Free Seeds to Help Pollinators
AdkAction’s Adirondack Pollinator Project offers free Native Wildflower seed packets to anyone who lives in and around the Adirondack Park to help increase native pollinator habitat. Planting native wildflower seeds is a perfect springtime activity and a great opportunity to get outside with your family. Request seeds below.
What's in the seed mix?
The current seed mix is the Showy Northeast Wildflower Mix from Ernst Seeds, containing:
31.1% Echinacea purpurea (Purple Coneflower)
9.8% Coreopsis lanceolata (Lanceleaf Coreopsis)
9.8% Rudbeckia hirta (Blackeyed Susan)
6.6% Heliopsis helianthoides, PA Ecotype (Oxeye Sunflower, PA Ecotype)
6.6% Penstemon digitalis, PA Ecotype (Tall White Beardtongue, PA Ecotype)
4.6% Asclepias tuberosa, PA Ecotype (Butterfly Milkweed, PA Ecotype)
4.0% Zizia aurea, PA Ecotype (Golden Alexanders, PA Ecotype)
3.3% Chamaecrista fasciculata, PA Ecotype (Partridge Pea, PA Ecotype)
3.3% Lespedeza capitata, RI Ecotype (Roundhead Lespedeza, RI Ecotype)
3.0% Aster oblongifolius, PA Ecotype (Aromatic Aster, PA Ecotype)
2.5% Baptisia australis, Southern WV Ecotype (Blue False Indigo, Southern WV Ecotype)
2.0% Senna hebecarpa, VA & WV Ecotype (Wild Senna, VA & WV Ecotype)
1.6% Liatris spicata (Marsh Blazing Star)
1.6% Rudbeckia triloba, WV Ecotype (Browneyed Susan, WV Ecotype)
1.5% Aster laevis, MN Ecotype (Smooth Blue Aster, MN Ecotype)
1.3% Lespedeza virginica, VA Ecotype(Slender Lespedeza, VA Ecotype)
1.3% Pycnanthemum incanum, MD Ecotype
(Hoary Mountainmint, MD Ecotype)
1.1% Monarda fistulosa, Fort Indiantown Gap-PA Ecotype (Wild Bergamot, Fort Indiantown Gap-PA Ecotype)
1.0% Senna marilandica (Maryland Senna)
1.0% Solidago bicolor, PA Ecotype (White Goldenrod, PA Ecotype)
1.0% Solidago nemoralis, PA Ecotype (Gray Goldenrod, PA Ecotype)
0.7% Aster pilosus, PA Ecotype (Heath Aster, PA Ecotype)
0.5% Penstemon hirsutus (Hairy Beardtongue)
0.5% Tradescantia ohiensis, PA Ecotype (Ohio Spiderwort, PA Ecotype)
0.3% Solidago juncea, PA Ecotype (Early Goldenrod, PA Ecotype)