1. Growing Native Plants in Chisago County Tom Dickhudt March 1, 2005

2. What is here? What is a Chisago County native plant? What do they look like? How do I plant them? Where do I get them?

3. What is a Chisago County native plant? A native plant is usually defined as one that was growing naturally in a specific area before white or European settlement. A cultivar is a specially produced plant (from the words cultivated and variety) An exotic is a plant introduced from outside of a region

4. Pasque Flower anemone patens

5. Lead plant New Jersey Tea

6. Meadow blazing star liatris ligulistylis

8. Woodland Coneflower

9. Cardinal Flower lobelia cardinalis

10. Grey headed Coneflower ratibida pinnata

11. Prairie Coneflower ratibida columnifera

12. Downy mint monarda punctata

13. Golden Aster chrysopsis villosa

14. Partridge Pea cassia fasciculata

15. Bellwort

16. Shooting star

17. Birdsfoot violet

18. lupine

19. Sneezeweed helenium autumnale

20. New England Aster Aster novae-angliae

21. Swamp milkweed

22. Wood Betony pedicularis canadensis

23. Joe Pye Weed eupatorium maculatum

24. Turks Cap Lilly lilium michiganense

25. Grand Penstemon penstemon grandiflorus

26. Prairie Smoke geum triflorum

27. Pale purple Coneflower echinacea pallida

28. Orchis Spectalis

29. Wild Ginger

30. Prairie Onion allium stellatum

31. Butterfly weed asclepias tuberosa

32. Little Bluestem andropogon scoparius

33. Highbush Cranberry viburnum trilobum

34. Site Preparation The first method is to put a dark plastic sheet, tarp, or pieces of plywood over the grass for at least two months before you begin planting. The second procedure is to turn the soil and cultivate the area every few weeks for a complete growing season. A third method involves using a nonselective herbicide containing the active ingredient glyphosate, such as Round Up® or Kleenup®, to kill all existing vegetation.

35. How Do I choose Plants? The Minnesota Department of Transportation has a great web site at : http://www.plantselector.dot.state.mn.us/

36. Type selection page

37. Plant characteristics

38. Place of origin

39. Choose Minnesota for Natives

40. Program generates list that meets your criteria

41. Where do I get Plants? Soil and Water Conservation District Landscape Alternatives Prairie Restorations Prairie Moon Grow your own from local sources Don’t dig from the wild

42. Any Rain Garden is better than no Rain Garden

43. What is a rain garden? A “bioretention” system that retains water and soaks it up rather than allow it to run off the property.

44. preparation Dig and loosen soil to a depth of two feet Create a dip for water to settle until it sinks in Native plants can ‘tough it out’

45. What are some good plants? Tall plant garden Sorghastrum nutans Indian Grass Eupatorium purpureum Joe-Pye Weed Andropogon gerardi Big Bluestem Vernonia fascicolata Ironweed Solidago rigida Stiff Goldenrod Liatris spicata Dense Blazingstar Baptista australis Blue False Indigo Echinacea pallida Pale Purple Coneflower Panicum virgatum Switch Grass Ratibida pinnata Yellow Coneflower Echinacea purpurea Purple Coneflower

46. Short plants Eupatorium perfoliatum Boneset 3-4' Echinacea purpurea Purple Coneflower 3-4' Solidago ohioensis Ohio Goldenrod 3-4' Bouteloua curtipendula Side-oats Grama 2-3' Lobelia siphilitica Great Blue Lobelia 1-4' Physostegia virginiana Obedient Plant 1-2' Rudbeckia hirta Black-eyed Susies 1-3' Sisyrinchium angustifolium Blue-eyed Grass 1' Allium cernuum Nodding Pink Onion

47. Septic Mounds prairie onion (Allium stellatum) pussytoes (Antennaria neglecta) butterflyweed (Asclepias tuberosa) heath aster (Aster ericodes) bigleaf aster (Aster macrophyllus)* Pennsylvania sedge (Carex pensylvanica)* prairie clover (Dalea spp.) pale purple coneflower (Echinacea angustifolia) rattlesnake master (Eryngium yuccifolium) wild geranium (Geranium maculatum)*

48. prairie smoke (Geum triflorum) oxeye (Helianthus helianthoides) rough blazing star (Liatris aspera) wild bergamot (Monarda fistulosa) penstemon (Penstemon spp.) pasqueflower (Pulsatilla patens) violets (Viola spp.)*

49. Grasses sideoats grama (Bouteloua curtipendula) blue grama (Bouteloua gracilis) little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium) prairie dropseed (Sporobolus heterolepis) June grass (Koeleria macrantha)