Butterfly Ridge Seed List

Silver-spotted Skipper on Wild Bergamot, a plant that is truly a butterfly magnet!

Here is the Butterfly Ridge seed list. These species are/will be available for sharing this fall. If marked with an asterisk then they are available now. Please send your seed requests to: seeds@butterfly-ridge.com.

What do we want in return? Well, what do you have? Our current species of special interest would be any native mints not listed below, native sunflowers not listed below (not Black-eyed Susan!), Indian Paintbrush, and Asclepias variegata. Also open to other things. Scientific names may not reflect recent name changes.

THE LIST:

*Buttonbush - Cephalanthus occidentalis

*Common Milkweed (we have A LOT!) - Ascelepias syiaca

*Wild Senna - Senna hebecarpa

*Field Thistle - Cirsium discolor

*Wingstem - Verbesinia alternifolia

*Bergamot - Monarda fistulosa

*Cardinal FLower - Lobelia cardinalis

*Turtlehead - Chelone glabra (limited supplies)

*Mountain Mint - Pycnanthemum tenuifolium

*Sneezeweed - Helenium autumnalis

*Fringed Sedge - Carex crinita

*Mistflower - Eupatorium coelestinum

*Wild Basil - Satureja vulgaris

*Anise Hyssop - Agastache hyssopifolium

*Round-headed Bush Clover - Lespedeza capitata

*Cup Plant - Sylphium perfoliatum

*Rattlesnake Master - Eryngium yuccifolium

*Swamp Milkweed - Asclepias incarnata

*Purple Milkweed (limited supplies) - Asclepias purpurascens

*Ironweed - Vernonia gigantea

Downy Lobelia - Lobelia puberula

*Great Blue Lobelia - Lobelia siphilitica

*Monkey Flower - Mimulus ringens

*Purple Top - Tridens flavus

*Angelica - Angelica atropurpurea (we have A LOT!)