Pennsylvania Recommended
Commercially available native plant species suitable for planned landscapes in Pennsylvania. 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 balsamea | Balsam Fir Blister Pine Northern Balsam | |
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 canadensis | Canadian Serviceberry Canadian Service-berry Shadblow Serviceberry Juneberry Shadbush Junebush | |
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 papyrifera | Paper Birch Canoe Birch White Birch | |
Betula populifolia | Gray Birch White Birch Aspen-leaved 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 | |
Chamerion angustifolium ssp. angustifolium | Fireweed Narrow-leaf Fireweed Willow Herb | |
Chamaecyparis thyoides | Atlantic White Cedar | |
Claytonia 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 | |
Delphinium tricorne | Dwarf Larkspur Spring Larkspur | |
Diospyros virginiana | Common Persimmon Eastern Persimmon Possumwood Date Plum Winter Plum Jove's Fruit | |
Elymus canadensis | Canada Wild Rye Canadian Wildrye Prairie Wildrye Nodding Wildrye | |
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 | |
Gaylussacia baccata | Black Huckleberry | |
Gaylussacia brachycera | Box Huckleberry | |
Gaultheria procumbens | Eastern Teaberry Wintergreen Checkerberry | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
Koeleria macrantha | Prairie Junegrass Junegrass Prairie Koeler's Grass | |
Larix laricina | Tamarack American Larch Hacmatack Black Larch | |
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 | |
Magnolia tripetala | Umbrella Tree Umbrella Magnolia | |
Magnolia virginiana | Sweetbay Sweetbay Magnolia Southern Sweetbay Swampbay Swamp Magnolia Sweet Magnolia Small Magnolia Laurel Magnolia White Bay White Laurel Swamp Laurel Beaver Tree | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
Phlox divaricata | Wild Blue Phlox Louisiana Phlox Blue Woodland Phlox Sweet William Wild Sweet William | |
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 resinosa | Red Pine Norway Pine Canadian Pine | |
Pinus rigida | Pitch Pine Torch 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 | |
Podophyllum peltatum | Mayapple Indian Apple Wild Mandrake Pomme De Mai Podophylle Pelt | |
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 | |
Prunus pensylvanica | Pin Cherry Fire Cherry Wild Red Cherry Bird Cherry Pigeon Cherry | |
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