good mornin' Lime! Sounds like a cute little addition to your garden or field, but please be sure it isn't on your state restricted list. I posted last year with a description of a plant I wanted really REALLY badly, a very cherming thing that turned out to be on my state's restricted list! (Policeman's Helmet) FEDERAL LIST: http://invasives.uconn.edu/ipane/ipanespecies/fednox.htm SOME OF THE WEEDS IN MICHIGAN IN THE SEEDLING STAGE: http://web1.msue.msu.edu/msue/iac/e1363/e1363.htm Michigan Native Plants and Seeds Guide 2002/2003 Michigan Native Plant Producers Association http://www.nohlc.org/MNPPA.htm#Wildflowers I hope you find what you're looking for. GH- Here is a link that might be useful: Michigan Native Plant Producers Association

I don't have a lot of experience with seed sellers so I canÂt tell you who is reliable. What I do is work backwords. My state government web site has a list of endangered and threatened species. Find the site for your state and do searches to see which plants grow best on your property - sun, shade, wet, dry. Use that list to search for the plant names. Searches often turn up places that sell the seeds. Some sellers have sites with great information. I save the URLs and will be buying seeds and plants as my budget allows. There are a lot of sites that donÂt turn up when you search for a plant name. You could try the Garden Watchdog at DaveÂs Garden, which has reviews of plant sellers, or just search topics like Ânative plant seedsÂ, Ânative plant sellersÂ. Search Garden web also, there are many old posts about different sellers and bad or good service. I know seeds from some of our endangered Michigan plants can be found. I have seen sellers for threatened milkweeds, queen of the prairie etc. I like reading sites like Easyliving, Prairie Moon, Oak Prairie Farms. fraser's thimblefarms had dwarf raspberry, sunlightgardens had pussytoes. With wildflowers, availability changes all the time. I think it is best to make just a small order the first time. Keep reading gardenweb and donÂt forget to copy down any good information you find. I keep losing information because I cant find old posts Here is a link that might be useful: Michigan List of Threatened Species

"I like to believe that each person can decide for themselves whether or not a plant in a given situation is threatened to a point that it would be more beneficial to move it than to leave it where it stands, whether it is in a park or on a roadside or any public property. " A roadside is not punblic property. I think it would be of interest that in many cases when only a single individual of a plant species exists that plant is left as undisturbed as possible and is propegated instead of moved, because even then moving the plant is not more beneficial (indeed, probably worse) to leavin it. Those singular individual plants in question are not, however ignored. By looking at that example, NO plant is 'threatened to a point that it would be more beneficial to move it than to leave it where it stands' unless imminent destruction in the near future is likely due to human activites. Therefore in almost any surcumstances leaving the plants is definatly the better option, but some site care such as checking and removing all weeds in the vicinity of the plants is vastly better than moving them. Also, if you cant do that site maitence (for example, not on your land)your probably not supposed to be moving plants from there anyway. Unless you have premission of course, preferably permission to maintain the site. A roadside planting is most likely secure, and with the wildflowers and garlic mustard, perirodic weeding in the imidiate vicinity of the plant population may be all that is required for the long-term presistance of that population. It is interesting to note that in certain curcumstances (for example, native wild plants transplanted to a neatly kept garden) the population of transplanted plants are unlikely to survive in the long-term because they may not reproduce. While the individual transplanted plants may survive, the establishment and long-term presistance of a self-supporting population in in doubt, altough it can and does happen, it might just as easily not because of many subtle variables affecting the growing site means establishment of said transplanted plants might be in unlikely. Without long-term presistance of a self-supporting population, it, in my mind atleast, not a resce in the sence that these plants have been removed from a population that probably needs all the individuals it it can get, and presistance in the wild is far more important, ecologicly speaking, than presistance in cultivation. Note: the terms Establishment and self-supporting population does not just mean that the species sometimes reseeds itself, altough that is a important factor in the process. In the case of this garlic mustard weeding within the viicinity of the plants on a regular basis would probably ensure theri survival in the short term, altough their long-term survival may be in doubt because, lets face it, you wont be there forever to weed. WHat might work is if you suceed in reducing garlic mustards population density in the area.

I have 2 of them as shrubs, and love them! What a beautiful plant.. I find it easy to keep them under control. Mine needed much more water when in containers, but in the ground they are thriving with only rain waterings. I have them on the ends of a long raised bed (a hill) and they have not been invasive at all, so far. They are very popular landscape plants here in/around high end gated communtities. Those lovely leaves really stand out against blah greenery. Lisa