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Paeonia – Candy Stripe Peony – Fresh Dug Roots for Fall Planting
A wonderfully fragrant Peony with fascinating streaked petals.
Paeonia – Coral Sunset Peony – Fresh Dug Roots for Fall Planting
Famous for its gorgeous blend of coral, a major award winning Peony.
Paeonia – High Noon Tree Peony
Winner of the prestigious American Peony Society’s Gold Medal award, the Society’s highest honor
Paeonia – Red Tree Peony
Wonderfully scented, crimson blossoms.
Panicum – Blood Brothers Red Switch Grass
Dramatic grass with wine red blades, easy to grow.
Panicum – Hot Rod Red Switch Grass
Early season color-changing grass!
Panicum Cheyenne Sky – Switch Grass
Wine red blades on tough plants.
Penstemon cobaea – Foxglove Beardtongue
Beautiful Missouri native with huge blossoms.
Penstemon hirsutus – Hairy Beardtongue
Hoards of purple and white dangling bells, U.S. native perennial.
Perovskia atriplicifolia – Russian Sage
Multiple award winner with lavender-blue flowers and fantastic silver foliage.
Phlox divaricata – Wild Sweet William
Delightful MO and IL native perennial with a sweet perfume.
Phlox paniculata – Garden Phlox
Missouri native with fragrant flowers for months.
Phlox pilosa – Prairie Phlox
Native perennial, makes a fantastic ground cover in sunny areas.
Polystichum acrostichoides – Christmas Fern
Evergreen Missouri native fern.
Prunus x cistena – Purple Leaf Sand Cherry
Red and purple foliage. Deer resistant.
Ptelea trifoliata – Hop Tree
Host plant for Giant Swallowtail Butterfly.
Ratibida columnifera – Gray Head Mexican Hat
Ratibida pinnata – Gray Head Mexican Hat
Fun Missouri native perennial.
Rhus aromatica – Fragrant Sumac
Rugged native Missouri and Illinois ground cover shrub for tough spots.
Rhus Gro Low Fragrant Sumac
Rugged ground cover shrub with beautiful leaves. Perfect for fixing erosion issues.
Rudbeckia – Goldquelle Cutleaf Coneflower
3" yellow pompoms appear mid-summer into fall.
Rudbeckia fulgida – Shining Black-Eyed Susan
Birds love this Illinois and Missouri native's seeds.
Rudbeckia laciniata – Cutleaf Coneflower
A Missouri native and Monarch magnet!
Rudbeckia missouriensis – Missouri Black-Eyed Susan
An important food source for butterflies and hummingbirds, Mo native.
Rudbeckia subtomentosa – Sweet Coneflower
Armloads of cut flowers with the Missouri native sun perennial.
Salvia – Color Spires Azure Snow Sage
Bicolored flowers unlike any other.
Salvia azurea – Blue Sage
Azure blue flowers midsummer through fall. MO and IL native.
Sambucus canadensis Bob Gordon – Elderberry
Showy lace cap flowers on this easy native shrub.
Sambucus canadensis Elderberry
Showy lace cap flowers on this easy native shrub.
Schizachyrium scoparium – Little Bluestem Grass
2022 Perennial Plant Association Perennial Plant Of the Year
Mo native with slender green leaves highlighted with blue.
Schizachyrium Standing Ovation – Little Bluestem Grass
2022 Perennial Plant Association Perennial Plant Of the Year. A superior selection of our native grass.
Scutellaria incana – Downy Skullcap
Fun Missouri and Illinois native.
Solidago speciosa – Showy Goldenrod
Important Mo. native pollinator plant.
Spigelia marilandica – Ragin Cajun Indian Pink
A superior selection of our Missouri native Indian Pink with multitudes of brilliant orange-red blossoms.
Spirea Gold Thread
Gold ferny leaves add great color and texture.
Sporobolus heterolepis – Prairie Dropseed
Popular Missouri native grass that smells like popcorn.
Styrax – Evening Light Japanese Snowbell
Fragrant white flowers on glossy black foliage. Stunning.
Thalictrum – My Little Favorite Meadow Rue
Airy foliage and flowers, shade-loving perennial.
Thalictrum rochebrunianum – Meadow Rue
Top shade perennial highly recommended.
Vernonia arkansana – Curlytop Ironweed
Featured plant of the Missouri Prairie Foundation Grow Native Pollinator Buffet program.
Vernonia fasciculata – Prairie Ironweed
Feeds countless butterflies and other important pollinators.
Vernonia missurica – Missouri Ironweed
Feeds countless butterflies and other important pollinators.
Viburnum – Blue Muffin Arrowwood Viburnum
Award winner. Showy blue berries follow large white flowers.
Viburnum – Brandywine Possumhaw Viburnum
The most beautiful berry display in the plant kingdom.
Viburnum dentatum – Arrowwood Viburnum
Excellent Missouri native shrub. Showy blue berries follow large white flowers.
Viburnum lentago – Nanberry Viburnum
Fluffy white flowers. Hostplant for the Spring Azure butterfly.
Weigela Spilled Wine
Low-maintenance, showy shrub.
Weigela Tuxedo
Snow white flowers of dark foliage.
Weigela Wine & Roses
Rosy pink flowers over deep wine-red foliage.
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