Michigan Recommended
Commercially available native plant species suitable for planned landscapes in Michigan. 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 |
Actaea pachypoda | White Baneberry Dolls Eyes | |
Acer rubrum | Red Maple Scarlet Maple Soft Maple | |
Actaea rubra | Red Baneberry | |
Acer saccharinum | Silver Maple Soft Maple White Maple | |
Acer saccharum | Sugar Maple Northern Sugar Maple | |
Adiantum pedatum | Northern Maidenhair Fern Maidenhair Fern | |
Allium canadense | Meadow Garlic Wild Garlic Wild Onion | |
Amelanchier arborea | Common Serviceberry Downy Serviceberry Shadbush Juneberry Junebush Shadblow Sarvis | |
Amorpha canescens | Leadplant Leadplant Amorpha Prairie Shoestring | |
Anemone canadensis | Canadian Anemone Round-leaf Thimbleweed Canada Anemone Windflower Meadow Anemone | |
Anemone cylindrica | Candle Anemone Long-headed Thimbleweed Longhead Thimbleweed Thimbleweed | |
Andropogon gerardii | Big Bluestem Tall Bluestem Turkeyfoot | |
Aquilegia canadensis | Eastern Red Columbine Wild Red Columbine | |
Arisaema triphyllum | Jack In The Pulpit Indian Jack In The Pulpit Jack-in-the-pulpit | |
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi | Kinnikinnick Red Bearberry Kinnikinnik | |
Asarum canadense | Canadian Wild Ginger Wild Ginger | |
Asclepias incarnata | Swamp Milkweed Pink Milkweed | |
Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly Weed Butterfly Milkweed Orange Milkweed Pleurisy Root Chigger Flower Chiggerweed | |
Asclepias verticillata | Whorled Milkweed Eastern Whorled Milkweed | |
Athyrium filix-femina | Common Lady Fern Subarctic Lady Fern Lady Fern Ladyfern | |
Betula nigra | River Birch Red Birch Black Birch Water Birch | |
Betula papyrifera | Paper Birch Canoe Birch White Birch | |
Bromus kalmii | Arctic Brome Prairie Brome Wild Chess | |
Carpinus caroliniana | American Hornbeam Blue Beech Water Beech Musclewood Ironwood | |
Calamagrostis canadensis | Bluejoint | |
Carya ovata | Shagbark Hickory Carolina Hickory Scalybark Hickory Upland Hickory Shellbark Hickory | |
Caltha palustris | Yellow Marsh Marigold Cowslip | |
Carex pensylvanica | Pennsylvania Sedge | |
Campanula rotundifolia | Bluebell Bellflower Bluebell Of Scotland Bluebell Harebell Witches' Thimble | |
Carex stipata | Awlfruit Sedge Awl-fruited Sedge Stalk-grain Sedge | |
Ceanothus americanus | New Jersey Tea Redroot | |
Cercis canadensis | Eastern Redbud Redbud | |
Celtis occidentalis | Common Hackberry Northern Hackberry American Hackberry Nettle Tree Beaverwood False Elm | |
Cephalanthus occidentalis | Common Buttonbush Buttonbush Button Willow Honey Bells Honeybells Honey Balls Honeyballs Button-bush | |
Celastrus scandens | American Bittersweet | |
Chamerion angustifolium ssp. angustifolium | Fireweed Narrow-leaf Fireweed Willow Herb | |
Chelone glabra | White Turtlehead | |
Cornus alternifolia | Alternateleaf Dogwood Alternate-leaf Dogwood Pagoda Dogwood | |
Corylus americana | American Hazelnut American Filbert | |
Cornus canadensis | Bunchberry Dogwood Canadian Bunchberry | |
Coreopsis lanceolata | Lanceleaf Coreopsis Lance-leaved Coreopsis Lanceleaf Tickseed Sand Coreopsis | |
Cornus obliqua | Silky Dogwood Pale Dogwood Swamp Dogwood Kinnikinnik | |
Cornus racemosa | Gray Dogwood | |
Cornus sericea | Red Osier Dogwood Red Osier Red-twig Dogwood | |
Crataegus crus-galli | Cockspur Hawthorn Cockspur Thorn Newcastle Hawthorn Newcastle Thorn Hog Apple | |
Crataegus mollis | Downy Hawthorn White Thorn Whitethorn Scarlet Hawthorn Scarlet Haw Red Haw Downy Thorn | |
Dasiphora fruticosa ssp. floribunda | Shrubby Cinquefoil Golden Hardhack Potentilla | |
Desmodium canadense | Showy Tick Trefoil | |
Dicentra cucullaria | Dutchman's Breeches | |
Diervilla lonicera | Northern Bush Honeysuckle Northern Bush-honeysuckle Diervilla | |
Dryopteris cristata | Crested Woodfern Crested Wood Fern Buckler Fern | |
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 | |
