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 590 square feet
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1 pound covers about 9,465 square feet
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4.6 pounds per acre
8/26/25 Mix contents:
Botanical 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 syriaca | Common 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 |
Camassia scilloides | Wild Hyacinth |
Campanulastrum americanum | American Bellflower |
Carex radiata | Eastern star sedge |
Castilleja coccinea | Indian Paintbrush |
Ceanothus americanus | New Jersey Tea |
Chamaecrista fasciculata | Partridge Pea |
Coreopsis tripteris | Tall Coreopsis |
Cunila origanoides | Dittany |
Dalea candida | White Prairie Clover |
Dalea purpurea | Purple Prairie Clover |
Desmanthus illinoesnsis | Ill. Bundleflower |
Echinacea pallida | Pale-Purple Coneflower |
Elephantopus carolinianus | Carolina Elephant's Foot |
Eryngium yuccifolium | Rattlesnake Master |
Glandularia canadensis | Rose Verbena |
Grindelia lanceolata (B) | Narrowleaf gumweed |
Heliopsis helianthoides | Ox-eye Sunflower |
Heuchera richardsonii | Prairie Alum Root |
Hypericum hypericoides | St. Andrews Cross |
Hypericum prolificum | Shrubby St. John's Wort |
Liatris aspera | Rough Blazing Star |
Marshallia caespitosa | Barbara's Buttons |
Mimosa quadrivalvis | Sensitive Briar |
Monarda bradburiana | Bee Balm Horsemint |
Oenothera biennis | Common evening primrose |
Packera obovata | Roundleaf Groundsel |
Parthenium integrifolium | Wild Quinine |
Pedicularis canadensis | Wood Betony |
Penstemon digitalis | Foxglove Beardtongue |
Penstemon pallidus | Pale Beardtongue |
Persicaria virginiana | Jumpseed |
Phlox divaricata | Wild Sweet William |
Pycnanthemum albescens | Whiteleaf Mountain Mint |
Pycnanthemum verticillatum | Hairy Mountain mint |
Ratibida pinnata | Grayhead Coneflower |
Rudbeckia hirta (A) | Black-eyed Susan |
Rudbeckia subtomentosa | Sweet Coneflower |
Scrophularia marilandica | Late Figwort |
Scutellaria parvula | Small skullcap |
Senna marilandica | Maryland Senna |
Silene stellata | Starry Campion |
Silphium laciniatum | Compass Plant |
Solidago drummondii | Cliff Goldenrod |
Solidago ulmifolia | Elmleaf goldenrod |
Spigelia marilandica | Indianpink |
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium | Aromatic aster |
Symphyotrichum pilosum | Frost Aster |
Tephrosia virginica | Goat's rue |
Tradescantia ernestiana | Woodland Spiderwort |
Tradescantia ohioensis | Ohio Spiderwort |
Verbesina helianthoides | Yellow Crownbeard |
Vernonia baldwinii | Western Ironweed |
Zizia aurea | Golden Alexanders |