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In-Person Native Plant Sale Fundraiser

All proceeds from this sale
support the work of Powered Up Baraboo

Saturday, May 18, 2024
9 am to 12 pm
while supplies last

Nanny Park

Corner of 5th St. & Oak St., Downtown Baraboo

All Plants $5 Each

We can only accept CASH or CHECK for payment.

Use the plant information below to decide what plants you want to buy on May 18!

What is it? Monarda fistulosa, also known as wild bergamot or bee balm, is a wildflower in the mint family.
Native to where? It is native to much of North America.
Hardiness Zone: Plants are hardy from USDA Hardiness Zones 3 to 9.
What does it look like? It has showy summer-blooming pink to lavender flowers. The plants are typically up to 3 feet tall, with a few erect branches.
Bloom Time: Plants bloom in July, August, and September.
Growth Habit: It grows from slender creeping rhizomes, thus commonly occurring in large clumps. The plant is noted for its fragrance.
Growing Conditions: It is a highly adaptable native plant that thrives in all but the wettest soils. It grows in full to partial sun.
Environmental Benefits: The fragrant lavender flowers are a popular nectar source for pollinators and attract a wide variety of bees and butterflies. Hummingbirds may also visit. It is a host plant for the Hermit Sphinx moth.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarda_fistulosa
https://www.prairienursery.com/bergamot-monarda-fistulosa.html
Image Source:
By Eric Hunt - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=91403406

Bee Balm

• Full to partial sun

• Thrives in all but the wettest soils

What is it? Asclepias tuberosa, commonly known as butterfly weed, is a perennial species of milkweed.
Native to where? It is native to eastern and southwestern North America.
What does it look like? It has long-lasting, bright orange flowers, and grows to 2 feet tall. The leaves are spirally arranged and alternating. The fruit pod is 3–6 in long, containing many long-haired seeds.
Bloom Time: It blooms from April to September.
Growth Habit: In an ideal location, a mature Butterfly Weed can become a very showy specimen, with multiple flowering stems spreading across a two-foot-high plant. Mature plants have a deep tap root that extends down a foot or more. They can be transplanted if dug carefully, during dormancy.
Growing Conditions: It prefers dry to medium soil of loam, sand, or gravel in full sun.
Hardiness Zone: Plants are hardy from USDA Hardiness Zones 3 to 9.
Environmental Benefits: Butterflies are attracted to the plant by its color and its copious production of nectar. It is a larval food plant of the queen and monarch butterflies.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asclepias_tuberosa
https://www.prairienursery.com/butterflyweed-asclepias-tuberosa.html
Image Sources:
By Photo by Derek Ramsey (Ram-Man) - Own work, CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=912980
By Photo by and (c)2009 Derek Ramsey (Ram-Man) - Self-photographed, GFDL 1.2, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7080876

Butterfly Weed

• Full sun

• Dry to medium soil of loam, sand, or gravel

What is it? Baptisia bracteate var. leucophaea, also known as cream wild indigo or cream false indigo, is a perennial herbaceous plant in the bean family.
Native to where? It is native to the central and eastern United States.
Hardiness Zone: Plants are hardy from USDA Hardiness Zones 4 to 9.
What does it look like? It is a compact, low-growing, mounded legume, with branches that cascade under the weight of its foot-long flower spikes. It has velvety leaves and attractive seed pods provide season long interest, as they turn black in the fall.
Bloom time: Plants bloom in May and June.
Growth Habit: Cream False Indigo is extremely long-lived, and individual plants can live for decades.
Growing Conditions: It prefers average, dry to medium, well-drained soil in full sun or light shade, it tolerates hot and humid summers, poor soils and drought. Plants should be spaced 2 feet apart.
Environmental Benefits: An early bloomer, the flowers are essential for queen bumblebees emerging from their winter hibernation. It is a host plant for the Black-Spotted Prominent, Wild Indigo Duskywing, Hoary Edge, and Frosted Elfin butterflies. It is deer resistant.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptisia_bracteata
https://www.prairienursery.com/cream-false-indigo-baptisia-bracteata.html
Image Source:
By Eric Hunt - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=84064672

