Green Roof Plant List

Early Goldenrod, Solidago juncea

Blackeyed Susan, Rudbeckia hirta

Purple prairie clover, Dalea purpurea

Long Flower Beeblossom, Oenothera filiformis

Blue-Eyed Grass, Sisyrinchium angustifolium

Beardtongue, Penstemon digitalis and Flax Seed, Linum perenne

Red Columbine, Aquilegia canadensis

Cosmos, Cosmos bipinnatus

Culver's Root, Veronicastrum Virginicum

Purpletop Vervain, Verbena bonariensis

Meadowbeauties, Rhexia mariana

Tickseed, Coreopsis Tinctoria

Blanket Flower, Gaillardia pulchella

Blazing Star, Liatris spicata

Smooth Blue Aster, Symphyotrichum laeve

Floss Flower, Ageratum houstonianum

Partridge pea, Chamaecrista fasciculata

Rattlesnake Master, Eryngium yuccifolium

Early Autumn Onion, Allium stellatum

Horsemint, Monarda punctata

Butterfly Weed, Asclepias tuberosa

Wild Strawberry, Fragaria virginiana

Eastern Prickly Pear, Opuntia humifusa

Swamp Milkweed, Asclepias incarnata

Tennessee purple coneflower, Echinacea tennesseensis

Beebalm, Monarda fistulosa

Blue False Indigo, Baptisia australis and Zizia aptere

Camas, Camassia quamash

Wildlife

You can check out all iNaturalist observations made on the roof here. We go through phases of activity logging plants and pollinators there, and love for our visitors to help us build a valuable collection of research-quality data based at the roofs.

Green Roof Ecology

Green Roof Plant List

Wildlife

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