Native Plant Sale at Locust Grove Nature Center

Our Spring 2021 Native Plant Sale at Locust Grove Nature Center will be a blend of pre-order and in-person this year.  We are excited to still offer natives to all of you who are actively gardening through the quarantine. We will offer native garden planning resources to help you prepare through the winter months.

*The 2020 sales had outstanding interest for a limited number of plants- we suggest pre-order if you are looking for something specific*

Pre-order Period: Plant inventory lists available by April 1st, call in dates for orders April 11th, 18th, 25th (Sun) 15th (Thur) 10am-4pm

Pre-Order Pickups: May 5th (Wed) 12-7pm directly from our nursery in Gaithersburg (no on-site sales)

In Person Sale: May 8th (Sat) and 9th (Sun) 10am-2pm each day at Locust Grove Nature Center in Bethesda

How to Shop Locust Grove’s Native Plant Sale Pre-orders- (process has changed since Fall)

1. Visit Locust Grove’s online Native Plant Sale (See Plant inventory and Information lists below). *Please Refresh if you leave the window open to see most up to date inventory*
2. Fill out the Plant Planning Form to select your plants (16 plants or $100 minimum for preorder)
3. Call us with your Plant Planning Form on hand during the days and hours for a Locust Grove Naturalist to confirm:
   1.  the availability of the plants you selected
   2.  your pick up time
   3.  and collect payment over the phone

All plants are limited availability. We will process each sale in the order we receive the call on scheduled days only. While we’re making every effort to keep the website inventory updated with what is available, we may run out of some species of plants quickly. The Plant Planning Form is not finalized until a naturalist can confirm availability for the plants you’ve requested.  Due to the logistics involved, we ask that pre-orders be for 16 plants (a flat) or $100 minimum order.  A few of each species will be reserved for the in person sale if something you wanted is sold out in pre-orders.

For pick up Wednesday May 5th all pre-orders must be completed  by 5pm on Sunday, April 25th, as follows:

You can call in to the center on one of the pre-order dates and staff will take your order, confirm availability of your plants, schedule your pickup time, and take your payment.  We hope this one step shopping will reduce the number of back and forth phone calls- please have your Plant Planning Form completed and ready when you call and we will get your order completed all in one call.

Place your order and pay over the phone via credit card by calling Locust Grove Nature Center. Due to limited staffing at the Nature Center, we can take over the phone payments on three Sundays, April  11th, 18th, or 25th or Thursday the 15th between 10am and 4pm only.

*This page and inventory of each species are being updated by staff as orders come in, first come, first serve, so you will be notified if we are out of something due to orders coming in quickly back to back.

Native Plants available for Spring 2021 Sale-

Prices: Quarts are $6, Gallons are $10, 2 Gallons are $25, 3 Gallons are $35, 5 Gallons are $50, and 7 Gallons are $70

All local Ecotypes unless otherwise noted on Plant information below.

Herbaceous Plants

Trees and Shrubs

Plant Information- all plants are local Montgomery County ecotype unless otherwise noted.

