Desirable plant candidates for the native plants garden at the site of the former play lot in Margate Park.

List compiled: 12/15/04

Flowering Plants:

• Nodding Wild Onion (Allium cernuum)
• American Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)
• Butterfly Milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa)
• Sky Blue Aster (Aster azureus)
• Smooth Blue Aster (Aster laevis)
• New England Aster (Aster novae-angliae)
• Wild Hyacinth (Camassia scilloides)
• Prairie Coreopsis (Coreopsis palmata)
• Shooting Star (Dodecatheon meadia)
• Pale Purple Coneflower (Echinacea pallida)
• Rattlesnake Master (Eryngium yuccifolium)
• Prairie Smoke (Geum triflorum)
• Downy Sunflower (Helianthus mollis)
• Rough Blazing Star (Liatris aspera)
• Prairie Blazing Star (Liatris pycnostachya)
• Wild Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa)
• Purple Prairie Clover (Petalostemum (Dalea) purpureum)
• Prairie Phlox (Phlox pilosa)
• Yellow (Gray-headed) Coneflower (Ratibida pinnata)
• Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta)
• Wild Petunia (Ruellia humilis)
• Gray Goldenrod (Solidago nemoralis)
• Stiff Goldenrod (Solidago rigida)
• Showy Goldenrod (Solidago speciosa)
• Spiderwort (Tradescantia ohiensis)
• Blue Vervain (Verbena hastata)
• Meadow Parsnip (Zizia aptera)

Grasses/Sedges

• Little Bluestem (Andropogon scoparius)
• Side-Oats Grama (Bouteloua curtipendula)
• Prairie Brome (Bromus kalmii)
• Copper-shouldered Oval (Carex bicknellii)
• Common Oak Sedge (Carex pennsylvanica)
• Brown Fox Sedge (Carex vulpinoidea)
• Purple Lovegrass (Eragrostis spectabilis)
• June grass (Koeleria cristata)
• Switch grass (Panicum virgatum)
• Indiangrass (Sorghastrum nutans)
• Prairie Dropseed (Sporobolus heterolepis)