Fraxinus americana | White Ash American Ash Cane Ash Smallseed White Ash Biltmore White Ash Biltmore Ash | |
Fraxinus pennsylvanica | Green Ash Red Ash Swamp Ash River Ash Water Ash Darlington Ash | |
Fragaria virginiana | Virginia Strawberry Wild Strawberry | |
Gentiana andrewsii | Closed Bottle Gentian Closed Gentian Bottle Gentian | |
Geranium maculatum | Spotted Geranium Wild Geranium Cranesbill | |
Gymnocladus dioicus | Kentucky Coffeetree Stump Tree | |
Hamamelis virginiana | Witch-hazel American Witch-hazel Common Witch-hazel Winterbloom Snapping Hazelnut Striped Alder Spotted Alder Tobacco-wood Water-witch | |
Helenium autumnale | Common Sneezeweed Fall Sneezeweed Autumn Sneezeweed | |
Heliopsis helianthoides | Smooth Oxeye Oxeye Sunflower False Sunflower | |
Heuchera richardsonii | Richardson's Alumroot Prairie Alumroot | |
Helianthus strumosus | Paleleaf Woodland Sunflower Paleleaf Sunflower Woodland Sunflower | |
Hypericum prolificum | Shrubby St. John's-wort | |
Hydrophyllum virginianum | Virginia Waterleaf Eastern Waterleaf Shawnee Salad | |
Ilex verticillata | Common Winterberry Winterberry Michigan Holly Black Alder | |
Iris virginica var. shrevei | Shreve's Iris Virginia Iris Southern Blue Flag Blue Flag | |
Juniperus communis var. depressa | Common Juniper Old Field Juniper Prostrate Juniper | |
Juniperus horizontalis | Creeping Juniper Creeping Savin | |
Juglans nigra | Black Walnut Eastern Black Walnut American Black Walnut | |
Juniperus virginiana | Eastern Red Cedar Eastern Redcedar Virginia Juniper Red Juniper Pencil Cedar Carolina Cedar Red Savin | |
Koeleria macrantha | Prairie Junegrass Junegrass Prairie Koeler's Grass | |
Larix laricina | Tamarack American Larch Hacmatack Black Larch | |
Lespedeza capitata | Roundhead Lespedeza Roundhead Bush-clover Round-headed Lespedeza Round-headed Bush-clover | |
Liatris aspera | Tall Blazing Star Tall Gayfeather Tall Liatris Rough Blazing Star Rough Gayfeather Rough Liatris Button Snakeroot | |
Liatris cylindracea | Ontario Blazing Star Ontario Gayfeather Ontario Liatris Dwarf Blazing Star Dwarf Gayfeather Dwarf Liatris | |
Lilium michiganense | Michigan Lily Turk's Cap Lily | |
Lilium philadelphicum | Wood Lily | |
Lobelia siphilitica | Great Blue Lobelia | |
Lupinus perennis | Sundial Lupine Wild Lupine | |
Malus ioensis | Prairie Crabapple Iowa Crabapple Western Crabapple Prairie Crab Iowa Crab Western Crab | |
Maianthemum racemosum ssp. racemosum | Feathery False Lily Of The Valley False Spikenard False Solomon's Seal Solomon's Plume Smilacina | |
Mitchella repens | Partridgeberry Twinberry Running Box Pigeon Plum | |
Monarda fistulosa | Wild Bergamot Beebalm | |
Oenothera biennis | Common Evening-primrose King's Cure-all Common Evening Primrose | |
Opuntia humifusa | Low Prickly Pear Smooth Prickly Pear Devil's Tongue | |
Osmunda cinnamomea | Cinnamon Fern | |
Osmorhiza claytonii | Clayton's Sweetroot Hairy Sweet-cicely Sweet Jarvil | |
Osmunda claytoniana | Interrupted Fern | |
Ostrya virginiana | Eastern Hop-hornbeam American Hop-hornbeam Woolly Hop-hornbean Eastern Ironwood Roughbark Ironwood Ironwood Deerwood Leverwood | |
Parthenocissus quinquefolia | Virginia Creeper | |
Pascopyrum smithii | Western Wheatgrass | |
Panicum virgatum | Switchgrass Wand Panic Grass | |
Penstemon digitalis | Mississippi Penstemon Mississippi Beardtongue Smooth White Penstemon Smooth White Beardtongue Talus Slope Penstemon Talus Slope Beardtongue Foxglove Penstemon Foxglove Beardtongue | |
Penstemon grandiflorus | Large Penstemon Large Beardtongue Large-flower Penstemon Large-flower Beardtongue Large-flowered Penstemon Large-flowered Beardtongue | |
Peritoma serrulata | Rocky Mountain Bee-plant Stinking-clover Bee Spiderflower Navajo Spinach Pink Cleome Toothed Spiderflower Skunkweed | |
Physocarpus opulifolius | Common Ninebark Atlantic Ninebark | |
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