What prairie plants do we use to create our pollinator habitats?

Prairie plants native to Minnesota thrive in a variety of soil types and lighting conditions. In our experience, the prairie plants listed below work best for urban pollinator habitats.

Click on any of the names listed below to view an image of the plants we use. The link will take you to the website of our amazing supplier, Glacial Ridge Growers LLC.

- Wild Golden Glow

- Little Bluestem

- Lavender/Anise Hyssop

- Wild lupine

- Columbine

- Bradbury's Monarda

- Maidenhair Fern

- Cardinal Flower

- Prairie Blazing Star

- Prairie Smoke

- Butterfly Milkweed

- Silky Wild Rye

- Plains Oval Sedge

- Deflexed Bottlebrush Sedge

- Purple coneflower

- Golden Alexander

-  Fern leaved yarrow

- Pasque flower

- Early meadow rue

- Sedum

- Prairie onion

- Prairie/Northern dropseed

- Blue flag iris

- Hoary Vervain

- Wild Petunia

- Orange coneflower

- prairie coreopsis

- Prairie blue-eyed grass

- Whorled Milkweed

- Showy Milkweed

- Blue Grama

- Jacob's Ladder

- Side-oats Gramma