Michigan Wildflower Farm

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Since 1988 Michigan Wildflower Farm has been providing quality seeds and service. We specialize in native Michigan seed production and native landscaping services.Whether you are planting a small or large plot in your yard, landscaping a workplace, stabilizing your shoreline, establishing wildlife habitat, or restoring a natural area, it makes good sense to utilize native plant species.Native spe

cies are adapted to Michigan’s climate and soils. Over time utilizing native species can save both the environment and money as fertilizers, watering, and continuous mowing are not necessary. These plants provide habitat for Michigan’s wildlife, which is quickly disappearing with development.

Butterfly W**d, Asclepias tuberosa 🦋🌿One of the brightest sparks in the summer prairie, Butterfly W**d brings a blaze of...
08/27/2026

Butterfly W**d, Asclepias tuberosa 🦋🌿

One of the brightest sparks in the summer prairie, Butterfly W**d brings a blaze of orange to the landscape and a whole community of insects along with it.

Like other milkweeds, Butterfly W**d is a host plant for monarchs and other specialized insects, providing both food and habitat as the meadow moves through its cycles.

But this plant has another story.

🌿 Pleurisy Root

The thick, tuberous root of Butterfly W**d has a long history in Western herbalism, traditionally known as Pleurisy Root. Herbalists valued it particularly as a warming, stimulating expectorant and for supporting the respiratory system.

There’s something fitting about the traditional character of this plant.

It thrives in dry, open places, sending its roots deep into the earth while its brilliant flowers rise toward the sun. Its traditional herbal associations center around movement of breath, circulation, and what has become stuck.

In plant spirit traditions, Butterfly W**d carries that same fiery quality: vitality, courage, warmth, and the will to rise.

A plant that asks us to put down roots, open ourselves to the sun, and keep moving.

And meanwhile, the insects are simply doing what they came here to do.

Plant the natives. Feed the insects. Let the old relationships return. 🌱

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Purple lovegrass (Eragrostis spectabilis) may be delicate-looking, but it’s one of the quiet workers of Michigan’s dry p...
08/26/2026

Purple lovegrass (Eragrostis spectabilis) may be delicate-looking, but it’s one of the quiet workers of Michigan’s dry prairies. 🌾

Steve is out in the field harvesting seed from this beautiful native grass, helping carry it forward for future restoration. Purple lovegrass helps stabilize sandy, dry soils while providing habitat and seed for the small creatures that depend on our native grasslands.

A little grass, a big job. 💜

From the field to the rack. 🌿The next chapter in our Rosin W**d harvest.Our field crew harvested these beautiful seed po...
08/26/2026

From the field to the rack. 🌿

The next chapter in our Rosin W**d harvest.

Our field crew harvested these beautiful seed pods of Rosin W**d (Silphium integrifolium) from the production fields.

Fresh from the field, they’ll be racked to dry before moving on to the next stage of processing.

From living plant to harvested seed, every step is part of the cycle.

🌱 Grown here. Harvested here. Prepared with care.

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08/20/2026

Late summer magic. 🌿🦋

Joe-Pye W**d, or Gravel Root, rising from the production fields while butterflies drift from bloom to bloom.

A plant rooted in wet places, long valued in Western herbalism for helping move what has become stagnant.

But out here, its medicine is simpler:

Feed the pollinators.
Restore the soil.
Let the meadow breathe.

This is what a living field looks like. 🌱

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Joe-Pye W**d, Gravel Root 🌿🦋There’s something almost ancient about Joe-Pye W**d towering over a late-summer meadow.Eutro...
08/20/2026

Joe-Pye W**d, Gravel Root 🌿🦋

There’s something almost ancient about Joe-Pye W**d towering over a late-summer meadow.

Eutrochium thrives in moist ground, rising out of the places where water lingers. And perhaps fittingly, one of its old herbal names is Gravel Root.

In Western herbal tradition, Gravel Root was valued as a diuretic and traditionally used for urinary complaints, including what herbalists historically called “gravel” the sediment and stones associated with the urinary tract.

There’s a beautiful piece of plant wisdom in that relationship.

A plant rooted in wet places, traditionally associated with helping move what has become stagnant.

