Nebraska Recommended
Commercially available native plant species suitable for planned landscapes in Nebraska. 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 | |
Aesculus glabra | Ohio Buckeye Texas Buckeye Fetid Buckeye Horse Chestnut | |
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 | |
Amorpha fruticosa | Indigo Bush False Indigo Bush False Indigo Desert False Indigo | |
Amorpha nana | Dwarf False Indigo Fragrant Indigo-bush Fragrant False Indigo Dwarf Wild Indigo | |
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 | |
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 Weed Butterfly Milkweed Orange Milkweed Pleurisy Root Chigger Flower Chiggerweed | |
Athyrium filix-femina | Common Lady Fern Subarctic Lady Fern Lady Fern Ladyfern | |
Baptisia alba | White Wild Indigo White Baptisia | |
Baptisia bracteata var. leucophaea | Longbract Wild Indigo Cream False Indigo Plains Wild Indigo Cream Wild Indigo Large-bracted Wild Indigo | |
Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats Grama Banderilla Banderita Navajita | |
Bouteloua gracilis | Blue Grama | |
Campanulastrum americanum | American Bellflower Tall Bellflower | |
Calamagrostis canadensis | Bluejoint | |
Callirhoe involucrata | Winecup Purple Poppy Mallow | |
Carya ovata | Shagbark Hickory Carolina Hickory Scalybark Hickory Upland Hickory Shellbark Hickory | |
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 | |
Chamaecrista fasciculata | Partridge Pea Sleepingplant Sensitive Plant | |
Corylus americana | American Hazelnut American Filbert | |
Cornus obliqua | Silky Dogwood Pale Dogwood Swamp Dogwood Kinnikinnik | |
Cornus sericea | Red Osier Dogwood Red Osier Red-twig Dogwood | |
Crataegus mollis | Downy Hawthorn White Thorn Whitethorn Scarlet Hawthorn Scarlet Haw Red Haw Downy Thorn | |
Desmodium canadense | Showy Tick Trefoil | |
Dryopteris cristata | Crested Woodfern Crested Wood Fern Buckler Fern | |
Echinacea angustifolia | Black Samson 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 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 | |
Gaillardia aristata | Common Gaillardia Great Blanketflower Blanketflower Brown-eyed Susan | |
Gentiana andrewsii | Closed Bottle Gentian Closed Gentian Bottle Gentian | |
Geranium maculatum | Spotted Geranium Wild Geranium Cranesbill | |
Gymnocladus dioicus | Kentucky Coffeetree Stump Tree | |
Helenium autumnale | Common Sneezeweed Fall Sneezeweed Autumn Sneezeweed | |
Heliopsis helianthoides | Smooth Oxeye Oxeye Sunflower False Sunflower | |
Heuchera richardsonii | Richardson's Alumroot Prairie Alumroot | |
Hydrophyllum virginianum | Virginia Waterleaf Eastern Waterleaf Shawnee Salad | |
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 | |
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 | |
Lilium michiganense | Michigan Lily Turk's Cap Lily | |
Lilium philadelphicum | Wood Lily | |
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 | |
Lobelia cardinalis | Cardinal Flower | |
Lobelia siphilitica | Great Blue Lobelia | |
Malus ioensis | Prairie Crabapple Iowa Crabapple Western Crabapple Prairie Crab Iowa Crab Western Crab | |
Monarda fistulosa | Wild Bergamot Beebalm | |
Oenothera biennis | Common Evening-primrose King's Cure-all Common Evening Primrose | |
Oenothera rhombipetala | Fourpoint Evening-primrose Four-point Evening Primrose Diamond Petal Primrose Greater Four-point Evening-primrose | |
Opuntia macrorhiza | Bigroot Prickly Pear Twist-spine Prickly Pear Common Prickly Pear Plains Prickly Pear | |
Osmorhiza claytonii | Clayton's Sweetroot Hairy Sweet-cicely Sweet Jarvil | |
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 lutea | Yellow Bee-plant Yellow Spiderflower | |
Peritoma serrulata | Rocky Mountain Bee-plant Stinking-clover Bee Spiderflower Navajo Spinach Pink Cleome Toothed Spiderflower Skunkweed | |
Phlox divaricata ssp. laphamii | Lapham's Phlox Blue Phlox Sweet William | |
Phlox pilosa | Downy Phlox Prairie Phlox Fragrant Phlox | |
Physostegia virginiana | Fall Obedient Plant False Dragonhead Virginia Lions-heart | |
Platanus occidentalis | American Sycamore Eastern Sycamore American Plane Tree Plane Tree Buttonwood Buttonball Tree | |
Polygonatum biflorum | Smooth Solomon's Seal Great Solomon's-seal Sealwort | |
Populus deltoides | Eastern Cottonwood Carolina Poplar Necklace Poplar Alamo | |
Podophyllum peltatum | Mayapple Indian Apple Wild Mandrake Pomme De Mai Podophylle Pelt | |
Populus tremuloides | Quaking Aspen Golden Aspen Trembling Aspen Mountain Aspen Aspen Trembling Poplar Alamo Blanco | |
Prunus americana | American Plum Wild Plum | |
Prunus serotina | Black Cherry Wild Black Cherry Rum Cherry | |
Prunus virginiana | Chokecherry Common Chokecherry Choke Cherry | |
Pycnanthemum virginianum | Virginia Mountain Mint | |
Quercus macrocarpa | Bur Oak Burr Oak Savanna Oak Overcup Oak Prairie Oak Mossy-cup Oak Mossy-overcup Oak Blue Oak | |
Quercus rubra | Northern Red Oak | |
Ratibida columnifera | Mexican Hat Red-spike Mexican Hat Upright Prairie Coneflower Prairie Coneflower Long-headed Coneflower Thimbleflower | |
Ratibida pinnata | Grayhead Coneflower Gray-headed Coneflower Grayhead Mexican Hat Gray-headed Mexican Hat Pinnate Prairie Coneflower Yellow Coneflower | |
Rhus glabra | Smooth Sumac | |
Rosa blanda | Smooth Rose Early Wild Rose | |
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