Choose native plants and put them to work for you:

• Beautify your surroundings and fill your landscape with life!
• Sustain the hundreds of species of pollinators of the lower Midwest
• Feed monarch butterflies and help ensure that their awe-inspiring migration forever remains a wonder of planet Earth!
• Support native songbirds
• Manage stormwater and protect streams
• Store carbon with deep-rooted natives
• Build healthy soil
• Provide drought-tolerant forage for livestock and use natives in other ways on farms
• Provide native edibles for people–pawpaws, elderberries, persimmons, walnuts and more!
• Create and enhance habitat for wildlife

Find out more on our Learn page.