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New Jersey Recommended
Commercially available native plant species suitable for planned landscapes in New Jersey. 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Amelanchier canadensis | Canadian Serviceberry Canadian Service-berry Shadblow Serviceberry Juneberry Shadbush Junebush | |
| Anemone canadensis | Canadian Anemone Round-leaf Thimbleweed Canada Anemone Windflower Meadow Anemone | |
| Anaphalis margaritacea | Western Pearly Everlasting Pearly-everlasting | |
| Aquilegia canadensis | Eastern Red Columbine Wild Red Columbine | |
| 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 | |
| Betula lenta | Sweet Birch Cherry Birch Black Birch Mahogany Birch | |
| Betula populifolia | Gray Birch White Birch Aspen-leaved Birch | |
| Campanulastrum americanum | American Bellflower Tall Bellflower | |
| Carpinus caroliniana | American Hornbeam Blue Beech Water Beech Musclewood Ironwood | |
| 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 ovata | Shagbark Hickory Carolina Hickory Scalybark Hickory Upland Hickory Shellbark Hickory | |
| Campsis radicans | Trumpet Creeper Trumpet Vine Common Trumpet Creeper Cow Vine Foxglove Vine Hellvine Devil's Shoestring | |
| Campanula rotundifolia | Bluebell Bellflower Bluebell Of Scotland Bluebell Harebell Witches' Thimble | |
| Carya tomentosa | Mockernut Hickory Mockernut Hickory Big Bud Hickory Mockernut White Hickory Whiteheart Hickory Fragrant Hickory Bigbud Hickory Hardbark Hickory Hognut Bullnut | |
| Ceanothus americanus | New Jersey Tea Redroot | |
| Cercis canadensis | Eastern Redbud Redbud | |
| Chamerion angustifolium ssp. angustifolium | Fireweed Narrow-leaf Fireweed Willow Herb | |
| Chrysopsis mariana | Maryland Goldenaster Maryland Golden-aster | |
| Chamaecyparis thyoides | Atlantic White Cedar | |
| Claytonia caroliniana | Carolina Springbeauty | |
| Claytonia caroliniana var. caroliniana | Carolina Springbeauty | |
| Claytonia virginica | Virginia Springbeauty Springbeauty | |
| Cornus alternifolia | Alternateleaf Dogwood Alternate-leaf Dogwood Pagoda Dogwood | |
| Conoclinium coelestinum | Blue Mistflower Wild Ageratum Blue Boneset | |
| 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 | |
| Desmodium canadense | Showy Tick Trefoil | |
| Eutrochium purpureum | Purple Joepyeweed Sweet-scented Joepyeweed Sweet Joepyeweed | |
| Fagus grandifolia | American Beech White Beech Red Beech Ridge Beech Beechnut Tree | |
| Fothergilla gardenii | Dwarf Witchalder Dwarf Witch-alder Dwarf Fothergilla | |
| Fraxinus americana | White Ash American Ash Cane Ash Smallseed White Ash Biltmore White Ash Biltmore Ash | |
| Fraxinus nigra | Black Ash | |
| Gaylussacia baccata | Black Huckleberry | |
| Gaylussacia brachycera | Box Huckleberry | |
| Gaultheria procumbens | Eastern Teaberry Wintergreen Checkerberry | |
| Helianthus tuberosus | Jerusalem Artichoke Sunchoke | |
| Hibiscus moscheutos | Crimson-eyed Rose-mallow Marshmallow Hibiscus | |
| Hypericum prolificum | Shrubby St. John's-wort | |
| Ilex opaca | American Holly White Holly Prickly Holly Evergreen Holly Christmas Holly Yule Holly | |
| 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 | |
| Kalmia latifolia | Mountain Laurel Calico Bush Kalmia Mountain-laurel | |
| Larix laricina | Tamarack American Larch Hacmatack Black Larch | |
| Liatris spicata | Dense Blazing Star Dense Gayfeather Dense Liatris Marsh Blazing Star Marsh Gayfeather Marsh Liatris | |