The old herbal traditions often looked at plants not simply as collections of chemical constituents, but through their relationships with landscape, pattern, and the body.

Joe-Pye W**d grows where water gathers.

It brings movement to the meadow.

And when it blooms, it becomes a living gathering place for butterflies, bees, and countless other pollinators.

Maybe that's part of the deeper medicine of restoration, too.

We don't always need to control the landscape.

Sometimes we need to understand where water wants to go, where life wants to gather, and what happens when we give native plants the space to do what they already know how to do.

🌿 Restore the land.
Restore the relationships.
Let the wild return.

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🌱 A little garden love in Portland, MI. 🌼Today the farm crew spent the day at the flats, doing a little maintenance and ...
08/19/2026

🌱 A little garden love in Portland, MI. 🌼

Today the farm crew spent the day at the flats, doing a little maintenance and getting our hands dirty in the best way, keeping the weeds in check and helping the wildflowers shine.

We worked on both Doehne’s Rock Wildflower Garden and the Flutterby Garden, giving these little pockets of habitat some much-needed TLC. 🦋🌿

Native gardens don’t just happen. They take time, care, sweat, and a whole lot of hands in the soil. And when the flowers start popping and the pollinators move in, it’s all worth it.

A little weeding today. A lot more wild tomorrow. 🌼🌿🦋

🌿 ROSiN W**D 🌿No, not that kind of rosin. 😏This is Silphium integrifolium, commonly called wholeleaf rosinweed, one of o...
08/15/2026

🌿 ROSiN W**D 🌿

No, not that kind of rosin. 😏

This is Silphium integrifolium, commonly called wholeleaf rosinweed, one of our beautiful native prairie plants and one of the stranger names in the wildflower world.

Yesterday I spent some quality time harvesting seed from this patch. Alone in the field, covered in plant matter, collecting the next generation one seed head at a time. Honestly, there are worse ways to spend an afternoon.

Rosinweed is a tall, rugged perennial of the tallgrass prairie. The yellow flowers are fantastic for pollinators, while the mature seed heads provide food and habitat for wildlife. Once established, these plants are tough as nails and perfectly at home in the heat, drought, and general chaos of a prairie summer.

And then there are those wonderfully resinous-looking seed heads that earned this plant its common name.

🌻 Native prairie plant
🌱 Perennial
🐝 Pollinator-friendly
🌾 Excellent structural habitat
🌿 Seed collected for future restoration and propagation

There’s something deeply satisfying about harvesting seed from a living prairie and knowing that these little packages contain the blueprint for another generation of plants.

The prairie keeps making more of itself. We just help it along.

08/13/2026

🌱 From lawn to prairie.

This is only the first growing season, and already the transformation is incredible.
Hoary Vervain, Black-Eyed Susan, Blue Vervain, Monarda, Horsemint, and so much more are finding their place in this new native landscape.

We pulled a few problem weeds, gave the natives some room to breathe, and left the prairie to do what it does best: grow. 🌻

Just imagine what this place will look like a few years from now.

🌱 From lawn to prairie.Yesterday we visited one of our off-site restoration projects, where a customer asked us to trans...
08/13/2026

🌱 From lawn to prairie.

Yesterday we visited one of our off-site restoration projects, where a customer asked us to transform their lawn into a native prairie.

It’s only the first growing season, but the transformation is already underway. We found Hoary Vervain, Black-Eyed Susan, Blue Vervain, Monarda, and Horsemint blooming, with many more species still getting established beneath them.

We spent the day pulling a few problem weeds and giving the native plants room to thrive.

The exciting part? This is just the beginning.

Native prairies take time. Every season brings deeper roots, more flowers, more pollinators, and a more established ecosystem.

We can’t wait to see what this little prairie becomes. 🌻🌿

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08/11/2026

🌻 The first blooms of False Sunflower (Heliopsis helianthoides) are making their way into the harvest.

There’s something special about watching a native plant go from seed, to soil, to a field full of flowers and then gathering those flowers to share with others.

False Sunflower is a beautiful reminder that restoration doesn’t have to be complicated.

Plant something native.
Give it room to grow.
Let the pollinators come.
And enjoy the flowers. 🌿
We’re just getting started.

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Portland, MI
48875

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