Welcome!

 

Ozark Ecotypes Plant Nursery, a branch of Brenda Sharp Native Ecotypes, LLC, is an Arkansas Department of Agriculture-inspected and licensed nursery specializing in local genetic plant materials native to the Ozark bioregion and southeastern U.S., offering a diverse selection

of native perennial wildflowers and grasses, that support conservation, restoration, and

sustainable landscaping efforts. Additionally, the nursery offers edible and medicinal

plants that have historically supported human health,

emphasizing a return to natural healing

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By planting local ecotypes, customers ensure genetic compatibility with the surrounding environment, enhancing ecosystem resilience and biodiversity. Local ecotype plants, adapted to local soils, climate, and conditions will persist through frost and drought, requiring less maintenance,

such as water and soil amendments. Once the plants are established, they require little

else, and ensure the proper food and critical habitat for pollinators such as bees,

butterflies, moths, beetles, hummingbirds and birds, and other wildlife.

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The nursery's mission is to promote healing and protect Ozark-native plants, educate communities on biodiversity conservation and support pollinator habitats. By restoring ecotype plant

populations, we contribute to soil health, carbon sequestration, and ecological stability

while ensuring future generations benefit from thriving natural landscapes. It is here that

we reconnect with the land's original balance and

play a role in sustaining the web of life.

 

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​​"We are at a critical point of losing so many species from local ecosystems that their ability to produce

the oxygen, clean water, flood control, pollination, pest control, carbon storage, ect, that is, 

the ecosystem services that sustain us, will become seriously compromised."

-Dr. Doug Tallamy 

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​​"If we want butterflies and bees and hummingbirds and birds, we have to give them a

place to breathe and a place to eat and a place to shelter."

-Kathleen Scott​

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"Soil is an intergenerational resource, natural capital that can be used conservatively or squandered.

With just a couple feet of soil standing between prosperity and desolation,

civilizations that plow through their soil vanish."

-David R. Montgomery

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​"The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it."

-Genesis 2:15

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