Indiana Recommended
Commercially available native plant species suitable for planned landscapes in Indiana. 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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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 | |
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 | |
Physocarpus opulifolius | Common Ninebark Atlantic Ninebark | |
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 | |
Polystichum acrostichoides | Christmas Fern | |
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 | |
Polemonium reptans | Greek Valerian Jacob's Ladder | |
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 alba | White Oak Northern White Oak Eastern White Oak Stave Oak Ridge White Oak Forked-leaf White Oak | |
Quercus bicolor | Swamp White Oak | |
Quercus macrocarpa | Bur Oak Burr Oak Savanna 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 pinnata | Grayhead Coneflower Gray-headed Coneflower Grayhead Mexican Hat Gray-headed Mexican Hat Pinnate Prairie Coneflower Yellow Coneflower | |
Rhus aromatica | Fragrant Sumac Aromatic Sumac Lemon Sumac Polecat Bush | |
Rhus glabra | Smooth Sumac | |
Rhus typhina | Staghorn Sumac Velvet 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 Blackeyed Susan | |
Rudbeckia subtomentosa | Sweet Coneflower Sweet Black-eyed Susan | |
Sanguinaria canadensis | Bloodroot | |
Salix discolor | Pussy Willow Glaucous Willow | |
Schizachyrium scoparium | Little Bluestem Popotillo Azul | |
Silphium integrifolium | Wholeleaf Rosinweed Entire-leaf Rosinweed | |
Silphium laciniatum | Compassplant Compass Plant | |
Silphium perfoliatum | Cup Plant Indian Cup | |
Silphium terebinthinaceum | Prairie Rosinweed Prairie Dock | |
Solidago nemoralis | Gray Goldenrod Prairie Goldenrod Oldfield Goldenrod Grayleaf Goldenrod Gray-leaved Goldenrod Dyersweed Goldenrod Dwarf Goldenrod Field Goldenrod | |
Sorghastrum nutans | Indiangrass Yellow Indiangrass Indian Grass | |
Solidago speciosa | Showy Goldenrod Noble Goldenrod | |
Solidago ulmifolia | Elmleaf Goldenrod Elm-leaved Goldenrod | |
Spiraea alba | White Meadowsweet | |
Spartina pectinata | Prairie Cordgrass Freshwater Cordgrass Sloughgrass | |
Staphylea trifolia | American Bladdernut | |
Symphyotrichum ericoides | White Heath Aster Heath Aster | |
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus | Coralberry Indian Currant Buckbrush | |
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