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
- A packet covers about 25 square feet.
- 1 oz. covers about 775 square feet
- 1 pound covers about 12,445 square feet
- 3.5 pounds per acre
1/22/2026 Mix contents:
| LATIN NAME | COMMON NAME |
| Agastache nepetoides | Yellow Giant Hyssop |
| Ageratina altissima | White snakeroot |
| Amorpha canescens | Lead Plant |
| Amsonia illustris | Shining Blue Star |
| Anemone virginica | Thimbleweed |
| Antennaria neglecta | Prairie Pussytoes |
| Aquilegia canadensis | Columbine |
| Asclepias incarnata | Swamp Milkweed |
| Baptisia alba | White Wild Indigo |
| Baptisia australis var. minor | Blue Wild Indigo |
| Baptisia bracteata | Cream Wild Indigo |
| Boltonia asteroides | White Doll's Daisy |
| Campanulastrum americanum | American Bellflower |
| Carex albicans | Oak Sedge |
| Castilleja coccinea (A) | Indian Paintbrush |
| Chamaecrista fasciculata (A) | Partridge Pea |
| Conoclinium coelestinum | Wild Ageratum/Mist Flower |
| Coreopsis pubescens | Star Tickseed |
| Cunila organoides | Dittany |
| Dalea purpurea (IA) | Purple Prairie Clover |
| Desmanthus illinoensis | Ill. Bundleflower |
| Diarrhena obovata | American Beakgrain |
| Echinacea purpurea | Purple coneflower |
| Elephantopus carolinianus | Carolina Elephant's Foot |
| Eryngium yuccifolium | Rattlesnake Master |
| Eupatorium serotinum | Late Boneset |
| Fragaria virginiana | Wild Strawberry |
| Gentiana andrewsii | Closed Gentian |
| Grindelia lanceolata (B) | Narrowleaf gumweed |
| Heliopsis helianthoides | Ox-eye Sunflower |
| Heuchera americana | American alum root |
| Hypericum hypercoides | St. Andrews Cross |
| Lespedeza capitata | Roundheaded Bushclover |
| Liatris hirsuta | Hairy Blazing Star |
| Liatris scariosa | Eastern Blazing Star |
| Lobelia inflata | Indian Tobacco |
| Lobelia spicata | Palespike lobelia |
| Marshallia caespitosa | Barbara's Buttons |
| Mertensia virginica | Virginia Bluebells |
| Mimosa quadrivalvis | Sensitive Briar |
| Mimulus alatus | Sharpwing Monkeyflower |
| Monarda bradburiana | Bee Balm Horsemint |
| Monarda fistulosa | Wild Bergamot (Tall) |
| Oligoneuron rigidum | Rigid Goldenrod |
| Packera aurea | Golden Ragwort |
| Pedicularis canadensis | Wood Betony |
| Penstemon digitalis | Foxglove Beardtongue |
| Pycnanthemum albescens | Whiteleaf Mountain Mint |
| Pycnanthemum tenuifolium | Slender Mountain Mint |
| Ratibida pinnata | Grayhead Coneflower |
| Rudbeckia fulgida var. sullivantii | Showy Coneflower |
| Rudbeckia hirta (A) | Black-eyed Susan |
| Rudbeckia subtomentosa | Sweet Coneflower |
| Rudbeckia triloba (B) | Brown-eyed Susan |
| Ruellia strepens | Woodland petunia |
| Sabatia angularis | Rose Gentian |
| Scrophularia marilandica | Late Figwort |
| Scutellaria incana | Downy skullcap |
| Silene antirrhina | Sleepy Catchfly |
| Silphium integrifolium | Rosinweed |
| Solidago drummondii | Cliff Goldenrod |
| Solidago nemoralis | Gray Goldenrod |
| Solidago ulmifolia | Elmleaf goldenrod |
| Spigelia marilandica | Indianpink |
| Symphyotrichum drummondii | Drummond Aster |
| Symphyotrichum novae-angliae | New England Aster |
| Symphyotrichum pilosum | Frost Aster |
| Symphyotrichum turbinellum | Lavender Aster |
| Symphyotrichum urophyllum | White Arrowleaf Aster |
| Thaspium barbinode | Bearded Meadowparsnip |
| Tradescantia ohiensis | Ohio Spiderwort |
| Verbena urticifolia | White Vervain |
| Verbesina helianthoides | Yellow Crownbeard |
| Vernonia baldwinii | Western Ironweed |
| Zizia aptera | Heart-leaved Alexanders |