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10 Native Power Bloomers

These natives won’t stop blooming!

Monarch on Spiderwort in October

  • Late Monarch Butterfly feeding on October blooming Spiderwort.

With little care, native plants can add a rainbow of color to the garden all season long. With occasional deadheading & cutting back, the following native perennials all have bloomed for over 15 weeks. Most are still blooming as of today (mid October).

Spiderwort

  • Spiderwort (Tradescantia ohiensis)
  • Bloom time: June – October
  • Care: Cut stems with spent clusters to side shoot to encourage new blooms.

Garden Phlox

  • Garden Phlox (Phlox paniculata ‘Purple Flame’)
  • Bloom time: July – September
  • Care: Cutback spent flower clusters to encourage side branching.

Cardinal Flower

  • Cardinal Flower (Lobelia Cardinalis ‘Queen Victoria’)
  • Bloom time: July – October
  • Care: Cut down spent spikes 2 to 3 in. from the ground to encourage new blooms. Short-lived, leave a few flowers to self-seed.

Poppy Mallow

  • Purple Poppy Mallow (Callirhoe involucrata)
  • Bloom time: June – October
  • Care: Snip spent flowers & stems to encourage new blooms. Will self-seed, but is not invasive.

Prairie Coneflower

  • Prairie coneflower (Ratibida columnifera)
  • Bloom time: June – October
  • Care: Snip faded flowers to encourage new blooms. Leave a few flowers to self-seed.

Coreopsis

  • Variegated Tickseed (Coreopsis ‘Tequila Sunrise’)
  • Bloom time: June – September
  • Care: Snip faded flowers to encourage new blooms.

New England Aster

  • New England Aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae ‘Alma Potschke’)
  • Bloom time: *June – October *This is not supposed to bloom until late summer, but began blooming in June & continued through October!
  • Care: Cut plants back in July to keep them compact & encourage new blooms.

Tickseed

  • Tickseed (Coreopsis verticillata ‘Moonbeam’)
  • Bloom time: July – October
  • Care: Deadhead spent flowers & cutback to side shoots to encourage new blooms. Cut stems to the ground when they have finished blooming.

Blanket Flower

  • Blanket Flower (Gaillardia grandiflora ‘Arizona Sun’)
  • Bloom time: June – October
  • Care: Deadhead spent flowers to encourage new blooms. Short-lived, leave a few flowers to self-seed.

Pink Tickseed

  • Pink Tickseed (Coreopsis rosea ‘Heaven’s Gate’)
  • Bloom time: June – October
  • Care: Deadhead spent flowers & cutback to side shoots to encourage new blooms. Cut stems to the ground when they have finished blooming. Can be short lived in the Midwest, mulch heavily in the fall after a couple of hard frosts for winter protection.

Update: This Dianthus (not native, but is non-invasive nor cumbersome) blooms prolifically May – June. Once it has finished blooming, it can be sheared leaving a nice attractive mound of blue-grey foliage that will occasionally send up new blooms throughout the summer into late fall. This plant is still blooming as of today. (This photo was taken Oct. 17th)

Dianthus

  • Cheddar Pink (Dianthus gratianopolitanus ‘Firewitch’)
  • Bloom time: May – October
  • Care: Cut back spent flowers to side shoots or shear entire plant to encourage new blooms.

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