Blackfoot Native Plants Nursery is located in Montana’s Potomac Valley (1/2 hour NE of Missoula) specializing in native plants from Western Montana. We offer over 200 species of native grasses, shrubs, and wildflowers found in the Rocky Mountain West with new species added continually.
Our plants are available at the Clark Fork River Market in Missoula, Montana
Saturdays from 8 am – 1 pm, May 5 – late August.
Clarkia
The nursery is open to the public Fridays. Please call ahead at 406.880.8809 or email us and we’ll email you detailed directions – it makes us easier to find and we’ll make sure we are not out seed-collecting when you arrive!
Click here for more information on the benefits of using Native Plants.
How We Raise Our Native Plants
Seed Collecting
Our plants are grown from seeds we hand-collect or propagated from cuttings of local plants. We do not dig plants from the wild.
Unlike nurseries that use genetically altered cultivars of native plants, we propagate wild native seeds we collect and take cuttings from local sources. It is our belief that locally sourced plants are hardier and are more beneficial to their natural ecosystems than those that have been altered to enhance particular characteristics of a species.
Our plants are grown out-of-doors (not in greenhouses) at 4000’ – USDA Zone 4b (the new USDA Plant hardiness zone map) in containers to ensure extreme hardiness. Most have already spent at least one winter in a pot. They thrive at high altitudes with short growing seasons where drought, cool nights, and extreme winter temperatures are common.