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Mississippi Recommended
Commercially available native plant species suitable for planned landscapes in Mississippi. 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 | |
| Acer negundo | Box Elder Box Elder Maple Ash-leaved Maple Ashleaf Maple Red River Maple Fresno De Guajuco | |
| Acer rubrum var. drummondii | Drummond's Maple Drummond Red Maple Swamp Maple | |
| Aesculus pavia | Red Buckeye Scarlet Buckeye Firecracker Plant | |
| Amelanchier arborea | Common Serviceberry Downy Serviceberry Shadbush Juneberry Junebush Shadblow Sarvis | |
| Amsonia tabernaemontana | Eastern Bluestar Blue Dogbane Willow Amsonia Woodland Bluestar | |
| Andropogon gerardii | Big Bluestem Tall Bluestem Turkeyfoot | |
| Aquilegia canadensis | Eastern Red Columbine Wild Red Columbine | |
| Aronia arbutifolia | Red Chokeberry Red Chokecherry | |
| Aralia spinosa | Devil's Walking Stick Hercules Club Angelica Tree Pigeon Tree Shotbush Prickly Elder Prickly Ash | |
| Asclepias lanceolata | Fewflower Milkweed Few-flower Milkweed Red Milkweed | |
| Asimina parviflora | Smallflower Pawpaw Small-flower Pawpaw Dwarf Pawpaw | |
| Asplenium platyneuron | Ebony Spleenwort | |
| Asimina triloba | Pawpaw Common Pawpaw Custard Apple Indian Banana Wild Banana | |
| Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly Weed Butterfly Milkweed Orange Milkweed Pleurisy Root Chigger Flower Chiggerweed | |
| Athyrium filix-femina | Common Lady Fern Subarctic Lady Fern Lady Fern Ladyfern | |
| Betula nigra | River Birch Red Birch Black Birch Water Birch | |
| Bignonia capreolata | Crossvine | |
| Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats Grama Banderilla Banderita Navajita | |
| Callicarpa americana | American Beautyberry French Mulberry | |
| Catalpa bignonioides | Southern Catalpa Cigar Tree Indian Bean | |
| Carpinus caroliniana | American Hornbeam Blue Beech Water Beech Musclewood Ironwood | |
| Calycanthus floridus | Eastern Sweetshrub Carolina Allspice Sweet Shrub | |
| 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 illinoinensis | Pecan | |
| Callirhoe papaver | Woodland Poppymallow Woodland Poppy-mallow Woodland Poppy Mallow | |
| Campsis radicans | Trumpet Creeper Trumpet Vine Common Trumpet Creeper Cow Vine Foxglove Vine Hellvine Devil's Shoestring | |
| Cercis canadensis | Eastern Redbud Redbud | |
| Chionanthus virginicus | White Fringetree Fringe Tree Snowflower Tree Flowering Ash Old Man's Beard Grandfather Graybeard Grancy Graybeard | |
| Cliftonia monophylla | Buckwheat Tree Buckwheat Bush | |
| Conoclinium coelestinum | Blue Mistflower Wild Ageratum Blue Boneset | |
| Cornus drummondii | Roughleaf Dogwood Drummond's Dogwood Rough-leaf Dogwood | |
| Commelina erecta | Dayflower Widow's Tears White-mouth Dayflower Whitemouth Dayflower | |
| 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 | |
| Coreopsis tinctoria | Plains Coreopsis Golden Tickseed Goldenwave Calliopsis | |
| Crinum americanum | American Crinum Lily Seven Sisters Swamp Lily Southern Swamp Lily String Lily Crinum Lily | |
| Crataegus opaca | Mayhaw Western Mayhaw May Hawthorn Riverflat Hawthorn Applehaw May Haw | |
| Cyrilla racemiflora | Titi Swamp Titi Black Titi White Titi Red Titi Leatherwood Swamp Cyrilla American Cyrilla Burnwood Bark Palo Colorado | |
| Delphinium carolinianum | Prairie Larkspur Carolina Larkspur Blue Larkspur | |
| Diospyros virginiana | Eastern Persimmon Common Persimmon Possumwood Date Plum Winter Plum Jove's Fruit | |
| Dracopis amplexicaulis | Clasping Coneflower Clasping-leaf Coneflower | |
| Echinacea pallida | Pale Purple Coneflower Pale Coneflower | |
| Echinacea purpurea | Eastern Purple Coneflower Purple Coneflower | |
| Eutrochium fistulosum | Joe-pye Weed Trumpetweed Queen Of The Meadow Hollow Joe-pye Weed | |
| Fagus grandifolia | American Beech White Beech Red Beech Ridge Beech Beechnut Tree | |
| Forestiera acuminata | Eastern Swamp Privet Swamp Privet Texas Privet | |
| Fothergilla major | Mountain Witchalder Mountain Witch-alder Large Fothergilla | |
| Frangula caroliniana | Carolina Buckthorn Carolina False Buckthorn Yellow Buckthorn Indian Cherry Yellowwood | |
| Fraxinus pennsylvanica | Green Ash Red Ash Swamp Ash River Ash Water Ash Darlington Ash | |
