Ohio Recommended
Commercially available native plant species suitable for planned landscapes in Ohio. 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 nigrum | Black Maple | |
Actaea pachypoda | White Baneberry Dolls Eyes | |
Acer rubrum | Red Maple Scarlet Maple Soft Maple | |
Actaea rubra | Red Baneberry | |
Acer saccharum | Sugar Maple Northern Sugar Maple | |
Aesculus glabra | Ohio Buckeye Texas Buckeye Fetid Buckeye Horse Chestnut | |
Amelanchier arborea | Common Serviceberry Downy Serviceberry Shadbush Juneberry Junebush Shadblow Sarvis | |
Amelanchier canadensis | Canadian Serviceberry Canadian Service-berry Shadblow Serviceberry Juneberry Shadbush Junebush | |
Amorpha canescens | Leadplant Leadplant Amorpha Prairie Shoestring | |
Amorpha fruticosa | Indigo Bush False Indigo Bush False Indigo Desert False Indigo | |
Amelanchier laevis | Allegheny Serviceberry Allegheny Service-berry Serviceberry | |
Anemone canadensis | Canadian Anemone Round-leaf Thimbleweed Canada Anemone Windflower Meadow Anemone | |
Andropogon gerardii | Big Bluestem Tall Bluestem Turkeyfoot | |
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 nigra | River Birch Red Birch Black Birch Water Birch | |
Betula populifolia | Gray Birch White Birch Aspen-leaved Birch | |
Betula pumila | Bog Birch | |
Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats Grama Banderilla Banderita Navajita | |
Bromus kalmii | Arctic Brome Prairie Brome Wild Chess | |
Campanulastrum americanum | American Bellflower Tall Bellflower | |
Carpinus caroliniana | American Hornbeam Blue Beech Water Beech Musclewood Ironwood | |
Carya cordiformis | Bitternut Hickory Swamp Hickory Bitternut Pig Hickory Pignut Hickory Pignut White Hickory Red Hickory Bitter Walnut Bitter Pecan | |
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 | |
Cephalanthus occidentalis | Common Buttonbush Buttonbush Button Willow Honey Bells Honeybells Honey Balls Honeyballs Button-bush | |
Chamerion angustifolium ssp. angustifolium | Fireweed Narrow-leaf Fireweed Willow Herb | |
Claytonia caroliniana | Carolina Springbeauty | |
Claytonia virginica | Virginia Springbeauty Springbeauty | |
Cornus alternifolia | Alternateleaf Dogwood Alternate-leaf Dogwood Pagoda Dogwood | |
Corylus americana | American Hazelnut American Filbert | |
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 | |
Cornus sericea | Red Osier Dogwood Red Osier Red-twig Dogwood | |
Dasiphora fruticosa ssp. floribunda | Shrubby Cinquefoil Golden Hardhack Potentilla | |
Desmodium canadense | Showy Tick Trefoil | |
Delphinium tricorne | Dwarf Larkspur Spring Larkspur | |
Diospyros virginiana | Eastern Persimmon Common Persimmon Possumwood Date Plum Winter Plum Jove's Fruit | |
Echinacea purpurea | Eastern Purple Coneflower Purple Coneflower | |
Elymus canadensis | Canada Wild Rye Canadian Wildrye Prairie Wildrye Nodding Wildrye | |
Euonymus atropurpureus | Burningbush Eastern Wahoo Burning Bush Wahoo Waahoo Whahoo Spindle Tree | |
Eutrochium fistulosum | Joe-pye Weed Trumpetweed Queen Of The Meadow Hollow Joe-pye Weed | |
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 | |
Gleditsia triacanthos | Honey Locust Common Honey Locust Thorny Common Honey Locust Honey Shucks Locust Sweet Locust Thorny Locust Honey Shucks Sweet Bean Tree | |
Gymnocladus dioicus | Kentucky Coffeetree Stump Tree | |
Hamamelis virginiana | Witch-hazel American Witch-hazel Common Witch-hazel Winterbloom Snapping Hazelnut Striped Alder Spotted Alder Tobacco-wood Water-witch | |
Helianthus occidentalis | Fewleaf Sunflower Western Sunflower | |
Hesperostipa spartea | Porcupinegrass Porcupine Grass | |
Helianthus tuberosus | Jerusalem Artichoke Sunchoke | |
Hibiscus moscheutos | Crimson-eyed Rose-mallow Marshmallow Hibiscus | |
Ilex opaca | American Holly White Holly Prickly Holly Evergreen Holly Christmas Holly Yule Holly | |
Ilex verticillata | Common Winterberry Winterberry Michigan Holly Black Alder | |
Juglans cinerea | Butternut White Walnut | |
Juniperus communis | Common Juniper | |
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 | |
Koeleria macrantha | Prairie Junegrass Junegrass Prairie Koeler's Grass | |
Liatris spicata | Dense Blazing Star Dense Gayfeather Dense Liatris Marsh Blazing Star Marsh Gayfeather Marsh Liatris | |
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 | |
Liriodendron tulipifera | Tulip Tree Tulip Poplar Yellow Poplar | |
Lobelia cardinalis | Cardinal Flower | |
Lobelia siphilitica | Great Blue Lobelia | |
Lupinus perennis | Sundial Lupine Wild Lupine | |
Magnolia acuminata | Cucumbertree Cucumber Tree Mountain Magnolia | |
Malus coronaria | Sweet Crabapple American Crab | |
Mitchella repens | Partridgeberry Twinberry Running Box Pigeon Plum | |
Monarda didyma | Scarlet Beebalm Oswego Tea Red Bergamot | |
Monarda fistulosa | Wild Bergamot Beebalm | |
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 | |
Penstemon hirsutus | Hairy Penstemon Hairy Beardtongue | |
Peritoma serrulata | Rocky Mountain Bee-plant Stinking-clover Bee Spiderflower Navajo Spinach Pink Cleome Toothed Spiderflower Skunkweed | |
Phlox divaricata | Wild Blue Phlox Louisiana Phlox Blue Woodland Phlox Sweet William Wild Sweet William | |
Physocarpus opulifolius | Common Ninebark Atlantic Ninebark | |
Phlox stolonifera | Creeping Phlox | |
Phlox subulata | Creeping Phlox Moss Phlox Moss Pink Rock Pink | |
Physostegia virginiana | Fall Obedient Plant False Dragonhead Virginia Lions-heart | |
Pinus echinata | Shortleaf Pine Shortleaf Yellow Pine Southern Yellow Pine Yellow Pine Shortstraw Pine Arkansas Pine Longtag Pine Spruce Pine Oldfield Pine Arkansas Soft Pine | |
Pinus virginiana | Virginia Pine Jersey Pine Scrub Pine | |
Polemonium reptans | Greek Valerian Jacob's Ladder | |
Populus tremuloides | Quaking Aspen Golden Aspen Trembling Aspen Mountain Aspen Aspen Trembling Poplar Alamo Blanco | |
Prunus americana | American Plum Wild Plum | |
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