Special Collections
Louisiana Recommended
Commercially available native plant species suitable for planned landscapes in Louisiana. 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 |
| Panicum virgatum | Switchgrass Wand Panic Grass | |
| Penstemon murrayanus | Scarlet Penstemon Scarlet Beardtongue Red Penstemon Red Beardtongue Cupleaf Penstemon Cupleaf Beardtongue | |
| Physostegia digitalis | Finger False Dragonhead False Dragonhead | |
| Phlox pilosa | Downy Phlox Prairie Phlox Fragrant Phlox | |
| Physostegia pulchella | Showy False Dragonhead Beautiful False Dragon-head | |
| 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 elliottii | Slash Pine | |
| Pinus glabra | Spruce Pine | |
| Pinus taeda | Loblolly Pine Oldfield Pine Bull Pine Rosemary Pine | |
| Platanus occidentalis | American Sycamore Eastern Sycamore American Plane Tree Plane Tree Buttonwood Buttonball Tree | |
| Polystichum acrostichoides | Christmas Fern | |
| Prunus angustifolia | Chickasaw Plum Sandhill Plum | |
| Prunus caroliniana | Carolina Cherry-laurel Cherry-laurel Laurel Cherry Carolina Laurel Cherry | |
| Prunus mexicana | Mexican Plum Bigtree Plum Inch Plum | |
| Prunus serotina | Black Cherry Wild Black Cherry Rum Cherry | |
| Quercus alba | White Oak Northern White Oak Eastern White Oak Stave Oak Ridge White Oak Forked-leaf White Oak | |
| Quercus falcata | Southern Red Oak Bottomland Red Oak Three-lobed Red Oak Spanish Oak | |
| Quercus nigra | Water Oak Possum Oak Duck Oak Punk Oak Spotted Oak | |
| Quercus phellos | Willow Oak Swamp Willow Oak Pin Oak Peach Oak | |
| Quercus shumardii | Shumard Oak Shumard's Oak Shumard Red Oak Southern Red Oak Swamp Red Oak Spotted Oak | |
| Quercus stellata | Post Oak Iron Oak Cross Oak | |
| Quercus virginiana | Coastal Live Oak Southern Live Oak Virginia Live Oak Live Oak Encino | |
| Ratibida columnifera | Mexican Hat Red-spike Mexican Hat Upright Prairie Coneflower Prairie Coneflower Long-headed Coneflower Thimbleflower | |
| Rhododendron austrinum | Orange Azalea Florida Azalea Yellow Azalea | |
| Rhododendron canescens | Mountain Azalea Wild Azalea Honeysuckle Azalea Piedmont Azalea Sweet Azalea Hoary Azalea Southern Pinxterflower | |
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
