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Nevada Recommended
Commercially available native plant species suitable for planned landscapes in Nevada. 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 concolor | White Fir Balsam Fir Colorado Fir Concolor Fir Silver Fir White Balsam Oyamel De California | |
| Abronia fragrans | Fragrant Sand-verbena Snowball Sand Verbena Sweet Sand-verbena Prairie Snowball Sand Verbena Heart's Delight | |
| Abies lasiocarpa | Subalpine Fir | |
| Aconitum columbianum | Columbian Monkshood | |
| 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 | |
| Actaea rubra | Red Baneberry | |
| Adiantum pedatum | Northern Maidenhair Fern Maidenhair Fern | |
| Alnus incana | Gray Alder Speckled Alder | |
| Amelanchier alnifolia | Saskatoon Serviceberry Western Serviceberry Juneberry | |
| Amelanchier utahensis | Utah Serviceberry | |
| Anaphalis margaritacea | Western Pearly Everlasting Pearly-everlasting | |
| Aquilegia coerulea | Colorado Blue Columbine Rocky Mountain Columbine | |
| Aquilegia formosa | Western Columbine Crimson Columbine Scarlet Columbine Red Columbine | |
| Arnica cordifolia | Heartleaf Arnica Heart-leaf Leopardbane | |
| Artemisia frigida | Prairie Sagewort Prairie Sagebrush Fringed Sage Pasture Sage | |
| Artemisia nova | Black Sagebrush | |
| Arctostaphylos patula | Greenleaf Manzanita Green-leaf Manzanita | |
| Aristida purpurea var. longiseta | Red Three-awn Fendler Three-awn Purple Threeawn | |
| Artemisia tridentata | Big Sagebrush Great Basin Sagebrush | |
| Arctostaphylos uva-ursi | Kinnikinnick Red Bearberry Kinnikinnik | |
| Asclepias incarnata | Swamp Milkweed Pink Milkweed | |
| Asplenium trichomanes | Maidenhair Spleenwort | |
| Atriplex canescens | Chamiso Four-wing Saltbush Wing-scale | |
| Atriplex confertifolia | Shadscale Spiny Saltbush Shadscale Saltbush Hop Sage | |
| Athyrium filix-femina | Common Lady Fern Subarctic Lady Fern Lady Fern Ladyfern | |
| Balsamorhiza sagittata | Arrowleaf Balsamroot Arrow-leaf Balsamroot | |
| Betula occidentalis | Water Birch Mountain Birch | |
| Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats Grama Banderilla Banderita Navajita | |
| Bouteloua dactyloides | Buffalograss Buffalo Grass | |
| Bouteloua gracilis | Blue Grama | |
| Bolboschoenus maritimus | Cosmopolitan Bulrush Saltmarsh Club-rush Alkali Bulrush Prairie Bulrush Bayonet Grass | |
| Carex aquatilis | Water Sedge Leafy Tussock Sedge | |
| Calamagrostis canadensis | Bluejoint | |
| Caltha leptosepala | White Marsh-marigold Elks-lip | |
| Castilleja linariifolia | Wyoming Indian Paintbrush Wyoming Indian-paintbrush | |
| Carex nebrascensis | Nebraska Sedge | |
| Calochortus nuttallii | Sego Lily Mariposa Lily Sego-lily | |
| Castilleja rhexiifolia | Splitleaf Indian Paintbrush Rosy Indian Paintbrush | |
| Carex rostrata | Beaked Sedge Swollen Beaked Sedge | |
| Celtis laevigata var. reticulata | Netleaf Hackberry Netleaf Sugar Hackberry Western Hackberry Sugar Hackberry Texas Sugarberry Palo Blanco Acibuche | |
| 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 | |
| Cheilanthes gracillima | Lace Lipfern Lace Lip Fern | |
| Claytonia lanceolata | Western Spring Beauty Lanceleaf Spring Beauty Spring Beauty Indian Potato | |
| Clematis ligusticifolia | Western White Clematis Virgin's Bower Pepper Vine Hierba De Chivo | |
| Collomia grandiflora | Grand Collomia Large-flower Mountain-trumpet Collomia | |
| Cornus sericea | Red Osier Dogwood Red Osier Red-twig Dogwood | |
| Cystopteris fragilis | Brittle Bladderfern Brittle Bladder Fern Fragile Fern | |
