Alaska Recommended
Commercially available native plant species suitable for planned landscapes in Alaska. 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 lasiocarpa | Subalpine Fir | |
Acer circinatum | Oregon Vine Maple Vine Maple | |
Aconitum columbianum | Columbian Monkshood | |
Acer glabrum | Rocky Mountain Maple | |
Adiantum pedatum | Northern Maidenhair Fern Maidenhair Fern | |
Agrostis scabra | Rough Bentgrass Rough Bent Ticklegrass Fly-away Grass | |
Amelanchier alnifolia | Saskatoon Serviceberry Western Serviceberry Juneberry | |
Anaphalis margaritacea | Western Pearly Everlasting Pearly-everlasting | |
Anemone multifida | Pacific Anemone Red Windflower Early Thimbleweed Cut-leaf Anemone | |
Aquilegia formosa | Western Columbine Crimson Columbine Scarlet Columbine Red Columbine | |
Arnica cordifolia | Heartleaf Arnica Heart-leaf Leopardbane | |
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi | Kinnikinnick Red Bearberry Kinnikinnik | |
Athyrium filix-femina | Common Lady Fern Subarctic Lady Fern Lady Fern Ladyfern | |
Betula occidentalis | Water Birch Mountain Birch | |
Blechnum spicant | Deer Fern | |
Bolboschoenus maritimus | Cosmopolitan Bulrush Saltmarsh Club-rush Alkali Bulrush Prairie Bulrush Bayonet Grass | |
Calamagrostis canadensis | Bluejoint | |
Carex macrocephala | Largehead Sedge Big-head Sedge | |
Callitropsis nootkatensis | Alaska Cedar Alaska-cedar Yellow Cedar Nootka Cedar | |
Caltha palustris var. palustris | Yellow Marsh Marigold Marsh-marigold Cowslip | |
Campanula rotundifolia | Bluebell Bellflower Bluebell Of Scotland Bluebell Harebell Witches' Thimble | |
Carex rostrata | Beaked Sedge Swollen Beaked Sedge | |
Carex stipata | Awlfruit Sedge Awl-fruited Sedge Stalk-grain Sedge | |
Chamerion angustifolium ssp. angustifolium | Fireweed Narrow-leaf Fireweed Willow Herb | |
Chrysolepis chrysophylla var. chrysophylla | Giant Chinquapin Giant Chinkapin | |
Chrysolepis sempervirens | Bush Chinquapin Sierran Chinkapin Sierra Chinquapin | |
Clarkia amoena | Farewell To Spring Farewell-to-spring Herald-of-summer | |
Clinopodium douglasii | Yerba Buena Oregon-tea | |
Clintonia uniflora | Bride's Bonnet Queen Cup Bead Lily | |
Cornus canadensis | Bunchberry Dogwood Canadian Bunchberry | |
Cornus sericea | Red Osier Dogwood Red Osier Red-twig Dogwood | |
Cystopteris fragilis | Brittle Bladderfern Brittle Bladder Fern Fragile Fern | |
Dasiphora fruticosa ssp. floribunda | Shrubby Cinquefoil Golden Hardhack Potentilla | |
Danthonia spicata | Poverty Oatgrass Poverty Wild Oat Grass Curly Grass | |
Deschampsia cespitosa | Tufted Hairgrass Tufted Hair Grass | |
Dichanthelium acuminatum var. fasciculatum | Western Panicgrass Rosette Grass | |
Dryopteris carthusiana | Spinulose Woodfern Spinulose Wood Fern Shield Fern Toothed Wood Fern | |
Dryas octopetala | Eightpetal Mountain-avens Eight-petal Mountain-avens White Mountain-avens Mountain Dryas | |
Elymus canadensis | Canada Wild Rye Canadian Wildrye Prairie Wildrye Nodding Wildrye | |
Elymus glaucus | Blue Wildrye Blue Wild Rye | |
Erigeron compositus | Cutleaf Daisy Dwarf Mountain Fleabane Alpine Daisy | |
Ericameria nauseosa var. nauseosa | Rubber Rabbitbrush Rabbitbrush | |
Fragaria chiloensis | Beach Strawberry Coast Strawberry Chilean Strawberry | |
Gymnocarpium dryopteris | Western Oakfern Northern Oak Fern | |
Hesperostipa comata ssp. comata | Needle And Thread | |
Heterotheca villosa var. villosa | Hairy False Goldenaster Golden-aster | |
Juniperus communis var. montana | Common Juniper Dwarf Juniper | |
