Weekly Top Seed Picks

2021

Oct 15, 2021

• Agrimonia parviflora (swamp agrimony)
• Aureolaria grandiflora var. pulchra (yellow false foxglove)
• Carex frankii (bristly cattail sedge)
• Cinna arundinacea (common wood reed)
• Dasistoma macrophylla (mullein foxglove) 
• Epilobium coloratum (cinnamon willow-herb)
• Eryngium yuccifolium (rattlesnake master)
• Gentiana alba (cream gentian)​​
• Liatris pycnostachya (gayfeather)
• Oligoneuron rigidum (stiff goldenrod)

• ​Physostegia virginiana (obedient plant)
• Pycnanthemum tenuifolium (slender mountain mint)
• Pycnanthemum virginianum (common mountain mint)
• Helianthus grosseserratus (sawtooth sunflower)
• Quercus macrocarpa (bur oak)
• Teucrium canadense (Canadian germander)
• Verbena hastata (blue vervain)
• Verbena urticifolia (hairy white vervain) 
• Marsh tickseed

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Sept 24, 2021

• Anemone cylindrica (thimbleweed)
• Asclepias incarnata (swamp milkweed)
• Astragalus canadensis (Canadian milkvetch) 
• Coreopsis palmata (prairie coreopsis) 
• Gentiana alba (yellowish gentian)
• Liatris aspera (rough blazing star)
• Liatris pycnostachya (prairie gay feather)

• ​Oenothera biennis (common evening primrose)
• partridge pea
• Penstemon digitalis (foxglove beard tongue)
• Rosa Carolina (pasture rose)
• rose mallow
• Rudbeckia subtomentosa (sweet black-eyed Susan)
• Veronicastrum virginicum (Culver's root)​

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Sept 17, 2021

• Allium cernuum (nodding wild onion)
• Arnoglossum atriplicifolium (pale Indian plantain)
• Asclepias tuberosa (butterfly weed)
• Asclepias verticillata (whorled milkweed)
• Bouteloua hirsuta (hairy grama)
• Coreopsis palmata (prairie coreopsis) 
• Gentiana alba (yellowish gentian)
• Lespedeza capitata (round-headed bush clover)
• Liatris aspera (rough blazing star)​​

• Monarda fistulosa (wild bergamot)
• Parthenium integrifolium (wild quinine)
• Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium (old-field balsam) — formerly known as sweet everlasting
• Ratibida pinnata (yellow coneflower)
• Rosa Carolina (pasture rose)
• Silphiums — ALL
• Verbena urticifolia (hairy white vervain)

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Sept 10, 2021

• Allium cernuum (nodding wild onion)
• Anemone cylindrica (thimbleweed)
• Asclepias verticillata (whorled milkweed)
• Astragalus canadensis (Canadian milkvetch)
• Bouteloua curtipendula (side-oats grama) 
• Coreopsis palmata (prairie coreopsis) 
• Dalea candida (white prairie clover) 
• Dalea purpurea (purple prairie clover) ​​

• Lespedeza capitata (round-headed bush clover)
• Parthenium integrifolium (wild quinine)
• Penstemon digitalis (foxglove beard tongue)
• Rosa Carolina (pasture rose)
• Silphium integrifolium (rosinweed)
• Silphium perfoliatum (cup plant)

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Aug 27, 2021

• Anemone cylindrica (thimbleweed)
• Arnoglossum plantaginea (prairie Indian plantain)
• Baptisia lactea (white wild indigo) 
• Bouteloua curtipendula (side-oats grama) 
• Ceanothus americanus (New Jersey tea)
• Coreopsis palmata (prairie coreopsis) 
• Dalea candida (white prairie clover) 
• Dalea purpurea (purple prairie clover) 
• frostweed
• Great plains flat sedge​

• Hieracium gronovii (hairy hawkweed)
• Iris virginica var. shrevei (blue flag iris)
• Parthenium integrifolium (wild quinine)
• Penstemon digitalis (foxglove beard tongue)
• Rudbeckia hirta (black eyed Susan)
• Silphium integrifolium (rosinweed)—just beginning
• Tephrosia virginiana (goat's rue)
• tick trefoil

