WildThings Rescue Nursery Native Plants with purpose
Pontedaria cordata (Pickerelweed)
Not just beautiful...but also a great nectar plant that always has butterflies & bees visiting.
Blooms all summer.
(Will form large colonies if happy.)
Wildlife Benefits: Ducks feed on the seedheads.
Muskrat & deer will eat the foliage.
Larval host for the White-tailed Diver Moth.
2 Gallon Pot 30.00
Sagittaria latifolia (Arrowleaf)
Can be grown in water or at it's edge.
Eventually forms large clumps, with the coolest arrow shaped foliage & pretty blooms that attract many pollinators.
Wildlife Benefits: Attracts all kinds of Bees, Little Carpenter, Bumbles & Halictid.
Also visited frequently by Wasps, Butterflies & Skippers.
Ducks enjoy their seedheads & tubers.
1 Gallon Pot $20.00
Pond Plants (Submergeables)
Persicaria amphibia (Water Smartweed)
The most beautiful of all Smartweeds,
It's brilliant pink blooms in summer demand attention.
Wildlife Benefits: Adored by bees, wasps & butterflies.
Larval host for Purplish Copper Butterfly, Bronze Copper Butterfly, Eye-ringed Chionodes Moth, Bent-line Carpet Moth, Black-dotted Maliattha Moth and the Pink-barred Pseudeustrotia Moth.
Waterbirds like to eat the seedheads.
1 Gallon Pot $25.00
Nymphaea odorata (White Water Lily)
Can there be a more exquisite floating flower?
Blooms all summer and always loaded with Pollinators.
Colonizes slowly.
Wildlife Benefits: Many small bees collect its pollen. Larval host for Pyralid moths, White-tailed Diver Moths.
Ducks, Beavers, Muskrats & Turtles will feed on leaves, fruits & tubers.
1 Gallon Pot $25.00
Utricularia macrorhiza (Common Bladderwort)
A carnivorous plant with showy blooms held above the water's surface.
Foliage, with the food catching bladders beneath.
Can colonize very quickly.
Wildlife Benefits: Food source for ducks & other waterbirds.
1 Gallon Bag $18.00