Botanical Name	Common Name	Needs	Height	Spread	Blooms	Attracts	Resists
Agastache nepetoides	yellow giant hyssop		4-6′	1-3′	July-Sept
			1-1.5′	3-6″	June-Aug		Drought Dry Soil Rocky Soil Black Walnut
					May-July
Anemone virginianum	thimbleweed		1-2′	1-1.5′	Apr-May		Drought, Heavy Shade, Dry Soil, Shallow-Rocky Soil
Antennaria neglecta	field pussytoes		6-12″	6-12″	Apr- June		Drought, Dry Soil
Antennaria parlinii	Parlin’s pussytoes		6-12″	8-18″	Apr-June		Drought, Dry Soil, Shallow-Rocky Soil
Antennaria plantaginifolia	Plantainleaf pussytoes		6-12″	8-18″	Apr-June		Drought, Dry Soil, Shallow-Rocky Soil
Aquilegia canadensis	wild columbine		2-3′	12-18″	Apr-May		Rabbit, Drought, Dry Soil
Aralia racemosa	American spikenard		3-5′	3-5′	June-Aug		Drought
Arisaema triphyllum	Jack-in-the-pulpit		1-2′	12-18″	Apr-May		Heavy Shade, Wet Soil, Black Walnut
Asarum canadense	wild ginger		6-12″	12-18″	Apr-May		Heavy Shade Erosion Wet Soil
Asclepias incarnata sbsp pulchra	swamp milkweed		3-5′	2-3′	Jul-Aug		Clay Soil Wet Soil
Asclepias syriaca	common milkweed		2-3′	8-12″	Jun-Aug		Drought Erosion Dry Soil Rocky Soil
Asclepias tuberosa	butterflyweed		1-2.5′	12-18″	Jun-Aug		Drought Erosion Dry Soil Rocky Soil
Baptisia australis	blue wild indigo		3-4′	3-4′	May-Jun		Rabbit, Drought, Erosion, Clay Soil, Dry Soil, Shallow-Rocky Soil
Baptisia tinctoria	yellow wild indigo		2-3′	2-3′	May-Jun		Drought, Erosion, Dry Soil
Carex albicans	white-tinged sedge		12-18″	12-18″	May		Drought, Dry Soil
Carex laxiculmis	spreading sedge		6-12″	6-12″	May-Jun		Heavy Shade, Wet Soil
Carex platyphylla	silver sedge		8-12″	12-18″			Drought
Carex rosea	rosy sedge		1′	1′	May-Sept
Cerastium arvense	field chickweed		6-18″	1-3′	Apr-Aug		Drought, Dry Soil
Chelone glabra	white turtlehead		2-3′	1.5-2.5′	Aug-Oct
Chrysopsis mariana	MD goldenaster		1-2.5′	1-2′	Aug-Oct		drought
Clematis virginiana	virgin’s bower		12-20′	3-6′	Aug-Oct		Black Walnut
Delphinium exaltatum	tall larkspur (PA ecotype)		4-6′	1-2′	Jul-Sept
Dicentra canadensis	squirrel corn		6-12″		Apr-May	chip munks
Echinacea purpurea	purple cone flower (midwest native)		2-5′	1-2′	Jun-Aug		Drought
Eragrostis spectabilis	purple love grass		1-2′	1-2′	Jul-Aug		Drought, Black Walnut, Air Pollution
Eupatorium hyssopifolium	hyssopleaf thoroughwort		2-3′	1-2′	Jul-Sept		Drought
Eupatorium rotundifolium	round leaf thoroughwort		1-4′	2-3′	Aug-Oct
Euphorbia corollata	euphorbia		1-3′	1-2′	Jun-Oct
Eurybia divaricata	white wood aster		1-2.5′	1.5-2.5′	Aug-Sept		drought
Geranium maculatum	wild geranium		1.5-2′	12-18″	Apr-May		Rabbit, Deer, Drought
Helenium autumnale	yellow sneezeweed		3-5′	2-3′	Aug-Oct		clay soil
Helenium flexuosum	purple sneezeweed		1-3′	1-2′	Aug-Oct		wet soil
Helianthus divaricatus	woodland sunflower		2-6′	1-3′	Jul-Sept		Drought
Heuchera americana	alumroot (PA ecotype)		1-2′	12-18″	Jun-Aug		Drought
Heuchera villosa*	hairy alumroot		1.5-2.5′	1-2′	Jul-Sept
Hibiscus coccineus	scarlet mallow (VA native)		3-6′	2-3′	Jun-Sept
Houstonia caerulea	bluets		3-8″	3-5″	Apr-Jul