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Aug 20, 2021

• Anemone cylindrica (thimbleweed)
• Arnoglossum plantaginea (prairie Indian plantain)
• Baptisia lactea (white wild indigo) 
• Bouteloua curtipendula (side-oats grama) 
• Ceanothus americanus (New Jersey tea)
• Dalea candida (white prairie clover) 
• Dalea purpurea (purple prairie clover) 
• frostweed
• Great plains flat sedge​

• Hieracium gronovii (hairy hawkweed)
• Iris virginica var. shrevei (blue flag iris)
• Parthenium integrifolium (wild quinine)
• Penstemon digitalis (foxglove beard tongue)
• Rudbeckia hirta (black eyed Susan)
• Tephrosia virginiana (goat's rue)
• tick trefoil
• Zizia aptera (heart-leaved meadow parsnip)

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Aug 13, 2021

• Anemone cylindrica (thimbleweed)
• Arnoglossum plantaginea (prairie Indian plantain)
• Baptisia lactea (white wild indigo) 
• Bouteloua curtipendula (side-oats grama)  — just beginning
• Ceanothus americanus (New Jersey tea) — just beginning​
  

• Scirpus cyperinus (wool grass)
• fox sedge
• Echinacea pallida (pale purple coneflower)
• Rudbeckia hirta (black eyed Susan)
• St. John's wort
• tick trefoil

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Aug 6, 2021

• Arnoglossum plantaginea (prairie Indian plantain)
• Drymocallis arguta (prairie cinquefoil)
• Zizia aurea (golden Alexander)
• Scirpus cyperinus (wool grass)
• Iris virginica (blue flag iris)
• Penstemon grandiflorus (large flowered beardtongue)

• Hieracium gronovii (hairy hawkweed)
• Cyperus lupulinus (great plains flatsedge)
• Echinacea pallida (pale purple coneflower)
• Polytaenia nuttallii (prairie parsley)
• Rudbeckia hirta (black eyed Susan)

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July 30, 2021

• ​Anemonastrum canadense (meadow anemone)
• Calamagrostis canadensis (blue joint grass)
• Carex vulpinoides (fox sedge)
• Desmodium illinoense (Illinois tick trefoil)
• Echinacea pallida (pale purple coneflower)
• Elymus hystrix (bottlebrush grass)
• Elymus villosus (silky wild rye)
• Elymus virginicus (Virginia wild rye)
• Festuca subverticillata (nodding fescue) ​​

• ​Hieracium gronovii (hairy hawkweed)
  
• Opuntia cespitosa (eastern prickly pear)
• Penstemon hirsutus (hairy beardtongue)​
• Phemeranthus rugospermus (sand fameflower)
• Polytaenia nuttallii (prairie parsley)​
• Rudbeckia hirta (black-eyed Susan)
• Scirpus atrovirens (dark green bulrush)
• Zizia aptera (heart leaved Golden Alexander)
• Zizia aurea (golden Alexanders)

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July 9, 2021

• Tradescantia ohiensis (common spiderwort)
• Angelica atropurpurea (great angelica)
• Anemonastrum canadense (meadow anemone)
• Carex scoparia ​(pointed broom sedge)

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​July 2, 2021

• Tradescantia ohiensis (common spiderwort)
  
• Koeleria macrantha (prairie junegrass)
  
• Dodecatheon meadia (eastern shooting star)
  
• Allium canadense (wild onion)
  
• Carex spp. (dry sedge mix)
  
• Cirsium pumilum hillii (Hill's thistle)
  
• Juncus tenuis ​(path rush)
  

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2020

November 5, 2020​​​​

• Schizachyrium scoparium (little bluestem)
• Euthamia graminifolia (smooth grass-leaved goldenrod)
  
• Symphyotrichum ericoides  (heath aster)
  
• Symphyotrichum sericeum (silky aster)
  
• Symphyotrichum oblongifolium (aromatic aster)
  
• Amorpha fruticosa (false indigo bush)
  

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October 29, 2020​​​​

• Schizachyrium scoparium (little bluestem)
• Clematis virginiana (Virgin's bower)
• Cuscuta campestris (field dodder)
• Agalinis tenuifolia (slender false foxglove)
• Symphyotrichum laeve (smooth blue aster)
• Symphyotrichum novae-angliae (New England aster)
• Boltonia asteroides (false aster)
• Pedicularis lanceolata (swamp lousewort, swamp betony)

