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Commercially available native plant species suitable for planned landscapes in Kansas. 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 |
| Acer saccharinum | Silver maple Soft maple White maple | |
| Acer saccharum | Sugar maple Northern sugar maple | |
| Aesculus glabra | Ohio buckeye Texas buckeye Fetid buckeye Horse chestnut | |
| Allium canadense | Meadow garlic Wild garlic Wild onion | |
| Allium stellatum | Autumn onion Prairie onion | |
| Amelanchier arborea | Common serviceberry Downy serviceberry Shadbush Juneberry | |
| Amorpha canescens | Leadplant Leadplant amorpha Prairie shoestring | |
| Amorpha fruticosa | Indigo bush False indigo bush False indigo Desert false indigo | |
| Anemone canadensis | Canadian anemone Round-leaf thimbleweed Canada anemone Windflower Meadow anemone | |
| Andropogon gerardii | Big bluestem Turkeyfoot | |
| Andropogon hallii | Sand bluestem | |
| Aquilegia canadensis | Eastern red columbine Wild red columbine | |
| Arisaema triphyllum | Jack in the pulpit Indian jack in the pulpit Jack-in-the-pulpit | |
| Asclepias incarnata | Swamp milkweed Pink Milkweed | |
| Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly milkweed Orange milkweed Pleurisy root | |
| Asclepias verticillata | Whorled milkweed Eastern whorled milkweed | |
| Baptisia alba | White wild indigo | |
| Baptisia bracteata var. leucophaea | Longbract wild indigo Cream false indigo Plains wild indigo Cream wild indigo Large-bracted wild indigo | |
| Betula nigra | River birch Red birch | |
| Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats grama | |
| Bouteloua gracilis | Blue grama | |
| Campanulastrum americanum | American bellflower American-bellflower Tall bellflower | |
| Callirhoe involucrata | Winecup Purple poppy mallow | |
| Carya ovata | Shagbark hickory | |
| Carex stipata | Owlfruit sedge Stalk-grain sedge Awl-fruited sedge | |
| Ceanothus americanus | New Jersey tea Redroot | |
| Cercis canadensis | Eastern redbud Redbud | |
| Celtis occidentalis | Common hackberry Nettle tree | |
| Cephalanthus occidentalis | Common buttonbush Buttonbush Button willow | |
| Celastrus scandens | American bittersweet | |
| Chamaecrista fasciculata | Partridge pea Sleepingplant Sensitive plant | |
| Corylus americana | American hazelnut American filbert | |
| Cornus obliqua | Silky dogwood Pale dogwood Swamp dogwood Kinnikinnik | |
| Coreopsis palmata | Stiff tickseed Stiff coreopsis Finger coreopsis | |
| Crataegus mollis | Downy hawthorn White thorn Whitethorn Scarlet hawthorn Scarlet haw | |
| Desmodium canadense | Showy tick trefoil | |
| Dicentra cucullaria | Dutchman's breeches | |
| Dodecatheon meadia | Pride-of-Ohio Roosterheads Shootingstar Pride of Ohio Eastern shooting star | |
| Echinacea angustifolia | Black Sampson Black Samson echinacea Narrow-leaf Coneflower | |
| Elymus canadensis | Canada wild rye Canadian wildrye Prairie wildrye Nodding wildrye | |
| Euphorbia corollata | Flowering spurge | |
| Euthamia graminifolia | Flat-top goldentop Grass-leaved goldenrod | |
| Eupatorium perfoliatum | Common boneset | |
| Eutrochium purpureum | Purple joepyeweed Sweet-scented joepyeweed Sweet joepyeweed | |
| Fraxinus americana | White ash | |
| Fraxinus pennsylvanica | Green ash Red ash | |
| Fragaria virginiana | Virginia strawberry Wild strawberry | |
| Gaillardia aristata | Common gaillardia Great blanketflower Blanketflower Brown-eyed susan | |
| Geranium maculatum | Spotted geranium Wild geranium Cranesbill | |
| Gymnocladus dioicus | Kentucky coffeetree Stump tree | |
| Heliopsis helianthoides | Smooth oxeye Oxeye sunflower False sunflower | |
