North Carolina Recommended
Commercially available native plant species suitable for planned landscapes in North Carolina. 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
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Achillea millefolium | Common Yarrow Western Yarrow Yarrow Milfoil | |
Acer negundo | Box Elder Box Elder Maple Ash-leaved Maple Ashleaf Maple Red River Maple Fresno De Guajuco | |
Acer pensylvanicum | Striped Maple Moosewood | |
Acer rubrum | Red Maple Scarlet Maple Soft Maple | |
Acer saccharum | Sugar Maple Northern Sugar Maple | |
Aesculus pavia | Red Buckeye Scarlet Buckeye Firecracker Plant | |
Ageratina altissima var. altissima | White Snakeroot | |
Amelanchier arborea | Common Serviceberry Downy Serviceberry Shadbush Juneberry Junebush Shadblow Sarvis | |
Amelanchier canadensis | Canadian Serviceberry Canadian Service-berry Shadblow Serviceberry Juneberry Shadbush Junebush | |
Amsonia tabernaemontana | Eastern Bluestar Blue Dogbane Willow Amsonia Woodland Bluestar | |
Aquilegia canadensis | Eastern Red Columbine Wild Red Columbine | |
Arnica acaulis | Common Leopardbane | |
Aralia spinosa | Devil's Walking Stick Hercules Club Angelica Tree Pigeon Tree Shotbush Prickly Elder Prickly Ash | |
Asclepias incarnata | Swamp Milkweed Pink Milkweed | |
Asimina triloba | Pawpaw Common Pawpaw Custard Apple Indian Banana Wild Banana | |
Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly Weed Butterfly Milkweed Orange Milkweed Pleurisy Root Chigger Flower Chiggerweed | |
Baptisia australis | Blue Wild Indigo Wild Blue Indigo Blue False Indigo | |
Betula lenta | Sweet Birch Cherry Birch Black Birch Mahogany Birch | |
Betula nigra | River Birch Red Birch Black Birch Water Birch | |
Callicarpa americana | American Beautyberry French Mulberry | |
Carpinus caroliniana | American Hornbeam Blue Beech Water Beech Musclewood Ironwood | |
Carya cordiformis | Bitternut Hickory Swamp Hickory Bitternut Pig Hickory Pignut Hickory Pignut White Hickory Red Hickory Bitter Walnut Bitter Pecan | |
Carya glabra | Pignut Hickory Sweet Pignut Hickory Coast Pignut Hickory Pignut Sweet Pignut Smoothbark Hickory Broom Hickory Red Hickory Swamp Hickory Switch Hickory Switchbud Hickory | |
Castanea pumila | Allegheny Chinquapin Allegheny Chinkapin Chinquapin Chinkapin | |
Campsis radicans | Trumpet Creeper Trumpet Vine Common Trumpet Creeper Cow Vine Foxglove Vine Hellvine Devil's Shoestring | |
Catalpa speciosa | Northern Catalpa Catalpa Tree Cigar Tree Indian Bean | |
Carya tomentosa | Mockernut Hickory Mockernut Hickory Big Bud Hickory Mockernut White Hickory Whiteheart Hickory Fragrant Hickory Bigbud Hickory Hardbark Hickory Hognut Bullnut | |
Ceanothus americanus | New Jersey Tea Redroot | |
Cercis canadensis | Eastern Redbud Redbud | |
Cephalanthus occidentalis | Common Buttonbush Buttonbush Button Willow Honey Bells Honeybells Honey Balls Honeyballs Button-bush | |
Chionanthus virginicus | White Fringetree Fringe Tree Snowflower Tree Flowering Ash Old Man's Beard Grandfather Graybeard Grancy Graybeard | |
Cornus alternifolia | Alternateleaf Dogwood Alternate-leaf Dogwood Pagoda Dogwood | |
Conoclinium coelestinum | Blue Mistflower Wild Ageratum Blue Boneset | |
Cornus florida | Flowering Dogwood Virginia Dogwood Florida Dogwood White Cornel Arrowwood American Boxwood False Box St. Peter's Crown Corona De San Pedro | |
Coreopsis lanceolata | Lanceleaf Coreopsis Lance-leaved Coreopsis Lanceleaf Tickseed Sand Coreopsis | |
Comptonia peregrina | Sweet-fern Sweetfern | |
Coreopsis tinctoria | Plains Coreopsis Golden Tickseed Goldenwave Calliopsis | |
Coreopsis verticillata | Threadleaf Coreopsis Whorled Tickseed Whorled Coreopsis | |
Diospyros virginiana | Common Persimmon Eastern Persimmon Possumwood Date Plum Winter Plum Jove's Fruit | |
Echinacea purpurea | Eastern Purple Coneflower Purple Coneflower | |
Erythrina herbacea | Coralbean Cherokee Bean Red Cardinal | |
Eryngium yuccifolium | Rattlesnake Master Button Eryngo Button Snakeroot Beargrass Bear's Grass | |
Euonymus americanus | American Strawberry Bush Strawberry Bush Brook Euonymus Hearts-a-burstin Bursting Heart Wahoo | |
Eutrochium fistulosum | Joe-pye Weed Trumpetweed Queen Of The Meadow Hollow Joe-pye Weed | |
Fagus grandifolia | American Beech White Beech Red Beech Ridge Beech Beechnut Tree | |
Fraxinus americana | White Ash American Ash Cane Ash Smallseed White Ash Biltmore White Ash Biltmore Ash | |
Gaillardia pulchella | Indian Blanket Firewheel Girasol Rojo | |
Gelsemium sempervirens | Carolina Jessamine Yellow Jessamine Evening Trumpetflower Poor Man's Rope | |
