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Commercially available native plant species suitable for planned landscapes in Wyoming. 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 |
| Abies concolor | Balsam fir Colorado fir Concolor fir Oyamel de California Silver fir White balsam White fir | |
| Abies lasiocarpa | Subalpine fir | |
| Acer glabrum | Rocky Mountain maple | |
| Acer grandidentatum | Bigtooth maple Big-toothed maple Canyon maple | |
| Achnatherum hymenoides | Indian ricegrass Indian Millet Sandgrass | |
| Achillea millefolium | Common yarrow Yarrow Milfoil Western yarrow | |
| Acer negundo | Ash-leaf maple Ash-leaved maple Box elder Boxelder Fresno de guajuco | |
| Actaea rubra | Red baneberry | |
| Alnus incana | Gray alder Speckled alder | |
| Amelanchier alnifolia | Saskatoon serviceberry Western serviceberry Juneberry | |
| Amorpha fruticosa | Indigo bush False indigo bush False indigo Desert false indigo | |
| Andropogon gerardii | Big bluestem Turkeyfoot | |
| Andropogon hallii | Sand bluestem | |
| Anaphalis margaritacea | Western pearly everlasting Pearly-everlasting | |
| Aquilegia caerulea | Colorado blue columbine Rocky Mountain columbine | |
| Aquilegia flavescens | Yellow mountain columbine Yellow columbine Golden columbine | |
| Aquilegia jonesii | Jones' columbine Blue limestone columbine | |
| Artemisia cana | Silver sagebrush Coaltown sagebrush Dwarf sagebrush Hoary sagebrush Silvery sagebrush | |
| Artemisia filifolia | Sand sagebrush Silver sagebrush Silvery wormwood Sand sage | |
| Artemisia frigida | Prairie sagewort Prairie sagebrush Fringed sage Pasture sage | |
| Artemisia tridentata | Big sagebrush Great Basin sagebrush | |
| Arctostaphylos uva-ursi | Kinnikinnick Red bearberry Kinnikinnik | |
| Asclepias incarnata | Swamp milkweed Pink Milkweed | |
| Atriplex canescens | Chamiso Four-wing saltbush Fourwing saltbush Wingscale | |
| Atriplex confertifolia | Shadscale Spiny saltbush Shadscale saltbush Hop sage | |
| Balsamorhiza sagittata | Arrowleaf balsamroot Arrow-leaf balsamroot | |
| Betula occidentalis | Mountain birch Water birch | |
| Betula papyrifera | Paper birch Canoe birch White birch | |
| Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats grama | |
| Bouteloua dactyloides | Buffalograss Buffalo grass | |
| Bouteloua gracilis | Blue grama | |
| Caltha leptosepala | Elkslip White marsh marigold White marsh-marigold | |
| Campanula uniflora | Arctic bellflower | |
| Cercocarpus ledifolius | Curl-leaf mountain mahogany Curl-leaf mountain-mahogany | |
| Cercocarpus montanus | Alderleaf mountain mahogany Alder-leaf mountain-mahogany Mountain mahogany Silverleaf mountain mahogany | |
| Celtis occidentalis | Common hackberry Nettle tree | |
| Ceanothus velutinus | Snowbrush Snowbrush ceanothus Tobacco-brush Mountain balm Buckbush | |
| Chamerion angustifolium ssp. angustifolium | Fireweed Narrow-leaf fireweed Willow herb | |
| Cleome serrulata | Rocky Mountain beeplant Rocky mountain bee plant Waa Skunk weed | |
| Cornus sericea ssp. sericea | Redosier dogwood Red Osier Dogwood | |
| Dasiphora fruticosa ssp. floribunda | Shrubby cinquefoil Golden-hardhack | |
| Dalea purpurea var. purpurea | Purple prairie clover Violet prairie clover | |
| Delphinium barbeyi | Subalpine larkspur | |
| Delphinium nuttallianum | Delphinium Two-lobe larkspur Twolobe larkspur | |
| Ericameria nauseosa ssp. nauseosa var. nauseosa | Rabbitbrush Rubber rabbitbrush | |
| Erigeron speciosus | Aspen fleabane Showy fleabane | |
| Fendlera rupicola | Cliff fendlerbush Cliff fendlerbush. False mock orange | |
