Idaho Recommended
Commercially available native plant species suitable for planned landscapes in Idaho. 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 | White Fir Balsam Fir Colorado Fir Concolor Fir Silver Fir White Balsam Oyamel De California | |
Abies grandis | Grand Fir Giant Fir | |
Abies lasiocarpa | Subalpine Fir | |
Acer glabrum | Rocky Mountain Maple | |
Acer grandidentatum | Bigtooth Maple Big-toothed Maple Uvalde Bigtooth Maple Southwestern Bigtooth Maple Canyon Maple Sabinal Maple Western Sugar Maple | |
Achnatherum hymenoides | Indian Ricegrass Indian Millet Sandgrass | |
Achillea millefolium | Common Yarrow Western Yarrow Yarrow Milfoil | |
Actaea rubra | Red Baneberry | |
Agrostis exarata | Spike Bentgrass Spiked Bent Spike Red Top | |
Alnus incana ssp. tenuifolia | Thinleaf Alder | |
Amelanchier alnifolia | Saskatoon Serviceberry Western Serviceberry Juneberry | |
Anaphalis margaritacea | Western Pearly Everlasting Pearly-everlasting | |
Aquilegia coerulea | Colorado Blue Columbine Rocky Mountain Columbine | |
Aquilegia flavescens | Yellow Mountain Columbine Yellow Columbine Golden Columbine | |
Aquilegia formosa | Western Columbine Crimson Columbine Scarlet Columbine Red Columbine | |
Aquilegia jonesii | Jones' Columbine Blue Limestone Columbine | |
Artemisia cana | Silver Sagebrush Coaltown Sagebrush Dwarf Sagebrush Hoary Sagebrush Silvery Sagebrush | |
Arnica cordifolia | Heartleaf Arnica Heart-leaf Leopardbane | |
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 Wing-scale | |
Atriplex confertifolia | Shadscale Spiny Saltbush Shadscale Saltbush Hop Sage | |
Balsamorhiza hookeri | Hooker's Balsamroot Hairy Balsamroot | |
Balsamorhiza sagittata | Arrowleaf Balsamroot Arrow-leaf Balsamroot | |
Betula occidentalis | Water Birch Mountain Birch | |
Betula papyrifera | Paper Birch Canoe Birch White Birch | |
Campanula rotundifolia | Bluebell Bellflower Bluebell Of Scotland Bluebell Harebell Witches' Thimble | |
Cercocarpus ledifolius | Curl-leaf Mountain Mahogany Curl-leaf Mountain-mahogany | |
Cercocarpus montanus | Alderleaf Mountain Mahogany Silverleaf Mountain Mahogany Mountain Mahogany | |
Ceanothus velutinus | Snowbrush Snowbrush Ceanothus Tobacco-brush Mountain Balm Buckbrush | |
Chamerion angustifolium ssp. angustifolium | Fireweed Narrow-leaf Fireweed Willow Herb | |
Clematis columbiana | Rock Clematis | |
Cornus sericea ssp. sericea | Redosier Dogwood Red Osier Dogwood | |
Crataegus douglasii | Black Hawthorn | |
Danthonia californica | California Oatgrass California Wild Oat Grass | |
Dasiphora fruticosa ssp. floribunda | Shrubby Cinquefoil Golden Hardhack Potentilla | |
Danthonia intermedia | Timber Oatgrass Timber Wild Oat Grass | |
Delphinium bicolor | Little Larkspur Flat-head Larkspur | |
Delphinium nuttallianum | Twolobe Larkspur Two-lobe Larkspur Delphinium | |
Eriophyllum lanatum | Common Woolly Sunflower Oregon Sunshine | |
Ericameria nauseosa var. nauseosa | Rubber Rabbitbrush Rabbitbrush | |
Eriogonum umbellatum | Sulphur-flower Buckwheat Sulphur-flower Wild Buckwheat Sulphur Buckwheat Sulphur-flower | |
Festuca idahoensis | Idaho Fescue Bunchgrass Fescue Blue Bunchgrass | |
Fraxinus pennsylvanica | Green Ash Red Ash Swamp Ash River Ash Water Ash Darlington Ash | |
Gaillardia aristata | Common Gaillardia Great Blanketflower Blanketflower Brown-eyed Susan | |
Geranium richardsonii | Richardson's Geranium | |
Iliamna rivularis | Streambank Wild Hollyhock Wild Hollyhock Mountain Globemallow | |
Ipomopsis aggregata | Scarlet Gilia Scarlet Standing-cypress Skyrocket Skunkflower | |