• Oligoneuron rigidum (stiff goldenrod)
• Solidago missouriensis (Missouri goldenrod)
• Solidago speciosa (showy goldenrod)
• Mimulus ringens (monkey flower)
• Helenium autumnale (common sneezeweed)
• Oenothera biennis (common evening primrose)
• Artemisia campestris subsp. caudata (beach wormwood)
• Gentiana alba (cream gentian)

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October 22, 2020​​​​

• Oligoneuron rigidum (stiff goldenrod)
• Cephalanthus occidentalis (buttonbush)
• Agrimonia parviflora (swamp agrimony)
• Boltonia asteroides (false aster)
• Carex frankii (Frank's sedge)

• Cinna arundinacea (stout wood reed)
• Onoclea sensibilis (sensitive fern)
• Schizachyrium scoparium (little bluestem)
• Verbena urticifolia (white vervain)

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October 15, 2020

• Silphium laciniatum (compass plant)
• Gentiana alba (cream gentian)
• Silphium terebinthaceum (prairie dock)​
• Verbena hastata (blue vervain)​​
• Oligoneuron rigidum (stiff goldenrod)
• Helenium autumnale (common sneezeweed)
• Agalinis tenuifolia (slender false foxglove)
• Pycnanthemum virginianum (common mountain mint)
• Helianthus occidentalis (western sunflower; naked sunflower)

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• Verbena stricta (hoary vervain)​
• Epilobium coloratum (cinnamon willow-herb)
• Eupatorium perfoliatum (common boneset)
• Liatris cylindracea (cylindrical blazingstar, dwarf)​
• Coreopsis tripteris (tall coreopsis) ​​
• Liatris aspera (rough blazingstar)
• Oenothera biennis (common evening primrose)
• Helianthus grosseserratus (sawtooth sunflower)
• Hibiscus palustris (swamp rose mallow)

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October 8, 2020

• Clematis virginiana (Virgin's bower)
• Silphium laciniatum (compass plant)
• Gentiana alba (cream gentian)
• Silphium terebinthaceum (prairie dock)​
• Verbena hastata (blue vervain)​​

• Verbena stricta (hoary vervain)​
• Epilobium coloratum (cinnamon willow-herb)
• Eupatorium perfoliatum (common boneset)
• Liatris cylindracea (cylindrical blazingstar, dwarf)
• Gaura longiflora (common gaura)
• Coreopsis tripteris (tall coreopsis) ​​

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October 1, 2020

• Monarda fistulosa (wild bergamot)
• Asclepias syriaca (common milkweed)
• Brickellia eupatorioides var. corymbulosa (false boneset)​
• Liatris aspera (rough blazingstar)
• Epilobium coloratum (cinnamon willow-herb)
• Dasistoma macrophylla (mullein foxglove)

• Penstemon digitalis (foxglove beardtongue)
• Eryngium yuccifolium (rattlesnake master) 
• Baptisia alba (white wild indigo)​​
• Lespedeza capitata (round-headed bush clover)
• Aureolaria grandiflora var. pulchra (largeflower yellow false foxglove)
  
• Clematis virginiana (Virgin's bower)
  

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September 24, 2020

• Asclepias incarnata (swamp milkweed)
• Eutrochium maculatum (spotted Joe-pye weed)
• Gaura longiflora (common guara)
• Rudbeckia triloba (brown-eyed Susan)
• Asclepias syriaca (common milkweed)
• Chamaecrista fasciculata (partridge pea)
• Allium cernuum (nodding wild onion)
• Veronicastrum virginicum (Culver's root) 
• Onosmodium molle (marbleseed)

• Penstemon digitalis (foxglove beardtongue)
• Asclepias verticillata (whorled milkweed)
• Liatris pycnostachya (gayfeather or prairie blazing star)
• Monarda punctata (horse mint)
• Silphium laciniatum (compass plant)
• Eryngium yuccifolium (rattlesnake master) 
• Baptisia alba (white wild indigo)​
• Arnoglossum atriplicifolium (pale Indian plantain)
• Lespedeza capitata (round-headed bush clover)

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September 17, 2020

• Chamaecrista fasciculata (partridge pea)
• Linum sulcatum (grooved yellow flax)
• Helianthus divaricatus (woodland sunflower)
• Allium cernuum (nodding wild onion)
• Veronicastrum virginicum (Culver's root) 
• Baptisia alba (white wild indigo)​
• Arnoglossum atriplicifolium (pale Indian plantain)
• Lespedeza capitata (round-headed bush clover)

