Special Collections
Virginia Recommended
Commercially available native plant species suitable for planned landscapes in Virginia. 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 negundo | Box Elder Box Elder Maple Ash-leaved Maple Ashleaf Maple Red River Maple Fresno De Guajuco | |
| Acer pensylvanicum | Striped Maple Moosewood | |
| Acer rubrum | Red Maple Scarlet Maple Soft Maple | |
| Acer saccharum | Sugar Maple Northern Sugar Maple | |
| Ageratina altissima var. altissima | White Snakeroot | |
| Amelanchier arborea | Common Serviceberry Downy Serviceberry Shadbush Juneberry Junebush Shadblow Sarvis | |
| Amelanchier canadensis | Canadian Serviceberry Canadian Service-berry Shadblow Serviceberry Juneberry Shadbush Junebush | |
| Amsonia tabernaemontana | Eastern Bluestar Blue Dogbane Willow Amsonia Woodland Bluestar | |
| Aquilegia canadensis | Eastern Red Columbine Wild Red Columbine | |
| Aralia spinosa | Devil's Walking Stick Hercules Club Angelica Tree Pigeon Tree Shotbush Prickly Elder Prickly Ash | |
| Asclepias incarnata | Swamp Milkweed Pink Milkweed | |
| 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 | |
| Baptisia australis | Blue Wild Indigo Wild Blue Indigo Blue False Indigo | |
| Betula lenta | Sweet Birch Cherry Birch Black Birch Mahogany Birch | |
| Betula nigra | River Birch Red Birch Black Birch Water Birch | |
| 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 | |
| Castanea pumila | Allegheny Chinquapin Allegheny Chinkapin Chinquapin Chinkapin | |
| Campsis radicans | Trumpet Creeper Trumpet Vine Common Trumpet Creeper Cow Vine Foxglove Vine Hellvine Devil's Shoestring | |
| Catalpa speciosa | Northern Catalpa Catalpa Tree Cigar Tree Indian Bean | |
| 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 | |
| Chionanthus virginicus | White Fringetree Fringe Tree Snowflower Tree Flowering Ash Old Man's Beard Grandfather Graybeard Grancy Graybeard | |
| 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 | |
| Comptonia peregrina | Sweet-fern Sweetfern | |
| Coreopsis tinctoria | Plains Coreopsis Golden Tickseed Goldenwave Calliopsis | |
| Coreopsis verticillata | Threadleaf Coreopsis Whorled Tickseed Whorled Coreopsis | |
| Diospyros virginiana | Eastern Persimmon Common Persimmon Possumwood Date Plum Winter Plum Jove's Fruit | |
| Echinacea pallida | Pale Purple Coneflower Pale Coneflower | |
| Echinacea purpurea | Eastern Purple Coneflower Purple Coneflower | |
| Euonymus americanus | American Strawberry Bush Strawberry Bush Brook Euonymus Hearts-a-burstin Bursting Heart Wahoo | |
| Eutrochium fistulosum | Joe-pye Weed Trumpetweed Queen Of The Meadow Hollow Joe-pye Weed | |
| Fagus grandifolia | American Beech White Beech Red Beech Ridge Beech Beechnut Tree | |
| Fraxinus americana | White Ash American Ash Cane Ash Smallseed White Ash Biltmore White Ash Biltmore Ash | |
| Gaillardia pulchella | Indian Blanket Firewheel Girasol Rojo | |
| Hamamelis virginiana | Witch-hazel American Witch-hazel Common Witch-hazel Winterbloom Snapping Hazelnut Striped Alder Spotted Alder Tobacco-wood Water-witch | |
| Helianthus angustifolius | Swamp Sunflower Narrowleaf Sunflower Narrow-leaved Sunflower | |
| Hydrangea arborescens | Smooth Hydrangea Wild Hydrangea Sevenbark | |
| 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 | |
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