| Heuchera richardsonii | Richardson's alumroot Prairie alumroot | |
| Hydrophyllum virginianum | Eastern waterleaf Shawnee salad Virginia waterleaf | |
| Juglans nigra | Black walnut Eastern black walnut | |
| Juniperus virginiana | Eastern red cedar Eastern redcedar Virginia juniper | |
| Koeleria macrantha | Prairie Junegrass Junegrass Prairie Koeler's grass | |
| Lespedeza capitata | Roundhead lespedeza Roundhead bush-clover | |
| Liatris aspera | Tall blazing star Tall gayfeather Rough blazing star Button snakeroot | |
| Liatris pycnostachya | Prairie Blazing Star Kansas Ggayfeather Cat-tail Gayfeather Hairy Button-snakeroot | |
| Lobelia cardinalis | Cardinal flower | |
| Lobelia siphilitica | Great blue lobelia | |
| Malus ioensis | Prairie crabapple Iowa crabapple | |
| Monarda fistulosa | Wild bergamot Beebalm | |
| Oenothera biennis | Common evening-primrose King's cure-all | |
| Oenothera rhombipetala | Diamond petal primrose Four-Point Evening Primrose Fourpoint evening-primrose Greater four-point evening-primrose | |
| Opuntia macrorhiza | Common prickly-pear Plains prickly pear Prickly Pear Twist-spine prickly-pear Twistspine pricklypear | |
| Ostrya virginiana | Eastern hop-hornbeam Hophornbeam Ironwood | |
| Parthenocissus quinquefolia | Virginia creeper | |
| Pascopyrum smithii | Western wheatgrass | |
| Panicum virgatum | Switchgrass Wand panic grass | |
| Penstemon digitalis | Mississippi penstemon Smooth white beardtongue Talus slope penstemon Foxglove beardtongue | |
| Penstemon grandiflorus | Large beardtongue Large-flower beardtongue Large-flowered penstemon | |
| Phlox divaricata ssp. laphamii | Lapham's phlox Blue phlox Sweet william | |
| Physostegia virginiana | Fall obedient plant Obedient plant False dragonhead | |
| Platanus occidentalis | American sycamore Buttonwood Plane-tree Sycamore | |
| Polygonatum biflorum | Smooth Solomon's seal Great Solomon’s-seal Sealwort | |
| Populus deltoides | Eastern cottonwood Alamo Carolina poplar Necklace Poplar | |
| Podophyllum peltatum | Mayapple Indian apple Wild mandrake Pomme de mai Podophylle pelt | |
| Prunus americana | American plum Wild plum | |
| Prunus serotina | Black cherry Rum cherry | |
| Prunus virginiana | Chokecherry Common chokecherry Choke cherry | |
| Quercus alba | White oak Northern white oak Stave Oak Ridge White Oak Forked-leaf White Oak | |
| Quercus bicolor | Swamp white oak | |
| Quercus macrocarpa | Bur oak Burr oak Savannah oak Overcup oak Prairie oak Mossy-cup oak Mossy-overcup oak Blue oak | |
| Quercus palustris | Pin oak Swamp Spanish oak | |
| Quercus rubra | Northern red oak | |
| Ratibida columnifera | Mexican hat Prairie coneflower Upright prairie coneflower Red-spike mexican-hat Long-headed coneflower Thimbleflower | |
| Ratibida pinnata | Pinnate prairie coneflower Grayhead Mexican hat Yellow coneflower Grayhead coneflower | |
| Rhus aromatica | Fragrant sumac Aromatic sumac Lemon sumac Polecat bush | |
| Rhus glabra | Smooth sumac | |
| Rosa blanda | Smooth rose Early wild rose | |
| Rosa setigera var. tomentosa | Climbing rose Illinois rose | |
| Rudbeckia hirta | Black-eyed Susan Common black-eyed Susan Brown-eyed Susan | |
| Rudbeckia subtomentosa | Sweet coneflower Sweet black-eyed Susan | |
| Schizachyrium scoparium | Little bluestem | |
| Sisyrinchium campestre | Prairie blue-eyed grass Prairie blue-eyed-grass White-eyed grass | |
| Silphium integrifolium | Wholeleaf rosinweed Entire-leaf rosinweed | |
| Silphium laciniatum | Compassplant Compass plant | |
| Silphium perfoliatum | Cup plant | |
| Solidago nemoralis | Gray goldenrod Prairie goldenrod Old field goldenrod | |
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