What We're Growing for 2025
By Lise Fracalossi
It’s been a crazy couple of months for me – I’ve had a death in the family and a broken arm! – so my apologies for radio silence.
But I haven’t been entirely idle! With help from friends (because: broken arm), I managed to put my 2024 plants to bed (in contact with the ground, covered with heavy duty row cover) and have started winter sowing. This is where we plant seeds outdoors at this time of year to emulate the cold moist conditions many native seeds require to grow.
As I’m finally able to do nursery stuff without assistance, I present: my (hopefully final) list of seeds we’ll be sowing this year.
Note that there’s no guarantee we will have these exact plants. If you compare 2024’s list to what we actually offered, we definitely had some failed plants. It was our first year in business, after all, and there were many mistakes made.
Last updated: January 14, 2025
Key
Priority 1 seeds will definitely be planted
Priority 2 will probably be planted
Priority 3 may or may not get planted, depending on time
Priority 4 seeds will likely not get planted
📆 May not available this year, either due to seed double dormancy or the size of first-year plant
🥀 Annual
🔁 May have leftover from last year.
🜁 Grown primarily as a host for hemiparasitic plants; unlikely to be available by itself.
I have sorted these by Latin name, since it is easier for me. Apologies; if you are looking for a particular species and only know the common name, I recommend searching this page with “Ctrl+F”.
| Latin Name | Common Name | Priority | Symbols |
|---|---|---|---|
| Achillea millefolium | Yarrow (straight species) | 2 | |
| Achillea millefolium, Multi hued cultivar | Yarrow (multi-hued cultivar) | 3 | |
| Agalinis tenuifolia | slender false-foxglove | 1 | 🥀 |
| Ageratina altissima | white snakeroot | 3 | 🔁 |
| Agrimonia striata | roadside agrimony | 3 | |
| Allium tricoccum | wild leek, ramps | 1 | 📆 |
| Anaphalis margaritacea | pearly everlasting | 1 | |
| Anemone canadensis | Canada windflower | 1 | 📆 |
| Antennaria neglecta | field pussytoes, prairie pussytoes | 1 | |
| Antennaria plantaginifolia | plaintain-leaved pussytoes | 2 | |
| Apocynum cannabinum | hemp dogbane | 1 | |
| Aquilegia canadensis | red columbine | 1 | |
| Aronia arbutifolia | red chokeberry | 1 | 📆 |
| Asclepias exaltata | poke milkweed | 1 | |
| Asclepias incarnata | swamp milkweed, rose milkweed | 1 | 🔁 |
| Asclepias syriaca | common milkweed | 2 | 🔁 |
| Asclepias syriaca | common milkweed | 3 | 🔁 |
| Asclepias tuberosa | butterfly milkweed | 1 | |
| Asclepias verticillata | whorled milkweed | 2 | |
| Baptisia (sphaerocarpa? australis?) | blue wild indigo OR large yellow wild indigo | 3 | |
| Baptisia tinctoria | small yellow wild indigo | 1 | |
| Bouteloua curtipendula | side-oats grama grass | 1 | 🜁 |
| Campanula rotundifolia | harebell | 1 | 🔁 |
| Carex grayi | Gray’s sedge, common bur sedge | 2 | |
| Carex pensylvanica | Pennsylvania sedge | 2 | |
| Castilleja coccinea | Indian paintbrush | 1 | |
| Ceanothus americanus | New Jersey tea | 1 | 📆 |
| Cephalanthus occidentalis | buttonbush | 1 | 📆 |
| Chamaecrista fasciculata | partridge pea | 1 | 🥀 |
| Chelone glabra | white turtlehead | 1 | |
| Cimicifuga (Actaea) racemosa | black cohosh | 1 | 📆 |
| Cirsium discolor | pasture thistle | 3 | |
| Clematis virginiana | virgin’s-bower clematis | 1 | |
| Corydalis sempervirens | pale corydalis, rock harlequin | 1 | 🥀 |
| Crotalaria sagittalis | rattlebox | 1 | 🥀 |
| Desmodium canadense | showy tick-trefoil | 1 | |
| Diervilla lonicera | Northern bush honeysuckle | 1 | |
| Doellingeria umbellata | tall white aster | 3 | 🔁 |
| Echinacea pallida | pale purple coneflower | 1 | |
| Echinacea purpurea | purple coneflower | 1 | |
| Echinacea purpurea | purple coneflower | 2 | |
| Echinocystis lobata | wild cucumber | 2 | 🥀 |
| Elymus hystrix | bottlebrush grass | 3 | |
| Eragrostis spectabilis | purple love-grass | 1 | |
| Eupatorium perfoliatum | common boneset | 1 | 🔁 |
| Eurybia divaricata | white wood aster | 1 | |
| Eurybia divaricata(?) | white wood aster(?) | 4 | 🔁 |
| Eurybia macrophylla | large-leaved wood aster | 3 | |
| Euthamia graminifolia | grass-leaved goldenrod(?) | 2 | 🔁 |
