Our Native plant categories
Trees
shrubs
perennials
Native grasses
Native aquatic plants
Future availability

• American basswood

• Red maple

• Silver maple

• Black maple

• Red ash

• Eastern hemlock

• White birch

• Pawpaw

• Bitternut hickory

• American Beech

• Black cherry

• Black gum

• Black Oak

• Bur Oak

• Cherry Birch

• Cucumber Magnolia

• Eastern Red bud

• Flowering dogwood

• Sassafras

• Tulip tree

• Hickory

• Black walnut

• American Chestnut
  
  Plants for moist to Wet sunny conditions
   

• Swamp Milkweed -Asclepias incarnata

• Bebb’s Sedge -Carex bebbii

• Red Osier Dogwood -Cornus stolonifera

• White Turtlehead- Chelone glabra

• Porcupine Sedge -Carex hystericina

• Highbush Cranberry -Viburnum trilobum

• Spotted Joe-Pye-Weed -Eupatorium maculatum

• Butternut Walnut -Juglans cinerea

• Black Walnut -Juglans nigra

• Sneezeweed -Helenium autumnale

• Fox Sedge- Carex vulpinoidea

• Eastern Cottonwood -Populus deltoides

• Blue-eyed Grass -Sisyrinchium montanum

• Riverbank Wild Rye -Elymus riparius

• Largetooth Aspen- Populus grandidentata

• Ohio Goldenrod -Solidago ohioensis

• Hard-stem Bulrush -Scirpus acutus

• Swamp White Oak -Quercus bicolour

• Blue Vervain -Verbena hastata

• Soft-stem Bulrush- Scirpus cyperinus

• Bur Oak- Quercus macrocarpa

• Tall Ironweed -Vernonia altissima

• Prairie Cordgrass -Spartina pectinata

• Pin Oak- Quercus palustris

• Meadowsweet- Spiraea alba

• Buttonbush -Cephalanthus occidentalis

• Canada Bluejoint --Calamagrostis canadensis

• P Boneset Eupatorium perfoliatum

• Rough-leaved -Goldenrod Solidago patula

• Pawpaw -Asimina triloba

• Spotted St. Johnswort -Hypericum punctatum

• Tall Meadow Rue -Thalictrum pubescens

• Dutchman’s Breeches -Dicentra cucullaria

• Bitternut Hickory- Carya cordiformis

• Michigan Lily -Lilium michiganense

• Green-headed Coneflower -Rudbeckia laciniata

• Silver Maple- Acer saccharinum

• Cardinal Flower- Lobelia cardinalis

• Nannyberry -Viburnum lentago

• Hop Sedge- Carex lupulina

• Red Maple -Acer rubrum

• Great Lobelia- Lobelia siphilitica

• Bee Balm -Monarda didyma

• Common Elderberry- Sambucus canadensis

• Silky Dogwood -Cornus amomu
  
  Plants Wet, Conditions

• Common Milkweed -Asclepias syriaca

• New England Aster- Aster novae-angliae

• Indian Grass -Sorghastrum nutans

• Wild Strawberry- Fragaria virginiana

• Little Bluestem -Schizachyrium scoparium

• Sweet Ox-eye -Heliopsis helianthoides

• Kalm’s Brome -Bromus kalmii Staghorn

• Sumac -Rhus typhina

• Dense Blazing Star -Liatris spicata

• Virginia Wild Rye -Elymus virginicus

• White Birch- Betula papyrifera

• Bottlebrush Grass -Elymus hystrix

• Foxglove Beardtongue -Penstemon digitalis

• Switch Grass- Panicum virgatum

• Hawthorns -Crataegus spp.

• White Ash -Fraxinus americana

• Eastern White Pine -Pinus strobus

 

Plants for normal and Sunny Conditions

• Fringed Brome -Bromus ciliatus

• Wild Red Raspberry- Rubus idaeus

• Canada Wild Rye- Elymus canadensis

 

Plants for Normal or Moist, Part-Shade Conditions

• Tulip Tree -Liriodendron tulipifera

• American Bittersweet -Celastrus scandens

• White Spruce- Picea glauca

• Running Strawberry Bush -Euonymus obovata

• Witch-hazel -Hamamelis virginiana

• White Baneberry -Actaea pachypoda

• Hairy Solomon’s Seal- Polygonatum pubescens

• Maple-leaved Viburnum -Viburnum acerifolium

• Jack-in-the-Pulpit -Arisaema triphyllum

• Bloodroot -Sanguinaria canadensis

• Twinleaf -Jeffersonia diphylla

 

Plants for Normal or Moist, Shade Conditions

• Sugar Maple- Acer saccharum

• Poke Milkweed -Asclepias exaltata

• Heart-leaved Aster -Aster cordifolius

• Serviceberry -Amelanchier spp.

• White Snakeroot --Eupatorium rugosum

• Blue beech -Carpinus caroliniana

• Large-leaved Aster -Aster macrophyllus

• Purple Flowering Raspberry -Rubus odoratus

• Ironwood -Ostrya virginiana

• Canada Mayflower- Maianthemum canadense

• Bladdernut- Staphylea trifoli

• Wild Columbine -Aquilegia canadensis

• Grey Dogwood -Cornus racemosa

• American Plum- Prunus americana

• Woodland Sunflower- Helianthus divaricatus

• Ninebark -Physocarpus opulifolius

 

Plants do well in All Conditions

• White Oak -Quercus alba

• Star-flowered Solomon’s Seal -Maianthemum stellatum

• Shagbark Hickory- Carya ovata

• Virgin’s Bower -Clematis virginiana

• Poverty Oat Grass -Danthonia spicata

• Aquatic Sweet Flag -Acorus americanus

• Blue Flag Iris -Iris versicolour

• White Water Lily- Nymphaea odorata

• Eastern White Cedar- Thuja occidentalis

• Virginia Creeper- Parthenocissus quinquefolia

• Chokeberry -Aronia melanocarpa

• Trembling Aspen -Populus tremuloides