purpurea, Purple Prairie Clover
Desmodium canadense, Showy Tick Trefoil
Doellingeria umbellata, Flat-top White Aster
Eragrostis spectabilis, Purple Lovegrass
Geum triflorum, Prairie Smoke
Helenium autumnale, Common Sneezeweed
Hypericum prolificum, Shrubby St. John's Wort 
Koeleria macrantha, June Grass 
Lespedeza virginica, Slender Bush-Clover
Liatris aspera, Button Blazing Star 
Monarda punctata, Spotted Beebalm
Oenothera biennis, Common Evening Primrose
Panicum virgatum, Switch Grass 
Polanisia dodecandra, Clammy Weed
Pycnanthemum verticillatum, Hairy Mountain-Mint
Schizachyrium scoparium, Little Bluestem
Senna hebecarpa, Wild Senna
Silene virginica, Fire Pink
Silphium terebinthinaceum, Prairie Dock
Sisyrinchium montanum, Blue-eyed Grass
Solidago juncea, Early Goldenrod
Solidago nemoralis, Grey Goldenrod
Symphyotrichum ericoides, Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve, Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae, New England Aster
Verbena simplex, Narrow-leaved Vervain
Verbena stricta, Hoary Vervain

Species that were not sown / aren't being sown for 2023 are marked with an * 
Species that are native to this continent, but not historically native to Ontario are marked with a ~ 
While it rarely comes up, I do reserve the right to limit plant quantities, mostly to help ensure that as many native plant gardens as possible become a reality
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