Cream Wild Indigo

• Full sun to light shade

• Average, dry to medium, well-drained soil

What is it? Culver’s Root, also known as Veronicastrum virginicum, is a species of flowering plant in the plantain family.
Native to where? It is native to the eastern United States and south-eastern Canada.
Hardiness Zone: Plants are hardy from USDA Hardiness Zones 3 to 8.
What does it look like? It is an erect herbaceous perennial with tall unbranched stems and slender stalks topped with elegant spires of flowers of white or occasionally pink or purple flowers.
Bloom Time: Plants bloom in July and August.
Growth Habit: Mature plants can reach heights of 6 feet tall, and form a large clump with multiple stems.
Growing Conditions: Culver’s Root prefers full sun or light shade and tolerates a wide range of soils: clay, loam, and sand.
Environmental Benefits: Butterflies and numerous solitary bees such as sweat bees, carpenter bees and bumble bees will visit.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronicastrum_virginicum
https://www.prairienursery.com/culver-s-root-veronicastrum-virginicum.html
Image Source:
By Crazytwoknobs - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4495060

Culver's Root

• Full sun to light shade

• Wide range of soils: clay, loam, and sand

What is it? Carex vulpinoidea, commonly known as Fox Sedge, is a species of perennial grass-like plants.
Native to where? It is native to North America, including most of Canada, the Dominican Republic, the United States and parts of Mexico.
Hardiness Zone: Plants are hardy from USDA Hardiness Zones 3 to 9.
What does it look like? It forms beautiful fine-leaved mounds, two feet in diameter, with clumps of stems up to a meter tall. Its common name is derived from the seed head which resembles a fox's tail, and may be up to about 3.9 inches long.
Bloom Time: Its mid-summer fruiting period is when the bright bronze seed head is visible.
Growth Habit: It actively grows during the spring and fall when soil temperatures are cool.
Growing Conditions: Fox Sedge grows in a wide variety of medium-moist to wet soils, including clay, and is an excellent choice for rain gardens. Full sun.
Environmental Benefits: Plants are pest resistant and unpalatable to deer and most other herbivores. They can be a resilient sedge for wetlands and disturbed sites, and can be used to stabilize the ground on shorelines.
Source:
https://www.prairiemoon.com/carex-vulpinoidea-brown-fox-sedge-prairie-moon-nursery.html
https://www.prairienursery.com/fox-sedge-carex-vulpinoidea.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carex_vulpinoidea
https://www.pinelandsnursery.com/carex-vulpinoidea-fox-sedge-seed
Image Source:
By Robert H. Mohlenbrock - http://plants.usda.gov/java/largeImage?imageID=cavu2_002_avp.tif, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5778483

Fox Sedge

• Full sun

• Wide variety of medium-moist to wet soils, including clay, and is an excellent choice for rain gardens

What is it? Golden Alexander, also known as Zizia aurea, is a yellow-flowering herbaceous plant of the carrot family.
Native to where? It is native to the United States and Canada.
Hardiness Zone: Plants are hardy from USDA Hardiness Zones 3 to 8.
What does it look like? It grows to 16 to 30 inches tall. It blooms in golden yellow umbels with non-fragrant flowers lasting about a month.
Bloom time: It blooms in May and June.
Growth Habit: It is a short-lived herbaceous perennial forb of the carrot family that readily reseeds, forming non-aggressive clumps.
Growing conditions: Plants should be placed 1 foot apart. This is an excellent low-growing perennial for heavy clay soils in semi-shade to full sun. Moist, well-drained soil is best, but this plant will tolerate both wet and dry conditions, as long as there is plenty of moisture early in the growing season.
Environmental benefits: It is a host plant for the caterpillars of the black swallowtail and Ozark swallowtail. Females of the mining bee species Andrena ziziae eat only its pollen. Dozens of species of bees, flies, wasps, butterflies, and other insects visit the flowers of Zizia aurea for its nectar. Many short tongue pollinators and smaller butterflies use Golden Zizia as a nectar source. As a long-spring flowering plant, it provides nectar when few flowers are blooming. It is deer resistant.
Source:
https://www.prairienursery.com/golden-alexanders-zizia-aurea.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zizia_aurea
http://tinyurl.com/554wmmzd
Image Source:
Photo by and (c)2007 Derek Ramsey (Ram-Man) - Self-photographed, GFDL 1.2, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2087778

