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.
