Where to Get Native Plants and Seeds

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Our chapter’s annual plant sale offers a great selection of native herbaceous species, but if you miss the sale, below is a list of local midwestern nurseries that share our goals and can provide native plants and seeds.

Agrecol LLC, Evansville, Wisconsin

Bluestem Farm, Baraboo, Wisconsin

Cardo Native Plant Nursery, Walkerton, Indiana*

Door Landscape & Nursery, Egg Harbor, Wisconsin

Heritage Flower Farm, Mukwonago, Wisconsin

Johnson’s Nursery, Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin

Native's Haven, Harvard, Illinois

Natural Garden Natives, St Charles, Illinois

Natural Shore Technologies, Maple Plain, Minnesota

Pizzo Nursery, Leland, Illinois

Possibility Place Nursery, Monee, Illinois

Prairie Moon Nursery, Winona, Minnesota

Prairie Nursery, Westfield, Wisconsin

Prairie Restorations Inc, Princeton, Minnesota*

Prairie Seed Source Nursery, North Lake, Wisconsin

Red Buffalo Nursery, Hebron, Illinois

Reeseville Ridge Nursery, Reeseville, Wisconsin

Shooting Star Native Seeds, Spring Grove, Minnesota*

Stone Silo Nursery, DePere, Wisconsin

*Also have other Midwestern locations.

Our chapter’s annual plant sale offers a great selection of native herbaceous species. But many of you want to add native trees and shrubs to your landscapes, as well. Unfortunately, there are far fewer sources of quality native woody stock. And you want to be sure you are getting the native species, not a nativar, which is a cultivar of a native (for more info: wildones.org/position-statements/nativars/) The following is a list of nurseries and plant sales offering native woody plants that are recommended by chapter members:

Johnson’s Nursery, Menomonee Falls, WI
jniplants.com
Excellent selection of native trees and shrubs. They also sell non-native plants, so be sure to ask for natives. Offers discounts to Wild Ones members in June each year.

Possibility Place Nursery, Monee, IL

possibilityplace.com/

Excellent source of native trees and shrubs and a wide-array of native perennials in pint-sized containers. Offers both pick-up and delivery

Reeseville Ridge Nursery, Reeseville , WI
reesevilleridgenursery.com
Excellent selection of native trees and shrubs. They also sell non-native plants, so be sure to ask for natives. Plants are usually very small in size, but good quality.

Friends of the UW Arboretum, Madison, WI
foamadison.org/shop/
All native plants, including both herbaceous and woody. Online sale ends in March; outdoor sale is in May.

Prairie Nursery, Westfield, WI
prairienursery.com
Offers some native shrubs, in addition to many native herbaceous species.

Cambridge Tree Project, Cambridge and Madison, WI
cambridgetreeproject.org
Trees and shrubs are available for pick-up in Madison or Cambridge, WI. Be sure to check for native species, as they carry many non-native species.

Geneva Lake Conservancy, Lake Geneva, WI
genevalakeconservancy.org
Sponsors sales of native oak trees in September.