Why Native Plants Matter

Why do native plants matter?
As we face the urgent and entwined challenges of the climate crisis and biodiversity loss, seed-grown native plants provide habitat that supports rich populations of butterflies, bees, birds and all forms of life; make our landscapes more adaptable to environmental stressors like temperature swings, drought, flooding and pest outbreaks; and reflect a region’s unique character, fostering our sense of place.

What are native plants?
Species of trees, shrubs, vines, wildflowers, grasses and ferns that have existed in place prior to colonization, and have coevolved over millenia with the region’s animals, insects, amphibians, bacteria and fungi.

Watch Wild Seed Project’s Founder Heather McCargo make the case for the importance of bringing native plants back into our communities.