Indian Grass Indian Grass is one of the first warm Sun Exposure season perennial grasses to form seeds Full, Partial Latin Name: Sorghastrum Nutans and they are rich clusters of bronze Ojibwa Name: colored seed. Golden stems and large seed heads provide ample color and Soil Moisture texture to plantings and birds will enjoy the Medium, seeds come fall. Plants are Medium-Dry, Dry wind-pollinated. Indian Grass can be aggressive, spreading by rhizomes, so is not suited for very small landscapes. Height Different species of grasshoppers and 6 feet caterpillars will feed on the blades of Indian Grass; in turn these insects are important food sources for upland game birds and Bloom Time song birds, where they will also find ideal August, nesting habitat in stands of tall prairie September grasses such as Indian Grass. Becasue Yellow Indian Grass is tolerant to poor soils, it can be used for erosion control Plant Spacing where other native plants won’t survive. 2-3' Sun Exposure Columbine Aquilegia canadensis, Columbine, Full, Partial, Shade also called Red or American Latin Name: Aquilegia Canadensis Columbine, is one of the first plants to Soil Moisture Ojibwa Name: Misudidjeebik provide nectar in the spring for bees, Medium, butterflies, and hummingbirds.The Medium-Dry, Dry colorful flowers are red flowing into Height yellow. Besides being an early 2 feet bloomer, Columbine will tolerate a large range of soil and sun types, so Bloom Time you'll have success with it in April, May, June full sun as well as shade. It can grow in pine tree areas and is Bloom Color deer-resistant. The seeds of Red, Yellow Aquilegia are shiny black pearls and can be easily collected and planted. Plant Spacing 10-17" In traditional medicinal practices the root was used for stomach trouble. Pale Purple Coneflower Sun Exposure Latin Name:Echinacea Pallida Full, Partial Ojibwa Name: Soil Moisture Medium, Pale Purple Coneflower Medium-Dry, grows up to 3' feet tall Dry and has very pale purple to pink flowers. It blooms Height in early summer when 3 feet only a few of the sun Bloom Time loving plants are in bloom June, July and provides nectar for hummingbirds and Bloom Color butterflies, and the leaves Pink provide food for the Plant Spacing Ottoe-skipper larva. 10-18" Sun Exposure Thimbleweed Full, Partial Latin Name: Anenome Cylindrica Ojibwa Name: Gaanda’igwaasoning Ezhinaagwak Soil Moisture Medium, Medium-Dry, Dry Thimbleweed has a tall, upright stem rising from clumped basal leaves with a whorl of three or more deeply-lobed Height leaves. The greenish white flowers fruit 2 feet into a greenish white elongated cluster that resembles the rough part of a thimble. In Greek mythology, a jealous Bloom Time goddess transformed the nymph Anemone into a flower, eternally at the June, July mercy of the north wind. Also called Long-Fruited Thimbleweed, Anemone cylindrica prefers dry, open spaces. Bloom Color Traditionally an infusion of the root was White used to relieve lung congestion and tuberulosis. Sun Exposure Pearly Everlasting Full, Partial Latin Name: Anaphalis Margaritacea Ojibwa Name: Waabigwan Soil Moisture Medium-Dry, Dry The stems and elongated leaves of Pearly Height Everlasting are covered with white hairs. 2 feet Clustered at the top of erect stems, the tiny yellow flowers are enclosed by white papery Bloom Time bracts, often mistaken for petals. The June, July, blossoms can be dried for durable bouquets. August, In the spring, this plant is a larvae host for the September American Painted Lady. The young larvae create a silken web around the plant to feed. Bloom Color This can look discouraging if you are trying to White grow this plant, but like in many native plant-insect relationships, the plant generally Plant makes a full recovery and flowers by late Spacing summer. Both the flowers and the leaves were 1-3' used traditionally for their medicinal powers; the leaves were smoked to revive stroke victims, the flowers were used in an herbal steam for rheumatism and paralysis. Sun Exposure Full, Partial Smooth Aster is found in dry Smooth Aster open forests (oak, aspen, jack Soil Moisture Latin Name: Symphotricum Laeve pine) and thickets, especially Medium-Wet, Ojibwa Name: at borders and clearings; fields Medium, and roadsides; sandy plains, Medium-Dry bluffs, stabilized dunes; prairies, meadows, shores. Height The tough stem often takes on 4 feet a shade of blue also and will Bloom Time allow Smooth Blue Aster to August, stand tall during its long late September, summer to mid fall bloom. A October non-aggressive rhizomatous root system allows the plant to Bloom Color spread slowly. In a garden Blue setting, Smooth Blue Aster will persist for many years if taller, Plant Spacing aggressive plants are kept 