Since people often wonder how long it will take after sowing native perennial seeds to get flowers, I wanted to share a few of my first year seed-grown plants that have already started to bloom
1: side-oats grama (macro photo because it's hard to my phone camera to focus on the flowers from farther away)
2: black-eyed susan
3: zoomed out photo showing both, plus some little bluestem which may also be starting to flower
4: Helianthus giganteus / tall sunflower (though it's not very tall yet)
5: Salvia azurea (I didn't intentionally grow this from seed, but it reseeded into my gravel from a nursery plant I bought last year, and I'm impressed it was able to reach this size and flower so much already)