Nursery Flowers (Medium to Moist Soil) – Prairie Shore Botanicals

Thimbleweed

The flowers aren’t especially attractive, but the seed heads sure are!

Small, bean-shaped seeds are an important food source for the larvae of a tiny weevil.

A larval food host for the black swallowtail butterfly.

This vine produces clusters of pure white flowers that turn into fluffy, beard-like plumes.

Golden ragwort brightens up the spring prairie with its gold-centered yellow flowers that stand above the surrounding vegetation.

The bright yellow flowers aren’t the only attractive feature of this plant…

A common understory plant in both prairie and woodland habitats.

Ranked S3, or vulnerable, in Manitoba.

A rare find in Manitoba’s tall grass prairie/aspen parkland.