Common

Name

Scientific

Name

Habit

Height (ft)

Flowering

Time

Flower

Color

Interesting Traits

Big

Bluestem

Andropogon

gerardii

Grass

4-10

Aug-Sept

Yellow

Anthers

Fall color; Birds;

Winter interest

Fragrant Sumac

Rhus aromatica

Shrub

5-8

Mar-Apr

Red-Orange

Fall color;

Red fruit

Gray headed Coneflower

Ratibida pinnata

Herb

4-5

July-Sept

Yellow

Butterflies;

Cut flowers

Leadplant

Amorpha

canescens

Shrub

2–4

May-Aug

Purple &

Yellow

Cut flowers;

Butterflies; Gray-green foliage

Little Bluestem

Schizachyrium scoparium*

Clump Grass

2-5

Aug-Sept

Yellow

Anthers

Birds;

Winter interest; Fall color

Prairie Avens

Geum triflorum

Herb

2/3-1

Apr-June

Red

Persistent puffy fruit

Rattlesnake Master

Eryngium yuccifolium

Herb

3-4

July-Sept

White

Cut flower;

Spiky ball-shaped fruit

Stiff

Goldenrod

Oligoneuron

rigidum**

Herb

2-5

July-Oct

Yellow

Butterflies;

Cut flowers

White Wild

Indigo

Baptisia alba var. macrophylla***

Bushy Herb

2-3

May-June

White

Cut flowers & dried fruits

Wild Petunia

Ruellia

humilis

Herb

1-2

June–Oct

Lavender

Flowering ground cover