Native plants are perfectly adapted to our local climate and soil conditions, making them low-maintenance and resilient choices for your landscape. Plus, beyond providing essential habitat and food for local wildlife, they also require less water, pesticides and fertilizers, promoting a healthier ecosystem. By incorporating native plants into your garden, you can support biodiversity, conserve water and create a beautiful and sustainable landscape that thrives year-round.
Note: some of these are not widely available at nurseries, but are common plants in residential
landscapes (such as Violets and Virginia Waterleaf).
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Alumroot Basswood* Blanketflower Bloodroot^ Wild Blueberry^ Blue-eyed Grass Buttercups Black or Pin Cherries* Columbine^ Common Strawberry Cranberry |
Currants*
Dutchman’s Breeches*^ Golden Alexanders Ground Plum* Hepatica Hoary Puccoon Jacob’s Ladder Large Flowered Bellwort^ Long-headed Thimbleweed Pasque Flower |
Plums Prairie Milk Vetch Pussytoes Red Osier Dogwood Rue Anemone* Serviceberries* Shooting Stars Spicebush Spring Beauties Solomon’s Seal Viburnums |
Violets^ Virginia bluebells *^ Virginia Waterleaf*^ White Baneberry^ Wild Currants* Wild Iris Wild Lupine* Wild Geranium Wild Phlox Willows* Wood Betony* |
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Blanket Flower Blue Vervain Bush Clovers* Black Cohosh^ Buttonbush* Canada Anemone* Canada Milkvetch Canada Tick Trefoil Narrow Leaf Coneflower* Coreopsis Culver’s Root* Cup Plant Dogbane |
Dwarf Bush Honeysuckle* Evening Primrose Early Sunflower False Indigo False Sunflower* Figworts Giant Hyssop* Harebells Hedge Nettle Ironweed Hoary Vervain Ironweed Joe-Pye Weed* Leadplant* |
Liatrises*
Blue Lobelia Meadowsweet Milkweeds* Mountain Mint* New Jersey Tea* Obedient Plant Partridge Pea Penstemons* Poppy Mallow Prairie Cinquefoil Prairie Clovers* Prairie Loosestrife |
Prairie Turnip Prairie Wild Onion Self-Heal/Heal-All Smooth Sumac Spiderworts Snowberry Turtlehead* Wild Bergamot* Wild Indigo Wild Petunia Wild Quinine Wild Roses* Yarrow |
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American Vetch Prairie Asters* Boneset Bugleweed Bottle Gentian* |
Field Thistle* Goldenrod*^ Large-leaved Aster*^ Maximilian’s Sunflower* Pearly Everlasting |
Sneezeweed Prairie Sunflowers Turtlehead^ Tall Thistle* Whorled Milkwort |
Virginia Mountain Mint
Virgin’s Bower Yarrow |
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^ Shade Tolerant Species * High Priority Rusty-patched bumblebee food plants |
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Information from University of Minnesota Extension
