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 615 square feet
- One pound per 9,980 square feet
- 4.4 pounds per acre
10/17/25 Contents:
| LATIN NAME | COMMON NAME |
| Achillea millefolium | Yarrow |
| Allium canadense | Meadow Garlic |
| Amorpha canescens | Lead Plant |
| Antennaria neglecta | Prairie Pussytoes |
| Asclepias viridis | Spider milkweed |
| Baptisia australis var. minor | Blue Wild Indigo |
| Baptisia bracteata | Cream Wild Indigo |
| Blephilia ciliata | Ohio Horse Mint |
| Camassia scilloides | Wild Hyacinth |
| Castilleja coccinea | Indian Paintbrush |
| Ceanothus americanus | New Jersey Tea |
| Coreopsis lanceolata | Lanceleaf Coreopsis |
| Coreopsis tinctoria (A) | Plains Coreopsis |
| Dalea candida | White Prairie Clover |
| Dalea purpurea | Purple Prairie Clover |
| Delphinium treleasei | Trelease's Larkspur |
| Desmanthus illinoensis | Ill. Bundleflower |
| Echinacea mix | Yellow, Pale, & Glade Coneflower |
| Eryngium yuccifolium | Rattlesnake Master |
| Euphorbia corollata | Flowering spurge |
| Gentian andrewsii | Closed Gentian |
| Glandularia canadensis | Rose Verbena |
| Grindelia lanceolata (B) | Narrowleaf gumweed |
| Helianthus occidentalis | Western Sunflower |
| Hypericum prolificum | Shrubby St. John's Wort |
| Liatris mucronata | Bottlebrush Blazing Star |
| Liatris pycnostachya | Prairie 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 | Common evening primrose |
| Oenothera macrocarpa | Missouri Primrose |
| Parthenium integrifolium | Wild Quinine |
| Pedicularis canadensis | Wood Betony |
| Penstemon cobaea | Purple Beardtongue |
| Penstemon digitalis | Foxglove Beardtongue |
| Penstemon pallidus | Pale Beardtongue |
| Phemeranthus calycinus | Fame Flower |
| Pycnanthemum verticillatum | Hairy Mountain mint |
| Ratibida pinnata | Grayhead Coneflower |
| Rudbeckia missouriensis | Missouri Coneflower |
| Ruellia humilis | Hairy Wild Petunia |
| Silene antirrhina | Sleepy Catchfly |
| Silphium mix | Rosinweed & compass plant |
| Solidago ulmifolia | Elmleaf goldenrod |
| Symphyotrichum oblongifolium | Aromatic aster |
| Symphyotrichum pilosum | Frost Aster |
| Tradescantia ohiensis | Ohio Spiderwort |
| Verbesina helianthoides | Yellow Crownbeard |
| Vernonia baldwinii | Western Ironweed |
| Zizia aptera | Heart-leaved Alexanders |
