Native Plant Wild Roots Market
(not just a Wild Ones native plant sale!)
SATURDAY | JUNE 14, 2025
Noon to 3:00 pm
Bloomington MN
An old idea made new 2025! Wild Ones Twin Cities is hosting a fundraiser where members donate native plant volunteers from their gardens. Our last donated sale was in 2020, discontinued after learning about invasive Asian Jumping Worms, most often spread through exchange of plants and garden soil. Since then we’ve continued to teach methods that allow for sharing plants safely, no hitchhikers, be it invasive earthworms or creeping bellflower.
We invite members and guests to come peruse the wide selection of native plants, from young seedlings to mature plants including some woody shrubs. Some of the choices are popular and in limited supply at local nurseries, others are plants you may not be familiar with.
In exchange for what you take home, we ask that you offer a Free Will Donation to our chapter. Proceeds will help us continue to offer educational presentations, tours and excellent printed booklets and resource materials. At 3:00 pm, any remaining plants and tools will be given away or donated to another organization.
Regarding safe gardening practices: We are only accepting plant donations that are free of soil from home gardens. Plants may be native plant extras from winter sowing (potted in clean soil), bareroot plants wrapped in newsprint or re-potted in clean soil after bare rooting. We have and continue to offer Bareroot Clinics and Potting Sessions to help gardeners learn this practice. The plants folks bring to the clinics will be available at Wild Roots Market. All plants will be labeled with common and botanical names. An inventory of what we receive in the clinics will be posted a few days prior to sale.
We’re also accepting native plant and garden related items, such as Garden Tools, Wheelbarrows, Yard Ornaments and Native Plant Books. PLUS +++ We’ve learned we’ll have 40 bags of Certified compost from Dakota Prairie Compost!
After four Bareroot Clinics plus a generous donation from Debbie Hanson, owner of Naturally Wild, we've amassed well over 1,000 native plants. Some are seedlings grown by members, but most are mature plants that have had their roots cleaned before re-potting. In the past few days we took inventory and identified over 90 native plant species, a few of some, full flats of others. Check out the list of plants we've received below. We expect more to arrive on Saturday morning.
FERNS
- Cystopteris bulbifera • Bulblet Fern
- Matteuccia struthiopteris • Ostrich Fern
- Onoclea sensibilis • Sensitive Fern
FORBS
- Agastache Foeniculum • Anise Hyssop
- Agastache scrophylerafolia • Purple Giant Hyssop
- Allium canadense • Wild Garlic
- Allium cernuum • Nodding Onion
- Anaphalis margaritacea • Pearly Everlasting
- Anemone canadensis • Canada Anemone
- Anemone virginiana • Tall Thimbleweed
- Antennaria neglecta • Field Pussytoes
- Aquilegia canadensis • Columbine
- Arisaema triphyllum • Jack in the Pulpit
- Asarum canadense • Wild Ginger
- Asclepias Tuberosa • Butterfly Weed
- Baptisia alba • White Wild Indigo
- Campanula rotundifolia • Hairbell
- Coreopsis palmata • Prairie Coreopsis (Tickseed)
- Doellingeria umbellata • Flat Top Aster
- Eurybia macrophylla • Big-leaved Aster
- Eutrochium maculatum • Joe Pye Weed - Sweet
- Eutrochium purpureum • Joe Pye Weed - Spotted
- Fragaria virginiana • Wild Strawberry
- Galium boreale • Northern Bedstraw
- Geranium maculatum • Wild Geranium
- Helenium autumnale • Sneezeweed
- Helianthus strumosus • Woodland Sunflower
- Helianthus tuberosus • Jerusalem Artichoke
- Heterotheca villosa (Chrysopsis) • Hairy Golden Aster
- Hydrophyllum virginianum • Virginia Waterleaf
- Linum lewisii • Blue Flax
- Maianthemum canadense • Canada Mayflower
- Maianthemum stellatum • Starry Solomon's Seal (Plume)
- Mentha Arvensis • Wild Mint
- Monarda fistulosa • Beebalm
- Penstemon digitalis • Foxglove beardtongue
- Physostegia virginiana • Obedient Plant
- Polemonium reptans • Jacob's Ladder
- Polygonatum biflorum • Solomon's Seal (smooth)
- Pycnanthemum virginianum • Virginia Montain Mint
- Ratibida columnifera • Long-headed Mexican Hat Coneflower
- Ratibida pinnata • Yellow Coneflower Grey Headed
- Rudbeckia laciniata • Wild Golden Glow Cut Leaf Coneflower
- Rudbeckia triloba • Brown eyed Susan
- Ruellia humilis • Wild Petunia
- Sanguinaria canadensis • Bloodroot
- Silphium perfoliatum • Cup Plant
- Silphium terebinthinaceum • Prairie Dock
- Solidago flexicaulis • Zig Zag Goldenrod
- Solidago rigida • Stiff Goldenrod
- Solidago speciosa • Showy Goldenrod
- Stylophorum diphyllum • Wood Celandine Poppy
- Symphyotrichum cordifolium • Heart-leaved Aster
- Symphyotrichum ericoides • Heath Aster
- Symphyotrichum lanceolatum • Panicle Aster (we think)
- Symphyotrichum novae-angliae • New England Aster
- Symphyotrichum oblongifolium • Aromatic Aster
- Symphyotrichum oolentangiense • Sky Blue Aster
- Thalictrum dasycarpum • Tall Purple Meadow Rue
- Thalictrum dioicum • Early Meadow Rue
- Thalictrum pubescens • Tall Meadowrue
- Tradescantia ohiensis • Ohio spiderwort
- Uvularia sessilifolia • Sessile-leaf Bellwort
- Verbena hastata • Blue Vervain
- Verbena stricta • Hoary Vervain
- Vernonia fasciculata • Ironweed
- Veronicastrum virginicum • Culver's Root
- Viola canadensis • Canada Violet
- Viola sororia • Common Blue Violet
- Zizia aurea • Golden Alexanders
GRASSES
- Andropogon gerardii • Big bluestem
- Bouteloua curtipendula • Side Oats Gramma
- Bouteloua gracilis • Blue Gramma
- Carex spp. • Sedge - unknown
- Carex pensylvanica • Penn Sedge
- Elymus hystrix • Bottlebrush Grass
- Eragrostis spectabilis • Purple Love Grass
- Hierochloe odorata • Sweet Grass
- Koeleria macrantha • June Grass
- Panicum virgatum • Switch Grass
- Schizachyrium scoparium • Little Bluestem
- Sorghastrum nutans • Indian Grass
- Sporobolus heterolepis • Prairie Dropseed
SHRUBS
- Diervilla lonicera • Bush Honeysuckle
- Spirea alba • Meadowsweet Spirea
- Symphoricarpos albus • White Snowberry
VINES
- Clematis virginiana • Virgin's Bower
Native Plant Sign Sales*
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SUMMER TOUR SCHEDULE
Addresses and other logistics will be published on our website prior to each event. In the event of severe weather, unless otherwise noted, Saturday native plant garden tours move to following day at 1:00 pm. Thank you to George Watson for coordinating our summer tours in 2024 and 2025. If you have an interest in coordinating tours for 2026, please contact any board member or email
info@wildonestwincities.org.
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