The Monarch Research Project sends a big THANK YOU to Cedar Rapids Bank & Trust for supporting our seed give aways this fall. Attendees at our recent Linn Landowner Forum received seed packets containing a special Linn County Pollinator seed mix to start a 400-square-foot prairie plot.
The seed mix was developed with plants native to Linn County and included forty varieties of milkweed, forbs, and grasses to provide season-long nourishment to monarchs, bees, and other pollinators.
Curious about our seed mix? Here’s what was included:
- Swamp Milkweed
- Common Milkweed
- Canada Anemone
- Prairie Sage
- Butterfly Weed
- Sky Blue Aster
- Heath Aster
- Smooth Blue Aster
- New England Aster
- Canadian Milk Vetch
- Partridge Pea
- Showy Tick Trefoil
- Pale Purple Coneflower
- Cream Gentian
- Sneezeweed
- Early Sunflower
- Button Blazing Star
- Prairie Blazing Star
- Great Blue Lobelia
- Wild Bergamont
- Purple Prairie Clover
- Prairie Cinquefoil
- Foxglove Digitalis
- Mountain Mint
- Yellow Coneflower
- Black-Eyed Susan
- Sweet Black-Eyed Susan
- Showy Goldenrod
- Prairie Spiderwort
- Blue Vervain
- Hoary Vervain
- Culvers Root
- Golden Alexanders
- Lead Plant
- Little Bluestem
- Side-Oats Grama
- Canada Wild Rye
- Virginia Wild Rye
- Rough Dropseed
- Prairie Dropseed