Utah Recommended
Commercially available native plant species suitable for planned landscapes in Utah. 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 | |
Abies lasiocarpa | Subalpine Fir | |
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 | |
Agrostis exarata | Spike Bentgrass Spiked Bent Spike Red Top | |
Agrostis scabra | Rough Bentgrass Rough Bent Ticklegrass Fly-away Grass | |
Alnus incana | Gray Alder Speckled Alder | |
Amelanchier arborea | Common Serviceberry Downy Serviceberry Shadbush Juneberry Junebush Shadblow Sarvis | |
Amelanchier utahensis | Utah Serviceberry | |
Andropogon gerardii | Big Bluestem Tall Bluestem Turkeyfoot | |
Apocynum androsaemifolium | Spreading Dogbane Bitterroot Flytrap Dogbane | |
Aquilegia flavescens | Yellow Mountain Columbine Yellow Columbine Golden Columbine | |
Aquilegia formosa | Western Columbine Crimson Columbine Scarlet Columbine Red Columbine | |
Argentina anserina | Silverweed Cinquefoil Common Silverweed Silverweed Goosefoot | |
Artemisia cana | Silver Sagebrush Coaltown Sagebrush Dwarf Sagebrush Hoary Sagebrush Silvery Sagebrush | |
Arnica cordifolia | Heartleaf Arnica Heart-leaf Leopardbane | |
Artemisia frigida | Prairie Sagewort Prairie Sagebrush Fringed Sage Pasture Sage | |
Arctostaphylos patula | Greenleaf Manzanita Green-leaf Manzanita | |
Aristida purpurea | Purple Threeawn Purple 3-awn Purple Three-awn Red Threeawn | |
Artemisia tridentata | Big Sagebrush Great Basin Sagebrush | |
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi | Kinnikinnick Red Bearberry Kinnikinnik | |
Asclepias incarnata | Swamp Milkweed Pink Milkweed | |
Asclepias speciosa | Showy Milkweed | |
Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly Weed Butterfly Milkweed Orange Milkweed Pleurisy Root Chigger Flower Chiggerweed | |
Atriplex canescens | Chamiso Four-wing Saltbush Wing-scale | |
Atriplex confertifolia | Shadscale Spiny Saltbush Shadscale Saltbush Hop Sage | |
Balsamorhiza sagittata | Arrowleaf Balsamroot Arrow-leaf Balsamroot | |
Betula occidentalis | Water Birch Mountain Birch | |
Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats Grama Banderilla Banderita Navajita | |
Bouteloua gracilis | Blue Grama | |
Bromus carinatus | California Brome | |
Calamagrostis canadensis | Bluejoint | |
Callirhoe involucrata | Winecup Purple Poppy Mallow | |
Castilleja linariifolia | Wyoming Indian Paintbrush Wyoming Indian-paintbrush | |
Castilleja rhexiifolia | Splitleaf Indian Paintbrush Rosy Indian Paintbrush | |
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 | Fireweed Willow Herb Great Willow Herb | |
Chamaebatiaria millefolium | Desert Sweet Fernbush Tansy Bush | |
Clematis columbiana | Rock Clematis | |
Clematis ligusticifolia | Western White Clematis Virgin's Bower Pepper Vine Hierba De Chivo | |
Cornus sericea | Red Osier Dogwood Red Osier Red-twig Dogwood | |
Crataegus douglasii | Black Hawthorn | |
Danthonia californica | California Oatgrass California Wild Oat Grass | |
Dasiphora fruticosa ssp. floribunda | Shrubby Cinquefoil Golden Hardhack Potentilla | |
Danthonia intermedia | Timber Oatgrass Timber Wild Oat Grass | |
Deschampsia cespitosa | Tufted Hairgrass Tufted Hair Grass | |
Delphinium nuttallianum | Twolobe Larkspur Two-lobe Larkspur Delphinium | |
Delphinium ×occidentale | Duncecap Larkspur | |
Elymus canadensis | Canada Wild Rye Canadian Wildrye Prairie Wildrye Nodding Wildrye | |