• Silphium perfoliatum (cup-plant)
• Silphium integrifolium (wholeleaf rosinweed)
• Penstemon digitalis (foxglove beardtongue)
• Brickellia eupatorioides var. corymbulosa (false boneset)
• Asclepias verticillata (whorled milkweed)
• Liatris pycnostachya (gayfeather or prairie blazing star)
• Monarda punctata (horse mint)
• Silphium laciniatum (compass plant)
• Eryngium yuccifolium (rattlesnake master) ​

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September 10, 2020

• Amorpha  canescens (leadplant)
• Linum sulcatum (grooved yellow flax)
• Astragalus canadensis (Canada milkvetch)
• Allium cernuum (nodding wild onion)
• Rosa carolina (pasture rose)
• Parthenium integrifolium (wild quinine)
• Baptisia alba (white wild indigo)​

• Rudbeckia hirta ​(black-eyed Susan)
• Anemone cylindrica (cylindrical thimbleweed)
• Anemone virginiana (tall thimbleweed)
• Dalea purpurea (purple prairie clover)
• Dalea candida ​(white prairie clover)
• Ratibida pinnata ​(grey-headed coneflower)
• Coreopsis palmata (prairie coreopsis)​
• Monarda fistulosa (bee balm)

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September 3, 2020

• Rosa carolina (pasture rose)
• Parthenium integrifolium (wild quinine)
• Baptisia alba (white wild indigo)
• Bouteloua curtipendula (sideoats grama)
• Monarda fistulosa (bee balm)
• Rudbeckia hirta ​(black-eyed Susan)

• Anemone cylindrica (cylindrical thimbleweed)
• Anemone virginiana (tall thimbleweed)
• Hieracium longipilum ​(hairy hawkweed)
• Dalea purpurea (purple prairie clover)
• Dalea candida ​(white prairie clover)
• Ratibida pinnata ​(grey-headed coneflower)
• Coreopsis palmata (prairie coreopsis)

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August 27, 2020

• Cyperus lupulinus (Great Plains flatsedge)
• Penstemon digitalis (foxglove beardstongue)
• Rudbeckia hirta ​(black-eyed Susan)
• Scirpus cyperinus ​(woolgrass)
• Baptisia alba (white wild indigo)
• Baptisia bracteata (cream indigo)
• Bouteloua curtipendula (sideoats grama)
• Monarda fistulosa (bee balm)

• Parthenium integrifolium (wild quinine)
• Anemone cylindrica (cylindrical thimbleweed)
• Anemone virginiana (tall thimbleweed)
• Phemeranthus rugospermus (sand fameflower)
• Hieracium longipilum ​(hairy hawkweed)
• Dalea purpurea (purple prairie clover)
• Dalea candida ​(white prairie clover)
• Ratibida pinnata ​(grey-headed coneflower)
• Arnoglossum atriplicifolium ​(pale Indian plantain)

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August 20, 2020

• Cyperus lupulinus (Great Plains flatsedge)
• Penstemon digitalis (foxglove beardstongue)
• Rudbeckia hirta ​(black-eyed Susan)
• Scirpus cyperinus ​(woolgrass)
• Baptisia alba (white wild indigo)
• Baptisia bracteata (cream indigo)
• Bouteloua curtipendula (sideoats grama)
• Monarda fistulosa (bee balm)

• Parthenium integrifolium (wild quinine)
• Anemone cylindrica (cylindrical thimbleweed)
• Anemone virginiana (tall thimbleweed)
• Phemeranthus rugospermus (sand fameflower)
• Hieracium longipilum ​(hairy hawkweed)
• Dalea purpurea (purple prairie clover)
• Dalea candida ​(white prairie clover)
• Ratibida pinnata ​(grey-headed coneflower)
• Arnoglossum atriplicifolium ​(pale Indian plantain)

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July 30, 2020

• Polytaenia nutallii (prairie parsley)
• Erigeron strigosus ​(daisy fleabane)
  

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July 23, 2020

• Bromus kalmii (prairie brome)
• Carex spp. ​(multiple sedge species)
• Penstemon hirsutus (hairy beardtongue)
  

