Our savanna mix provides color from April into October and attracts many kinds of wildlife. It consists nearly entirely of perennials with a few annuals or biennials that will provide some color while the perennials get established. Many of the species can grow in full sun, but they can also grow in medium shade. 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.
Seeding Rates: based on roughly 30 seeds per square foot
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A packet covers about 25 square feet.
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1 oz. covers about 550 square feet
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1 pound covers about 8,855 square feet
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4.9 pounds per acre
10/1/25 Mix contents:
LATIN NAME | COMMON NAME |
Achillea millefolium | Yarrow |
Ageratina altissima | White snakeroot |
Allium canadense | Meadow Garlic |
Amorpha canescens | Lead Plant |
Amsonia illustris | Shining Blue Star |
Antennaria parlinii | Pussytoes |
Aquilegia canadensis | Columbine |
Aruncus dioicus | White Goat's Beard |
Asclepias incarnata | Swamp Milkweed |
Baptisia australis var. minor | Blue Wild Indigo |
Baptisia bracteata | Cream Wild Indigo |
Blephilia ciliata | Ohio Horse Mint |
Boltonia asteroides | White Doll's Daisy |
Callirhoe involucrata | Purple Poppy Mallow |
Camassia scilloides | Wild Hyacinth |
Carex radiata | Eastern star sedge |
Castilleja coccinea | Indian Paintbrush |
Ceanothus americanus | New Jersey Tea |
Claytonia virginica | Spring Beauty |
Coreopsis pubescens | Star Tickseed |
Coreopsis tripteris | Tall Coreopsis |
Corydalis flavula | Pale corydalis |
Dalea purpurea | Purple Prairie Clover |
Desmanthus illinoensis | Ill. Bundleflower |
Echinacea pallida | Pale-Purple Coneflower |
Echinacea purpurea | Purple coneflower |
Elephantopus carolinianus | Carolina Elephant's Foot |
Eryngium yuccifolium | Rattlesnake Master |
Eutrochium purpureum | Joe Pye Weed |
Frasera caroliniensis | American columbo |
Grindelia lanceolata (B) | Narrowleaf gumweed |
Helenium flexuosum | Purple-headed Sneezeweed |
Heuchera richardsonii | Prairie Alum Root |
Hypericum hypercoides | St. Andrews Cross |
Liatris cylindracea | Cylindrical Blazing Star |
Lobelia inflata | Indian Tobacco |
Lobelia spicata | Palespike lobelia |
Marshallia caespitosa | Barbara's Buttons |
Mimosa quadrivalvis | Sensitive Briar |
Mimulus alatus | Sharpwing Monkeyflower |
Monarda bradburiana | Bee Balm Horsemint |
Monarda fistulosa | Wild Bergamot (Tall) |
Orbexilum pedunculatum | Sampsons snakeroot |
Packera obovata | Roundleaf Groundsel |
Parthenium integrifolium | Wild Quinine |
Penstemon digitalis | Foxglove Beardtongue |
Penstemon pallidus | Pale Beardtongue |
Polygonatum biflorum | Solomon's Seal |
Pycnanthemum albescens | Whiteleaf Mountain Mint |
Pycnanthemum verticillatum | Hairy Mountain mint |
Ratibida pinnata | Grayhead Coneflower |
Rubus occidentalis | Black Raspberry |
Rudbeckia fulgida var. umbrosa | Orange Coneflower |
Rudbeckia subtomentosa | Sweet Coneflower |
Ruellia strepens | Woodland petunia |
Scrophularia marilandica | Late Figwort |
Scutellaria incana | Downy skullcap |
Silene antirrhina | Sleepy Catchfly |
Silene stellata | Starry Campion |
Silphium laciniatum | Compass Plant |
Solidago drummondii | Cliff Goldenrod |
Solidago ulmifolia | Elmleaf goldenrod |
Spigelia marilandica | Indianpink |
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae | New England Aster |
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium | Aromatic aster |
Symphyotrichum pilosum | Frost Aster |
Thalictrum dasycarpum | Purple meadow rue |
Tradescantia ernestiana | Woodland Spiderwort |
Tradescantia ohioensis | Ohio Spiderwort |
Verbena urticifolia | White Vervain |
Verbesina helianthoides | Yellow Crownbeard |
Verbesina virginica | White crownbeard |
Vernonia baldwinii | Western Ironweed |
Zizia aptera | Heart-leaved Alexanders |