Juniperus communis | Common Juniper | |
Juniperus horizontalis | Creeping Juniper Creeping Savin | |
Juniperus scopulorum | Rocky Mountain Juniper Rocky Mountain Red Cedar Mountain Red Cedar Colorado Red Cedar Western Red Cedar River Juniper Western Juniper Cedro Rojo | |
Kalmia microphylla | Alpine Laurel | |
Koeleria macrantha | Prairie Junegrass Junegrass Prairie Koeler's Grass | |
Krascheninnikovia lanata | Winterfat | |
Larix occidentalis | Western Larch Western Tamarack | |
Linum kingii | King's Flax | |
Linum lewisii | Wild Blue Flax Prairie Flax Lewis Flax Lewis's Flax | |
Lonicera involucrata | Twinberry Honeysuckle Black Twinberry Honeysuckle Black Twinberry Bearberry Honeysuckle Four-line Honeysuckle | |
Mahonia repens | Creeping Barberry Creeping Oregon-grape | |
Machaeranthera tanacetifolia | Tahoka Daisy Tansy-aster Tansey-leaf Tansy-aster Tansyleaf Tansyaster | |
Mimulus lewisii | Purple Monkeyflower Great Purple Monkeyflower Lewis Monkeyflower Lewis's Monkeyflower | |
Minuartia obtusiloba | Twinflower Sandwort Alpine Stitchwort Cushion Sandwort | |
Muhlenbergia montana | Mountain Muhly | |
Oenothera caespitosa | Tufted Evening Primrose Gumbo Evening Primrose Gumbo Lily Fragrant Evening Primrose Tufted Evening-primrose | |
Oenothera elata ssp. hookeri | Hooker's Evening-primrose Giant Evening-primrose | |
Pascopyrum smithii | Western Wheatgrass | |
Peritoma lutea | Yellow Bee-plant Yellow Spiderflower | |
Peritoma platycarpa | Golden Bee-plant Golden Spiderflower | |
Peritoma serrulata | Rocky Mountain Bee-plant Stinking-clover Bee Spiderflower Navajo Spinach Pink Cleome Toothed Spiderflower Skunkweed | |
Phleum alpinum | Alpine Timothy Mountain Timothy | |
Phlox longifolia | Longleaf Phlox Long-leaf Phlox | |
Physocarpus opulifolius | Common Ninebark Atlantic Ninebark | |
Phacelia sericea | Silky Phacelia Purple Fringe | |
Phlox speciosa | Showy Phlox | |
Pinus contorta | Lodgepole Pine Beach Pine Pino De San Pedro Martir | |
Picea engelmannii | Engelmann's Spruce Engelmann Spruce | |
Pinus flexilis | Limber Pine Pino Enano | |
Pinus monticola | Western White Pine | |
Pinus ponderosa | Ponderosa Pine Western Yellow Pine Pino Blanco | |
Picea pungens | Blue Spruce Colorado Spruce | |
Populus tremuloides | Quaking Aspen Golden Aspen Trembling Aspen Mountain Aspen Aspen Trembling Poplar Alamo Blanco | |
Prunus americana | American Plum Wild Plum | |
Prunus virginiana | Chokecherry Common Chokecherry Choke Cherry | |
Pseudotsuga menziesii | Douglas Fir Blue Douglas Fir | |
Pseudoroegneria spicata ssp. spicata | Bluebunch Wheatgrass Bluebunch-wheat Grass | |
Pulsatilla patens ssp. multifida | Cutleaf Anemone Pasqueflower Wild Crocus | |
Purshia tridentata | Antelope Bitterbrush Bitterbrush Antelope Brush | |
Ranunculus cardiophyllus | Heartleaf Buttercup Heart-leaf Buttercup | |
Rhus glabra | Smooth Sumac | |
Rhus trilobata | Skunkbush Skunkbush Sumac Fragrant Sumac Aromatic Sumac Scented Sumac Ill-scented Sumac Basketbush Squawbush | |
Rudbeckia hirta | Black-eyed Susan Common Black-eyed Susan Brown-eyed Susan Blackeyed Susan | |
Rudbeckia laciniata | Green-headed Coneflower Greenhead Coneflower Cutleaf Coneflower Wild Goldenglow Sochan | |
Rubus parviflorus | Western Thimbleberry Thimbleberry | |
Sambucus racemosa | Red Elderberry | |
Shepherdia argentea | Silver Buffaloberry Buffaloberry | |
Sorbus scopulina | Greene's Mountain Ash Cascade Mountain-ash Western Mountain-ash | |
Spiraea betulifolia | White Spirea | |
Sphaeralcea coccinea | Scarlet Globemallow Caliche Globemallow | |
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