PROGRAMS & SERVICES
NEW this year!!
Due to popular demand, we’re offering native plant seeds and plugs. You’re in the right place for more information!
Ordering deadline is:
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
2019 Native Plant Sale Pickup date:
Wednesday, May 29th, 2019
Download the 2019 Native Plant Seed and Plug Sale Brochure!
Do you like to plant beautiful flowers and forbs to improve the look of your yard or property? Would you like to help improve pollinator habitat and support native plant species in the process? Then maybe our native plant sale is right for you. New for 2019, the Koochiching SWCD will be offering native plant kits for purchase this spring. Kits come in custom seed packs and immediately plantable plug starters. Each kit comes with a variety of flower, forb, and grass species specially selected for site conditions and your project goals. Whether hoping to attract butterflies, or looking for an aesthetically nice seed mix for your septic field, the Koochiching SWCD Native Plant sale has a kit for you.
TO ORDER: Download and print this form (click button at right). Fill out and mail with payment.
- Species substitutions may be necessary due to site characteristics, soil moisture, plant availability, or other considerations.
- Due to circumstances beyond our control, Koochiching SWCD is not able to guarantee the survival of plant material we sell.
Seed Kit Species List
Upland Dry Prairie Seed Kit
Grasses and Sedges
• Big Bluestem • Side-Oats Grama • Blue Grama • Prairie Brome • Slender Wheat Grass • June grass • Little Bluestem • Indian Grass • Prairie Dropseed • Bicknell’s Sedge
Forbs
• Yarrow • Prairie Onion • Leadplant • Common Milkweed • Butterfly Milkweed • Partridge Pea • Prairie Coreopsis • White Prairie Clover • Purple Prairie Clover • Stiff Sunflower • Round-headed Bushclover • Rough Blazing Star • Wild Lupine • Slender Beardtongue • Prairie Cinquefoil • Long-headed Coneflower • Black Eyed Susan • Gray Goldenrod • Stiff Goldenrod • Smooth Blue Aster • Sky Blue Aster • Prairie Spiderwort • Hoary Vervain
Mesic Prairie Seed Kit
Grasses
• Big Bluestem • Side-Oats Grama • Prairie Brome • Canada Wild Rye • Slender Wheat Grass • Switchgrass • Little Bluestem • Indian Grass • Prairie Dropseed
Forbs
• Leadplant • Common Milkweed • Butterfly Milkweed • Partridge Pea • White Prairie Clover • Purple Prairie Clover • Canada Tick Trefoil • Common Ox-eye • Meadow Blazing Star • Prairie Blazing Star • Wild Bergamot • Mountain Mint • Yellow Coneflower • Black Eyed Susan • Stiff Goldenrod • Smooth Blue Aster • Sky Blue Aster • Purple Meadow Rue • Hoary Vervain • Golden Alexander
Pollinator Habitat Seed Kit
Grasses and Sedges
• Side-Oats Grama • Blue Grama • Slender Wheat Grass • June grass • Little Bluestem • Prairie Dropseed • Bicknell’s Sedge
Forbs
• Yarrow • Fragrant Giant Hyssop • Prairie Onion • Leadplant • Columbine • Showy Milkweed • Common Milkweed • Butterfly Milkweed • Canada Milk Vetch • Partridge Pea • White Prairie Clover • Purple Prairie Clover • Canada Tick Trefoil • Narrow-leaved Coneflower • Common Ox-eye • Stiff Sunflower • Round-headed Bushclover • Rough Blazing Star • Meadow Blazing Star • Wild Lupine • Wild Bergamot • Slender Beardtongue • Mountain Mint • Long-Headed Coneflower • Black Eyed Susan • Gray Goldenrod • Showy Goldenrod • Smooth Blue Aster • Sky Blue Aster • Prairie Spiderwort • Hoary Vervain • Golden Alexander
Lakeshore and Waters Edge Seed Kit
Grasses, Sedges, and Rushes
• Fowl Bluegrass • Bottlebrush Sedge • Lake Sedge • Greater Straw Sedge • Broad-Leaved Wooly Sedge • Knotsheath Sedge • Broom Sedge • Common Fox Sedge • Softstem Bulrush • Green Bulrush • Woolgrass • River Bulrush
Forbs
• Sweet Flag • American Water Plantain • False Indigo • Canada Anemone • Marsh Milkweed • Fireweed • Joe-Pye Weed • Boneset • Sneezeweed • Northern Blue Flag Iris • Prairie Blazing Star • Cardinal Flower • Great Blue Lobelia • Monkey Flower • Obedient Plant • Mountain Mint • Smooth Rose • Riddell’s Goldenrod • Giant Burreed • New England Aster • Blue Vervain • Ironweed
Septic Field and Mound Seed Kit
Grasses
• Side-Oats Grama • Blue Grama • Prairie Brome • Bicknell’s Sedge • Junegrass • Little Bluestem • Prairie Dropseed
Forbs
• Prairie Onion • Butterfly Milkweed • Partridge Pea • White Prairie Clover • Purple Prairie Clover • Pale Purple Coneflower • Rattlesnake Master • Common Ox-eye • Round-headed Bushclover • Rough Blazing Star • Wild Lupine • Wild Bergamot • Slender Beardtongue • Long-headed Coneflower • Black Eyed Susan • Gray Goldenrod • Smooth Blue Aster • Hoary Vervain
Plug Kit Species List
**Please note that the print version of this brochure had the Pollinator and Shoreland/Raingarden Plug Species lists were switched. Below is the CORRECTED species list.
Woodland Shade Plug Kit
Grasses and Sedges
• Eastern Star Sedge • Woodland Fescue • Bottlebrush Grass
Forbs
• Anise Hyssop • Big Leaved Aster • Zig Zag Goldenrod • Calico Aster • Poke Milkweed • Columbine • Tall Thimbleweed • BrownEyed Susan
Shoreland/Raingarden Plug Kit
Grasses and Sedges
• Porcupine Sedge • Bebb’s Sedge • Common Rush
Forbs
• Marsh Milkweed • Blue Flag Iris • New England Aster • Great Blue Lobelia • Cardinal Flower • Culvers Root • Sweet Black-Eyed Susan • Blue Vervain
Pollinator Habitat Plug Kit
• Little Bluestem • Prairie Dropseed • Sideoats Grama • Anise Hyssop • Butterfly Milkweed • Prairie Coreopsis • Showy Goldenrod • Purple Prairie Clover • Sky Blue Aster • Meadow Blazingstar • Purple Coneflower 
Grasses and Sedges
Forbs
