Fall Native Plant Festival 2026: CGC Plant List
Wondering what we’ve been growing in preparation for our Fall Native Plant Festival on Saturday, September 12 from 9am-3pm? Here’s the list of what we’ll have at our booth! As a reminder, this festival is first come, first served.
(We also have five different pocket garden kits available for presale.)
Agastache foeniculum – Anise Hyssop
Allium cernuum – Nodding Onion
Andropogon gerardii – Big Bluestem
Asclepias incarnata – Swamp Milkweed
Asclepias tuberosa – Butterfly Milkweed
Asclepias speciosa – Showy Milkweed
Asimina triloba – Pawpaw
Baptesia alba – White Indigo
Baptesia australis – Blue False Indigo
Boltonia asteroides – False Aster
Bouteloua curtipendula – Side Oats Grama
Bouteloua gracilis – Blue Grama
Carex brevior – Plains Oval Sedge
Carex cephalophora – Short-headed Bracted Sedge
Carex muskingumensis – Palm Sedge
Carex vulpinoidea – Brown Fox Sedge
Chelone glabra – White Turtlehead (exclusive to our Bumblebee Support Kit for wet spaces)
Conoclinium coelestinum – Blue Mistflower
Coreopsis lanceolata – Prairie Coreopsis
Drymocallis arguta – Prairie Cinquefoil
Echinacea pallida – Pale Purple Coneflower
Echinacea purpurea – Purple Coneflower
Eupatorium perfoliatum – Boneset
Eutrochium purpureum – Sweet Joe Pye Weed
Fragaria virginiana – Wild Strawberry
Helenium autumnale – Sneezeweed
Helianthus maximiliani – Maximilian Sunflower
Helianthus mollis – Downy Sunflower
Helianthus tuberosus – Sunchoke
Heliopsis helianthoides – Oxeye Sunflower
Hibiscus moscheutos – Swamp Rose Mallow
Manfreda virginica – False Aloe
Mimulus ringens – Monkeyflower
Monarda fistulosa – Wild Bergamot
Nyssa sylvatica – Black Gum
Panicum virgatum – Switchgrass
Parthenium integrifolium – Wild Quinine
Penstemon calycosus – Calico Beardtongue
Penstemon digitalis – Foxglove Beardtongue
Penstemon grandiflora – Large-flowered Beardtongue
Penstemon hirsutus – Hairy Beardtongue
Phryma leptostachya – American Lopseed
Physostegia virginiana – Obedient Plant
Prunus serotina – Black Cherry
Pycnanthemum muticum – Blunt Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium – Slender Mountain Mint (exclusive to our Beneficial Insects for Veggie Gardens Kit)
Ratibida columnifera – Long-headed Coneflower
Ratibida pinnata – Grey-headed Coneflower
Rudbeckia fulgida – Orange Coneflower
Rudbeckia hirta – Black-eyed Susan
Rudbeckia laciniata – Cutleaf Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa – Sweet Coneflower
Schizachyrium scoparium – Little Bluestem
Senna hebecarpa – Wild Senna
Silphium integrifolium – Rosinweed
Silphium perfoliatum – Cup Plant
Silphium terebinthinaceum – Prairie Dock
Solidago rigida – Stiff Goldenrod
Solidago speciosa – Showy Goldenrod
Stylophorum diphyllum – Wood Poppy
Symphyotrichum leave – Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum novae-angilae – New England Aster
Verbensia encelioides – Golden Crownbeard
Veronia fasciculata – Ironweed
Veronicastrum virginicum – Culver’s Root
Zizea aurea – Golden Alexanders