Below are 120 varieties of plants included in our annual Native Plant Sale. To find out more about each, copy the scientific name (common names vary) of the plant you are interested in and paste it into the Missouri Botanical Gardens Plant Finder. These plants will be available on May 31 for $5 each, or you can purchase three plants for $14.
For more information about why you should plant native plants go to Why Native Plants?
To see which plants you can order in Bloom Boxes, go to the Native Plant Sale Bloom Box page. The Bloom Boxes contain 15 plants for $60.
| Scientific name | Common name | Bloom Box |
| Achillea millefolium | Common yarrow | Dry as a Bone |
| Agastache foeniculum | Lavendar hyssop | |
| Allium cernuum | Nodding wild onion | |
| Amorpha canescens | Leadplant | |
| Amsonia ciliata | Fringed bluestar | |
| Amsonia hubrichtii | Arkansas bluestar | A Bloom for All Seasons |
| Amsonia tabernaemontana | Eastern bluestar | Mind Your Manners |
| Anemone canadensis | Meadow anemone | Mind Your Manners |
| Anemone virginiana | Tall anemone | |
| Antennaria neglecta | Pussy Toes | |
| Aquilegia canadensis | Wild columbine | Humdinger |
| Arisaema triphyllum | Jack-in-the pulpit | |
| Aristloochia tomentosa | Dutchman’s pipevine | Hungry, Hungry Caterpillar |
| Asarum canadense | Wild ginger | |
| Asclepias incarnata | Swamp milkweed | Hungry, Hungry Caterpillar |
| Asclepias speciosa | Showy milkweed | |
| Asclepias tuberosa | Butterfly milkweed | Hungry, Hungry Caterpillar |
| Asclepias verticillata | Whorled milkweed | |
| Asclepias viridis | Spider milkweed | Hungry, Hungry Caterpillar |
| Baptisia australis v. minor | Blue indigo | Mind Your Manners |
| Blephilia hirsuta | Hairy pagoda plant | |
| Boltonia asteroides | False aster | |
| Bouteloua dactyloides | Buffalo Grass | |
| Bouteloua gracilis | Blue grama grass | |
| Callicarpa americana | American beautyberry | |
| Callirhoe bushii | Bush’s poppy mallow | |
| Callirhoe involucrata | Purple poppy mallow | |
| Camassia scilloides | Wild hyacinth | |
| Carex albicans | Cedar sedge | |
| Carex eburnea | Cedar sedge | |
| Carex pensylvanica | Common oak sedge | |
| Ceanothus americanus | New Jersey tea | |
| Chelone glabra | White turtlehead | |
| Chelone obliqua | Rose turtlehead | |
| Clinopodium arkansanum | Limestone calamint | |
| Conoclinium coelestinum | Blue mistflower | |
| Coreopsis lancelota | Lanceleaf coreopsis | Dry as a Bone |
| Coreopsis palmata | Prairie coeopsis | |
| Coreopsis pubescens | Star tickseed | |
| Dalea purpurea | Purple prairie clover | |
| Echinacea angustifolia | Narrow purple coneflower | Dry as a Bone |
| Echinacea pallida | Pale purple coneflower | |
| Echinacea purpurea | Broad-leaved purple coneflower | A Bloom for All Seasons |
| Eragrostis spectabilis | Purple love grass | |
| Eryngium yuccifolium | Rattlesnake master | |
| Eurybia macrophylla | Big leaved aster | |
| Fragaria virginiana | Wild strawberry | |
| Geranium maculatum | Wild geranium | |
| Geum trifolium | Prairie smoke | |
| Glandularia canadensis | Rose verbena | Mind Your Manners |
| Helenium autumnale | Helen’s flower | |
| Helianthus occidentalis | Western sunflower | |
| Heuchera americana | American alum root | |
| Heuchera richardsonii | Prairie alum root | |
| Huechera villosa | Hairy alum root | |
| Hibiscus lasiocarpos | Rose mallow | |
| Hibiscus moscheutos | Rose mallow | |
| Hydrangea arborescens | Wild hydrangea | |
| Iris cristata | Dwarf crested iris | |
| Iris fulva | Copper iris | Mind Your Manners |
| Iris virginica shreveii | Blue flag iris | Beginner’s Luck |
| Liatris cylindracea | Cylindrical blazing star | Humdinger |
| Liatris spicata | Marsh blazing star | |
| Lobelia cardinalis | Cardinal flower | |
| Lobelia siphilitica | Great blue lobelia | Hungry, Hungry Caterpillar |
| Lysimachia ciliata | Fringed loosestrife | |
| Mimulus ringens | Monkey flower | |
| Monarda bradburniana | Eastern bee balm | |
| Monarda didyma | Scarlet bee balm | |
| Monarda fistulosa | Wild bergamot | |
| Monarda punctata | Horsemint | A Bloom for All Seasons |
| Oenothera macrocarpa | Missouri evening primrose | |
| Oenothera speciosa | Petticoat primrose | |
| Oligoneuron riddellii | Riddell’s goldenrod | |
| Packera obovata | Round leaf ragwort | |
| Parthenium integrifolium | Wild quinine | |
| Penstemon cobaea | Purple penstemon | |
| Penstemon digitalis | Foxglove beardtongue | Beginner’s Luck |
| Penstemon grandiflorus | Large flower penstemon | |
| Phemeranthus calycinus | Rock pink | |
| Phlox divaricata | Woodland phlox | |
| Phlox glaberrima | Marsh phlox | Beginner’s Luck |
| Phlox paniculata | Garden phlox | Humdinger |
| Phlox pilosa | Sand prairie phlox | |
| Physostegia virginiana | Priarie obedient plant | |
| Pycnanthemum tenuifolium | Slender mountain mint | |
| Ratibida columnifera | Upright coneflower | |
| Rosa carolina | Carolina rose | |
| Rudbeckia fulgida sullivantii | Showy coneflower | Beginner’s Luck |
| Rudbeckia fulgida umbrosa | Orange coneflower | |
| Rudbeckia maxima | Giant coneflower | |
| Rudbeckia missouriensis | Missouri orange coneflower | Dry as a Bone |
| Rudbeckia subtomentosa | Sweet black-eyed susan | |
| Ruellia humilis | Wild petunia | |
| Salvia azurea | Blue sage | Humdinger |
| Sedum ternatum | Wild stonecrop | |
| Silene regia | Royal catchfly | Humdinger |
| Silphium terebinthinaceum | Prairie dock | |
| Solidago speciosa | Showy goldenrod | A Bloom for All Seasons |
| Spiraea alba | Meadow sweet | |
| Spiraea tomentosa | Steeple bush | |
| Styloporum diphyllum | Celadine poppy | |
| Symphyotrichum laeve | Smooth blue aster | |
| Symphyotrichum novae-angliae | New England aster | A Bloom for All Seasons |
| Symphyotrichum oolentangiense | Sky-blue aster | Dry as a Bone |
| Tradescantia subaspera | Zigzag spiderwort | |
| Verbena hastata | Blue vervain | |
| Verbena stricta | Hoary vervain | |
| Vernonia arkansana | Curlytop ironweed | |
| Veronicastrum virginicum | Culver’s root | |
| Zizia aurea | Golden alexanders | |
| Ziziz aptera | Meadow zizia |