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July 16, 2020

• Carex spp. (multiple sedge species)
• Bromus kalmii ​(prairie brome) 
  

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July 9, 2020

• Tradescantia ohiensis (Ohio spiderwort)
• Cirsium pumilum var. hilli (Hill's thistle)
  
• Dodecatheon meadia ​(eastern shooting star)
  

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July 2, 2020

• Tradescantia ohiensis (Ohio spiderwort)
• Besseya bullii (kittentails)
• Heuchera americana (American alumroot)
• Scutellaria sp. (skullcaps)
• Cirsium pumilum var. hilli (Hill's thistle)

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June 25, 2020

• Panicum capillare (witchgrass)
• Danthonia spicata (poverty oats)
• Lupinus perennis (sundial lupine)
• Koeleria macrantha (prairie junegrass)​

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• Zizia aurea (golden alexander)
• Potentilla arguta ​(tall cinquefoil)

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• Angelica atropurpurea (greater angelica)
• Coreopsis lanceolata (sand coreopsis)
• Scutellaria sp. ​(skullcaps)
• Scrophularia lanceolata ​(lanceleaf figwort)

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• Juncus tenuis (path rush)
• Carex bicknellii ​(Bicknell's sedge)​

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• Danthonia spicata (poverty oats)
• Panicum sp. (panicgrasses)
• Triodanis perfoliata (clasping Venus's looking glass)
• Panicum capillare (witchgrass)

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• Coreopsis lanceolata (sand coreopsis)
• Castilleja sessiliflora (downy yellow painted cup)
• Juncus sp. (rushes)

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June 18, 2020 

• Hesperostipa spartea (porcupine grass)
• Coreopsis lanceolata (sand coreopsis)

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June 11, 2020 

• Pedicularis canadensis (wood betony)
• Geum triflorum (prairie smoke)
• Oxalis violacea (violet wood sorrel)​​

• Viola pedata (birdsfoot violet)
• Packera plattensis (prairie ragwort)

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June 4, 2020 

• Antennaria plantaginifolia (pussy toes)
• Antennaria neglecta (field pussytoes)
• Pedicularis canadensis (wood betony)

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• Krigia virginica (dwarf dandelion)
• Packera plattensis (prairie ragwort)

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2019

October 24th, 2019 

• Chelone glabra (turtlehead)
• Pedicularis lanceolata (swamp betony)
• Schizachyrium scoparium​ (little bluestem)
• ​Solidago speciosa (showy goldenrod)

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• Epilobium coloratum (cinnamon willow herb)
• Onoclea sensibilis (sensitive fern)
• Verbena hastata (blue vervain)

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October 17th, 2019

• Brickellia eupatorioides (false boneset)
• Gentianopsis crinita (fringed gentian)
• Gentiana puberulenta (downy gentian) 
• Monarda punctata (spotted horsemint) ​

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• Oligoneuron riddellii (riddell's goldenrod)​
• Pedicularis lanceolata (swamp betony) 
• Spiranthes cernua (nodding ladies' tresses)

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October 10th, 2019

• Coreopsis tripteris (tall coreopsis) ​
• Lespedeza capitata (round-headed bush clover)
• Penthorum sedoides (ditch stonecrop)

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• Spartina pectinata ​(prairie cordgrass)
• Triosteum perfoliatum (late horse gentian)​

• ​Vernonia fasciculata (common ironweed)

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​October 3rd, 2019

• Arnoglossum atriplicifolium (pale indian plantain) 
• Asclepias verticillata (whorled milkweed)
• Liatris aspera (rough blazing star)                             

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• Liatris pycnostachya (prairie blazing star)
• Ruellia humilis (prairie petunia)
• Veronicastrum virginicum (culver's root)

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September 26, 2019

• Allium cernuum (nodding wild onion)
• Eutrochium purpureum (purple joe-pye weed)
• Silphium integrifolium (rosinweed)

• Silphium laciniatum (compass plant)
• Silphium perfoliatum (cup plant)

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September 19, 2019

• Anemone virginiana (tall thimbleweed)
• Baptisia alba (white wild indigo)
• Euphorbia corollata (flowering spurge)

• Helianthus occidentalis (western sunflower)
• Parthenium integrifolium (wild quinine) 
• Rosa carolina (pasture rose)