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North Dakota Recommended
Commercially available native plant species suitable for planned landscapes in North Dakota. 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 rubra | Red Baneberry | |
| Alnus incana | Gray Alder Mountain Alder Speckled Alder River Alder Thin-leafed Alder | |
| Allium stellatum | Autumn Onion Prairie Onion | |
| Amorpha canescens | Leadplant Leadplant Amorpha Prairie Shoestring | |
| Amorpha fruticosa | Indigo Bush False Indigo Bush False Indigo Desert False Indigo | |
| Amorpha nana | Dwarf False Indigo Fragrant Indigo-bush Fragrant False Indigo Dwarf Wild Indigo | |
| 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 | |
| Andropogon hallii | Sand Bluestem | |
| 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 | |
| Asclepias incarnata | Swamp Milkweed Pink Milkweed | |
| Asclepias verticillata | Whorled Milkweed Eastern Whorled Milkweed | |
| Athyrium filix-femina | Common Lady Fern Subarctic Lady Fern Lady Fern Ladyfern | |
| Betula papyrifera | Paper Birch Canoe Birch White Birch | |
| Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats Grama Banderilla Banderita Navajita | |
| Bouteloua gracilis | Blue Grama | |
| Calamagrostis canadensis | Bluejoint | |
| 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 | |
| Celtis occidentalis | Common Hackberry Northern Hackberry American Hackberry Nettle Tree Beaverwood False Elm | |
| Celastrus scandens | American Bittersweet | |
| Chamerion angustifolium ssp. angustifolium | Fireweed Narrow-leaf Fireweed Willow Herb | |
| Corylus americana | American Hazelnut American Filbert | |
| Cornus racemosa | Gray Dogwood | |
| Cornus sericea | Red Osier Dogwood Red Osier Red-twig Dogwood | |
| Dasiphora fruticosa ssp. floribunda | Shrubby Cinquefoil Golden Hardhack Potentilla | |
| Desmodium canadense | Showy Tick Trefoil | |
| Echinacea angustifolia | Black Samson Black Samson Echinacea Narrow-leaf Coneflower | |
| Elymus canadensis | Canada Wild Rye Canadian Wildrye Prairie Wildrye Nodding Wildrye | |
| Euthamia graminifolia | Flat-top Goldentop Grass-leaved Goldenrod | |
| Eupatorium perfoliatum | Common Boneset | |
| Fraxinus pennsylvanica | Green Ash Red Ash Swamp Ash River Ash Water Ash Darlington Ash | |
| Fragaria virginiana | Virginia Strawberry Wild Strawberry | |
| Gaillardia aristata | Common Gaillardia Great Blanketflower Blanketflower Brown-eyed Susan | |
| Gentiana andrewsii | Closed Bottle Gentian Closed Gentian Bottle Gentian | |
| Geum triflorum | Old Man's Whiskers Prairie Smoke Purple Avens | |
| Helenium autumnale | Common Sneezeweed Fall Sneezeweed Autumn Sneezeweed | |
| Heliopsis helianthoides | Smooth Oxeye Oxeye Sunflower False Sunflower | |
| Heuchera richardsonii | Richardson's Alumroot Prairie Alumroot | |
| Hydrophyllum virginianum | Virginia Waterleaf Eastern Waterleaf Shawnee Salad | |
| Juniperus communis var. depressa | Common Juniper Old Field Juniper Prostrate Juniper | |
| Juniperus horizontalis | Creeping Juniper Creeping Savin | |
| Liatris aspera | Tall Blazing Star Tall Gayfeather Tall Liatris Rough Blazing Star Rough Gayfeather Rough Liatris Button Snakeroot | |
| Lilium philadelphicum | Wood Lily | |
| Lobelia siphilitica | Great Blue Lobelia | |
| Monarda fistulosa | Wild Bergamot Beebalm | |
| Oenothera biennis | Common Evening-primrose King's Cure-all Common Evening Primrose | |
| Ostrya virginiana | Eastern Hop-hornbeam American Hop-hornbeam Woolly Hop-hornbean Eastern Ironwood Roughbark Ironwood Ironwood Deerwood Leverwood | |
| Pascopyrum smithii | Western Wheatgrass | |
| Panicum virgatum | Switchgrass Wand Panic Grass | |
| Penstemon grandiflorus | Large Penstemon Large Beardtongue Large-flower Penstemon Large-flower Beardtongue Large-flowered Penstemon Large-flowered Beardtongue | |
| Peritoma serrulata | Rocky Mountain Bee-plant Stinking-clover Bee Spiderflower Navajo Spinach Pink Cleome Toothed Spiderflower Skunkweed | |
| Platanus occidentalis | American Sycamore Eastern Sycamore American Plane Tree Plane Tree Buttonwood Buttonball Tree | |
| Polygonatum biflorum | Smooth Solomon's Seal Great Solomon's-seal Sealwort | |
| Populus deltoides | Eastern Cottonwood Carolina Poplar Necklace Poplar Alamo | |
| 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 | |
| Pycnanthemum virginianum | Virginia Mountain Mint | |
| Quercus macrocarpa | Bur Oak Burr Oak Savanna Oak Overcup Oak Prairie Oak Mossy-cup Oak Mossy-overcup Oak Blue Oak | |
| Rhus glabra | Smooth Sumac | |
| Rosa blanda | Smooth Rose Early Wild Rose | |
| Rudbeckia hirta | Black-eyed Susan Common Black-eyed Susan Brown-eyed Susan Blackeyed Susan | |
| Salix discolor | Pussy Willow Glaucous Willow | |
| Schizachyrium scoparium | Little Bluestem Popotillo Azul | |
| Shepherdia argentea | Silver Buffaloberry Buffaloberry | |
| Silphium integrifolium | Wholeleaf Rosinweed Entire-leaf Rosinweed | |
| Silphium perfoliatum | Cup Plant Indian Cup | |
| Solidago nemoralis | Gray Goldenrod Prairie Goldenrod Oldfield Goldenrod Grayleaf Goldenrod Gray-leaved Goldenrod Dyersweed Goldenrod Dwarf Goldenrod Field Goldenrod | |
| Sorghastrum nutans | Indiangrass Yellow Indiangrass Indian Grass | |
| Sporobolus heterolepis | Prairie Dropseed | |
| Symphoricarpos albus | Common Snowberry | |
| Symphyotrichum ericoides | White Heath Aster Heath Aster | |
| Thalictrum dasycarpum | Purple Meadow-rue Tall Meadow-rue Meadow Rue | |
| Tilia americana | American Basswood American Linden Lime Tree Bee Tree | |
| Typha latifolia | Broadleaf Cattail Common Cattail | |
| Vernonia fasciculata | Prairie Ironweed Common Ironweed | |
| Verbena hastata | Swamp Verbena Blue Verbena Blue Vervain Simpler's Joy | |
| Viburnum lentago | Nannyberry Blackhaw Sweet Viburnum Sheepberry | |
| Viburnum opulus var. americanum | American Cranberry Bush Highbush Cranberry American Cranberrybush Viburnum Cranberry Viburnum | |
| Viola sororia | Missouri Violet Common Blue Violet Hooded Blue Violet Florida Violet Meadow Violet Confederate Violet Dooryard Violet Purple Violet Woolly Blue Violet Wood Violet Hooded Violet | |
| Zizia aptera | Heart-leaved Meadow Parsnip Heartleaf Meadow Parsnip Meadow Parsnip Heartleaf Alexanders Meadow Zizia Zizia | |
| Zizia aurea | Golden Zizia Golden Alexanders | |
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