Birds depend on native plants to thrive. Plants in these gardens provide essential insects, berries, seeds, nectar, and shelter for our feathered friends. Nearly all land birds (96%) feed their chicks the insects feeding on native plants.
What's In Bloom
Full Garden Plant List
Nodding Wild Onion
Allium cernuum
Big Bluestem
Andropogon gerardii
Thimbleweed
Anemone cylindrica
Butterflyweed
Asclepias tuberosa
Pale Purple Coneflower
Echinacea pallida
Purple Coneflower
Echinacea purpurea
Bottlebrush Grass
Elymus hystrix
Rattlesnake Master
Eryngium yuccifolium
Joe Pye Weed
Eupatorium macultum
False Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides
Beebalm
Monarda fistulosa
Switch Grasss
Panicum virgatum
Woodland Phlox
Phlox divaricata
Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
Yellow Coneflower
Ratibida pinnata
Orange Coneflower
Rudbeckia fulgida
Cut-leaved coneflower
Rudbeckia laciniata
Little Bluestem
Schizachyrium scoparium
Compass Plant
Silphium laciniatum
Stiff Goldenrod
Solidago rigida
Prairie Dropseed
Sporobolus heterolepis
Ironweed
Vernonia missurica