Clay soil is notorious for being difficult to work with but there are a many excellent wildflowers and native grasses that thrive in clay! If your soil turns from soup in the spring to concrete in the summer, this is the seed mix for you!

For step-by-step instructions see our How to Grow a Meadow information pages.

About our Seed Mixes

All of our wildflower seed mixes are designed on a "seeds sown per square foot" ratio of approximately 65% flowers and 35% grasses, this way you'll get exactly the amount of seed you need for the area you wish to grow your meadow. Our seed mixes include written instructions and are ready to plant!

Our Claybusters! Seed Mix contains these wildflowers and native grasses:
Click on the plant's name to see a pop-up photo of it.

Wildflower Seeds

Species Name	Common Name
Agastache foeniculum	Anise Hyssop
Aquilegia canadensis	Wild Columbine
Baptisia alba	White False Indigo
Coreopsis lanceolata	Lance Leaf Coreopsis
Dalea purpurea	Purple Prairie Clover
Desmodium canadense	Canada Tick Trefoil
Echinacea pallida	Pale Purple Coneflower
Echinacea purpurea	Purple Coneflower
Heliopsis helianthoides	Ox Eye Sunflower
Liatris pycnostachya	Prairie Blazingstar
Monarda fistulosa	Bergamot
Oligoneuron rigidum	Stiff Goldenrod
Parthenium integrifolium	Wild Quinine
Penstemon digitalis	Smooth Penstemon
Ratibida pinnata	Yellow Coneflower
Rudbeckia hirta	Black Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia subtomentosa	Sweet Black Eyed Susan
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae	New England Aster
Tradescantia ohiensis	Spiderwort
Vernonia fasciculata	Ironweed
Veronicastrum virginicum	Culver's Root
Zizia aurea	Golden Alexander

Native Grass Seeds

Species Name	Common Name
Elymus canadensis	Canada Wild Rye
Schizachyrium scoparium	Little Bluestem
Sorghastrum nutans	Indiangrass

Nurse Crop

Species Name	Common Name
Lolium multiflorum	Annual Rye Grass

Please note: All wildflower seed mixes over 1,000 sq. ft. are custom seed mixes. Custom seed mix orders, as they are made specifically for you, cannot be returned.