In partnership with the OSU Senior Administration, Engineering Without Borders, Office of Sustainability, Facilities Management Landscape Services, and many student/faculty/staff volunteers a Pocket Prairie was planned and planted on November 8, 2022.  More information and images to come as the plants mature, and the area develops.  

 

The lower portion of the butterfly wings were planted as small plugs and include the following plants:

 

Common Name: Lead Plant

Botanical Name: Amorpha canescens

 

Common Name: Elliott’s Bluestem

Botanical Name: Andropogon gyrans

 

Common Name: Butterfly Milkweed

Botanical Name: Asclepias tuberosa 

 

Common Name: Creamy Wild Indigo

Botanical Name: Baptisia bracteate

 

Common Name: Sideoats Grama

Botanical Name: Bouteloua curtipendula      

 

Common Name: Bush’s Sedge

Botanical Name: Carex bushii           

 

Common Name: White Prairie Clover

Botanical Name: Dalea candida

 

Common Name: Yellow Coneflower

Botanical Name: Echinacea paradoxa

 

Common Name: Purple Lovegrass

Botanical Name: Eragrostis spectabilis                                                                     

                                                               

Common Name: Junegrass

Botanical Name: Koeleria macrantha

                                               

Common Name: Prairie Blazing Star

Botanical Name: Liatris pycnostachya

 

Common Name: Spotted Beebalm

Botanical Name: Monarda punctata

 

Common Name: White Upland/Stiff Aster

Botanical Name: Oligoneuron album

 

Common Name: Blue Sage

Botanical Name: Saliva azurea

 

Common Name: Little Bluestem

Botanical Name: Schizachyrium scoparium

 

Common Name: Showy Goldenrod

Botanical Name: Solidago speciosa                                                                          

 

Common Name: Diamondflower

Botanical Name: Stenaria nigricans                                                                          

 

Common Name: Ohio Spiderwort

Botanical Name: Tradescantia ohiensis

 

Common Name: Heart Leaved Alexander

Botanical Name: Zizia aptera

 

 

The upper portion of the butterfly wings were planted using a seed mix, broadcast and covered in place with a light dusting of wood chips.  The upper wing area is roughly 1,860 sqft and the seed mix was a meadow for dry places, grass and forbs.  It included the plants in the list below.  The bloom time for these pollinators is between April and October.

 

Common Name: Nodding Onion

Botanical Name: Allium cernum

 

Common Name: Sideoats Grass

Botanical Name: Bouteloua curtipendula

 

Common Name: Partridge Pea

Botanical Name: Chamaecrista fasciculata

 

Common Name: Lanceleaf coreopsis

Botanical Name: Coreopsis lanceolata

 

Common Name: Purple Coneflower

Botanical Name: Echinacea purpurea 

 

Common Name: Canada Wild Rye

Botanical Name: Elymus canadensis

 

Common Name: Wild Bergamot

Botanical Name: Monarda fistulosa

 

Common Name: Dotted Beebalm

Botanical Name: Monarda punctata

 

Common Name: Beardtongue

Botanical Name: Penstemon digitalis

 

Common Name: Hairy Beardtongue

Botanical Name: Penstemon hirsutus

 

Common Name: Slender Mountain Mint

Botanical Name: Pycnanthemum tenuifolium

 

Common Name: Black-Eyed Susan

Botanical Name: Rudbeckia hirta

 

Common Name: Sweet Coneflower

Botanical Name:  Rudbeckia subtomentosa

 

Common Name: Little Bluestem

Botanical Name: Schizachryium scoparium

 

Common Name: Old Field Goldenrod

Botanical Name: Solidago nemoralis

 

Common Name: Skyblue Aster

Botanical Name: Symphoyotrichum oolentangiense

 

Common Name: Hoary Vervain

Botanical Name: Verbena stricta