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Sunny Native Perennials
Acorus calamus – Sweet Flag
Agastache foeniculum – Anise Hyssop
Allium stellatum – Prairie Onion
Amorpha canescens – Lead Plant
Anaphalis margaritacea – Pearly Everlasting
Anemone patens wolfgangiana – Pasque Flower
Antennaria plantaginifolia – Pussytoes
Asclepias incarnata – Swamp Milkweed
Asclepias speciosa – Showy Milkweed
Asclepias sullivanti – Sullivanti’s Milkweed
Asclepias sriaca – Common Milkweed
Asclepias tuberosa – Butterfly Weed
Asclepias verticillata – Whorled Milkweed
Aster laevis – Smooth Blue Aster
Aster azureus – Sky Blue Aster
Baptisia bracteata – Cream Wild Indigo
Baptisia austalis – Blue Wild Indigo
Chelone glabra – Turtlehead
Coreopsis lanceolata – Sand Coreopsis
Coreopsis palmata – Prairie Coreopsis
Delphinium virescens – Prairie Larkspur
Echinacea angustifolia – Narrow-leaved Coneflower
Echinacea pallida – Pale Purple Coneflower
Echinacea purpurea – Purple Coneflower
Eryngium yuccifolium – Rattlesnake Master
Eupatorium maculatum – Joe Pye Weed
Eupatorium perfoliatum – Boneset
Gaillardia aristata – Blanket Flower
Galium borele – Northern Bedstraw
Gentiana quinquefolia – Stiff Gentian
Geum triflorum – Prairie Smoke
Helenium autumnale – Sneezeweed
Helianthus maximillani – Maximillian Sunflower
Helianthus mollis – Downy Sunflower
Heliopsis helianthoides – Early Sunflower
Heuchera richardsonii – Prairie Alumroot
Iris versicolor – Northern Blue Flag
Liatris aspera – Button Blazing Star
Liatris ligulstylis – Meadow Blazing Star
Liatris punctata – Dotted Blazing Star
Liatris pycnostachya – Prairie Blazing Star
Liatris spicata – Marsh Blazing Star
Lobelia cardinalis – Cardinal Flower
Lobelia siphilitica – Great Blue Lobelia
Lupinus perennis – Wild Lupine
Mimulus ringens – Monkeyflower
Monarda fistulosaWild Bergamot
Penstemon grandiflorus – Large-flowered Beardtongue
Petalostemum purpureum – Purple Prairie Clover
Phlox pilosa – Prairie Phlox
Physostegia virginiana – Obedient Plant
Pycnanthemum virginianum – Mountain Mint
Ratibida colunifera – Long-headed Coneflower
Ratibida pinnata – Yellow Coneflower
Rudeckia hirta – Black-eyed Susan
Rudbeckia subtomentosa – Sweet Black-eyed Susan
Silphium lacinatum – Compass Plant
Silphium perfoliatum – Cup Plant
Silphium terebinthinaceum – Prairie Dock
Sisyrinchium angustifolium – Stout Blue-eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium campestra – Prairie Blue-eyed Grass
Solidago rigida – Stiff Goldenrod
Solidago speciosa – Showy Goldenrod
Thalictrum dasycarpum – Purple Meadow Rue
Tradescantia ohioenesis – Ohio Spiderwort
Verbena hastata – Blue Vervain
Verbena stricta – Hoary Vervain
Veronia fasiculata – Common Ironweed
Veronicastrum virginicum – Culver’s Root