Southport in Bloom – Native Plant Sale 2024

When: Saturday June 22, 2024. 9am until plants sell out

Where: Southport Plaza along the Lakeview Low-Line (3410 N Southport Ave, Chicago 60657)

• All plants are sold as pints and cost $7-8

• Native plant gardeners available for consult at the event

• Plants will be available first come, first serve

• Please BYO box or other container to carry your plants home

What: Over 35 species of native wildflowers, sedges, and ferns!

The plant sale will feature native flowers, sedges, and ferns that are suited to our local ecosystem and especially selected for their ability to support pollinators, birds, and other wildlife. There will be a flowering perennial, sedge, or fern to fit your landscape—whether it’s sunny, shady or in between.

Please click here to view full details on the plants that will be available, and learn about their attributes.

Final plant list is subject to growers fulfillment availability.

* Indicates Fern

** Indicates Sedge / Grass

  • Anise Hyssop Agastache foeniculum
  • Black Eyed Susan Rudbeckia hirta
  • Blue Flag Iris Iris versicolor
  • Blue-Eyed Grass Sisyrinchium albidum
  • Butterfly Milkweed Asclepias tuberosa
  • Canada Anemone Anemone canadensis
  • Canadian Milkvetch Astragalus Canadensis
  • Cardinal Flower Lobelia cardinalis
  • *Christmas Fern Polystichum acrostichoides
  • **Curly Wood Sedge Carex Rosea
  • Foxglove Beardtongue Penstemon digitalis
  • Golden Alexanders Zizia aurea
  • Great Blue Lobelia Lobelia siphilitica
  • Jacob’s Ladder Polemonium reptans
  • *Lady Fern Athyrium filix-femina
  • Lanceleaf (Sand) Coreopsis Coreopsis lanceolata
  • Large Yellow Indigo Baptisia sphaerocarpa
  • **Little Bluestem Schizachyrium scoparium
  • New England Aster Symphyotrichum novae-angliae
  • Nodding Wild (Pink) Onion Allium cernuum
  • **Northern (Prairie) Dropseed Sporobolus heterolepsis
  • Pale Purple Coneflower Echinacea pallida
  • Prairie Blazing Star Liatris pycnostachya
  • Prairie (Sullivant’s) Milkweed Asclepias sullivantii
  • Purple Coneflower Echinacea purpurea
  • Purple Milkweed Asclepias purpurascens
  • Purple Prairie Clover Dalea purpurea
  • Pussytoes Antennaria plantaginifolia
  • Rough Blazing Star Liatris aspera
  • Swamp Milkweed Asclepias incarnata
  • Whorled Milkweed Asclepias verticillata
  • Wild Bergamot Monarda fistulosa
  • Woodland / Wild Blue Phlox Phlox divaricata
  • Wild Garlic Allium canadense
  • Wild Geranium Geranium maculatum
  • Wild Petunia Ruellia humilis
  • Zigzag Goldenrod Solidago flexicaulis

Do you still have questions? Need a plant recommendation? Send us an email events@southportneighbors.com

Proceeds to benefit the Southport Neighbors Association’s Native Corner Plot Initiative

Proud recipient of the SSA#27 Community Events & Placemaking Grant. This sale aims to empower the Lakeview community to transform our neighborhood with thriving native flora.

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