I saw these at a "pop up" garden center by my grocery store. I'm in Nebraska zone 5b. Definitely not native!! I let someone know but I don't think they really cared.
Sometimes organic food has an OMRI label. I wonder if there is anything similar for natives? I guess it would be hard because it’s location dependent.
Ok-Ad831
Just someone trying to capitalize on a growing market knowing most buyers have no idea if a plant is truly native or not in their area. They have just heard native is better so they will buy it without any further thought,
SomeDumbGamer
I can’t lie I still love day lilies.
The wild orange ones might be a bit aggressive but personally I’ve never had an issue managing them.
I’ve seen an abandoned house from 200+ years ago that still had day lilies growing around it but in the 100+ years the place has been abandoned they haven’t even spread across to the other side of the road.
They’re almost all sterile anyways so they don’t produce seed most of the time.
amycsj
Good for you for pointing it out. If a bunch of us point it out, maybe it will change. I’ve we don’t say anything, it won’t change.
kimfromlastnight
Someone ought to steal that sign 👀
memedilemme
This happened to me twice at my favorite nursery and I finally learned to research etc before I buy—-even sitting on the ground and googling everything. I’m very new to native gardening and there are errors in my yard 😂
kansas_slim
Organic free range natives! Lolol
emonymous3991
Hey, they’re native to somewhere right?
Pink-Willow-41
Looks like someone just stuck that sign they found on the ground in there.
porterbrown
Pull out the native sign at least.
Stick in a cactus or palm. Make the word “native” meaningless at that store.
kater_tot
It’s ONE sign a five year old probably moved or someone found on the floor and stuck into a random plant. Of course no one cares. “I see these in the ditch, they must be native.”
And if anyone hasn’t figured it out yet, don’t trust the tags at nurseries, they’re frequently wrong.
ejhUPS
As a greenhouse owner I can say that customers also move stuff around like crazy, so as someone else pointed out it may have been found and just placed in there
dl-graphics
The one that has the native sign in it looks like a spider lily. I have one in my yard that appeared out of nowhere, I looked it up a couple weeks ago. There are native varieties of that.
Ok_Pollution9335
Take that sign and move it to an actual native plant lol
Penstemon_Digitalis
Jesus H Christ
Nikeflies
I saw invasive lupines being sold as natives in a local nursery
bigcatt91215
😫😫😫
indiscernable1
Everyone is dumb
mistymystical
Yeah Home Depot in my area sells English ivy and a bunch of other invasives with no scruples. I wish there was more of an impetus for change…and a store I used to love that sold all kinds of fresh fruit, also started selling native plants last year. They stopped this year. Also had a bunch of boring chemically treated cultivars and invasives, and the prices for their fruit are trash. Can’t even afford the store anymore. It’s annoying when they greenwash and pretend like they are saving the planet for selling plants and organic $10 tortilla chips. IT MATTERS WHAT PLANTS, YOU KNOW!
Mrsmanhands
I am also in Nebraska. I stopped by one of these a few years ago because my friend works there every spring. She was selling barberry and winter creeper as native. She doesn’t have a lot of plant knowledge.
jubeley
I have orange daylilies in my garden because I thought they were native. Daylilies were everywhere where I grew up so I assumed they were native. Now I’d like to remove the lilies and I don’t know what to do with them.
failureat111N31st
I don’t see things this egregious, but I do see lots of things that are native two states away marked as native. They might be generous and say “North American native” when it sure is native in another region but not here. I check species names before I buy.
CrowMeris
This is why we need to carry Sharpies with us when we go plant shopping.
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Sometimes organic food has an OMRI label. I wonder if there is anything similar for natives? I guess it would be hard because it’s location dependent.
Just someone trying to capitalize on a growing market knowing most buyers have no idea if a plant is truly native or not in their area. They have just heard native is better so they will buy it without any further thought,
I can’t lie I still love day lilies.
The wild orange ones might be a bit aggressive but personally I’ve never had an issue managing them.
I’ve seen an abandoned house from 200+ years ago that still had day lilies growing around it but in the 100+ years the place has been abandoned they haven’t even spread across to the other side of the road.
They’re almost all sterile anyways so they don’t produce seed most of the time.
Good for you for pointing it out. If a bunch of us point it out, maybe it will change. I’ve we don’t say anything, it won’t change.
Someone ought to steal that sign 👀
This happened to me twice at my favorite nursery and I finally learned to research etc before I buy—-even sitting on the ground and googling everything. I’m very new to native gardening and there are errors in my yard 😂
Organic free range natives! Lolol
Hey, they’re native to somewhere right?
Looks like someone just stuck that sign they found on the ground in there.
Pull out the native sign at least.
Stick in a cactus or palm. Make the word “native” meaningless at that store.
It’s ONE sign a five year old probably moved or someone found on the floor and stuck into a random plant. Of course no one cares. “I see these in the ditch, they must be native.”
And if anyone hasn’t figured it out yet, don’t trust the tags at nurseries, they’re frequently wrong.
As a greenhouse owner I can say that customers also move stuff around like crazy, so as someone else pointed out it may have been found and just placed in there
The one that has the native sign in it looks like a spider lily. I have one in my yard that appeared out of nowhere, I looked it up a couple weeks ago. There are native varieties of that.
Take that sign and move it to an actual native plant lol
Jesus H Christ
I saw invasive lupines being sold as natives in a local nursery
😫😫😫
Everyone is dumb
Yeah Home Depot in my area sells English ivy and a bunch of other invasives with no scruples. I wish there was more of an impetus for change…and a store I used to love that sold all kinds of fresh fruit, also started selling native plants last year. They stopped this year. Also had a bunch of boring chemically treated cultivars and invasives, and the prices for their fruit are trash. Can’t even afford the store anymore. It’s annoying when they greenwash and pretend like they are saving the planet for selling plants and organic $10 tortilla chips. IT MATTERS WHAT PLANTS, YOU KNOW!
I am also in Nebraska. I stopped by one of these a few years ago because my friend works there every spring. She was selling barberry and winter creeper as native. She doesn’t have a lot of plant knowledge.
I have orange daylilies in my garden because I thought they were native. Daylilies were everywhere where I grew up so I assumed they were native. Now I’d like to remove the lilies and I don’t know what to do with them.
I don’t see things this egregious, but I do see lots of things that are native two states away marked as native. They might be generous and say “North American native” when it sure is native in another region but not here. I check species names before I buy.
This is why we need to carry Sharpies with us when we go plant shopping.