Prairie Blazing Star at MPF’s Pleasant Run Creek. Photo: Bruce Schuette
Institutional Supporters
The organizations on this list support the promotion of native plants, and may be botanical institutions, nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, or communities.
Bellefontaine Cemetery & Arboretum
St. Louis, MO
Phone: (314) 880-8585
Email: mgarrett@bcastl.org
Provider:
Institutional Supporter: Community
City of Maryland Heights
Maryland Heights, MO
Phone: (314) 738-2232
Email: mzeek@marylandheights.com
Provider:
Institutional Supporter: Community
City of Springfield
Springfield, MO
Phone: (417) 864-1954
Email: jmoler@springfieldmo.gov
Provider:
Education: Seminars/Workshops/Presentations, Demonstration Gardens/Restoration Sites, Publications
Institutional Supporter: Community
Primary Purpose: The City of Springfield is committed to sustainable practices and policies striking a balance among protecting the natural resources of our region, ensuring our economic vitality and lifting the burden of poverty and neglect from present and future generations.
Deep Roots
Kansas City, MO
Phone: (816) 301-7545
Provider:
Institutional Supporter: Non-profit Organization
Education: Seminars/Workshops/Presentations, Demonstration Gardens/Restoration Sites, Publications
Primary Purpose: Vision: A future of beautiful, native landscapes connecting heartland communities where nature and people thrive together. KCNPI’s catalytic facilitation brings partners together to accomplish more.
Forest Park Forever
St. Louis, MO
Phone: (314)932-5950
Email: info@forestparkforever.org
Provider:
Education, Institutional Supporter: Non-profit organization
Primary Purpose: Forest Park Forever is a private nonprofit conservancy that works in partnership with the City of St. Louis and the Department of Parks, Recreation and Forestry to restore, maintain and sustain Forest Park as one of America’s greatest urban public parks.
Great Rivers Greenway
St. Louis, MO
Phone: (314) 436-7009
Email: info@grgstl.org
Provider:
Institutional Supporter: Non-profit organization, Community
Primary Purpose: Great Rivers Greenway makes the St. Louis region a more vibrant place to live, work and play by developing a network of greenways to connect people to their rivers, parks and communities.
Landscape and Nursery Association of Greater St. Louis (LNAGSL)
St. Louis, MO
Email: info@stlouislandscape.org
Primary Business: Institutional Supporter; Education
Primary Purpose: Serving to lead the cooperative exchange of responsible knowledge and beneficial information intended to achieve landscape and garden excellence in the Gateway region.
Missouri Native Seed Association
Jefferson City, MO
Phone: (573) 338-9453
Email: mowldflrs@socket.net
Provider:
Institutional Supporter: Non-Profit Organization
Primary Purpose: The Missouri Native Seed Association is an organization of Missouri native seed producers and native seed collectors, state and federal government agencies, and other partners. The organizers strive to create fair and prosperous marketing opportunities for Missouri native seed producers and collectors.
Mizzou Botanic Garden
Columbia, MO
Phone: (573) 882-4240
Email: millierr@missouri.edu
Provider:
Institutional Supporter: Botanical Institution, Educational Institution
Education: Seminars/Workshops/Presentations, Demonstration Gardens/Restoration Sites, Publications
Primary Purpose: Botanical institution that displays, maintains, and identifies living plant specimens.
Monarch Watch
Lawrence, KS
Phone: (785) 864-4441
Email: monarch@ku.edu
Provider:
Institutional Supporter: Non-profit Organization, Educational Institution
The Nature Conservancy of Missouri
St. Louis
Phone: (314) 968-1105
Email: missouri@tnc.org
Provider:
Institutional Supporter: Non-profit Organization
Primary Purpose: The Nature Conservancy is a global conservation organization dedicated to conserving the lands and waters on which all life depends. We use a collaborative approach that engages local communities, governments, the private sector, and other partners. Together with our members and conservation partners, The Nature Conservancy of Missouri has protected more than 150,000 acres of critical lands in Missouri since 1956.