Golden Alexander

• Full sun to semi-shade

• Moist, well-drained soil, but will tolerate both wet and dry conditions, including heavy clay soils

What is it? Joe Pye Weed, also known as Eutrochium (Eupatorium) maculatum, is an herbaceous perennial plant in the family Asteraceae.
Native to where? It is native to eastern and central North America.
Hardiness Zone: Plants are hardy from USDA Hardiness Zones 3 to 8.
What does it look like? It can grow to 6 ft 7 in feet tall and about 3.9 feet wide. Stems are upright, thick, round, purple spots. It has large pink flowers.
Bloom Time: Plants bloom mid to late summer.
Growth Habit: It is an excellent, well-behaved garden plant with a shallow fibrous root that won't interfere with other garden perennials.
Growing Conditions: Joe Pye Weed thrives in marshes, wetlands, and swamps. It also does well in man-made moist expanses such as ditches, seepage areas and wet fields. Above all else the plant flourishes in environments with full to partial sun.
Environmental Benefits: Many species of butterflies, moths, bees, and flies visit the flowers.
Sources:
https://www.prairienursery.com/sweet-joe-pye-weed-eupatorium-purpureum.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eutrochium_maculatum
Image Source:
By D. Gordon E. Robertson - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10227516

Joe Pye Weed

• Full to partial sun

• Marshes, wetlands, and swamps., man-made moist expanses

What is it? Little Bluestem, also known as Schizachyrium scoparium, is a highly ornamental native prairie grass.
Native to where? It is native to most of the contiguous United States.
Hardiness Zone: Plants are hardy from USDA Hardiness Zones 3 to 9.
What does it look like? It grows to become an upright, roundish mound of soft, bluish-green or grayish-green blades. Little Bluestem reaches a height of 3 feet by autumn, when it turns a striking reddish-bronze, bearing illuminated tufted seeds.
Bloom Time: In July, it initiates flowering stalks, which reach 4 to 5 feet in height.
Growth Habit: Little Blue Stem is a species of bunchgrass, which grow as singular plants in clumps, tufts, hummocks, or bunches, rather than forming a sod or lawn. The rigid clumps can withstand snow and rain, allowing the reddish grass stems to remain upright for most of the winter.
Growing Conditions: This prairie grass excels in dry sandy soils. It is not recommended for damp sites or heavy clay soils. Full sun.
Environmental Benefits: Little Bluestem is a host plant for numerous skipper butterflies including the Cobweb Skipper, Dusted Skipper, Ottoe Skipper, Delaware Skipper, Crossline Skipper and Swarthy Skipper.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizachyrium_scoparium
https://www.prairienursery.com/little-bluestem-schizachyrium-scoparium.html
Image Sources:
Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=807822
By Montrealais - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4358954

Little Blue Stem

• Full sun

• Excels in dry sandy soils

What is it? New England Aster, also known as Symphyotrichum novae-angliae is a perennial, herbaceous species of flowering plant in the aster family (Asteraceae).
Native to where? It is native to central and eastern North America.
Hardiness Zone: Plants are hardy from USDA Hardiness Zones 4 to 8.
What does it look like? It is a plant usually between 1 and 6 feet tall and 2 to 3 ft wide. The flowers have up to 100 ray florets and are usually deep purple; rarely pink or white. These surround the flower centers which are composed of just as many tiny yellow disk florets. The plant grows naturally in clumps, with several erect stems emerging from a single point. The stems are stout, hairy, and mostly unbranched.
Bloom time: It blooms from August through October.
Growth Habit: Tends to spread seeds and populate new spaces.
Growing conditions: It prefers full to partial sun. New England Aster generally grows in medium to wet soils of clay, loam, or sand. Plants should be spaced from 1 foot to 18 inches apart.
Environmental benefits: The flowers are important to birds, bees, and butterflies.
Sources:
https://www.prairienursery.com/new-england-aster-aster-novae-angliae.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphyotrichum_novae-angliae
Image Source:
By The Cosmonaut - Own work, CC BY-SA 2.5 ca, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=98381010
By Niepokój Zbigniew - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=79092951

