Journey all the way to the top of the mountain to enjoy the traditional in-person native plant sale at Kings Gap State Park on May 11, 2024 (10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.) and May 12, 2024 (Noon – 4:00 p.m.)
Sponsored by the Friends of Kings Gap, this plant sale includes native plants, and a few “naturalized” favorites. All sales are cash or check. 500 Kings Gap Rd, Carlisle, PA 17015
- All pots are $7.00 — support the park and pick up native plants for your garden
- Impromptu Educational Programs
- Honey and other bee products from the Happy Beekeeper
- Proceeds benefit Kings Gap State Park!
Saturday:
- Vegetable seedlings available from LEAF Project
- Additional plants from Spring Haven Nursery
All proceeds support the park and benefit the Friends of Kings Gap!
| Common Name | Scientific Name |
|---|---|
| Wildflowers | |
| Blue Star, Dwarf | Amsonia ‘Blue Ice’ |
| Columbine, Wild | Aquilegia canadensis |
| Common Milkweed | Asclepias syriaca |
| Butterfly Weed | Asclepias tuberosa |
| Wood Aster, Blue | Aster cordifolius |
| Aster, New England (Purple) | Aster novae – angliea |
| Wild Indigo, Blue | Baptisia australis |
| Tea, New Jersey | Ceanothus americanus |
| Turtlehead, White | Chelone glabra |
| Turtlehead, Pink | Chelone lyonii ‘Hot Lips’ |
| Coreopsis, Tall | Coreopsis tripteris |
| Coneflower, Bush’s | Echinacea paradoxa |
| Coneflower, Purple | Echinacea purpurea ‘Magnus’ |
| Rattlesnake master | Eryngium yuccifolium |
| Joe-Pye Weed | Eupatorium fistulosum |
| Common Boneset | Eupatorium perfoliatum |
| American Alumroot | Heuchera Americana |
| Blazing Star, Button | Liatris aspera |
| Cardinal Flower | Lobelia cardinalis |
| Beebalm, Oswego Tea (Red) | Monarda didyma |
| Beebalm, Spotted | Monarda punctata |
| Jacobs Ladder | Polemonium reptans |
| Black-eyed Susan | Rudbeckia fulgida ‘ Goldstrum’ |
| Coneflower, Giant | Rudbeckia maxima |
| Pink, Indian | Spigelia marilandica |
| Upland Ironweed | Vernonia glauca |
| Golden Alexanders | Zizia aureus |
| Vines | |
| Trumpet Honeysuckle | Lonicera sempervirens |
| Grasses and Sedges | |
| Sedge, Appalachian | Carex appalachica |
| Prairie Dropseed | Sporobolus heterolepis |