| Gaylussacia dumosa | Dwarf Huckleberry | |
| Gaillardia pulchella | Indian Blanket Firewheel Girasol Rojo | |
| Gentiana saponaria | Harvestbells Soapwort Gentian | |
| Gelsemium sempervirens | Carolina Jessamine Yellow Jessamine Evening Trumpetflower Poor Man's Rope | |
| Glandularia canadensis | Rose Vervain Sweet William Rose Mock Vervain | |
| Gleditsia triacanthos | Honey Locust Common Honey Locust Thorny Common Honey Locust Honey Shucks Locust Sweet Locust Thorny Locust Honey Shucks Sweet Bean Tree | |
| Gordonia lasianthus | Gordonia Loblolly Bay | |
| Halesia diptera | Two-wing Silverbell Two-winged Silverbell Silverbell American Snowdrop Tree Snowdrop Tree Snowbell Cowlicks | |
| Hamamelis virginiana | Witch-hazel American Witch-hazel Common Witch-hazel Winterbloom Snapping Hazelnut Striped Alder Spotted Alder Tobacco-wood Water-witch | |
| Helianthus angustifolius | Swamp Sunflower Narrowleaf Sunflower Narrow-leaved Sunflower | |
| Hibiscus coccineus | Scarlet Rosemallow Crimson Rosemallow Wild Red Mallow Texas Star Hibiscus | |
| Hydrangea arborescens | Smooth Hydrangea Wild Hydrangea Sevenbark | |
| Hypericum hypericoides ssp. hypericoides | St. Andrew's-cross | |
| Hydrangea quercifolia | Oakleaf Hydrangea Oak-leaf Hydrangea | |
| Ilex decidua | Possumhaw Possumhaw Holly Deciduous Holly Meadow Holly Prairie Holly Swamp Holly Welk Holly Deciduous Yaupon Bearberry Winterberry | |
| Ilex opaca | American Holly White Holly Prickly Holly Evergreen Holly Christmas Holly Yule Holly | |
| Ilex vomitoria | Yaupon Yaupon Holly Cassina | |
| Ipomopsis rubra | Standing Cypress Texas Plume Red Texas Star Red Gilia | |
| Iris brevicaulis | Zigzag Iris | |
| Iris fulva | Copper Iris Red Iris | |
| Iris giganticaerulea | Giant Blue Iris Blue Flag | |
| Iris virginica | Virginia Iris Great Blue Flag Southern Blue Flag | |
| Itea virginica | Virginia Sweetspire Tassel-white Virginia Willow | |
| 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 | |
| Kosteletzkya virginica | Virginia Saltmarsh Mallow Virginia Fen-rose Saltmarsh Mallow Seashore Mallow | |
| Leucothoe axillaris | Coastal Doghobble Coast Leucothoe | |
| Lindera benzoin | Northern Spicebush Spicebush Wild Allspice | |
| Liatris elegans | Pink-scale Blazing Star Pink-scale Gayfeather Pink-scale Liatris | |
| Lilium michauxii | Carolina Lily | |
| Liatris pycnostachya | Prairie Blazing Star Prairie Gayfeather Prairie Liatris Kansas Blazing Star Kansas Gayfeather Kansas Liatris Cat-tail Blazing Star Cat-tail Gayfeather Cat-tail Liatris Hairy Button-snakeroot | |
| Liatris squarrosa | Scaly Blazing Star Scaly Gayfeather Scaly Liatris | |
| Liquidambar styraciflua | Sweetgum American Sweetgum Red Gum White Gum Star-leaved Gum Starleaf Gum Alligator Tree Satin Walnut Bilsted Liquidambar | |
| Lobelia cardinalis | Cardinal Flower | |
| Lonicera sempervirens | Coral Honeysuckle Trumpet Honeysuckle Woodbine | |
| Lobelia siphilitica | Great Blue Lobelia | |
| Malus angustifolia | Southern Crabapple Narrowleaf Crabapple Wild Crabapple Southern Crab Narrowleaf Crab Wild Crab | |
| Magnolia grandiflora | Southern Magnolia Evergreen Magnolia Loblolly Magnolia Great Laurel Magnolia Big Laurel Bull Bay | |
| Morella cerifera | Wax Myrtle Southern Wax Myrtle Southern Bayberry Eastern Bayberry Bayberry Candleberry Tallow Shrub | |
| Monarda citriodora | Lemon Beebalm Purple Horsemint Lemon Mint Plains Horsemint Lemon Horsemint Horsemint Purple Lemon Mint | |
| Monarda fistulosa | Wild Bergamot Beebalm | |
| Monarda punctata | Spotted Beebalm Spotted Horsemint Horsemint | |
| Oenothera speciosa | Pink Evening Primrose Showy Evening Primrose Mexican Evening Primrose Showy Primrose Pink Ladies Buttercups Pink Buttercups | |
| Osmanthus americanus | American Olive Devilwood Wild Olive | |
| Osmunda regalis | Royal Fern | |
| Ostrya virginiana | Eastern Hop-hornbeam American Hop-hornbeam Woolly Hop-hornbean Eastern Ironwood Roughbark Ironwood Ironwood Deerwood Leverwood | |
| Oxydendrum arboreum | Sourwood Sorrel Tree | |
| Parthenocissus quinquefolia | Virginia Creeper | |
| 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 | |
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