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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 |
| 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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