Purple Blooms
Purple Rain, Purple Haze, Purple Flowers... Next to yellow, purple always steals the show! Purple is not a monolith though—it ranges from pale lavender to deep violet. These regal hues look especially stunning when drifting through the bronze and copper tones of native grasses in fall, sparkling against goldenrods and rudbeckias to create a prairie jam session fit for Paisley Park.
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Virgina Waterleaf (Hydrophyllum Virginianum) -
Rough Blazing Star (Liatris Aspera) -
Mad Dog Skullcap (Scutellaria Lateriflora) -
Blue Vervain (Verbena Hastata) -
Common Blue-eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium albidum) -
Hairy Wood Mint (Blephilia hirsuta) -
Tall Larkspur (Delphinium Exaltatum) -
Large-Flowered Beardtongue (Penstemon Grandiflorus) -
Harlequin Blueflag Iris (Iris Versicolor) -
Big-leaf Aster (Eurybia Macrophylla) -
Blue Wood Aster (Symphyotrichum Cordifolium) -
American Bellflower (Campanula americana) -
Clustered Mountain Mint (Pycnanthemum Muticum) -
Calico Aster (Symphyotrichum Lateriflorum) -
Long-bracted Spiderwort (Prairie Spiderwort) (Tradescantia Bracteata) -
American Pasqueflower (Anemone patens) -
Sharp lobed Hepatica (Hepatica nobilis var. acuta) -
Prairie Brome (Bromus Kalmii) -
Lindley's Aster (Symphyotrichum Ciliolatum) -
New England Aster (Symphyotrichum Novae-Angliae) -
Field Thistle (Cirsium discolor) -
Tall Thistle (Cirsium altissimum) -
Catalpa (Catalpa Speciosa) -
Narrow-leaf Mountain Mint (Pycnanthemum tenuifolium)