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Montana Recommended
Commercially available native plant species suitable for planned landscapes in Montana. 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 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 | |
| Alnus incana ssp. tenuifolia | Thinleaf Alder | |
| Amelanchier alnifolia | Saskatoon Serviceberry Western Serviceberry Juneberry | |
| Anemone canadensis | Canadian Anemone Round-leaf Thimbleweed Canada Anemone Windflower Meadow Anemone | |
| Andropogon gerardii | Big Bluestem Tall Bluestem Turkeyfoot | |
| Andropogon hallii | Sand Bluestem | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats Grama Banderilla Banderita Navajita | |
| Bouteloua dactyloides | Buffalograss Buffalo Grass | |
| Bouteloua gracilis | Blue Grama | |
| 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 | Red Osier Dogwood Red Osier Red-twig Dogwood | |
| Coreopsis tinctoria | Plains Coreopsis Golden Tickseed Goldenwave Calliopsis | |
| Crataegus douglasii | Black Hawthorn | |
| Dalea purpurea | Purple Prairie Clover | |
| Delphinium bicolor | Little Larkspur Flat-head Larkspur | |
| Delphinium nuttallianum | Twolobe Larkspur Two-lobe Larkspur Delphinium | |
| Eriophyllum lanatum | Common Woolly Sunflower Oregon Sunshine | |
| Eriogonum umbellatum | Sulphur-flower Buckwheat Sulphur-flower Wild Buckwheat Sulphur Buckwheat Sulphur-flower | |
| Festuca rubra | Red Fescue | |
| Fraxinus pennsylvanica | Green Ash Red Ash Swamp Ash River Ash Water Ash Darlington Ash | |
| Gaillardia aristata | Common Gaillardia Great Blanketflower Blanketflower Brown-eyed Susan | |
| 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 | |
| Krascheninnikovia lanata | Winterfat | |
| Larix occidentalis | Western Larch Western Tamarack | |
| Linum lewisii | Wild Blue Flax Prairie Flax Lewis Flax Lewis's Flax | |
| Liatris punctata | Dotted Blazing Star Dotted Gayfeather Dotted Liatris Purples | |
| 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 | |
| Mirabilis nyctaginea | Heartleaf Four O'Clock | |
| Monarda fistulosa | Wild Bergamot Beebalm | |
| Nemophila breviflora | Basin Nemophila Great Basin Baby-blue-eyes Great Basin Nemophila | |
| Oenothera caespitosa | Tufted Evening Primrose Gumbo Evening Primrose Gumbo Lily Fragrant Evening Primrose Tufted Evening-primrose | |
| Pascopyrum smithii | Western Wheatgrass | |
| Panicum virgatum | Switchgrass Wand Panic Grass | |
| Peritoma lutea | Yellow Bee-plant Yellow Spiderflower | |
| Peritoma serrulata | Rocky Mountain Bee-plant Stinking-clover Bee Spiderflower Navajo Spinach Pink Cleome Toothed Spiderflower Skunkweed | |
| Phlox longifolia | Longleaf Phlox Long-leaf Phlox | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Pulsatilla patens ssp. multifida | Cutleaf Anemone Pasqueflower Wild Crocus | |
| Purshia tridentata | Antelope Bitterbrush Bitterbrush Antelope Brush | |
| Ranunculus cardiophyllus | Heartleaf Buttercup Heart-leaf Buttercup | |
| Ratibida columnifera | Mexican Hat Red-spike Mexican Hat Upright Prairie Coneflower Prairie Coneflower Long-headed Coneflower Thimbleflower | |
| 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 | |
| Schizachyrium scoparium | Little Bluestem Popotillo Azul | |
| Shepherdia argentea | Silver Buffaloberry Buffaloberry | |
| Sorghastrum nutans | Indiangrass Yellow Indiangrass Indian Grass | |
| Sorbus scopulina | Greene's Mountain Ash Cascade Mountain-ash Western Mountain-ash | |
| Spiraea betulifolia | White Spirea | |
| Sphaeralcea coccinea | Scarlet Globemallow Caliche Globemallow | |
| Sphaeralcea munroana | Munro's Globemallow White-stem Globe-mallow | |
| Thuja plicata | Western Red Cedar Western Arborvitae Canoe Cedar | |
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