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Connecticut Recommended
Commercially available native plant species suitable for planned landscapes in Connecticut. 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 |
| Achillea millefolium | Common Yarrow Western Yarrow Yarrow Milfoil | |
| Actaea pachypoda | White Baneberry Dolls Eyes | |
| Actaea racemosa var. racemosa | Black Cohosh Black Bugbane Bugbane Black Snakeroot Fairy Candles | |
| Acer rubrum | Red Maple Scarlet Maple Soft Maple | |
| Actaea rubra | Red Baneberry | |
| Acer saccharinum | Silver Maple Soft Maple White Maple | |
| Acer saccharum | Sugar Maple Northern Sugar Maple | |
| Adiantum pedatum | Northern Maidenhair Fern Maidenhair Fern | |
| Agastache scrophulariifolia | Purple Giant Hyssop Purple Giant-hyssop | |
| Alnus incana ssp. rugosa | Speckled Alder | |
| Alnus serrulata | Smooth Alder Hazel Alder Brookside Alder Tag Alder Common Alder Black Alder | |
| Amelanchier canadensis | Canadian Serviceberry Canadian Service-berry Shadblow Serviceberry Juneberry Shadbush Junebush | |
| Anemone canadensis | Canadian Anemone Round-leaf Thimbleweed Canada Anemone Windflower Meadow Anemone | |
| Andropogon gerardii | Big Bluestem Tall Bluestem Turkeyfoot | |
| Anaphalis margaritacea | Western Pearly Everlasting Pearly-everlasting | |
| Antennaria plantaginifolia | Woman's Tobacco Ladies' Tobacco Everlasting Mouse Ear Plantain-leaf Pussytoes | |
| Anemone quinquefolia | Wood Anemone Nightcaps Windflower | |
| Aquilegia canadensis | Eastern Red Columbine Wild Red Columbine | |
| Aronia arbutifolia | Red Chokeberry Red Chokecherry | |
| Arisaema dracontium | Green Dragon Dragonroot Greendragon | |
| Aralia nudicaulis | Wild Sarsaparilla | |
| Arisaema triphyllum | Jack In The Pulpit Indian Jack In The Pulpit Jack-in-the-pulpit | |
| Asarum canadense | Canadian Wild Ginger Wild Ginger | |
| Asarum caudatum | British Columbia Wild Ginger Long-tail Wild Ginger | |
| Asclepias purpurascens | Purple Milkweed | |
| Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly Weed Butterfly Milkweed Orange Milkweed Pleurisy Root Chigger Flower Chiggerweed | |
| Betula lenta | Sweet Birch Cherry Birch Black Birch Mahogany Birch | |
| Betula populifolia | Gray Birch White Birch Aspen-leaved Birch | |
| Blephilia ciliata | Downy Pagoda-plant Sunny Woodmint Ohio Horsemint | |
| Campanulastrum americanum | American Bellflower Tall Bellflower | |
| Carpinus caroliniana | American Hornbeam Blue Beech Water Beech Musclewood Ironwood | |
| Carya glabra | Pignut Hickory Sweet Pignut Hickory Coast Pignut Hickory Pignut Sweet Pignut Smoothbark Hickory Broom Hickory Red Hickory Swamp Hickory Switch Hickory Switchbud Hickory | |
| Carya ovata | Shagbark Hickory Carolina Hickory Scalybark Hickory Upland Hickory Shellbark Hickory | |
| Caltha palustris | Yellow Marsh Marigold Cowslip | |
| Campsis radicans | Trumpet Creeper Trumpet Vine Common Trumpet Creeper Cow Vine Foxglove Vine Hellvine Devil's Shoestring | |
| Campanula rotundifolia | Bluebell Bellflower Bluebell Of Scotland Bluebell Harebell Witches' Thimble | |
| Carya tomentosa | Mockernut Hickory Mockernut Hickory Big Bud Hickory Mockernut White Hickory Whiteheart Hickory Fragrant Hickory Bigbud Hickory Hardbark Hickory Hognut Bullnut | |
| Ceanothus americanus | New Jersey Tea Redroot | |
| Celastrus scandens | American Bittersweet | |
| Chamerion angustifolium ssp. angustifolium | Fireweed Narrow-leaf Fireweed Willow Herb | |
| Chamaelirium luteum | Fairywand Blazing Star | |
| Chrysopsis mariana | Maryland Goldenaster Maryland Golden-aster | |
| Chamaecyparis thyoides | Atlantic White Cedar | |
| Clintonia borealis | Bluebead Yellow Bluebead-lily Clintonia Blue-bead Lily | |
| Claytonia caroliniana | Carolina Springbeauty | |
| Claytonia virginica | Virginia Springbeauty Springbeauty | |
| Cornus alternifolia | Alternateleaf Dogwood Alternate-leaf Dogwood Pagoda Dogwood | |
| Conoclinium coelestinum | Blue Mistflower Wild Ageratum Blue Boneset | |