New England Aster

• Full to partial sun

• Medium to wet soils of clay, loam, or sand

What is it? Echinacea pallida, the pale purple coneflower, is a species of herbaceous perennial plant in the family Asteraceae.
Native to where? It is native to the central region of the United States.
Hardiness Zone: Plants are hardy from USDA Hardiness Zones 3 to 8.
What does it look like? It grows to 1.5 to 3 feet tall. Flower head rays are narrow, linear, elongated, and drooping, ranging from 1 to 3 inches long.
Bloom Time: Echinacea pallida blooms from June into July.
Growth Habit: It has a deep taproot enabling the plant to live long with little maintenance. It is capable of handling hot dry situations. Plants normally grow with one unbranched stem in the wild, but often produce multi-stemmed clumps in gardens. Plants should be spaced 1 foot apart.
Growing Conditions: It is very adaptable, tolerating drought, heat, humidity and preferring full sun in clay, loam, and sandy soils. It does not like soils that are too moist with poor drainage. The state of Wisconsin lists the species as threatened, mostly due to habitat loss and over-collection of roots.
Environmental Benefits: It is a favorite nectar source for pollinators, including butterflies and hummingbirds. Later in summer the large seed heads attract goldfinches and other birds. It is a larval host to the silvery checkerspot. It is deer resistant.
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echinacea_pallida
https://www.prairienursery.com/pale-purple-coneflower-echinacea-pallida.html
Image Source
By SEWilco - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2267745
By Llez - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9855481

Pale Purple Coneflower

• Full sun

• Clay, loam, and sandy soils. It does not like soils that are too moist

What is it? Geum triflorum, commonly known as Prairie Smoke, is a distinctive prairie wildflower, a perennial herbaceous plant of the Rosaceae family.
Native to where? The plant is native to many areas of the north central and western United States.
Hardiness Zone: Plants are hardy from USDA Hardiness Zones 3 to 7.
What does it look like? Its common name, Prairie Smoke, derives from the appearance of its wispy seedheads. The flowering stalks stand well above the leaves on red-purple-maroon stems 10–45 cm in height. Each flower hangs upside down by itself from a separate pedicle. When pollination is completed, the flower heads turn upright and the sepals begin to open. The seed heads start out pale pink and fade to tan or grey as the seeds mature in mid-summer.
Bloom Time: The flowers appear from mid-spring to early summer.
Growth Habit: It is a perennial herb with short, spreading rhizomes, which form colonies of stemless rosettes. Early in the spring, the leaves often lie flat to the ground and are in poor condition, but they soon become more upright in response to the warmer days and lack of snow cover. In the heat of a dry summer, the leaves also will lie down closer to the earth. The plants resume growth in the fall as other plants are starting to go dormant, developing a mound of deep grey-green leaves.
Growing Conditions: Excellent for hot dry spots, it thrives in any well-drained soil. Wet and soggy winter conditions may cause the plants to die back.
Environmental Benefits: Deer resistant.
Sources:
https://www.prairienursery.com/prairie-smoke-geum-triflorum.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geum_triflorum
https://hort.extension.wisc.edu/articles/prairie-smoke-geum-triflorum/
Image Source:
By Thayne Tuason - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=67139532
By Walter Siegmund - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=34094362

