Conservation

Native Plant Sale

Polk County Conservation and Prairie Landscapes of Iowa are teaming up to offer two native plant sales this spring. Native plants provide numerous benefits to wildlife and our landscapes. All species for sale are native to Iowa, and once established, require minimal care. A wide range of species will be available. Sale runs from 11am-2pm.

On May 13 there will be cool season species like Columbine, Golden Alexanders, Penstemon and Sedges, on June 10 will include those species plus additional warm season species like Leadplant, Wild Petunia and Blazing stars. A more detailed list of plants will be added closer to the date of the sale.

Plants available on May 13 include:

  • Aromatic Aster                                 
  • Butterfly Milkweed                            
  • Canada Milkvetch                             
  • Columbine 
  • Compass Plant
  • Cream Wild Indigo
  • Culver's Root
  • Foxglove Penstemon
  • Golden Alexanders
  • Great Blue Lobelia
  • Harebell
  • Heal All
  • Heart-leaf Golden Alexanders
  • Jack-in-the-Pulpit
  • Large Flowered Penstemon
  • Lead Plant
  • Long Headed Coneflower
  • Meadowsweet
  • Missouri Evening Primrose
  • Monkey Flower 
  • Narrow Leaved Coneflower
  • New Jersey Tea
  • Nodding Onion
  • Obedient Plant
  • Old Field Goldenrod
  • Pale Purple Coneflower
  • Pale Spiked Lobelia 
  • Pearly Everlasting
  • Prairie Blazing Star
  • Prairie Phlox
  • Prairie Pussytoes
  • Prairie Sundrops
  • Prairie Smoke
  • Purple Headed Sneezeweed
  • Purple Poppy Mallow
  • Purple Prairie Clover
  • Queen of the Prairie
  • Quinine
  • Rattlesnake Master
  • Rose Mallow
  • Rosin Weed
  • Royal Catchfly
  • Short's Aster
  • Showy Goldenrod
  • Showy Penstemon 
  • Silky Aster
  • Sky Blue Aster
  • Slender Mountain Mint
  • Sneezeweed
  • Spikenard
  • Spotted Bee Balm
  • Stiff Goldenrod
  • Swamp Milkweed
  • Sweet Black Eyed Susans
  • Thimbleweed
  • Tall Thimbleweed
  • Tufted Loosestrife
  • Upland White Aster
  • Western Ironweed
  • White Wild Indigo
  • Whorled Milkweed
  • Wild Bergamot 
  • Wild Petunia
  • Winged Loosestrife
  • Woodland Knotweed

Grasses and Sedges Available:

  • Big Bluestem 
  • Bottle Brush Grass
  • Cordgrass
  • Grease Grass
  • Little Bluestem 
  • Prairie Dropseed
  • Brown Fox Sedge
  • Leavenworth's Sedge
  • Plains Oval Sedge
  • Great Bulrush 

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