PROGRAMS & SERVICES

BACK 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:

Friday, May 1, 2020

2020 Native Plant Sale Pickup date:

Friday, May 29th, 2020

Resources

Xerces Society

Insects & Pollinators

Pollinator Partnership

National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service

Best Management Practices for Pollinator Habitat Restoration

Native Vegetation Establishment Guide

Download the 2020 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.

Native Plant Brochure/Order Form

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
Plug Kit Species List

Seed Kit Species List

Savanna Seed Kit

Grasses and Sedges

• Big Bluestem • Side-Oats Grama • Prairie Brome • June grass • Little Bluestem • Indian Grass • Prairie Dropseed • Bottle Brush Grass • Silky Wild Rye • Virginia Wild Rye • Nodding Fescue • Eastern Woodland Sedge • Greater Straw Sedge • Eastern Star Sedge • Long-beaked Sedge

Monarch Habitat Seed Kit

Grasses

• Little Bluestem

Forbs

• Marsh Milkweed • Common Milkweed • Showy Milkweed • Meadow Blazing Star

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

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

Grasses and Sedges

• Little Bluestem • Prairie Dropseed • Sideoats Grama • Prairie Brome

Forbs

• Anise Hyssop • Butterfly Milkweed • Prairie Coreopsis • Showy Goldenrod • Purple Prairie Clover • Sky Blue Aster • Meadow Blazingstar • Purple Coneflower