| Festuca rubra | Red fescue | |
| Fraxinus pennsylvanica | Green ash Red ash | |
| Gaillardia aristata | Common gaillardia Great blanketflower Blanketflower Brown-eyed susan | |
| Gutierrezia sarothrae | Broom snakeweed Kindlingweed Matchbrush Texas snakeweed Broomweed Turpentine weed | |
| Juniperus communis | Common juniper | |
| Juniperus horizontalis | Creeping juniper Creeping savin | |
| Juniperus scopulorum | Rocky Mountain juniper Rocky Mountain red cedar | |
| Kalmia microphylla | Alpine laurel | |
| Krascheninnikovia lanata | Winterfat | |
| Linum kingii | King's flax | |
| Liatris punctata | Dotted blazing star Dotted gayfeather | |
| Lonicera involucrata | Twinberry honeysuckle Four-line honeysuckle Black twinberry Bear berry honeysuckle | |
| Mahonia repens | Creeping barberry Creeping Oregon-grape | |
| Machaeranthera tanacetifolia | Tanseyleaf tansyaster Tahoka Daisy Tansy Aster | |
| Oenothera caespitosa | Tufted evening primrose Gumbo evening primrose Gumbo lily Fragrant evening primrose | |
| Oenothera nuttallii | Nuttall's evening-primrose | |
| Panicum virgatum | Switchgrass Wand panic grass | |
| Penstemon angustifolius | Broad-beard beardtongue Broadbeard beardtongue Whorled penstemon | |
| Penstemon deustus | Hot-rock beardtongue Hot-rock penstemon Scabland penstemon | |
| Penstemon strictus | Rocky Mountain penstemon Rocky Mountain beardtongue | |
| Physocarpus opulifolius | Atlantic ninebark Common ninebark | |
| Pinus contorta | Beach pine Lodgepole pine | |
| Pinus edulis | Colorado pinyon pine Pinyon pine Two-needle pine Colorado pinyon Pinyon | |
| Picea engelmannii | Engelmann spruce | |
| Pinus flexilis | Limber pine | |
| Pinus ponderosa | Ponderosa pine | |
| Picea pungens | Blue spruce Colorado spruce | |
| Populus angustifolia | Narrow-leaf cottonwood Narrowleaf cottonwood | |
| Populus deltoides | Eastern cottonwood Alamo Carolina poplar Necklace Poplar | |
| Populus tremuloides | Quaking aspen Aspen | |
| Prunus americana | American plum Wild plum | |
| Prunus virginiana | Chokecherry Common chokecherry Choke cherry | |
| Pulsatilla patens | Eastern pasqueflower American Pasqueflower | |
| Purshia tridentata | Antelope bitterbrush Bitterbrush Antelope brush | |
| Quercus gambelii | Gambel oak Rocky Mountain white oak | |
| Ranunculus cardiophyllus | Heart-leaf buttercup Heartleaf buttercup | |
| Ratibida columnifera | Mexican hat Prairie coneflower Upright prairie coneflower Red-spike mexican-hat Long-headed coneflower Thimbleflower | |
| Rhus glabra | Smooth sumac | |
| Rhus trilobata | Skunkbush sumac Scented sumac Ill-scented sumac Squawbush Basketbush Skunkbush | |
| Rudbeckia hirta | Black-eyed Susan Common black-eyed Susan Brown-eyed Susan | |
| Rudbeckia laciniata | Cutleaf coneflower Green-head coneflower Cut-leaf coneflower | |
| Rubus parviflorus | Thimbleberry Western thimble-berry | |
| Sambucus nigra ssp. canadensis | Common elderberry Black elder Mexican elderberry Common elder Elderberry Tapiro Sauco | |
| Sambucus racemosa | Red elderberry | |
| Schizachyrium scoparium | Little bluestem | |
| Shepherdia argentea | Silver buffaloberry Buffaloberry | |
| Sorghastrum nutans | Indiangrass Yellow indian grass | |
| Sorbus scopulina | Cascade mountain-ash Greene's mountain ash Western mountain-ash | |
| Viburnum opulus | European cranberrybush | |
| Yucca baccata | Banana yucca Blue yucca Fleshy-fruited yucca Datil | |
| Yucca glauca | Soapweed yucca Narrowleaf yucca Plains yucca Beargrass | |
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