--- title: "Happy National Plant a Flower Day! 🌻 Today, we aren’t just planting…" description: "Happy National Plant a Flower Day! 🌻 Today, we aren’t just planting for beauty - we’re planting for the future of our local ecosystems. Why go native? 🌻…" url: "https://getplanta.com/community/lZ7uAE3pQ86jnFGxrCwLrg/FzwbBerWCL5R7ib26N6Etx?language=es" community: "Anything about plants" author: "Morgan Picillo 🖤 🌿" published: "2026-03-12T12:50:49.869983Z" language: "en" image: "https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/0lz9TBqimMTRbalzVUzmtzXVahV8Stpregz1z7lwydE/s7n6nowNQaSUHB_uH-Eahw.webp?size=large" --- [Comunidad](https://getplanta.com/community.md?language=es) / [Anything about plants](https://getplanta.com/community/lZ7uAE3pQ86jnFGxrCwLrg.md?language=es) # Happy National Plant a Flower Day! 🌻 Today, we aren’t just planting… _Publicado por Morgan Picillo 🖤 🌿 el 2026-03-12_ Happy National Plant a Flower Day! 🌻 Today, we aren’t just planting for beauty - we’re planting for the future of our local ecosystems. Why go native? 🌻 Native plants are the backbone of our environment. They’ve evolved over thousands of years to provide the exact food and shelter your local bees, birds, and butterflies need to survive. By choosing a native species, you’re not just growing a flower; you’re restoring a piece of the wild. Plus, they are perfectly adapted to your climate, meaning they are naturally more resilient! THE CHALLENGE: We want to fill the comments with local inspiration. 1️⃣ Look up flowers native to your area. 2️⃣ Comment the name of the flower and where you’re located (City/State/Region). 3️⃣ Let’s get planting. Are you in? 👇 ![Adjunto 1 de 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/0lz9TBqimMTRbalzVUzmtzXVahV8Stpregz1z7lwydE/s7n6nowNQaSUHB_uH-Eahw.webp?size=large) ## 15 comentarios ### Morgan Picillo 🖤 🌿 comentó el 2026-03-12 Cardinal Flower is my favorite to find hiking! I am in Rhode Island 💚 ![Adjunto 1 de 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/0lz9TBqimMTRbalzVUzmtzXVahV8Stpregz1z7lwydE/U2RyGevsT8qM09bG3yw6XA.webp?size=large) ### Plum comentó el 2026-03-12 🥳🥳🥳 ### Emmarinda Crochets comentó el 2026-03-12 Just planted a whole wildflower garden! It’s just starting to sprout today! #### Morgan Picillo 🖤 🌿 respondió el 2026-03-12 That is exciting!! 😍 ### Celesta comentó el 2026-03-12 Southern Oregon here! Milkweed native to my area is Showy Milkweed. This pictured is milkweed I grew from seed 3 years ago (picture was taken last summer). I harvest the seeds every August and have other patches starting throughout the yard, or just give the seeds away. Eagerly awaiting its emerge this spring! Native gardening is my lifelong passion, so it's neat to see a post about it on here. 🥹 ![Adjunto 1 de 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/fvoDCkSlJSZ1_j5-xyxpLoWb2tgPDA1nx75fwxaVNwk/h5AwHqZNRO-HdOqM0iMptw.webp?size=large) #### Morgan Picillo 🖤 🌿 respondió el 2026-03-12 This is amazing!! ### StapeliaSaidWhat comentó el 2026-03-12 Another Southern Oregonian here! I second what Celesta said, it’s wonderful to see discussion here about native plants! Here’s a picture of a late fall monarch chrysalis attached to a branch of a western redbud in my native pollinator garden. ![Adjunto 1 de 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/YP0VuzIJT5_F9oHUr5eOaAFUv5oaber_tggAGfg98yo/lvkPxY_FTbqgvDZchwIaJQ.webp?size=large) #### Morgan Picillo 🖤 🌿 respondió el 2026-03-13 So cool!!! 😍 ### Buffy comentó el 2026-03-12 I am going native. Not enough butterflies! ### jlsKenzy comentó el 2026-03-12 Purple coneflower and black-eye Susan are the two I see all the time on the trails when I hike or bike. I'm in Nebraska. I have really steep hill in my backyard and have tried to get native flowers to grow there for several reasons, but the honest reason is because it's a huge workout mowing it. 😆 ### Whitney comentó el 2026-03-14 I finally found some seeds for lyre-leaf green eyes. They’re also called chocolate daisies. They’re a native plant in west Texas. They have a very strong chocolate scent. I love when I find a patch of them! ![Adjunto 1 de 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/YqF0zWNhI3IhJ1yTKXuhBoXMeL4asg7EmJCHyfj0t3E/mgPzSyOzS1KRNPssnGOnmA.webp?size=large) #### Morgan Picillo 🖤 🌿 respondió el 2026-03-14 So pretty!! How cool that they smell like chocolate 🤤 ### Bill comentó el 2026-03-23 I’m in north Florida and started planting local groundcover. Unfortunately I’m coming across species which are not known to Planta. Specifically the twinflower Oblong, Swamp, Dyschoriste oblongifolia Dyschoriste humistrata These are fairly specific to our area, but tolerate the brutal sun and humidity well. What do you do to try and track unknown to Planta plants? Just choose what the AI thinks it is? Thanks! #### Morgan Picillo 🖤 🌿 respondió el 2026-03-24 Hey Bill! You can submit a ticket or email me morgan@getplanta.com and we can get them added for you 😃 #### Bill respondió el 2026-03-24 I submitted 1 through the app but will send both with a couple of web links although you probably have better resources than I would use. Thanks! --- _La comunidad de Planta (https://getplanta.com). La lectura está abierta a todo el mundo. Para publicar, comentar y dar 'me gusta', descarga la app de Planta: https://getplanta.com/download_