Kalmia polifolia | Bog Laurel Pale Laurel Swamp Laurel | |
Krascheninnikovia lanata | Winterfat | |
Lewisia cotyledon | Siskiyou Lewisia Siskiyou Bitter-root Broadleaf Lewisia | |
Ledum groenlandicum | Bog Labrador Tea Rusty Labrador Tea Labrador Tea Hudson's Bay Tea Muskeg Tea | |
Leymus mollis ssp. mollis | American Dunegrass American Dune Grass Beach Wild Rye | |
Linum lewisii var. lewisii | Prairie Flax Blue Flax | |
Luetkea pectinata | Partridgefoot Alaska Spiraea | |
Maianthemum dilatatum | False Lily Of The Valley May Lily Canada Mayflower | |
Maianthemum racemosum ssp. racemosum | Feathery False Lily Of The Valley False Spikenard False Solomon's Seal Solomon's Plume Smilacina | |
Mimulus guttatus | Yellow Monkeyflower Golden Monkeyflower Seep Monkeyflower Common Monkeyflower Seep Monkey-flower | |
Mimulus lewisii | Purple Monkeyflower Great Purple Monkeyflower Lewis Monkeyflower Lewis's Monkeyflower | |
Minuartia obtusiloba | Twinflower Sandwort Alpine Stitchwort Cushion Sandwort | |
Pedicularis groenlandica | Elephanthead Lousewort | |
Physocarpus capitatus | Pacific Ninebark | |
Phyllodoce empetriformis | Pink Mountain Heath Pink Mountain Heather | |
Phacelia sericea | Silky Phacelia Purple Fringe | |
Pinus contorta | Lodgepole Pine Beach Pine Pino De San Pedro Martir | |
Pinus contorta var. murrayana | Sierra Lodgepole Pine Lodgepole Pine | |
Picea engelmannii | Engelmann's Spruce Engelmann Spruce | |
Picea sitchensis | Sitka Spruce | |
Populus balsamifera ssp. trichocarpa | Black Cottonwood | |
Polypodium glycyrrhiza | Licorice Fern | |
Polystichum munitum | Western Swordfern Pineland Swordfern | |
Polemonium pulcherrimum | Jacob's-ladder Skunk Leaf | |
Poa secunda | Sandberg Bluegrass Curly Blue Grass Pine Blue Grass Canby Blue Grass | |
Populus tremuloides | Quaking Aspen Golden Aspen Trembling Aspen Mountain Aspen Aspen Trembling Poplar Alamo Blanco | |
Prosartes smithii | Largeflower Fairybells Large-flower Fairybells Smith's Fairybells | |
Pseudoroegneria spicata ssp. spicata | Bluebunch Wheatgrass Bluebunch-wheat Grass | |
Rosa nutkana | Nootka Rose | |
Rosa woodsii | Woods' Rose Western Wild Rose | |
Rubus spectabilis | Salmonberry Salmon Raspberry | |
Saxifraga bronchialis | Yellowdot Saxifrage Yellow-spot Saxifrage Matted Saxifrage | |
Salix scouleriana | Scouler's Willow Western Pussy Willow | |
Schoenoplectus acutus var. acutus | Hardstem Bulrush | |
Shepherdia canadensis | Russet Buffaloberry Rabbitberry | |
Silene acaulis | Moss Campion Cushion Pink | |
Symphyotrichum ascendens | Western Aster Western American-aster Purple Aster Pacific Aster | |
Symphyotrichum foliaceum var. foliaceum | Alpine Leafybract Aster Leafy Aster | |
Taxus brevifolia | Pacific Yew Western Yew | |
Tellima grandiflora | Bigflower Tellima Fragrant Fringecup | |
Thuja plicata | Western Red Cedar Western Arborvitae Canoe Cedar | |
Tiarella trifoliata var. unifoliata | Oneleaf Foamflower Western Foamflower Sugar Scoop | |
Tolmiea menziesii | Youth On Age Piggyback-plant Youth-on-age Thousand Mothers | |
Trisetum spicatum | Spike Trisetum Narrow False Oat | |
Tsuga heterophylla | Western Hemlock | |
Tsuga mertensiana | Mountain Hemlock | |
Typha latifolia | Broadleaf Cattail Common Cattail | |
Vaccinium parvifolium | Red Huckleberry Red Blueberry | |
Viburnum edule | Squashberry Moosewood Viburnum Few-flowered Cranberry Bush | |
Viola glabella | Pioneer Violet Smooth Yellow Violet | |
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