Native Species Garden

Native plants are defined as the grasses, flowers and other plants that naturally occur in a geographic area and have flourished for thousands of years – all without the help of gardeners. Birds, insects and other animals depend on the food supply and habitat provided by native plants.

Plant List

A Wild strawberry – Fragaria virginiana

B Cup plant – Silphium perfoliatum

C Blue False Indigo – baptisia australis

D Spiderwort – Tradescantia occidentalis

E Golden Alexander – zizea aurea

F Blanketflower – Gaillardia aristata

G Anise hyssop – Agastache foeniculum

H Little bluestem – Schizachyrium scoparium

I Solomon’s seal – Polygonatum spp

J Prairie dropseed – porobolus heterolepis

K Queen of the prairie – Filipendula rubra

L Culver’s root – Veronicastrum virginicum

M New England aster – Aster novae-angliae

N Canada Goldenrod – Solidago canadensis

O Black-eyed Susan – Rudbeckia hirta

P Wild bergamot – Monarda fistulosa

Q Wild petunia – Ruellia humilis

S Prairie smoke – Geum triflorum

T Blue vervain – Verbena hastata

U Great blue lobelia – Lobelia silphilitica

V Butterflyweed – Asclepias tuberosa

W White turtlehead  –  Chelone glabra

X Stiff leafed goldenrod – Solidago rigida

Y Brown-eyed Susan – Rudbeckia triloba

Z Zig-zag goldenrod – Solidago flexicaulis

AA Rough blazing star – Liatris aspera

BB Purple prairie clover – Dalea purpurum

CC Evening primrose – Oenothera biennis

DD Common dogwood – Cornus sanguinea

EE Compass plant – Silphium laciniatum

FF Wild geranium – Geranium maculatum

GG Partridge pea – Chamaecrista fasciculata

HH Plain gentian – gentiana alba

II Rattlesnake master – Eryngium yuccifolium

JJ Early figwort – Scrophularia lanceolate

KK Pennsylvania sedge – Carex pensylvanica

LL Nodding onion – allium stellatum

MM Obedient plant – Physostegia virginiana

NN Lead plant – Amorpha canescens

OO baneberry – Actaea rubra

PP ironweed – Vernonia fasciculata

QQ Joe Pye weed – Eutrochium purpureum

RR Purple coneflower – Echinacea argusifolia

SS Royal catchfly – Silene regia

TT Rose milkweed – Asclepias incarnata

UU Cardinal Flower – Lobilia cardinalis

VV Monkey flower – Minulus ringens

WW Jacob’s ladder – Polemonium reptans

XX Lion Foot – Prenanthes alba

YY Coreopsis lanceleaf – Coreopsis lanceolata

ZZ Harebell – Cappanula rotundifolia