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This seed mix contains 48 species of native wildflowers and grasses/sedges. The design is for you to achieve a high diversity native meadow with variety coexisting throughout the meadow for years to come. Wildflowers make up 80% of the seed mix while the 5 species of grasses/sedges make up 20% of the seed mix. This design is to ensure long wildflower diversity long-term as native grasses and sedges can become over dominant over time when designed at higher seed proportions due to the lack of Bison and/or Elk grazing the Native Meadows/Prairies. The height is mixed with most plants remaining under 3.5 feet tall, and a minority of plants reaching higher than 3.5 feet tall. This seed mix is rated at 80 seeds per square foot and will bloom from May into October with a high diversity of native wildflowers. Its species will adapt to partial sun, full sun, seasonally saturated soils, moderate moisture soils, and lower moisture soils.

Native Applicability

New York, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and the southern portion of the northeast such as Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Delaware, Maryland, the northern half of Virginia, and New Jersey. Purple Coneflower Echinacea purpurea - not locally native to the Northeast but is optional.

Spring into Early Summer Blooming Species

Golden Alexanders Zizia aurea,Hairy Beardtongue Penstemon hirsutus, Small Yellow Wild Indigo Baptisia tinctoria, Ohio Spiderwort Tradescantia ohiensis, Blackeyed Susan Rudbeckia hirta, Butterfly Milkweed Asclepias tuberosa, Common Milkweed Asclepias syriaca, Achillea millefolium Yarrow, Blephilia cillata Downy Wood Mint

Midsummer Blooming Species

Wild Bergamot Monarda fistulosa, Narrowleaf Mountainmint Pycnanthemum tenuifolium, Purple Coneflower Echinacea purpurea - not locally native to the Northeast but optional, Oxeye Sunflower Heliopsis helianthoides, Virginia Mountainmint Pycnanthemum virginianum, Wild Senna Senna hebecarpa, Culver's Root Veronicastrum virginicum, Blue Vervain Verbena hastata, Astragalus canadensis Canada Milk Vetch, Desmodium canadense Showy Trefoil, Monarda punctata - Spotted Bee Balm, Purple Giant Hyssop Agastache scrophularieafolia, Yellow Giant Hyssop Agastache nepetoides

Late Summer Blooming Species

Obedient Plant Physostegia virginiana, Wild Mint Mentha arvensis, Early Goldenrod Solidago juncea, Partridge Pea Chamaecrista fasciculata, Joe Pye Weed Eupatorium fistulosum, Browneyed Susan Rudbeckia triloba, Great Blue Lobelia Lobelia siphilitca, New York Ironweed Vernonia noveboracensis, Lobelia cardinalis Cardinal Flower, Cut-leaf coneflower Rudbeckia laciniata, Lespedeza virginica Slender Bush Clover, Rounded Headed Bush Clover Lespedeza capitata, Grassleaf goldenrod Euthamia gramnifolia

Early Fall Blooming Species

Dwarf Goldenrod Solidago nemoralis, Anise Scented Goldenrod Solidago odora, Wrinkled Leaf Goldenrod Solidago rugosa, New England Aster Symphyotrichum novae-angliae, Frost Aster Aster pilosus, Zigzag Aster Aster prenanthoides, Arrowleaf Aster Aster sagittifolius, Aster lateriflorus Calico Aster, Smooth Blue Aster - Aster laevis.

Grasses and Sedges (5% of total seeds in the seed mix)

Fox Sedge Carex vulpinoidea, Little Bluestem Schizachyrium scoparium, Indiangrass Sorghastrum nutans, Purple Top Tridens flavus, Bottlebrush Rye - Elymus hystrix

These native species are native to most of the Northeast as defined on the Pictured Map. This diversity is designed to be able to successfully establish native meadows/prairies on wet soils, seasonally wet soils, moderate/average moisture soils, and drier soils in sun exposures of 4 direct sunlight hours to a full day’s worth of sun.

Cost Effectiveness

Native Prairie/Meadow Seedings cost about 1 to 11 cents per square foot where as using potted native plants to cover the same area costs $2.00 to $10.00 per square foot depending on how densely the potted plants are installed and mulch use. For example; a 1,000 Square foot pollinator garden would require at least 750 potted native wildflowers/grasses to cover the plot effectively. Potted Plants can cost $2 to $10 per plant, and at a cost of $5.00 per plant, 750 wildflowers/grasses would cost $3,750 + installation costs and mulching costs. If that 1,000 square feet were instead seeded with one of our mixes it would cost $107, and you could do the installation yourself simply: using our instruction manual. The cost effectiveness ratio increases even higher the larger of plot you are seeding vs. planting with plugs or potted plants - for 1/8th acre or larger the cost per square foot is only 2 cents where as the smaller 1,000 and 2,000 square foot portions are around 11 cents per square foot compared to the $3.75 per square foot cost of potted plants. Maintenance is easier and weed invasion resistance is much better with seeding projects vs. potted plant landscapes due to the density of native seedings repelling and blocking out weed competition as the plot matures.

1,000 square feet - $120

2,000 square feet - $135

1/8 acre (5,445 square feet) - $168

1/4 acre (10,890 square feet) - $240

1/2 acre (21,780 square feet) - $380

1 acre (43,560 square feet) - $650