Our dry, shallow soil mix provides color from early May into October and attracts many kinds of wildlife. Sow in areas with thin soil and plenty of sunshine. It consists nearly entirely of perennials with a few annuals or biennials that will provide some color while the perennials get established. This mix should be sown in late fall or winter--early February at the latest. Seed sown after February may not get the cold moist treatment (stratification) that it needs in order to germinate.
We include an extra ounce of seed for each bulk pound. Seeding Rates will yield ~30 seeds per square foot:
- A seed packet covers about 25 square feet.
- One ounce per 650 square feet
- One pound per 10,425 square feet
- 4.2 pounds per acre
12/17/25 Contents:
| Botanical name | COMMON NAME |
| Allium canadense | Meadow Garlic |
| Amorpha canescens | Lead Plant |
| Asclepias tuberosa | Butterfly Milkweed |
| Asclepias viridis | Spider milkweed |
| Baptisia alba | White Wild Indigo |
| Baptisia bracteata | Cream Wild Indigo |
| Blephilia ciliata | Ohio Horse Mint |
| Callirhoe bushii | Bush's Poppy Mallow |
| Castilleja coccinea (A) | Indian Paintbrush |
| Chamaecrista fasciculata (A) | Partridge Pea |
| Coreopsis lanceolata | Lanceleaf Coreopsis |
| Coreopsis tinctoria (A) | Plains Coreopsis |
| Dalea purpurea | Purple Prairie Clover |
| Desmanthus illinoensis | Ill. Bundleflower |
| Echinacea mix | Yellow, Pale, & Glade Coneflower |
| Echinacea paradoxa | Yellow Coneflower |
| Eryngium yuccifolium | Rattlesnake Master |
| Glandularia canadensis | Rose Verbena |
| Grindelia lanceolata (B) | Narrowleaf gumweed |
| Helianthus salicifolius | Willowleaf Sunflower |
| Heliopsis helianthoides | Ox-eye Sunflower |
| Lespedeza capitata | Roundheaded Bushclover |
| Lespedeza virginica | Slender bushclover |
| Liatris pycnostachya | Prairie Blazing Star |
| Liatris squarrosa | Scaly Blazing Star |
| Lobelia spicata | Palespike lobelia |
| Manfreda virginica | Agave, False Aloe |
| Marshallia caespitosa | Barbara's Buttons |
| Mimosa quadrivalvis | Sensitive Briar |
| Monarda fistulosa | Wild Bergamot (short) |
| Oenothera biennis (B) | Common evening primrose |
| Oenothera filiformis (A) | Longflower beeblossom |
| Oenothera macrocarpa | Missouri Primrose |
| Oligoneuron album | White Upland Aster |
| Oligoneuron rigidum | Rigid Goldenrod |
| Pedicularis canadensis | Wood Betony |
| Pediomelum tenuiflorum | Slimflower scurfpea |
| Penstemon cobaea | Purple Beardtongue |
| Penstemon digitalis | Foxglove Beardtongue |
| Phemeranthus calycinus | Fame Flower |
| Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium | Sweet everlasting |
| Pycnanthemum tenuifolium | Slender Mountain Mint |
| Ratibida pinnata | Grayhead Coneflower |
| Rudbeckia missouriensis | Missouri Coneflower |
| Ruellia humilis | Hairy Wild Petunia |
| Sabatia angularis | Rose Gentian |
| Scutellaria parvula | Small skullcap |
| Silene antirrhina | Sleepy Catchfly |
| SILPHIUM MIX | Rosinweed, compass plant |
| Solidago nemoralis | Gray Goldenrod |
| Solidago ulmifolia | Elmleaf goldenrod |
| Symphyotrichum oblongifolium | Aromatic aster |
| Symphyotrichum pilosum | Frost Aster |
| Tradescantia ohiensis | Ohio Spiderwort |
| Verbesina helianthoides | Yellow Crownbeard |
| Vernonia baldwinii | Western Ironweed |
| Viola pedata | Bird's Foot Violet |