18-24" back. It attracts bees and butterflies as well. Sun Exposure Big Blue Stem A characteristic prairie species, but Full, Partial spreading along roadsides and Latin Name: Andropogon Gerardii railroads; in oak forests, jack pine Ojibwa Name: Muckode’kanes Soil Moisture plains, old fields, fens and sedge Medium-Wet, meadows. May be as tall as 3 m. Medium, Big Bluestem is a warm season Medium-Dry, Dry grass; it actively grows during the summer when soil temperatures Height are warm. It is a big plant, getting 7 feet over six feet tall in most situations. In a landscape it can be used as an Bloom Time accent. It has great fall color in the June, July, range of gold and pink. August, Traditionally, the roots were used September in a decoction for stomach pain and as a diuretic. Big bluestem was Plant Spacing the dominant species o fthe tall 2-3' grass prairie that once covered much of southern Wisconsin and Minnesota. Its flowering parts form three-parted spike resembling a turkeys foot. Sun Exposure Canada Milk Vetch is a common plant found throughout the US and Full, Partial Canada Milk Vetch Canada. This adaptable species Latin Name: Astragalus Canandensis can thrive in a variety of Soil Moisture Ojibwa Name: environments including dry prairies, Medium-Wet, moist shores, river banks, marshy Medium, ground, and other open or partly Medium-Dry, Dry shaded ground. It sends out several thin, erect, green stems, Height bearing leaves that are actually 3 feet made up of pairs of leaflets, each leaflet up to 3 centimeters in length. Bloom Time It has inflorescences of tubular, June, July, August greenish-white flowers which yield beanlike fruits within pods that Bloom Color rattle when dry. This is a legume Cream species (member of the pea family). Most legumes harbor Plant Spacing beneficial bacteria called rhizobia 18-24" on their roots. This is a legume species (member of the pea family). Most legumes harbor beneficial bacteria called rhizobia on their roots. Sun Yellow Coneflower Exposure Latin Name: Ratibida Pinnata Full, Partial Ojibwa Name: Yellow Coneflower is native to dry prairies and Soil Moisture savannas. It has stiff and rough-feeling coarse Medium, leaves, and showy yellow flowers which have droopy Medium-Dry soft yellow rays. The cone-like green centers eventually change to a dark purple or brown. Many Height insects are attracted to this plant such as butterflies and bees. This species is a perennial herb which 5 feet can well exceed one meter in height. It has fibrous roots and rhizomes or woody caudices The Bloom Time rough-haired, glandular leaves are up to 40 July, August, centimeters long and are divided into several large lance-shaped or oval lobes. The groups of flowers September are tall, generally far above the highest leaves. Each flower head contains up to 15 yellow ray florets up to Bloom Color 6 centimeters long. The center of the flower is Yellow globular or oval in shape and measures up to 2.5 centimeters long. It is covered in up to 200 or more disc florets which are yellow-green to purplish in Plant color. The disc heads have a scent reminiscent of Spacing anise when crushed. Native near prairie remnants 18-24" (including roadsides and fencerows), at margins of swamps, and in dry open ground. Green Coneflower Sun Exposure Latin Name: Rudbeckia Lacinata Full, Partial, Shade Ojibwa Name: Giizisobagoons Soil Moisture Green Coneflower has a conical Medium-Wet, greensih center of the compositie head and bright yellow, petal like out Medium flowers that droop. The leaves of tall, green coneflower are deeply lobed Height (3-5 lobes per leaf) and are arranged 7 feet alternately on a smooth stem. The plants can grow to a height of 10 feet Bloom Time and are usually found in patches on July, August, moist soils, along wood edges and stream banks during the months of September, July and August. Ojibwa used this October species medicinally by preparing a poultice of the blossoms and Bloom Color applying it to burns, and making a Yellow compound infusion of the root for indigestion. Tall coneflower leaves were eaten as a spring salad and Plant Spacing parts of the root were applied to the 2-4' legs of horses as a stimulant. Joe Pye Weed (Spotted) Latin Name: Euthrochium Maculatum Sun Exposure Ojibwa Name: Maeskwanakukbugisowin Full, Partial Soil Moisture Wet, Spotted Joe-Pye weed is similar to Medium-Wet sweet Joe-Pye Weed except that its stems are a deeper purple or purple Height spotted. The flower clusters are flat 5 feet topped. The leaves are in whorls of 4 and 5 and the plant can grow up to 7 feet tall. Spotted Joe-Pye weed is Bloom Time found along river courses and lake July, August, shores, associated with boneset, September swamp milkweed, and both sensitive and royal ferns.