Native Meadow Species Panels (Pollinator Garden)

These eight panels of the pollinator garden give you a taste of the recently-rejuvenated meadow without actually venturing into it. Hopefully, by seeing these grasses, you'll become inspired to grow them in your own yard, which will make it a much more biodiverse and sustainable place to be. Key species here include a variety of native grasses, little bluestem, as well as a variety of coneflowers. You can find more information about native species (as well as some other non-invasives) -- and a sampling of them -- here. Or, you can look below to see a complete list of all the species within each panel.

Another view of the species panels, which complement the arbor.

The locations of all the panels.

List of Native Plants in the Pollinator Room (some substitutions have been made and will be revised later):

Panel 1

Rattlesnake Master

Eryngium yuccifolium

Cardinal Flower

Lobelia cardinalis

Heiliger Hain Switchgrass

Panicum, Heiliger Hain

Panel 2

Hyssopleaf thoroughwort

Eupatorium hyssopifolium

Blazing Star

Liatrus pycnostachya

Prairie Dropseed

Sporobolus heterolepis

Panel 3

Little Bluestem

Schizachyrium scoparium

Echinacea

Echinacea

Scarlet Beebalm

Monarda didyma

Panel 4

Blue Grama

Bouteloua gracilis "Blond Ambition"

Joe Pye Weed

Eupatorium Maculatum "Purple Bush"

Culver's Root

Veronicastrum virginicum

Panel 5

Butterfly Weed

Asclepias tuberosa

White Goldenrod

Solidago bicolor

Round-headed Bush Clover

Lesepedeza capitata

Panel 6

Swamp Milkweed

Asclepias incarnata

American Boneset

Eupatorium perfoliatum

Sideoats Grana

Bouteloua curtipendula

Panel 7

Showy Tick Trefoil

Desdemodium canadense

Flowering Spurge

Euphorbia corollata

Black-eyed Susan

Rudbeckia fulgida

Panel 8

Ronweed

Vernonia noveboracencis

Little Joe Pye Weed

Eupatorium dubium

Early Sunflower

Heliopsis hellanthoides