2010 Grand Prairie Friends Native Plant Sale
Saturday May 8, 8am – 12pm
Lincoln Square Mall, Urbana,IL
Since 1994, Grand Prairie Friends has been growing and selling plants native to the tallgrass prairie of east-central Illinois. What was once prairie is now almost completely farmed for corn and soybeans. GPF volunteers work hard to collect native plant seeds from out-of-the-way places where prairie plants can still be found. Volunteers then thresh and plant seeds, and grow, transplant, and label plant seedlings and make them available for sale each spring on the second Saturday in May. Native plants beautify your home landscape, reduce maintenance, and provide important sources of nectar and food for native insects and other wildlife.
Prices are reasonable: $2 for a single pot (3 x 3 x 4 inches) or $30 for an 18-pot flat. Some difficult to grow species are priced as marked.
GPF volunteers will be selling plants at Urbana's Market at the Square on May 15 and 22. If you miss the May 8 sale, this is another opportunity to go home with native plants.
2010 Plant List
List of plant species expected to be available at the annual native plant sale on May 8, 2010 inside Lincoln Square, downtown Urbana. Other species not listed here might also be available on sale day. Quantities of some species are limited and availability of any particular species is not guaranteed on the day of the sale. All sales are final.
| Scientific Name | Common Name |
| Allium cernuum | nodding wild onion |
| Amorpha canescens | lead plant |
| Andropogon gerardii | big bluestem |
| Asclepias incarnata | swamp milkweed |
| Asclepias sullivantii | Sullivant's milkweed |
| Asclepias tuberosa | orange butterflyweed |
| Asclepias verticillata | horsetail milkweed |
| Aster ericoides | heath aster |
| Aster laevis | smooth blue aster |
| Aster novae-angliae | New England aster |
| Aster shortii | Short's aster |
| Baptisia alba | white wild indigo |
| Bouteloua curtipendula | side-oats grama |
| Campanula americana | American bellflower |
| Ceanothus americanus | New Jersey tea |
| Chasmanthium latifolium | sea oats |
| Coreopsis palmata | prairie coreopsis |
| Coreopsis tripteris | tall coreopsis |
| Dalea purpurea | purple prairie clover |
| Desmanthus illinoensis | Illinois bundle flower |
| Desmodium illinoense | Illinois tick trefoil |
| Echinacea purpurea | broad-leaved purple coneflower |
| Elymus hystrix | bottlebrush grass |
| Eryngium yuccifolium | rattlesnake master |
| Eupatorium purpureum | purple Joe Pye weed |
| Euphorbia corollata | flowering spurge |
| Helenium autumnale | sneezeweed |
| Heliopsis helianthoides | false sunflower |
| Hibiscus laevis | rose mallow |
| Lespedeza capitata | roundheaded bush clover |
| Liatris aspera | rough blazing star |
| Liatris pycnostachya | prairie blazine star |
| Lobelia siphilitica | great blue lobelia |
| Monarda bradburiana | woodland bergamot |
| Monarda fistulosa | wild bergamot |
| Panicum virgatum | switchgrass |
| Parthenium integrifolium | wild quinine |
| Penstemon digitalis | foxglove beard tongue |
| Potentilla arguta | prairie cinquefoil |
| Prenanthes aspera | wild lettuce |
| Pycnanthemum virginianum | common mountain mint |
| Ratibida pinnata | yellow coneflower |
| Rudbeckia hirta | black-eyed Susan |
| Rudbeckia subtomentosa | sweet black-eyed Susan |
| Rudbeckia triloba | brown-eyed Susan |
| Ruellia humilis | prairie petunia |
| Schizachyrium scoparium | little bluestem |
| Senna marilandica | wild senna |
| Silene regia | royal catchfly |
| Silphium laciniatum | compass plant |
| Silphium terebinthinaceum | prairie dock |
| Solidago caesia | blue-stem goldenrod |
| Solidago missouriense | Missouri goldenrod |
| Solidago rigida | rigid goldenrod |
| Solidago speciosa | showy goldenrod |
| Sorghastrum nutans | Indian grass |
| Sporobolus heterolepis | northern drop seed |
| Tradescantia ohiensis | common spiderwort |
| Verbena hastata | vervain |
| Vernonia missurica | Missouri ironweed |
| Zizia aurea | golden Alexanders |