| Eutrochium dubium | coastal plain Joe-pye weed | 2 | 🔁 |
| Eutrochium maculatum | spotted Joe-pye weed | 1 | |
| Fragaria virginiana | wild strawberry | 1 | |
| Gaultheria procumbens | teaberry, wintergreen | 1 | |
| Gentiana clausa | meadow bottle gentian, closed gentian | 1 | |
| Geranium maculatum | spotted cranesbill, wild geranium | 1 | |
| Hepatica acutiloba | sharp-lobed hepatica | 1 | 📆 |
| Hypericum kalmianum | Kalm’s St. John’s Wort | 4 | 🔁 |
| Impatiens capensis | jewelweed, spotted jewelweed, touch-me-not | 1 | 📆🥀 |
| Ionactis linariifolia | flax-leaved stiff aster | 1 | 🔁 |
| Iris versicolor | blue flag iris, Northern blue flag | 1 | |
| Juncus tenuis | path rush | 1 | 🜁 |
| Lespedeza capitata | round-head bush clover | 1 | |
| Liatris novae-angliae | New England blazing star | 1 | |
| Linaria (Nuttallanthus) canadensis | blue toadflax | 3 | 🥀 |
| Lobelia cardinalis | cardinal flower | 2 | 🔁 |
| Lobelia inflata | Indian tobacco | 1 | 🥀 |
| Lobelia siphilitica | blue lobelia | 1 | |
| Lupinus perennis | sundial lupine | 1 | |
| Lycopus americanus | water horehound | 3 | |
| Lysimachia borealis | starflower | 1 | |
| Maianthemum canadense | Canada mayflower, false lily of the valley | 1 | 📆 |
| Maianthemum racemosum | false Solomon’s seal, Solomon’s plume | 1 | 📆 |
| Medeola virginiana | wild cucumber root, Indian cucumber root | 1 | 📆 |
| Mentha arvensis | wild mint | 2 | 🔁 |
| Mimulus ringens | monkey flower | 1 | |
| Monarda fistulosa | wild bergamot, wild bee-balm | 1 | 🔁 |
| Monarda punctata | spotted bee-balm | 1 | |
| Oenothera biennis | common evening primrose | 4 | 🔁 |
| Packera aurea | golden ragwort | 1 | |
| Pedicularis canadensis | wood betony | 1 | |
| Penstemon digitalis | foxglove beardtongue | 2 | 🔁 |
| Penstemon hirsutus | Northern beardtongue, hairy beardtongue | 1 | 🔁 |
| Physocarpus opulifolius | common ninebark | 1 | |
| Physostegia virginiana | obedient plant | 1 | |
| Polanisia dodecandra | clammy weed | 1 | 🥀 |
| Polemonium reptans | Jacob’s Ladder | 1 | |
| Prunus serotina | black cherry | 1 | 📆 |
| Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium | sweet everlasting | 1 | |
| Pycnanthemum incanum | hoary mountain-mint | 3 | |
| Pycnanthemum muticum | broad-leaved mountain-mint, clustered mountain-mint | 1 | 🔁 |
| Pycnanthemum virginianum | Virginia mountain-mint | 3 | 🔁 |
| Rubus odoratus | flowering raspberry | 1 | 📆 |
| Rudbeckia hirta ‘Cherokee Sunset’ | black-eyed susan (cultivar) | 1 | |
| Rudbeckia hirta var. pulcherrima | black-eyed susan | 1 | |
| Rudbeckia hirta x fulgida F2 | black-eyed Susan x orange coneflower F2 hybrid | 4 | 🔁 |
| Rudbeckia laciniata | cutleaf coneflower | 1 | |
| Rudbeckia triloba | brown-eyed Susan | 1 | |
| Sambucus canadensis | Black elderberry | 1 | |
| Sanguinaria canadensis | bloodroot | 1 | 📆 |
| Schizachyrium scoparium | little bluestem | 1 | 🜁 |
| Senna hebecarpa | wild senna | 1 | |
| Sisyrinchium angustifolium | blue-eyed grass, stout blue-eyed grass | 1 | |
| Solanum ptycanthum | American black nightshade | 3 | 🥀 |
| Solidago caesia | wreath goldenrod, blue stem goldenrod | 1 | 🔁 |
| Solidago nemoralis | gray goldenrod, old field goldenrod | 2 | |
| Solidago odora | sweet goldenrod | 1 | |
| Solidago puberula | downy goldenrod | 1 | |
| Solidago rugosa | wrinkle-leaved goldenrod | 3 | |
| Solidago sempervirens | seaside goldenrod | 1 | 🔁 |
| Solidago sp. | “mystery” goldenrod | 4 | 🔁 |
| Solidago sp. | “mystery” goldenrod | 4 | 🔁 |
| Solidago speciosa | showy goldenrod | 1 | |
| Sorghastrum nutans | Indian grass | 1 | |
| Spiraea tomentosa | steeplebush | 1 | 📆 |
| Symphyotrichum cordifolium | blue wood aster | 1 | |
| Symphyotrichum laeve | smooth blue aster | 1 | 🔁 |
| Symphyotrichum lateriflorum | side-flowering aster, calico aster | 1 | |
| Symphyotrichum novae-angliae | New England aster | 1 | |
| Tephrosia virginiana | goat’s rue | 1 | |
| Trichostema dichotomum | blue curls | 1 | 🥀 |
| Trillium cernuum | nodding trillium | 1 | 📆 |
| Verbena hastata | blue vervain | 1 | |
| Verbena urticifolia | white vervain | 2 | |
| Vernonia noveboracensis | New York ironweed | 2 | |
| Veronicastrum virginicum | culver’s root | 1 | |
| Zizia aptera | heart-leaved Alexanders | 1 | |
| Zizia aurea | golden Alexanders | 1 |