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2025 NATIVE PLANT SALE ORDERING DEADLINE:

April 30, 2025

2025 NATIVE PLANT SALE PICKUP DATE:

May 22nd, 2025

RESOURCES

2025 NATIVE PLANT SEED AND PLUG SALE BROCHURE

We have new plant kits and seeds to suit your needs! Native plants brighten your property, conserve soil, reduce runoff, improve water retention, and bring wildlife to your window.

Back again this year are blueberry shrubs and our Forager’s Kit of edible plants! 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. Fill out and mail (or stop in and say hi!) with payment.
NOTE: Both order forms are in the same PDF below.new

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 MIX SPECIES LIST

WOODLAND EDGE AND OPENING

GRASSES & SEDGES

Big Bluestem • Fringed Brome • Foxe Sedge • Canada Wild Rye • Little Bluestem • Bottlebrush Grass • Virginia Wild Rye • Fowl Bluegrass • Indiangrass • False Melic

FORBS

Common Yarrow • Fragrant Giant Hyssop • Common Milkweed • Large-leaved Aster • Fireweed • Northern Bedstraw • Common Ox-eye • Bush Clover • False Solomon’s Seal • Wild Bergamot • Smooth Wild Rose • Black-eyed Susan • Calico Aster • Gray Goldenrod • Upland White Goldenrod • Stiff Goldenrod • Heath Aster • Smooth Blue Aster • Sky Blue Aster • Blue Vervain • Heart-leaved Alexanders • Golden Alexanders

NATIVE BEE LAWN

GRASSES

Blue Grama • Plains Oval Sedge • Houghton’s Sedge • Path Rush • June Grass • Prairie Dropseed

FORBS

Common Yarrow • Prairie Onion • Field Pussytoes • Purple Prairie Clover • White Prairie Clover • Gray Goldenrod • Heart-Leaved Alexanders

SHORELINE & WETLAND

GRASSES AND SEDGES

Big Bluestem • Fringed Brome • River Bulrush • Bottlebrush Sedge • Hop Sedge • Retrorse Sedge • Pointed-broom Sedge • Northwest Territory Sedge • Fox Sedge •  Rattlesnake Manna Grass • Dark Green Bulrush • Woolgrass • Softstem Bulrush

FORBS

Sweet Flag • Fragrant Giant Hyssop • Water Plantain •  Canada Anemone • Swamp Milkweed • Flat-topped Aster • Grass-leaved Goldenrod • Joe Pye Weed • Boneset • Sneezeweed • Blue Flag Iris • Tall Blazing Star • Great Blue Lobella• Monkey Flower • Mountain Mint • Cutleaf Coneflower • Common Arrowhead •  Panicled Aster • Bog Goldenrod • Giant Bur Reed • Red-Stalked Aster • Purple Meadow Rue • Ironweed • Blue Vervain

CONQUER THE CLAY

GRASSES & SEDGES

Side-Oats Grama • Canada Wild Rye • Big Bluestem • Virginia Wild Rye • Common Rush • Switch Grass • Indian Grass

FORBS

Anise Hyssop • Pale Indian Plantain • Common Milkweed • Canada Milk Vetch • White Wild Indigo • Partridge Pea • White Prairie Clover • Purple Prairie Clover • Pale Purple Coneflower • Purple Coneflower • Biennial Gaura • Early Sunflower • Round-headed Bush Clover • Wild Bergamot • Glade Mallow • Stiff Goldenrod • Foxglove Beardtongue • Mountain Mint • Yellow Coneflower • Black-eyed Susan • Sweet Black-eyed Susan • Brown-eyed Susan • Wild Senna • Compass Plant • Prairie Dock • Smooth Blue Aster • New England Aster • Blue Vervain • Hoary Vervain • New Jersey Tea

PRETTY DARN QUICK

GRASSES

Side Oats Grama  • Plains Oval Sedge • Brown Fox Sedge • Canada Wild Rye • Dudley’s Rush • Little Bluestem

FORBS

Anise Hyssop • Prairie Onion • Rose Milkweed • Common Milkweed • Canada Milk Vetch • Blue Wild Indigo • Bearded Beggarticks • Partridge Pea • Lance-leaf Coreopsis • White Prairie Clover • Purple Prairie Clover • Prairie Cinquefoil • Pale Purple Coneflower • Purple Coneflower • Rattlesnake Master • Sneezeweed • Early Sunflower • Button Blazing Star • Meadow Blazing Star • Great Blue Lobelia • Stiff Goldenrod • Foxglove Beardtongue • Mountain Mint • Yellow Coneflower • Black-eyed Susan • Brown-eyed Susan • Smooth Blue Aster • Blue Vervain • Hoary Vervain • Golden Alexanders

PLUG KIT SPECIES LIST

WOODLAND EDGE PLUG KIT

GRASSES AND SEDGES

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FORBS

Often appearing in this kit:

Fragrant Giant Hyssop • Canada Milk Vetch • Self-heal • Early Figwort • Culver’s Root • Tall Thimbleweed • Large-leaved Aster • Mountain Mint • Zig zag Goldenrod • Columbine • Sweet Joe-pye Weed • Sweet Black-eyed Susan • Calico Aster • Poke Milkweed • Pale-leaved Sunflower • Brown-eyed Susan • Purple Meadow Rue

SHORELINE PLUG KIT

GRASSES & SEDGES

Often appearing in this kit:

Sweet Flag • Fox Sedge • Sneezeweed • Woolgrass •Bottlebrush Sedge • River Bulrush • Green Bulrush • Common Rush

FORBS

Often appearing in this kit:

Swamp Milkweed • Flat-topped Aster • Northern Blueflag Iris •  Steeplebush • Boneset • New England Aster • Ironweed

MONARCH PLUG KIT

GRASSES AND SEDGES

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FORBS

Often appearing in this kit:

Swamp Milkweed • Whorled Milkweed • Meadow Blazing Star • Smooth Blue Aster • Ironweed • Showy Milkweed • Wild Bergamot • New England Aster • Common Milkweed • Sweet Joe-pye Weed • Stiff Goldenrod • Aromatic Aster • Butterfly Milkweed • Rough Blazing Star • Showy Goldenrod • Sky-blue Aster

RAIN GARDEN PLUG KIT

GRASSES AND SEDGES

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FORBS

Often appearing in this kit:

Swamp Milkweed • Joe-pye Weed • Winged Loosestrife • Blue Vervain • Marsh Marigold • Northern Blue Flag Iris • Monkey Flower • Culver’s Root • Rattlesnake Master • Prairie Blazing Star • Obedient Plant • Boneset • Cardinal Flower • Meadowsweet

SHADE GARDEN PLUG KIT

GRASSES AND SEDGES

Often appearing in this kit:

Graceful Sedge • Long-beaked Sedge

FORBS

Often appearing in this kit:

Fragrant Giant Hyssop • Poke Milkweed • Large-leaved Aster • Zig Zag Goldenrod • Tall Thimbleweed • Harebell • Jacob’s Ladder • Lindley’s Aster • Field Pussytoes • Self-heal • Purple Meadow Rue • Columbine • Mountain Mint

BUMBLE BEE PLUG KIT

GRASSES AND SEDGES

Consider adding a grass seed mix by contacting us!

FORBS

Often appearing in this kit:

Yarrow • Purple Prairie Clover • Prairie Smoke • Showy Goldenrod • Prairie Onion • Prairie Cinquefoil • Common Ox-eye • Golden Alexanders • Showy Milkweed • Pale Purple Coneflower • Meadow Blazing Star • Lance-leaf Coreopsis • Blanketflower