| Dasiphora fruticosa ssp. floribunda | Shrubby Cinquefoil Golden Hardhack Potentilla | |
| Deschampsia cespitosa | Tufted Hairgrass Tufted Hair Grass | |
| Delphinium glaucum | Sierra Larkspur Tower Larkspur | |
| Elaeagnus commutata | Silverberry American Silverberry Wild Olive Wolf Willow | |
| Elymus lanceolatus ssp. lanceolatus | Thickspike Wheatgrass Wild Rye Stream Bank Wheatgrass | |
| Eleocharis palustris | Common Spikerush Common Spike-rush Creeping Spikesedge | |
| Ephedra viridis | Mormon Tea | |
| Erysimum capitatum | Sand-dune Wallflower Western Wallflower Prairie Rocket | |
| Ericameria nauseosa ssp. nauseosa | Rubber Rabbitbrush Rabbitbrush Chamisa | |
| Erigeron speciosus | Aspen Fleabane Showy Fleabane | |
| Eriogonum umbellatum | Sulphur-flower Buckwheat Sulphur-flower Wild Buckwheat Sulphur Buckwheat Sulphur-flower | |
| Fallugia paradoxa | Apache Plume Ponil | |
| Festuca idahoensis | Idaho Fescue Bunchgrass Fescue Blue Bunchgrass | |
| Gaillardia pulchella | Indian Blanket Firewheel Girasol Rojo | |
| Geum triflorum | Old Man's Whiskers Prairie Smoke Purple Avens | |
| Geranium viscosissimum | Sticky Purple Geranium Sticky Wild Geranium | |
| Glyceria grandis | American Mannagrass American Manna Grass Tall Manna Grass Reed Meadowgrass | |
| Hedysarum boreale | Utah Sweetvetch Boreal Sweet-vetch Northern Sweetvetch | |
| Hesperostipa comata | Needle And Thread Needle-and-thread | |
| Heuchera parvifolia | Littleleaf Alumroot Little-leaf Alumroot Saxifrage | |
| Heterotheca villosa var. villosa | Hairy False Goldenaster Golden-aster | |
| Ipomopsis aggregata ssp. aggregata | Scarlet Gilia Skyrocket | |
| Iris missouriensis | Rocky Mountain Iris Western Blue Flag | |
| Juniperus communis var. depressa | Common Juniper Old Field Juniper Prostrate Juniper | |
| 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 polifolia | Bog Laurel Pale Laurel Swamp Laurel | |
| Koeleria macrantha | Prairie Junegrass Junegrass Prairie Koeler's Grass | |
| Krascheninnikovia lanata | Winterfat | |
| Lewisia rediviva | Bitter Root Oregon Bitter-root | |
| Lobelia cardinalis | Cardinal Flower | |
| Lonicera involucrata | Twinberry Honeysuckle Black Twinberry Honeysuckle Black Twinberry Bearberry Honeysuckle Four-line Honeysuckle | |
| Lupinus argenteus | Silvery Lupine Silver-stem Lupine | |
| Lupinus caudatus | Tailcup Lupine | |
| Lupinus sericeus | Silky Lupine | |
| Maianthemum racemosum ssp. racemosum | Feathery False Lily Of The Valley False Spikenard False Solomon's Seal Solomon's Plume Smilacina | |
| Mahonia repens | Creeping Barberry Creeping Oregon-grape | |
| Mertensia ciliata | Tall Fringed Bluebells Tall Fringe Bluebells Mountain Bluebells | |
| Mimulus guttatus | Yellow Monkeyflower Golden Monkeyflower Seep Monkeyflower Common Monkeyflower Seep Monkey-flower | |
| Mimulus lewisii | Purple Monkeyflower Great Purple Monkeyflower Lewis Monkeyflower Lewis's Monkeyflower | |
| Mirabilis multiflora | Colorado Four O'Clock | |
| 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 | |
| Oenothera suffrutescens | Scarlet Beeblossom Scarlet Gaura | |
| Parthenocissus quinquefolia | Virginia Creeper | |
| Panicum virgatum | Switchgrass Wand Panic Grass | |
| Penstemon ambiguus | Pink Plains Penstemon Pink Plains Beardtongue Gilia Penstemon Gilia Beardtongue Sand Penstemon Sand Beardtongue | |
| Penstemon deustus | Scabland Penstemon Scabland Beardtongue Hot-rock Penstemon Hot-rock Beardtongue | |
| Penstemon eatonii | Firecracker Penstemon Firecracker Beardtongue Eaton's Penstemon Eaton's Beardtongue | |
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