Native Plants Work
Grow Native! is the native plant marketing and education program of the Missouri Prairie Foundation.
Indian pink by Reva Dow, southern blue flag iris by Mervin Wallace, native bee on Eastern redbud by Ed Spevak, grasses and goldenrod by Frank Oberle, Polyphemus by Linda Williams.
What is the Lower Midwest?
Grow Native! Events
MPF Webinar: Wetlands for Native Bees
MPF Webinar: Wetlands for Native Bees
Springfield Native Plant Sale – Bass Pro Shops Sportsman’s Center®
Springfield Native Plant Sale – Bass Pro Shops Sportsman’s Center®
MPF Field Trip: Valley View Glades Natural Area Hike -- Registration Full
MPF Field Trip: Valley View Glades Natural Area Hike -- Registration Full
Grow Native! Webinar: Native Plants & Neotropical Bird Migration
Grow Native! Webinar: Native Plants & Neotropical Bird Migration
Bird and Wildflower Walk at Snowball Hill Prairie
Bird and Wildflower Walk at Snowball Hill Prairie
Kansas City Native Plant Sale – Anita B. Gorman Discovery Center
Kansas City Native Plant Sale – Anita B. Gorman Discovery Center
Columbia Native Plant Sale – Bass Pro Shops Sportsman’s Center®
Columbia Native Plant Sale – Bass Pro Shops Sportsman’s Center®
NATIVE PLANTS WORK
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.
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Certified Pro Spotlight – Sue Bartelette
Today’s spotlight is on Grow Native! Certified Pro Sue Bartelette, who became certified in 2023. Sue owns Grow Native! professional member Flower and Garden Design in Jamestown, Missouri, and also works with Grow Native! professional member Lincoln University...
Learning Plants in the Garden: New Labeled Garden Resource
A new web resource is now available to help contextualize native plants in a garden setting! The Labeled Native Plant Gardens page takes website visitors on a journey through formal and informal native plantings. Each photo illustrates a moment in time at a given...
More Sites Added to Native Gardens of Excellence Program in 2025
Three additional sites have been inducted into the Grow Native! Native Gardens of Excellence program, which showcases well-maintained native gardens and plantings in the lower Midwest. The newly inducted gardens are: Laura Ingalls Wilder Home and Museum Monarch Garden...
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