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A Grow Native! professional tour visits the Alpine Shop located in downtown Kirkwood. The Alpine Shop landscape features native plants supplied by Bohn's Farm and Greenhouses. (Photo credit: Robert Weaver, The Gateway Gardener Magazine)

A Grow Native! professional tour visits the Alpine Shop located in downtown Kirkwood. The Alpine Shop landscape features native plants supplied by Bohn's Farm and Greenhouses. (Photo credit: Robert Weaver, The Gateway Gardener Magazine)

Native Plants

Specializing in Native Plants of the Lower Midwest

Bohn's Farm and Greenhouses strives to produce, within a managed production nursery setting, the most extensive selection of Midwest native perennials found in the lower Midwest.  Our extensive selection of ecotype species and landscape "nativars" are grown in a variety of container sizes to suit the needs of both the landscape professional and the retail merchant.  Special production emphasis in recent years includes native species required for constructing rain gardens, bioswales, and stormwater detention and retension infrastructures according to the "St.Louis County Phase II Stormwater Management Plan" and "Sustainable Practices" adopted by the St. Louis Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD).  

Bohn's Farm wishes to extend a sincere thank you to the Shaw Nature Reserve team for their educational assistance to expand our knowledge of native plants via their educational programs and ongoing development and management of The Whitmire Wildflower Garden

An active member since the inception of the program, Bohn's Farm also values association with the Grow Native! a native plant awareness program jointly managed by the Missori Department of Conservation and Missouri Department of Agriculture

Bohn's Farm RESPONSIBLE CODE OF CONDUCT: All native plants we offer are propagated from seeds responsibly collected or vegetative cuttings from controlled nursery-produced stock plants.  We DO NOT purchase propagated materials from plant material collected in the wild.

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Echinacea pallida

Coneflower, Pale
Tall bare stems are topped by flowers with narrow, strap-like pink-purple petals. Tolerates very dry soil.
Echinacea pallida

Echinacea paradoxa

Coneflower, Yellow
Each flower stem produces a single bloom with yellow ray petals around a brown cone-shaped seed head. A very drought tolerant Midwest native.
Echinacea paradoxa

Echinacea purpurea

Coneflower, Purple
Rosy purple flowers with non-drooping petals. A Midwest native.
Echinacea purpurea

Echinacea purpurea 'RUBY STAR Rubinstern'

Coneflower
Large carmine-red to purple flowers bloom June to August. Seed heads attract finches and other songbirds. Tolerant of drought, heat, humidity and poor soils. Said to be an improvement over `Magnus'.
Echinacea purpurea 'RUBY STAR Rubinstern'

Elymus canadensis

Grass, Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis

Elymus hystrix

Bottlebrush Grass
Missouri native perennial grass. Adaptable to wide variety of soils--tolerates clay soil. Medium green leaf blades grow to 1' long. Nine inch long "bottlebrush" inflorescences emerge in the summer, are held well above the foliage, and persist well into the fall.
Elymus hystrix

Equisetum hyemale

Rush, Horsetail
Bamboo-like, dark green stems are rigid, rough and hollow. Evergreen stems provide winter interest in water and bog gardens or in a low wet spot. Can be aggressive.
Equisetum hyemale

Eryngium yuccifolium

Rattlesnake Master
Clusters of round, greenish white flower heads June through September on sword shaped, medium green foliage. Distinctive plant is an interesting cut flower. A drought-tolerant Midwest native.
Eryngium yuccifolium

Eupatorium dubium 'Little Joe'

Joe Pye Weed
A compact Joe Pye Weed that needs no staking. Flowers are produced in the usual dome-shaped clusters. Mauve-purple flowers on dark purple stems and green foliage July through September. Butterfly magnet. An outstanding, underutilized shrub-like perennial. More tolerant of light shade that other E. purpureum.
Eupatorium dubium 'Little Joe'

Eupatorium maculatum

Joe-Pye Weed
Joe-Pye Weeds are bold, architectural specimen plants, perfect for making a statement in the border. Plants forms a huge clump of coarse green leaves, bearing enormous umbrella-like heads of rosy-purple flowers in late summer. Eupatorium maculatum is perfect for planting in damp soil in marshy areas, along streambanks, and on pond edges. Joe Pye Weed (also called Spotted Joe Pye Weed) also thrives in rich garden soil.
Eupatorium maculatum

Eupatorium purpureum

Joe Pye Weed
Eupatorium purpureum
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