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Plants for clay soil

Agastache foeniculum native

Agastache scrophulariifolia native

Allium cernuum native

Amelanchier sp. - Serviceberry, Juneberry or Shadbush native

Asclepias incarnata native

Asters (see notes for particular sp.) native

Boltonia asteroides native

Chelone sp. - Turtlehead native

Clethra alnifolia - Sweet Pepperbush native

Cornus sp. - Dogwood native

Digitalis purpurea - Foxglove

Echinacea sp. - Purple Coneflower native

Echinops sp. - Globe Thistle

Eupatorium sp. - Joe Pye Weeds native

Helenium autumnale - Sneezeweed native

Heliopsis helianthoides - Ox Eye Daisy native

Helianthus sp. - Sunflowers native

Monarda sp. - Beebalm native

Physostegia virginiana - Obediant Plant native

Ratibida pinnata - Mexican Hat native

Rudbeckia laciniata native or Rudbeckia nitida - Yellow coneflower

Silphium perfoliatum - Cupplant native

Vernonia sp - Ironweed native

Viburnum sp. native

Zizia aurea - Golden alexander native

 

Plants for sandy soils (many of these plants also grow in clay soils)

 

Agastache sp - Hyssop native

Allium cernuum native

Astragalus canadensis - Canada Milk Vetch native

Blephilia ciliata - Wood mint native

Caryopteris sp. - Bluebeard

Calamintha nepeta - Dwarf Calamint

Cirsium discolor - Field Thistle native

Coreopsis sp. - Tickseed native

Dalea purpurea - Purple prairie clover native

Echinacea sp. - Purple coneflower native

Echinops sp - Globe Thistle

Erigeron sp. - Fleabanes native

Eryngium yuccifolium - Rattlesnake Master

Gaillardia sp. - Blanketflower native

Geum triflorum - Prairie smoke native

Helianthus sp. - Sunflowers native

Heliopsis helianthoides - Ox Eye Daisy native

Lavandula sp. - Lavender

Lobelia silphilatica - Great Blue Lobelia native

Lupinus perennis - Sundial lupine native

Monarda sp. - Beebalm native

Penstemon sp. - Bearded tongue native

Pycnanthemum sp. - Mountain Mint native

Ratibida pinnata - Mexican Hat native

Rubus odoratus - Purple flowering raspberry native

Rudbeckia hirta - Black eyed susan native

Solidago sp. - Goldenrod native

Scrophularia marilandica - Carpenter`s square native

Vernonia missurica - Missouri ironweed native

Vernonia gigantea - Tall ironweed native

Veronicastrum virginicum - Culvers Root native

Zizia aptera - Heartleaf Golden Alexander native