Prairie Smoke

• Full sun

• Thrives in any well-drained soil, hot dry spots

What is it? Purple Prairie Clover, also known as Dalea purpurea, is a species of perennial flowering plant in the legume family.
Native to where? Native to central North America, Purple Prairie Clover is a relatively common member of the Great Plains and prairie ecosystems.
Hardiness Zone: Plants are hardy from USDA Hardiness Zones 3 to 8.
What does it look like? It has dense spikes of bright purple, thimble-shaped flowers that attract bumble bees and other pollinating insects. Blooms sit atop woody stems that bear branches with delicate foliage. It grows easily to a height of 8 to 35 inches tall.
Bloom time: It blooms in July and August.
Growth Habit: The deep taproot supports a long-lived plant that is virtually impervious to heat and drought. Excellent in a variety of plantings including rock gardens, sunny perennial borders, native plant gardens or naturalized prairie areas. The mature plant has a large taproot 5.5 to 6.5 feet deep. This plant is adapted to a habitat with periodic wildfires. In some areas, it depends on fire to clear encroaching woody vegetation, as it cannot tolerate shade.
Growing conditions: It prefers any sunny location with average to dry soils of clay, loam, and sand.
Environmental benefits: It attracts butterflies and is deer resistant. Purple Prairie Clover also adds valuable nitrogen to the soil.
Source:
https://www.prairienursery.com/purple-prairie-clover-dalea-purpurea.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalea_purpurea
http://tinyurl.com/mr34c3tn
Image Source:
By Eric Hunt - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=106537963

Purple Prairie Clover

• Full sun; cannot tolerate shade

• Virtually impervious to heat and drought

What is it? Rattlesnake Master, also known as Eryngium yuccifolium, is a perennial herb of the parsley family
Native to where? It is native to the tallgrass prairies of central and eastern North America.
Hardiness Zone: Plants are hardy from USDA Hardiness Zones 4 to 9.
What does it look like? It grows up to 5 feet tall. This unique wildflower is best known for its bristly, bluish-green, spherical flowers.
Bloom Time: The flowers are produced in June, July, and August.
Growth Habit: The root system consists of a central taproot surrounded by thick fleshy fibrous roots.
Growing Conditions: It prefers full sun in dry to medium soil of clay, loam, or sand.
Environmental Benefits: The flowers attract many insects, including bees, flies, beetles, butterflies, and wasps. The highly textured flowers and leaves are unpalatable to both deer and rabbits.
Source:
https://www.prairienursery.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=Rattlesnake+Master
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eryngium_yuccifolium
Image Source:
By Eric Hunt - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=91919813

Rattlesnake Master

• Full sun

• Dry to medium soil of clay, loam, or sand

What is it? Rough Blazing Star, also known as Liatris aspera, is a perennial wildflower in the Asteraceae family.
Native to where? Rough blazing star is found natively in the central United States and along the Southeastern coast of the United States.
Hardiness Zone: Plants are hardy from USDA Hardiness Zones 3 to 8.
What does it look like? It grows as a single, erect, unbranched stem in full sun to a height of 2 to 6 feet. It has numerous, button-like flower heads in lavender, pink, or purple.
Bloom Time: It blooms in August through October.
Growth Habit: Plants should be spaced 6 inches to 1 foot apart.
Growing Conditions: It prefers medium or dry well-drained soils of loam or sand. Avoid planting this drought tolerant plant in moist areas, or locations where the soil remains consistently wet during winter.
Environmental Benefits: It will attract hummingbirds, butterflies, and other pollinators.
Sources:
https://www.prairienursery.com/rough-blazingstar-liatris-aspera.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liatris_aspera
http://tinyurl.com/3rnz6wrx
Image Source:
By Eric Hunt - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=61571685

