Program Mission
Providing a source of plants native to this area is integral to the success of creating native habitat in our cities.
Alongside Milkweed for Monarchs, Bridging The Gap is educating citizens on the importance and beauty of native gardening. BTG supports the growth of the native plant market in the Greater Kansas City region to help protect the natural ecosystem that provides food and habitat for native wildlife. BTG hosts spring and fall native plant sales. Check our events calendars for more details:
Saturday, September 10th in Platte City
Thursday, September 22nd at BTG offices
Favorite Native Plants
BTG's prairie ecologist, Courtney Masterson created a list of native plants that are best-suited to attract pollinators.
- Purple Coneflower
- Button Blazing Star
- Foxglove beardtongue
- Blue Wild Indigo
- Missouri Evening Primrose
- Sideoats grama
- Sweet Joe Pye Weed
- Blue lobelia
- Butterfly milkweed
- Common milkweed
- Slender mountain mint
- Rigid goldenrod
- New England aster
- Purple milkweed
- Swamp milkweed
- Purple poppy mallow
- Lance-leaf coreopsis
- Purple prairie clover