Add Native Plants to Your Landscape
We help you get started and show you where to purchase native plants.
Visit Native Plants in the Wild
Discover native plants in their natural habitats and learn how to identify them.
Make Lifelong Friends
Find kindred spirits at our plant sale, garden tours, annual conference, and volunteer activities.
T-Shirts Are Here!
The 2024 Indiana Native Plant of the Year is rattlesnake master (Eryngium yuccifolium)!
This beautiful, distinctive, architectural plant is a showstopper in native plant gardens and a pollinator magnet. It is a host for the globally imperiled and state extirpated Eryngium stem-borer moth (Papaipema eryngii), the flower feeding moth (Coleotechnites eryngiella) and black swallowtail butterfly larva (Papilio polyxenes).
Rattlesnake master is culturally significant, with medicinal and ceremonial uses for Native American communities. With beautiful blue-green bristly globes, the foliage of this long-lived perennial is unpalatable to rabbits and deer. It is a pleasing contrast to the dominance of the summer yellow of the grassland and provides a great visual with the purples of Liatris and Echinacea.
Celebrate this winner with a winning t-shirt designed by Mary Welz. It comes in several colors and shapes, and proceeds go to INPS native plant education and conservation activities. Order your t-shirt HERE.
Dig Deeper
Lend a Hand
INPS has volunteer activities to suit every interest and energy level, plus you meet the most interesting people!
Certify Your Native Garden
You’ve increased biodiversity and enhanced habitat by adding natives to your garden. Now show off your native garden as an example for others.
Apply for a Grant
Our Biodiversity Grant Program and Letha’s Youth Outdoors Fund support projects and activities that advance the INPS mission.
We Welcome All to INPS
INPS welcomes all people to our organization. We are all an integral part of our natural world and everyone has the right to enjoy interactions with nature and native plants.
All people need to have the opportunity to be an active part of our mission, the “preservation, study, and use of plants native to Indiana” and INPS is working to reduce barriers so that every person can safely enjoy the outdoors.
For INPS to perform its mission, it is important that it be a diverse group. INPS will take measurable actions to increase the diversity of its membership to better reflect our society.
Please let us know your thoughts and suggestions at diversity@indiananativeplants.org.
Homegrown National Park™!
Our friend Doug Tallamy has put forth this idea to compensate for the diminishing acres of natural area in the US. People have used up most of the available land to grow crops and house humans, leaving the critters who share our planet with nowhere else to go.
Why not treat our yards as part of a much larger ecosystem, says Tallamy, one that will sustain wildlife and build biodiversity?
Our Landscaping with Native team is taking up the cause. Team leader Coralie Palmer lays it all out here. Stay tuned as we synch up with Tallamy’s bold plan to engage home gardeners in restoring vibrant, productive ecosystems in their own yards.
Where to start: Read Tallamy’s book, Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard.