Hydrophyllum canadense	canada waterleaf		6-20″	1-2′	May-July
Liatris microcephala	dwarf gayfeather		1.5-2′	8-12″	July
Liatris spicata	gayfeather		2-4′	8-18″	Jul-Aug		Drought
Lillium superbum	turk’s cap lily (Gal price-rare)		4-7′	6-8″	July
Lobelia cardinalis	cardinal flower		2-4′	1-2′	Jul-Sept		Rabbit, Deer
Lobelia siphilitica	great blue lobelia		2-3′	12-18″	Jul-Sept		Heavy Shade
Lonicera sempervirens	coral honeysuckle		8-15′	3-6′	May-Jun
Lysimachia lanceolata var purpurea	lance-leaved loostrife Nativevar		1-2′	1-2′	Jun-Aug
Maianthemum racemosum	false Solomon’s Seal		2-3′	1.5-2′	Apr-May
Monarda didyma	beebalm		2-4′	2-3′	Jul-Aug		Rabbit
Monarda fistulosa ‘Claire Grace’	wild bergamot (Nativar)		2-4′	2-3′	Jul-Sept		Drought
Monarda punctata	spotted mint		1.5-2′	6-12″	Jun-Jul		Drought
Oenothera fruticosa	narrowleaf sundrops		12-18″	1-2′	May-Jun		Drought, Erosion
Packera aurea	golden ragwort		6-24″	6-18″	April
Penstemon calycosus	long-sepal beardtongue		2-3′	1-2′	Jun-Jul
Penstemon digitalis	beardtongue		3-5′	1.5-2′	Apr-June		Drought
Phlox divaricata	wild phlox		8-12″	8-12″	Apr-May		Drought
Phlox paniculata	tall phlox		2-4′	2-3′	Jul-Sept		clay
Phlox stolonifera	creeping phlox		6-12″	8-18″	Jul-Sept		Rabbit, Drought
Phlox subulata	moss phlox		3-6″	1-2′	Mar-May		Drought
Pycnanthemum incanum	hoary mountain mint (MD mtn. ecotype)		2-3′	3-4′	Jul-Sept		Drought
Pycnanthemum muticum	mountain mint		1-3′	1-3′	Jul-Sept		drought
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium	narrowleaf mtn. mint		2-3′	2-3′	Jul-Sept		drought
Rudbeckia fulgida	orange coneflower		2-3′	2-2.5′	Jun-Oct		Drought
Rudbeckia triloba	brown eyed susan		2-3′	1-1.5′	Jul-Oct		Drought
Salvia lyrata	lyreleaf sage		1-2′	8-12″	Apr- Jun
Sanguinaria canadensis	bloodroot		6-8″	4-6″	Mar-Apr		drought
Sedum ternatum	wild stonecrop		3-6″	6-8″	Apr-May		Rabbit Drought
Sisyrinchium angustifolium	blue eyed grass		1.5-2′	6-12″	May-Jun
Solidago bicolor	silverrod		1-3′	1′	Jul-Oct		Drought
Solidago caesia	wreath goldenrod		1.5-3′	1.5-3′	Aug-Sept		Drought
Solidago juncea	early goldenrod		2-4′	2-3′	Jul-Aug		Drought
Solidago rugosa	wrinkle leaf goldenrod		2.5-‘3	2.5-3′	Sept-Oct
Symphotrichum laeve ‘Bluebird’	smooth aster (Nativar)		2-4′	1-2′	Sept-Oct		drought
Symphotrichum novae-angliae ‘Purple Dome’	Purple Dome (Nativar)		1.5-2′	2-3′	Aug-Sept
Symphotrichum oblongifolium	aromatic aster		1-3′	1-3′	Aug-Sept		drought
Thalictrum thalictroides	rue anemone		6-8″	6-8″	Apr-May		drought
Thelypteris palustris*	eastern marsh fern		2-4′	2-3′	Apr-Sept
Tiarella cordifolia	foamflower		8-12″	1-2′	May		Rabbit, Deer
Tradescantia virginiana	spiderwort		1.5-3′	1-1.5′	May-July		Clay, black walnut
Trillium cunneatum	Sweet Betsy		1-1.5′	8-12″	Apr-May		Heavy shade
Vernonia noveboracensis	ironweed		4-6′	3-4′	Aug-Sept
Veronicastrum virginicum	culver’s root		4-7′	2-4′	Jun-Aug
Viola pubescens	downy yellow violet		6-12″	6-12″	Mar-Apr
Viola striata	striped cream violet		8-12″	8-12″	Apr-Jun
Zizia aurea	golden alexanders		1.5-3′	1.5-2′	May-Jun