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Commercially available native plant species suitable for planned landscapes in Connecticut. Visit our Suppliers Directory to locate businesses that sell native plants or seeds or provide professional landscape or consulting services in this state. Visit the Organizations Directory to locate native plant societies, conservation groups, governmental agencies, botanical gardens, arboreta, and other plant-related organizations in this state.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Achillea millefolium | Common yarrow Yarrow Milfoil Western yarrow | |
| Actaea pachypoda | White baneberry Dolls eyes | |
| Actaea racemosa var. racemosa | Black cohosh Black bugbane Bugbane Black snakeroot Fairy candles | |
| Acer rubrum | Red maple Scarlet maple | |
| Actaea rubra | Red baneberry | |
| Acer saccharinum | Silver maple Soft maple White maple | |
| Acer saccharum | Sugar maple Northern sugar maple | |
| Adiantum pedatum | Northern maidenhair Maidenhair Fern | |
| Agastache scrophulariifolia | Purple giant hyssop Purple giant-hyssop | |
| Alnus incana ssp. rugosa | Speckled alder | |
| Alnus serrulata | Hazel alder Brookside alder Tag alder Common alder | |
| Amelanchier canadensis | Canadian serviceberry Canadian service-berry Shadblow serviceberry Juneberry | |
| Anemone canadensis | Canadian anemone Round-leaf thimbleweed Canada anemone Windflower Meadow anemone | |
| Andropogon gerardii | Big bluestem Turkeyfoot | |
| Anaphalis margaritacea | Western pearly everlasting Pearly-everlasting | |
| Antennaria plantaginifolia | Plantain-leaf Pussytoes Woman's tobacco Ladies' tobacco Everlasting Mouse ear | |
| Anemone quinquefolia | Wood anemone Nightcaps | |
| Aquilegia canadensis | Eastern red columbine Wild red columbine | |
| Arisaema dracontium | Green dragon Dragonroot Greendragon | |
| Aralia nudicaulis | Wild sarsaparilla | |
| Arisaema triphyllum | Jack in the pulpit Indian jack in the pulpit Jack-in-the-pulpit | |
| Asarum canadense | Canadian wild ginger Wild ginger | |
| Asarum caudatum | British Columbia wild ginger Long-tail wild ginger | |
| Asclepias purpurascens | Purple milkweed | |
| Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly milkweed Orange milkweed Pleurisy root | |
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
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