Ephedra nevadensis | Nevada Jointfir Nevada Joint-fir | |
Ephedra viridis | Mormon Tea | |
Erigeron argentatus | Silver Fleabane | |
Eriogonum inflatum | Desert Trumpet Indian Pipeweed Bladderstem Bottle Stopper | |
Eriophyllum lanatum | Common Woolly Sunflower Oregon Sunshine | |
Ericameria nauseosa | Rubber Rabbitbrush Gray Rabbitbrush | |
Eriogonum racemosum | Redroot Buckwheat Red-root Wild Buckwheat | |
Eriogonum umbellatum | Sulphur-flower Buckwheat Sulphur-flower Wild Buckwheat Sulphur Buckwheat Sulphur-flower | |
Eschscholzia californica ssp. mexicana | Mexican Gold Poppy California Poppy | |
Fallugia paradoxa | Apache Plume Ponil | |
Forestiera pubescens | Elbowbush Stretchberry Spring Herald Desert Olive Tanglewood Devil's Elbow Spring Goldenglow New Mexico Privet Texas Forsythia | |
Fraxinus velutina | Arizona Ash Velvet Ash Desert Ash Leatherleaf Ash Smooth Ash Modesto Ash Toumey Ash Standley Ash | |
Gaillardia pinnatifida | Red Dome Blanketflower Yellow Gaillardia Blanket Flower | |
Geranium richardsonii | Richardson's Geranium | |
Geum triflorum | Old Man's Whiskers Prairie Smoke Purple Avens | |
Gutierrezia sarothrae | Broom Snakeweed Kindlingweed Matchbrush Texas Snakeweed Broomweed Turpentine Weed Matchweed | |
Helenium autumnale | Common Sneezeweed Fall Sneezeweed Autumn Sneezeweed | |
Hedysarum boreale | Utah Sweetvetch Boreal Sweet-vetch Northern Sweetvetch | |
Hesperostipa comata | Needle And Thread Needle-and-thread | |
Heliomeris multiflora var. multiflora | Showy Goldeneye Showy False Goldeneye | |
Heuchera parvifolia | Littleleaf Alumroot Little-leaf Alumroot Saxifrage | |
Heuchera rubescens | Pink Alumroot Mountain Alumroot Red Alumroot Wild Coralbells | |
Holodiscus dumosus | Rockspirea Glandular Oceanspray Bush Rockspirea Cream Bush | |
Hymenoxys richardsonii | Pingue Rubberweed | |
Iliamna rivularis | Streambank Wild Hollyhock Wild Hollyhock Mountain Globemallow | |
Ipomopsis aggregata | Scarlet Gilia Scarlet Standing-cypress Skyrocket Skunkflower | |
Iris missouriensis | Rocky Mountain Iris Western Blue Flag | |
Juniperus communis | Common Juniper | |
Juniperus osteosperma | Utah 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 | |
Layia glandulosa | White-daisy Tidytips White Tidytips | |
Larrea tridentata | Creosote Bush Greasewood Hediondilla Governadora Guamis | |
Leymus cinereus | Basin Wildrye Great Basin Lyme Grass Great Basin Wildrye | |
Lithospermum incisum | Fringed Puccoon Golden Puccoon Narrowleaf Puccoon Narrow-leaved Puccoon Puccoon Narrowleaf Gromwell Fringed Gromwell Narrowleaf Stoneseed | |
Linum kingii | King's Flax | |
Linum lewisii | Wild Blue Flax Prairie Flax Lewis Flax Lewis's Flax | |
Lonicera involucrata | Twinberry Honeysuckle Black Twinberry Honeysuckle Black Twinberry Bearberry Honeysuckle Four-line Honeysuckle | |
Lupinus argenteus | Silvery Lupine Silver-stem Lupine | |
Lycium andersonii | Water Jacket Red-berry Desert-thorn Anderson Wolfberry | |
Mahonia repens | Creeping Barberry Creeping Oregon-grape | |
Machaeranthera tanacetifolia | Tahoka Daisy Tansy-aster Tansey-leaf Tansy-aster Tansyleaf Tansyaster | |
Mertensia franciscana | Franciscan Bluebells Franciscan Lungwort | |
Mentzelia laevicaulis | Smoothstem Blazingstar Giant Blazingstar Evening Star Stick Leaf | |
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 | |
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