Wildflower recipe

Wildflower recipe

Here’s the butterfly/pollinators/songbird mix the Ohio Department of Transportation is planting along a highway median in Ross County:

• Little bluestem 25%

• Nodding wild rye 25%

• Indian grass 12.5%

• Purple coneflower 4.69%

• White wild indigo 4.69%

• Yellow coneflower 4.69%

• Lanceleaf coreopsis 3.13%

• Butterfly weed 2.81%

• Dense blazing star 2.81%

• Round-headed bush clover 2.5%

• New England aster 1.56%

• Tall coreopsis 1.56%

• Showy black-eyed Susan 1.56%

• Prairie dock 1.56%

• Stiff goldenrod 1.56%

• Wild bergamot 1.56%

• Smooth aster 1.56%• Black-eyed Susan 1.25%

The Ohio Department of Transportation planted wildflower seeds in two, 1-acre lots along Rt. 207 in June to start a three-year process to create habitats for bees and other pollinators, said ODOT District 9 spokeswoman Kathleen Fuller.