| Cornus florida | Flowering Dogwood Virginia Dogwood Florida Dogwood White Cornel Arrowwood American Boxwood False Box St. Peter's Crown Corona De San Pedro | |
| Coreopsis lanceolata | Lanceleaf Coreopsis Lance-leaved Coreopsis Lanceleaf Tickseed Sand Coreopsis | |
| Comptonia peregrina | Sweet-fern Sweetfern | |
| Cornus sericea ssp. sericea | Redosier Dogwood Red Osier Dogwood | |
| Coptis trifolia | Threeleaf Goldthread Three-leaf Goldthread Canker Root | |
| Desmodium canadense | Showy Tick Trefoil | |
| Dicentra canadensis | Squirrel Corn | |
| Dicentra cucullaria | Dutchman's Breeches | |
| Dryopteris marginalis | Marginal Woodfern Marginal Fern Marginal Shieldfern | |
| Erigeron philadelphicus | Philadelphia Fleabane Fleabane Daisy | |
| Erigeron pulchellus | Robin's Plantain Poor Robin's Plantain Rose Petty Robert's Plantain Blue Spring-daisy | |
| Eurybia divaricata | White Wood Aster | |
| Eutrochium purpureum | Purple Joepyeweed Sweet-scented Joepyeweed Sweet Joepyeweed | |
| Fagus grandifolia | American Beech White Beech Red Beech Ridge Beech Beechnut Tree | |
| Fothergilla gardenii | Dwarf Witchalder Dwarf Witch-alder Dwarf Fothergilla | |
| Fothergilla major | Mountain Witchalder Mountain Witch-alder Large Fothergilla | |
| Fraxinus americana | White Ash American Ash Cane Ash Smallseed White Ash Biltmore White Ash Biltmore Ash | |
| Fraxinus nigra | Black Ash | |
| Gaylussacia baccata | Black Huckleberry | |
| Gaultheria procumbens | Eastern Teaberry Wintergreen Checkerberry | |
| Gentiana andrewsii | Closed Bottle Gentian Closed Gentian Bottle Gentian | |
| Gentiana clausa | Bottle Gentian Blind Gentian | |
| Geranium maculatum | Spotted Geranium Wild Geranium Cranesbill | |
| Hamamelis virginiana | Witch-hazel American Witch-hazel Common Witch-hazel Winterbloom Snapping Hazelnut Striped Alder Spotted Alder Tobacco-wood Water-witch | |
| Helenium autumnale | Common Sneezeweed Fall Sneezeweed Autumn Sneezeweed | |
| Helianthus decapetalus | Thinleaf Sunflower Ten-petaled Sunflower Thin-leaved Sunflower Pale Sunflower | |
| Helianthus strumosus | Paleleaf Woodland Sunflower Paleleaf Sunflower Woodland Sunflower | |
| Helianthus tuberosus | Jerusalem Artichoke Sunchoke | |
| Hibiscus moscheutos | Crimson-eyed Rose-mallow Marshmallow Hibiscus | |
| Houstonia caerulea | Azure Bluet Quaker Ladies Bluets | |
| Houstonia longifolia | Longleaf Summer Bluet Pale Bluets | |
| Hypoxis hirsuta | Common Goldstar Yellow Star-grass Eastern Yellow Star-grass | |
| Ilex glabra | Inkberry Gallberry | |
| Ilex opaca | American Holly White Holly Prickly Holly Evergreen Holly Christmas Holly Yule Holly | |
| Ilex verticillata | Common Winterberry Winterberry Michigan Holly Black Alder | |
| Iris prismatica | Slender Blue Iris Slender Blue Flag Coastal Iris | |
| Iris versicolor | Harlequin Blueflag Northern Blue Flag Large Blue Iris | |
| 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 | |
| Kalmia latifolia | Mountain Laurel Calico Bush Kalmia Mountain-laurel | |
| Lindera benzoin | Northern Spicebush Spicebush Wild Allspice | |
| Linnaea borealis | Twinflower American Twinflower | |
| Lilium philadelphicum | Wood Lily | |
| Liatris scariosa | Devil's Bite Large Blazing Star Large Gayfeather Large Liatris Savanna Blazing Star Savanna Gayfeather Savanna Liatris | |
| Liatris spicata | Dense Blazing Star Dense Gayfeather Dense Liatris Marsh Blazing Star Marsh Gayfeather Marsh Liatris | |
| Liquidambar styraciflua | Sweetgum American Sweetgum Red Gum White Gum Star-leaved Gum Starleaf Gum Alligator Tree Satin Walnut Bilsted Liquidambar | |
| Lilium superbum | Turk's-cap Lily | |
| Liriodendron tulipifera | Tulip Tree Tulip Poplar Yellow Poplar | |
| Lobelia cardinalis | Cardinal Flower | |
| Lobelia siphilitica | Great Blue Lobelia | |
| Lupinus perennis | Sundial Lupine Wild Lupine | |
| Lysimachia ciliata | Fringed Loosestrife Fringed Yellow Loosestrife | |
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