The mission of PLANT IT WILD is to foster greater awareness and appreciation of the fragile natural environment of our region. Through direct efforts we work to preserve, protect, and promote the natural beauty of the area and its plant communities.
We promote the use of native plant species by producing educational materials available at our meetings, booths, presentations, and through our website. Programs are offered from May through September featuring a wide array of speakers and topics on native plants.
Not sure which plants are native to Michigan? Click Here to view a list of some of our favorite plants from this beautiful state.
Click Here to join Plant It Wild and help us preserve, protect, and promote the natural beauty of the area and its plant communities.
Click Here to read more about who we are and how we strive to help the community be a more natural and beautiful place.
Plant it Wild appreciates our Invasive Species Network. They are an invaluable resources.Irises are beautiful, but there's a bully hiding in the bunch--and they're blooming now! Look out for invasive yellow flag iris, one of ISN's Awareness Species. Visit www.HabitatMatters.org to learn more.
#educatewithISN #invasive
Blue Lobelia is a cousin to the Cardinal Flower. The have the same shapped flowers which are so cute! Three petals on the bottom act as a landing pad for the pollinator with the two petals on top. When you see them, take a good look at the cool flower shape!
I acquired two of these last fall. Overwintered them in the garage till I could buy their support this spring. The moon trellis was installed 3-4 weeka ago and the plants are in the ground.... awaiting their take-off! Their cousin, Virgin's Bower is happy, happy in my yard.Just added to our NATIVE PLANT SALE!
Purple Clematis (Clematis occidentalis)
$7 quart pots
Order at rivercitywildones.org/shop
Light: Full Sun
Moisture: Medium, Medium-Dry
Soil: Cool, limy, humus-rich
Height: 6 ft
Bloom Season: May, June, July
Bloom Color: Purple
Notes: Soft purple flowers on a climbing vine with trifoliate leaves. Flowers are single in leaf axils, 1½ to 2½ inches long with 4 petal-like sepals. The large flowers tend to be more numerous in sunny locations. The plants stems lack tendrils; the leaf stalks wind around surrounding vegetation and structures for support. The species is found in rocky forests and thickets, on stream banks, and in cleared areas. It occurs in drier, upland, open habitat than Clematis Virginiana.
Photo: University of Michigan Herbarium, R. Sprague
An update from our friends at Birdsfoot Native Nursery . I have yellow avens in my yard and believe I saw them in the TC Commons todsy!
An important player in the ecosystem.NATIVE PLANT & SHRUB SALE HIGHLIGHT
Golden Alexanders, (Zizia area)
$7 Quart pot
Order at: rivercitywildones.org/shop
Light: Full Sun/Part Sun
Moisture: Medium, Moist, Wet
Soil: Loam, Sand
Height: 1–2 ft
Bloom Season: May, June, July
Bloom Color: Yellow
Notes: Covered with brilliant yellow umbels starting in May. Benefits pollinators. Deer resistant. Is a host plant for the Black Swallowtail butterfly.
See our Native Plant & Shrub Sale event page to order.