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 550 square feet
- One pound per 8,835 square feet
- 4.9 pounds per acre
9/29/25 Contents:
LATIN NAME | COMMON NAME |
Achillea millefolium | Yarrow |
Allium canadense | Meadow Garlic |
Amorpha canescens | Lead Plant |
Asclepias viridis | Spider milkweed |
Baptisia alba | White Wild Indigo |
Baptisia australis var. minor | Blue Wild Indigo |
Baptisia bracteata | Cream Wild Indigo |
Blephilia ciliata | Ohio Horse Mint |
Brickellia eupatorioides | False Boneset |
Callirhoe bushii-involucrata | Bush's Poppy Mallow |
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 |
Desmanthus illinoensis | Ill. Bundleflower |
Echinacea mix | Yellow, Pale, & Glade Coneflower |
Eryngium yuccifolium | Rattlesnake Master |
Frasera Caroliniensis | American columbo |
Glandularia canadensis | Rose Verbena |
Grindelia lanceolata (B) | Narrowleaf gumweed |
Helianthus occidentalis | Western Sunflower |
Hypericum prolificum | Shrubby St. John's Wort |
Liatris aspera | Rough Blazing Star |
Liatris mucronata | Bottlebrush Blazing Star |
Liatris pycnostachya | Prairie Blazing Star |
Liatris squarrosa | Scaly Blazing Star |
Lobelia spicata | Palespike lobelia |
Marshallia caespitosa | Barbara's Buttons |
Mimosa quadrivalvis | Sensitive Briar |
Monarda fistulosa | Wild Bergamot (short) |
Oenothera macrocarpa | Missouri Primrose |
Oligoneuron album | White Upland Aster |
Parthenium integrifolium | Wild Quinine |
Pedicularis canadensis | Wood Betony |
Pediomelum tenuiflorum | Slimflower scurfpea |
Penstemon cobaea | Purple Beardtongue |
Penstemon digitalis | Foxglove Beardtongue |
Penstemon pallidus | Pale Beardtongue |
Phemeranthus calycinus | Fame Flower |
Polanisia dodecandra | Redwhisker Clammyweed |
Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium | Sweet everlasting |
Pycnanthemum verticillatum | Hairy Mountain mint |
Ratibida columnifera | Long-headed Coneflower |
Ratibida pinnata | Grayhead Coneflower |
Rudbeckia missouriensis | Missouri Coneflower |
Scutellaria parvula | Small skullcap |
Silene antirrhina | Sleepy Catchfly |
Silphium laciniatum | Compass Plant |
Solidago petiolaris | Downy Goldenrod |
Stennaria nigricans | Diamondflowers |
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium | Aromatic aster |
Symphyotrichum pilosum | Frost Aster |
Tephrosia virginica | Goat's rue |
Tradescantia ohioensis | Ohio Spiderwort |
Verbesina helianthoides | Yellow Crownbeard |
Vernonia baldwinii | Western Ironweed |