Powell Gardens
Kingsville, MO
Phone: (816) 697-2600
Email: info@powellgardens.org
Provider:
Institutional Supporter: Botanical Institution
Education: Seminars/Workshops/Presentations, Demonstration Gardens/Restoration Sites, Publications
Primary Purpose: Botanical institution that displays, maintains, and identifies living plant specimens.
Saint Louis Zoo
St. Louis, MO
Phone: (314) 646-4706
Email: spevak@stlzoo.org
Provider:
Institutional Supporter: Non-profit Organization
Education: Seminars/Workshops/Presentations
Primary Purpose: The Saint Louis Zoo through the WildCare Institute for Native Pollinator Conservation focuses on the importance and diversity of pollinators, for the maintenance and survival of wildlife, ecosystems and agriculture. Its goals are: 1) Educating people about the importance and diversity of pollinators, 2) Developing and supporting collaborations for pollinator conservation and research, 3) Advancing understanding and appreciation of pollinators.
Shaw Nature Reserve
Gray Summit, MO
Phone: (314) 577-9530
Email: scott.woodbury@mobot.org
Provider:
Education: Seminars/Workshops/Presentations, Native Demonstration Gardens/Ecological Restoration Sites, Publications
Institutional Supporter: Botanical Institution, Non-profit Organization, Educational Institution
Related Products and Services: Native plant sales spring and fall
Primary Purpose: Botanical institution that displays, maintains, and identifies living plant specimens.
St. Louis Community College – Meramec – Horticulture Program
Kirkwood, MO
Phone: (314) 984-7293
Email: jpence@stlcc.edu
Provider:
Education: Seminars/Workshops/Presentations, Demonstration Gardens/Restoration Sites
Institutional Supporter: Botanical Institution, Educational Institution
Primary Purpose: Educational institution that provides horticulture courses including landscape design, plant identification, soil, grounds management, and plant propagation
Sierra Club–Three Rivers Project
Alton, IL
Phone: (618) 462-6802
Email: virginia.woulfe-beile@sierraclub.org
Provider:
Institutional Supporter: Non-profit Organization
Education: Seminars/Workshops/Presentations; Demonstration gardens/restoration sites; Publications
St. Louis Audubon
St. Louis, MO
Phone: (314) 599-7390
Email: mitch@stlouisaudubon.org
Provider:
Institutional Supporter: Non-profit Organization
Wildlife Habitat and Ecological Services: Landscape/Habitat Planning, Plant Identification and Inventory
Education: Seminars/Workshops/Presentations
Straatmann Toyota–Washington
Washington, MO
Phone: (636) 239-4775
Email: straatmanntoyota@yahoo.com
Primary Purpose:
Institutional Supporter
Stream Teams United
Shelbina, MO
Phone: (573) 586-0747
Email: mary@streamteamsunited.org
Provider:
Education
Institutional Supporter
Watershed Committee of the Ozarks Inc.
Springfield, MO
Phone: (417) 866-1127
Email: mike@watershedcommittee.org
Primary Purpose:
Institutional Supporter: Non-profit Organization
Education
Wild Ones, Northwest Arkansas Ozark Chapter
Garfield, AR
Phone: (501)231-7455
Email: wildonesozarkchapter@gmail.com
Primary Purpose: Education; Institutional Supporter: Non-profit Organization
Wild Ones St. Louis
St. Louis, MO
Phone: (314) 303-8309
Email: stlwildones@stlwildones.org
Provider:
Institutional Supporter: Non-profit Organization
The Missouri Prairie Foundation and the Grow Native! program provide this list of suppliers of native plant products and services as a convenience to gardeners, landowners, and landscape enthusiasts. It is the responsibility of the consumer to check the references of, negotiate fees with, and make all arrangements with those listed in this Resource Guide. The Missouri Prairie Foundation and the Grow Native! program accept no responsibility for products and services rendered.