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 |
Actaea pachypoda | White Baneberry Dolls Eyes | |
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 | |
Allium canadense | Meadow Garlic Wild Garlic Wild Onion | |
Amelanchier arborea | Common Serviceberry Downy Serviceberry Shadbush Juneberry Junebush Shadblow Sarvis | |
Amorpha canescens | Leadplant Leadplant Amorpha Prairie Shoestring | |
Anemone canadensis | Canadian Anemone Round-leaf Thimbleweed Canada Anemone Windflower Meadow Anemone | |
Anemone cylindrica | Candle Anemone Long-headed Thimbleweed Longhead Thimbleweed Thimbleweed | |
Andropogon gerardii | Big Bluestem Tall Bluestem Turkeyfoot | |
Aquilegia canadensis | Eastern Red Columbine Wild Red Columbine | |
Arisaema triphyllum | Jack In The Pulpit Indian Jack In The Pulpit Jack-in-the-pulpit | |
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi | Kinnikinnick Red Bearberry Kinnikinnik | |
Asarum canadense | Canadian Wild Ginger Wild Ginger | |
Asclepias incarnata | Swamp Milkweed Pink Milkweed | |
Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly Weed Butterfly Milkweed Orange Milkweed Pleurisy Root Chigger Flower Chiggerweed | |
Asclepias verticillata | Whorled Milkweed Eastern Whorled Milkweed | |
Athyrium filix-femina | Common Lady Fern Subarctic Lady Fern Lady Fern Ladyfern | |
Betula nigra | River Birch Red Birch Black Birch Water Birch | |
Betula papyrifera | Paper Birch Canoe Birch White Birch | |
Bromus kalmii | Arctic Brome Prairie Brome Wild Chess | |
Carpinus caroliniana | American Hornbeam Blue Beech Water Beech Musclewood Ironwood | |
Calamagrostis canadensis | Bluejoint | |
Carya ovata | Shagbark Hickory Carolina Hickory Scalybark Hickory Upland Hickory Shellbark Hickory | |
Caltha palustris | Yellow Marsh Marigold Cowslip | |
Carex pensylvanica | Pennsylvania Sedge | |
Campanula rotundifolia | Bluebell Bellflower Bluebell Of Scotland Bluebell Harebell Witches' Thimble | |
Carex stipata | Awlfruit Sedge Awl-fruited Sedge Stalk-grain Sedge | |
Ceanothus americanus | New Jersey Tea Redroot | |
Cercis canadensis | Eastern Redbud Redbud | |
Celtis occidentalis | Common Hackberry Northern Hackberry American Hackberry Nettle Tree Beaverwood False Elm | |
Cephalanthus occidentalis | Common Buttonbush Buttonbush Button Willow Honey Bells Honeybells Honey Balls Honeyballs Button-bush | |
Celastrus scandens | American Bittersweet | |
Chamerion angustifolium ssp. angustifolium | Fireweed Narrow-leaf Fireweed Willow Herb | |
Chelone glabra | White Turtlehead | |
Cornus alternifolia | Alternateleaf Dogwood Alternate-leaf Dogwood Pagoda Dogwood | |
Corylus americana | American Hazelnut American Filbert | |
Cornus canadensis | Bunchberry Dogwood Canadian Bunchberry | |
Coreopsis lanceolata | Lanceleaf Coreopsis Lance-leaved Coreopsis Lanceleaf Tickseed Sand Coreopsis | |
Cornus obliqua | Silky Dogwood Pale Dogwood Swamp Dogwood Kinnikinnik | |
Cornus racemosa | Gray Dogwood | |
Cornus sericea | Red Osier Dogwood Red Osier Red-twig Dogwood | |
Crataegus crus-galli | Cockspur Hawthorn Cockspur Thorn Newcastle Hawthorn Newcastle Thorn Hog Apple | |
Crataegus mollis | Downy Hawthorn White Thorn Whitethorn Scarlet Hawthorn Scarlet Haw Red Haw Downy Thorn | |
Dasiphora fruticosa ssp. floribunda | Shrubby Cinquefoil Golden Hardhack Potentilla | |
Desmodium canadense | Showy Tick Trefoil | |
Dicentra cucullaria | Dutchman's Breeches | |
Diervilla lonicera | Northern Bush Honeysuckle Northern Bush-honeysuckle Diervilla | |
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