| Liquidambar styraciflua | Sweetgum American Sweetgum Red Gum White Gum Star-leaved Gum Starleaf Gum Alligator Tree Satin Walnut Bilsted Liquidambar | |
| Liriodendron tulipifera | Tulip Tree Tulip Poplar Yellow Poplar | |
| Lobelia cardinalis | Cardinal Flower | |
| Lobelia siphilitica | Great Blue Lobelia | |
| Lupinus perennis | Sundial Lupine Wild Lupine | |
| Malus coronaria | Sweet Crabapple American Crab | |
| Maianthemum racemosum ssp. racemosum | Feathery False Lily Of The Valley False Spikenard False Solomon's Seal Solomon's Plume Smilacina | |
| Matteuccia struthiopteris | Ostrich Fern | |
| Mitella diphylla | Twoleaf Miterwort Miterwort | |
| Mitchella repens | Partridgeberry Twinberry Running Box Pigeon Plum | |
| Monarda didyma | Scarlet Beebalm Oswego Tea Red Bergamot | |
| Monarda fistulosa | Wild Bergamot Beebalm | |
| Nyssa sylvatica | Tupelo Blackgum Black Tupelo Sourgum Pepperidge Tupelo Gum Beetlebung | |
| Osmunda cinnamomea | Cinnamon Fern | |
| Osmunda claytoniana | Interrupted Fern | |
| Osmunda regalis | Royal Fern | |
| Parthenocissus quinquefolia | Virginia Creeper | |
| Penstemon digitalis | Mississippi Penstemon Mississippi Beardtongue Smooth White Penstemon Smooth White Beardtongue Talus Slope Penstemon Talus Slope Beardtongue Foxglove Penstemon Foxglove Beardtongue | |
| Penstemon hirsutus | Hairy Penstemon Hairy Beardtongue | |
| Phlox divaricata | Wild Blue Phlox Louisiana Phlox Blue Woodland Phlox Sweet William Wild Sweet William | |
| Phlox subulata | Creeping Phlox Moss Phlox Moss Pink Rock Pink | |
| Physostegia virginiana | Fall Obedient Plant False Dragonhead Virginia Lions-heart | |
| Pinus resinosa | Red Pine Norway Pine Canadian Pine | |
| Picea rubens | Red Spruce Yellow Spruce West Virginia Spruce Eastern Spruce He-balsam | |
| Pinus strobus | Eastern White Pine Weymouth Pine | |
| Pinus virginiana | Virginia Pine Jersey Pine Scrub Pine | |
| Polystichum acrostichoides | Christmas Fern | |
| Podophyllum peltatum | Mayapple Indian Apple Wild Mandrake Pomme De Mai Podophylle Pelt | |
| Polemonium reptans | Greek Valerian Jacob's Ladder | |
| Prunus serotina | Black Cherry Wild Black Cherry Rum Cherry | |
| Prunus virginiana | Chokecherry Common Chokecherry Choke Cherry | |
| Pteridium aquilinum | Western Bracken Fern Bracken Fern Western Bracken Bracken | |
| Quercus alba | White Oak Northern White Oak Eastern White Oak Stave Oak Ridge White Oak Forked-leaf White Oak | |
| Quercus coccinea | Scarlet Oak Red Oak | |
| Quercus macrocarpa | Bur Oak Burr Oak Savanna Oak Overcup Oak Prairie Oak Mossy-cup Oak Mossy-overcup Oak Blue Oak | |
| Quercus muehlenbergii | Chinkapin Oak Chinquapin Oak Chestnut Oak Yellow Chestnut Oak Rock Chestnut Oak Yellow Oak Rock Oak | |
| Quercus palustris | Pin Oak Swamp Spanish Oak | |
| Quercus rubra var. ambigua | Northern Red Oak | |
| Rhododendron arborescens | Smooth Azalea Sweet Azalea | |
| Rhododendron calendulaceum | Flame Azalea | |
| Rhus copallinum | Winged Sumac Shining Sumac Flameleaf Sumac Mountain Sumac Dwarf Sumac Wing-rib Sumac Black Sumac Upland Sumac | |
| Rhododendron maximum | Great Laurel Wild Rhododendron Rosebay Rhododendron White Laurel Rosebay | |
| Rhododendron prunifolium | Plumleaf Azalea | |
| Rosa palustris | Swamp Rose | |
| 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 | |
| Sassafras albidum | Sassafras White Sassafras Ague Tree Cinnamon Wood Mitten Tree Saloop Smelling Stick | |
| Silphium perfoliatum | Cup Plant Indian Cup | |
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