Gordonia lasianthus | Gordonia Loblolly Bay | |
Hamamelis virginiana | Witch-hazel American Witch-hazel Common Witch-hazel Winterbloom Snapping Hazelnut Striped Alder Spotted Alder Tobacco-wood Water-witch | |
Helianthus angustifolius | Swamp Sunflower Narrowleaf Sunflower Narrow-leaved Sunflower | |
Hibiscus moscheutos | Crimson-eyed Rose-mallow Marshmallow Hibiscus | |
Hydrangea arborescens | Smooth Hydrangea Wild Hydrangea Sevenbark | |
Hypericum prolificum | Shrubby St. John's-wort | |
Ilex opaca | American Holly White Holly Prickly Holly Evergreen Holly Christmas Holly Yule Holly | |
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 | |
Kalmia latifolia | Mountain Laurel Calico Bush Kalmia Mountain-laurel | |
Kosteletzkya virginica | Virginia Saltmarsh Mallow Virginia Fen-rose Saltmarsh Mallow Seashore Mallow | |
Lindera benzoin | Northern Spicebush Spicebush Wild Allspice | |
Liatris punctata | Dotted Blazing Star Dotted Gayfeather Dotted Liatris Purples | |
Liatris pycnostachya | Prairie Blazing Star Prairie Gayfeather Prairie Liatris Kansas Blazing Star Kansas Gayfeather Kansas Liatris Cat-tail Blazing Star Cat-tail Gayfeather Cat-tail Liatris Hairy Button-snakeroot | |
Liatris spicata | Dense Blazing Star Dense Gayfeather Dense Liatris Marsh Blazing Star Marsh Gayfeather Marsh Liatris | |
Liquidambar styraciflua | Sweetgum American Sweetgum Red Gum White Gum Star-leaved Gum Starleaf Gum Alligator Tree Satin Walnut Bilsted Liquidambar | |
Liriodendron tulipifera | Tulip Tree Tulip Poplar Yellow Poplar | |
Lobelia cardinalis | Cardinal Flower | |
Lonicera sempervirens | Coral Honeysuckle Trumpet Honeysuckle Woodbine | |
Lobelia siphilitica | Great Blue Lobelia | |
Lupinus perennis | Sundial Lupine Wild Lupine | |
Magnolia acuminata | Cucumbertree Cucumber Tree Mountain Magnolia | |
Magnolia grandiflora | Southern Magnolia Evergreen Magnolia Loblolly Magnolia Great Laurel Magnolia Big Laurel Bull Bay | |
Magnolia macrophylla | Bigleaf Magnolia | |
Magnolia virginiana | Sweetbay Sweetbay Magnolia Southern Sweetbay Swampbay Swamp Magnolia Sweet Magnolia Small Magnolia Laurel Magnolia White Bay White Laurel Swamp Laurel Beaver Tree | |
Mertensia virginica | Virginia Bluebells | |
Morella cerifera | Wax Myrtle Southern Wax Myrtle Southern Bayberry Eastern Bayberry Bayberry Candleberry Tallow Shrub | |
Monarda citriodora | Lemon Beebalm Purple Horsemint Lemon Mint Plains Horsemint Lemon Horsemint Horsemint Purple Lemon Mint | |
Monarda didyma | Scarlet Beebalm Oswego Tea Red Bergamot | |
Monarda fistulosa | Wild Bergamot Beebalm | |
Monarda punctata | Spotted Beebalm Spotted Horsemint Horsemint | |
Nyssa sylvatica | Tupelo Blackgum Black Tupelo Sourgum Pepperidge Tupelo Gum Beetlebung | |
Oenothera fruticosa | Narrowleaf Evening-primrose Narrow-leaf Evening-primrose Sundrops Narrowleaf Evening Primrose | |
Oxydendrum arboreum | Sourwood Sorrel Tree | |
Passiflora incarnata | Maypop Purple Passionflower Purple Passion Vine Apricot Vine | |
Penstemon canescens | Eastern Gray Penstemon Eastern Gray Beardtongue | |
Penstemon digitalis | Mississippi Penstemon Mississippi Beardtongue Smooth White Penstemon Smooth White Beardtongue Talus Slope Penstemon Talus Slope Beardtongue Foxglove Penstemon Foxglove Beardtongue | |
Penstemon laevigatus | Eastern Smooth Penstemon Eastern Smooth Beardtongue Smooth Penstemon Smooth Beardtongue Eastern Penstemon Eastern Beardtongue Hairy Penstemon Hairy Beardtongue | |
Penstemon smallii | Small's Penstemon Small's Beardtongue | |
Phlox divaricata | Wild Blue Phlox Louisiana Phlox Blue Woodland Phlox Sweet William Wild Sweet William | |
Physocarpus opulifolius | Common Ninebark Atlantic Ninebark | |
Physostegia virginiana | Fall Obedient Plant False Dragonhead Virginia Lions-heart | |
Pinus palustris | Longleaf Pine Georgia Pine Longleaf Yellow Pine Southern Yellow Pine Longstraw Pine Hill Pine Hard Pine Heart Pine | |
Pinus pungens | Table Mountain Pine Hickory Pine Prickly Pine | |
Pinus rigida | Pitch Pine Torch Pine | |
Picea rubens | Red Spruce Yellow Spruce West Virginia Spruce Eastern Spruce He-balsam | |
Pinus taeda | Loblolly Pine Oldfield Pine Bull Pine Rosemary Pine | |
Pinus virginiana | Virginia Pine Jersey Pine Scrub Pine | |
Platanus occidentalis | American Sycamore Eastern Sycamore American Plane Tree Plane Tree Buttonwood Buttonball Tree | |
Polemonium reptans | Greek Valerian Jacob's Ladder | |
Prunus americana | American Plum Wild Plum | |
Prunus serotina | Black Cherry Wild Black Cherry Rum Cherry | |
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