Rough Blazing Star

• Full sun

• Medium or dry well-drained soils of loam or sand; drought tolerant

What is it? Asclepias incarnata, commonly known as the swamp milkweed, is a herbaceous perennial plant.
Native to where? It is native to North America.
Hardiness Zone: Plants are hardy from USDA Hardiness Zones 3 to 6.
What does it look like? Swamp milkweed plants usually grow about 3 to 4 feet tall, producing small, fragrant, pink to mauve (sometimes white) colored flowers in rounded umbellate groups of blossoms.
Bloom Time: The plants bloom in early to mid-summer with rose shades from pinks to purples.
Growth Habit: It does not spread aggressively like some other milkweeds. It grows from thick, fleshy, white roots. Typically, its stems are branched and the clump-forming plants emerge in late spring after most other plants have begun growth for the year. After blooming, green follicles, approximately 12 cm (4+3⁄4 in) long, are produced that when ripe, split open. They then release light or dark brown flat seeds that are attached to silver-white, silky hairs which catch the wind. Although Asclepias incarnata plants can survive for up to 20 years, most live only two-five years in gardens. The species is not shade-tolerant and is not a good vegetative competitor.
Growing Conditions: Asclepias incarnata prefer moist locations, will also grow well in medium moisture once they are established, even doing well in wet clay soils and poorly drained soils.
Environmental Benefits: Host plant to Monarch and Queen butterflies, nectar to many.
Sources:
https://www.joyfulbutterfly.com/product/swamp-milkweed-plants/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asclepias_incarnata
Image Sources:
By Teune at the English-language Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4796425
By Photo by and (c)2009 Derek Ramsey (Ram-Man) - Self-photographed, GFDL 1.2, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7141778

Swamp Milkweed

• Full to partial sun

• Moist locations, will also grow well in medium moisture once they are established, even doing well in wet clay soils and poorly drained soils

What is it? Wild Blue Phlox, also known as Phlox divaricata, woodland phlox, or wild sweet william, is a semi-evergreen, flowering perennial.
Native to where? It is native to eastern North America.
Hardiness Zone: Plants are hardy from USDA Hardiness Zones 3 to 8.
What does it look like? The pleasantly fragrant flowers bloom in a variety of pastel colors: blue-lavender, light purple, pink, or white. It grows to a height of 1 to 2 feet tall. The flowers produce nectar at the base of the long, narrow corolla tube, and pollen near the end of the corolla tube.
Bloom Time: It may bloom from March to late May.
Growth Habit: Plants should be spaced 1 foot apart. The plant requires cross-pollination to produce seed.
Growing Conditions: It prefers growing in medium to moist soils of clay, loam, or sand in deciduous forests and fields. It is the perfect phlox for shady or partially shady areas.
Environmental Benefits: Only butterflies, moths, skippers, and long-tongued bees have long enough tongues to drink the nectar. Short-tongued bees and flower flies are unable to reach the nectar but may gather or feed on pollen.
Sources:
https://www.prairienursery.com/wild-blue-phlox-phlox-divaricata.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlox_divaricata
http://tinyurl.com/2s3843n7
Image Sources:
By Wilson44691 - Own work, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=48364562
By Fritzflohrreynolds - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31468511

Wild Blue Phlox

• Partial sun to shade

• Medium to moist soils of clay, loam, or sand in deciduous forests and fields

What is it? Wild Geranium, also known as Geranium maculatum, is a perennial plant.
Native to where? It is native to woodland in eastern North America, from southern Manitoba and southwestern Quebec south to Alabama and Georgia and west to Oklahoma and South Dakota.
Hardiness Zone: Plants are hardy from USDA Hardiness Zones 3 to 8.
What does it look like? It can grow to 2 feet tall. The flowers are 1 to 1.6 inches in diameter, with five rose-purple, pale or violet-purple petals. They are on long petioles. Summer leaves are up to 6 inches long and wide. Flowers are produced in small clusters at the end of long stems.
Bloom Time: Blooms appear from April to June.
Growth Habit: The rhizome is long, 2 to 4 inches thick, with numerous branches.
Growing Conditions: It grows in dry to moist woods with loam or sand soil. As a woodland native, it prefers shade, but it will grow in the sun in a rich soil that is consistently damp. Plants should be spaced 1 foot apart.
Environmental Benefits: Wild geranium is a larval host plant for the leafmining moth, and the White-Marked Tussock moth.
Sources:
https://www.prairienursery.com/wild-geranium-geranium-maculatum.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geranium_maculatum
https://www.fs.usda.gov/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/geranium_maculatum.shtml
Image Source:
By Eric in SF - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11251267

Wild Geranium

• Partial sun to shade

• Dry to moist woods with loam or sand soil

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