Native Plant Recommendations

Alphabetized by Common Name


Trees
Shrubs
Vines and Ground Covers
Perennials: Flowering Plants
 
Perennials: Ferns

 

Key to Light and Moisture Abbreviations
List Alphabetized by Scientific Name

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TREES

  • American hophornbeam
  • American hornbeam
  • American mountainash
  • Balsam fir
  • Basswood
  • Bigtooth aspen
  • Black cherry
  • Black gum
  • Black spruce
  • Black willow
  • Cockspur thorn
  • Eastern hemlock
  • Gray birch
  • Green ash
  • Jack pine
  • Mountain maple
  • Northern red oak
  • Northern white cedar
  • Pagoda dogwood
  • Paper birch
  • Pin cherry
  • Quaking aspen
  • Red maple
  • Red pine
  • Sugar maple
  • Tamarack
  • White ash
  • White oak
  • White pine
  • White spruce
  • Yellow birch
 

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SHRUBS

  • Allegheny serviceberry
  • American elder
  • American hazelnut
  • Arrowwood viburnum
  • Beach plum
  • Black chokeberry
  • Bog rosemary
  • Bush cinquefoil
  • Bush-honeysuckle
  • Buttonbush
  • Canadian yew
  • Chokecherry
  • Common juniper
  • Common witchhazel
  • Downy serviceberry
  • Eastern serviceberry
  • Gray dogwood
  • Highbush blueberry
  • Highbush cranberry
 
  • Hobblebush
  • Labrador tea
  • Lambkill
  • Leatherwood
  • Mapleleaf viburnum
  • Meadow rose
  • Nannyberry
  • Northern bayberry
  • Pasture rose
  • Pussy willow
  • Redosier dogwood
  • Rhodora
  • Scarlet elder
  • Staghorn sumac
  • Sweetfern
  • Sweetgale
  • Virginia rose
  • Winterberry
  • Witherod, Wild-raisin

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VINES and GROUND COVERS

  • Americcan bittersweet
  • Bearberry
  • Bunchberry
  • Checkerberry
  • Cranberry
  • Creeping juniper
  • Fox grape
  • Lowbush blueberry
  • Partridgeberry
  • Running serviceberry
  • Virgin's bower
  • Woodbine   

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PERENNIALS: FLOWERING PLANTS

  • Baneberry
  • Bloodroot
  • Blue cohosh
  • Blue flag
  • Bluebead-lily
  • Boneset
  • Columbine
  • Foam flower
  • Harebell
  • Indian cucumber-root
  • Jack-in-the-pulpit
  • Joe-pye weed
  • Marsh marigold
  • Milkweed
  • New England aster
  • New York aster
  • Obedient plant
  • Silverweed
  • Solomon's seal
  • Spikenard
  • Trout-lily
  • Violet
  • White Turtlehead
  • Wild-oats

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PERENNIALS: FERNS

  • Christmas fern
  • Cinnamon fern
  • Hay-scented fern
  • Interrupted fern
  • Lady fern
  • Long Beech fern
  • Maidenhair fern
  • Marginal wood fern
  • Ostrich fern
  • Royal fern
  • Sensitive fern
  • Spinulose wood fern

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By Lois Berg Stack, Extension ornamental horticulture specialist

For more information, contact your University of Maine Cooperative Extension county office.

Published and distributed in furtherance of Acts of Congress of May 8 and June 30, 1914, by the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, the Land Grant University of the state of Maine and the U.S. Department of Agriculture cooperating. Cooperative Extension and other agencies of the U.S.D.A. provide equal opportunities in programs and employment.


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