Plant & Forest Resources

• Northern Native Plantscapes in Cable, WI. Sarah can provide design and planting services for native landscapes. Sarah Boles | (715) 794-2548 | florabee@hotmail.com

• Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute (SOEI) at Northland College. Students can work with residents to design and plant native plants. - Mike Gardner | (715) 682-1481 | mgardner@northland.edu

• Wildflower Woods - Greenhouse featuring native plants for woodlands, Becky Brown | (715) 373-0214

• Freehands Farm - Michelle Rundeen | (715) 563-0323

• Boreal Natives - Native flowers - (218) 729-9044

• Great Lakes Nursery Co. - Native plants - 1-(888) 733-3564

• Ferns – Lady, Sensitive, Maidenhair, Oak – wet
• Trillium – white – spring – tolerate wet soil
• Aster – Many varieties of Aster –heart leaved, large leaved, flat topped, purple stemmed
• Cardinal Flower – red – late summer – roots should be very wet
• Bloodroot – white – spring
• Jacob’s Ladder – blue – spring
• Virginia Bluebells – blue – summer
• Woodland Phlox – pale lavender – spring
• Dutchman’s Breeches – white – spring
• Swamp Buttercups – bright yellow – summer – wet – aggressive
• Solomon’s Seal – spring – white
• Wild Geranium – pink – spring – dry
• Bunchberry – red berries – ground cover
• Columbine – red and yellow – spring – deciduous woods
• Thimbleberry – tall – edible fruit
• Wood Anemone – small & delicate – white – spring – dry shade
• Jack in the Pulpit – spring
• Wild Ginger – ground cover
• Blue Flag Iris – wet – purple summer
• Touch Me-Not – orange seed pods in fall
• Marsh Marigold – yellow – spring – wet shade
• Hepatica – dry shade – blue – spring
• Tall Bellflower – blue – summer – wet shade
• Blue Cohosh – yellow – spring – blue berries – wet deciduous woods – tall
• Clintonia – yellow flower followed by blue berry – poisonous

Wild Lupine – purple – summer – dry soil even sand (what you see along the roads is not wild)

Fireweed – magenta – summer – aggressive – dry

Yarrow – white – summer – tolerate dry soil

Black Eyed Susan – tolerate very dry soil – yellow with black center – summer to fall

Columbine – red & yellow – spring

Aster – Lots of varieties of Asters, especially Big Leaf Aster

Pearly Everlasting – white – summer – nice dried flowers

Coneflowers – several varieties – white, yellow, purple, green – summer – tall

Canada Anemone – white – wet meadows – spring & summer

Joe Pye Weed – pink – summer – wet – tall

Thimbleweed – white – dry – summer

Monarda – purple – summer

Blue Vervain – blue – spring – tall – tolerates wet soil

Milkweed – attracts butterflies

• Chokeberry – need moist soil (not glossy black chokeberry)
• Red Twig Dogwood – good winter color – wet or medium wet soil
• Grey Dogwood – wet
• Viburnum – “Arrowwood” or “Nannyberry” – good fall color – berries
• Canada Yew – low spreading evergreen
• Bush Honeysuckle – spring flowers
• Winterberry – wet

All shade shrubs

Coralberry

Wild blackberry and raspberry

Sumac – red berries – good fall color

Wild roses – various varieties

Elderberry – edible fruit – spring white flower

American Hazelnut

Blueberries – sandy soil

Serviceberry

• Balsam Fir (Dominant)
• Canada Plum
• White Spruce (Dominant)
• Mountain Ash
• White Pine
• Serviceberry
• White (Paper) Birch
• Mountain Maple
• White Cedar
• Tag Alder
• Eastern Hemlock
• Tamarack
• Red Oak
• Big Leaf Poplar
• Red Maple
• Balsam Poplar
• Sugar Maple
• Ironwood
• Red Pine
• Yellow Birch
• Trembling Aspen

Colorodo Blue Spruce

Australian & Scotch Pine

Norway & Black Hills Spruce

Willow Trees

Douglas Fir (California)

Crab Apple & Fruit Trees

Japanese Whitespire Birch

Honeylocust Trees

Aborvitaes

Fraser Fir