Below is a Pinterest list and then a text list of the Manitoba Native Prairie Plants we studied in year 2 for Greenspace Horticulture. I will put a star next to the ones I have grown and are in my garden.
Note: Latin (Botanical) Name comes first, then common name.
- Allium stellatum –Pink Onion
- Andropogon gerardii – Big Bluestem*
- Antennaria parvifolia – Pussy Toes *
- Artemisia ludoviciana – Prairie Sage
- Asclepias verticillata – Whorled Milkweed*
- Bouteloua curtipendula – Side Oats Grama*
- Bouteloua gracilis – Blue Grama*
- Campanula rotundifolia – Harebell
- Dalea purpurea – Purple Prairie Clover
- Geum triflorum – Three Flowered Avens
- Grindelia squarrosa – Gumweed*
- Helianthus maximiliani – Narrowleaf Sunflower*
- Hesperostipa spartea – Porcupine Grass
- Koeleria macrantha – June Grass *
- Liatrus ligulistylis – Meadow Blazingstar*
- Lilium philadelphicum – Prairie Lily
- Panicum virgatum – Switch Grass*
- Pulsatilla patenss – Crocus
- Ratibida columnifera – Coneflower*
- Schizachyrium scoparium – Little Bluestem *
- Sisyrinchium montanum – Blue Eyed Grass
- Solidago nemoralis – Showy Goldenrod*
- Sorghastrum nutans – Indian Grass*
- Symphyotrichum novae-angliae – New England Aster*
- Zizia aurea – Golden Alexander*