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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
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| Mirabilis multiflora | Colorado Four O'Clock | |
| Monardella odoratissima | Mountain Monardella Alpine Mountainbalm Coyote Mint Mountain Pennyroyal | |
| Muhlenbergia montana | Mountain Muhly | |
| Oenothera caespitosa | Tufted Evening Primrose Gumbo Evening Primrose Gumbo Lily Fragrant Evening Primrose Tufted Evening-primrose | |
| Oenothera elata | Hooker's Evening-primrose Hooker's Evening Primrose | |
| Panicum capillare | Witchgrass | |
| Penstemon eatonii | Firecracker Penstemon Firecracker Beardtongue Eaton's Penstemon Eaton's Beardtongue | |
| Pedicularis groenlandica | Elephanthead Lousewort | |
| Peritoma lutea | Yellow Bee-plant Yellow Spiderflower | |
| Penstemon palmeri | Palmer's Penstemon Palmer's Beardtongue Scented Penstemon Scented Beardtongue | |
| Peritoma serrulata | Rocky Mountain Bee-plant Stinking-clover Bee Spiderflower Navajo Spinach Pink Cleome Toothed Spiderflower Skunkweed | |
| Penstemon strictus | Rocky Mountain Penstemon Rocky Mountain Beardtongue | |
| Phleum alpinum | Alpine Timothy Mountain Timothy | |
| Phlox longifolia | Longleaf Phlox Long-leaf Phlox | |
| Phacelia sericea | Silky Phacelia Purple Fringe | |
| Phlox speciosa | Showy Phlox | |
| Pinus contorta | Lodgepole Pine Beach Pine Pino De San Pedro Martir | |
| Pinus edulis | Colorado Pinyon Pine Colorado Pinyon Pinyon Pine Pinyon Two-needle Pine Two-needle Pinyon Two-leaf Pinyon Nut Pine Pino Dulce | |
| Picea engelmannii | Engelmann's Spruce Engelmann Spruce | |
| Pinus flexilis | Limber Pine Pino Enano | |
| Pinus ponderosa | Ponderosa Pine Western Yellow Pine Pino Blanco | |
| Picea pungens | Blue Spruce Colorado Spruce | |
| Populus angustifolia | Narrowleaf Cottonwood Narrow-leaf Cottonwood | |
| Potentilla arguta | Tall Cinquefoil White Cinquefoil Prairie Cinquefoil | |
| Populus fremontii | Fremont Cottonwood Western Cottonwood Gila Cottonwood Alamo | |
| Poliomintha incana | Frosted Mint Hoary Rosemary-mint Mintbush | |
| Poa secunda | Sandberg Bluegrass Curly Blue Grass Pine Blue Grass Canby Blue Grass | |
| Populus tremuloides | Quaking Aspen Golden Aspen Trembling Aspen Mountain Aspen Aspen Trembling Poplar Alamo Blanco | |
| Prunus virginiana | Chokecherry Common Chokecherry Choke Cherry | |
| Pseudotsuga menziesii | Douglas Fir Blue Douglas Fir | |
| Purshia mexicana | Mexican Cliffrose Chinacates Chivatillo Romerillo Cimarră³N Romero Romero Cedro | |
| Purshia tridentata | Antelope Bitterbrush Bitterbrush Antelope Brush | |
| Quercus gambelii | Gambel Oak Rocky Mountain White Oak Utah White Oak | |
| Ranunculus cymbalaria | Alkali Buttercup | |
| Rhus glabra | Smooth Sumac | |
| Rhus trilobata | Skunkbush Skunkbush Sumac Fragrant Sumac Aromatic Sumac Scented Sumac Ill-scented Sumac Basketbush Squawbush | |
| Ribes aureum | Golden Currant | |
| Ribes cereum | Wax Currant White Squaw Currant Western Red Currant | |
| Rudbeckia laciniata | Green-headed Coneflower Greenhead Coneflower Cutleaf Coneflower Wild Goldenglow Sochan | |
| Rubus parviflorus | Western Thimbleberry Thimbleberry | |
| Sambucus racemosa | Red Elderberry | |
| Schizachyrium scoparium | Little Bluestem Popotillo Azul | |
| Shepherdia argentea | Silver Buffaloberry Buffaloberry | |
| Sorbus scopulina | Greene's Mountain Ash Cascade Mountain-ash Western Mountain-ash | |
| Sporobolus airoides | Alkali Sacaton Zacate Alcalino | |
| Sphaeralcea coccinea | Scarlet Globemallow Caliche Globemallow | |
| Sporobolus cryptandrus | Sand Dropseed | |
| Sphaeralcea grossulariifolia | Gooseberryleaf Globemallow Current-leaf Globe-mallow Gooseberry-leaf Globe-mallow | |
| Symphyotrichum ciliatum | Rayless Alkali Aster Alkali American-aster Rayless Aster | |
| Symphyotrichum laeve | Smooth Blue Aster | |
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