Free Seeds

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.

Free seed packets are currently being distributed only at AdkAction’s table at community events.

For de-lawning and other large-scale plantings, visit AdkAction’s annual Native Plant Sale to pre-order 1/4 lb or larger quantities of our Adirondack Wildflower Mix for pickup at our Pollinator Festival on June 6, 2026 in Lake Placid.

What's in the seed mix?

This custom wildflower seed mix was specially created for AdkAction’s Adirondack Pollinator Project by Ernst Conservation Seeds, with species chosen to thrive in Northern New York’s climate and support native pollinators. The blend includes a diverse array of native flowers and grasses that bloom from spring through fall, providing critical habitat and food for bees, butterflies, and other beneficial insects.

Seed Mix Composition

10% each:

  • Little Bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium)

  • Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)

5% each:

  • Black Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta)

  • Wild Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa)

  • Blue Eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium angustifolium)

  • Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata)

  • Golden Alexanders (Zizia aurea)

  • Common Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)

  • Great Blue Lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica)

  • Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa)

  • Partridge Pea (Chamaecrista fasciculata)

  • Oxeye Sunflower (Heliopsis helianthoides)

  • Blue Vervain (Verbena hastata)

2.5% each:

  • Blazing Star (Liatris spp.)

  • Foxglove Beardtongue (Penstemon digitalis)

  • Calico Aster (Symphyotrichum lateriflorum)

  • Gray Goldenrod (Solidago nemoralis)

  • Wrinkle Leaf Goldenrod (Solidago rugosa)

  • Smooth Aster (Symphyotrichum laeve)

  • Eastern Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)

  • Boneset (Eupatorium perfoliatum)

  • Nodding Onion (Allium cernuum)

  • Spotted Beebalm (Monarda punctata)

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