Special Collections
Minnesota Recommended
Commercially available native plant species suitable for planned landscapes in Minnesota. 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 |
Baptisia bracteata var. leucophaea | Longbract Wild Indigo Cream False Indigo Plains Wild Indigo Cream Wild Indigo Large-bracted Wild Indigo | |
Betula nigra | River Birch Red Birch Black Birch Water Birch | |
Betula papyrifera | Paper Birch Canoe Birch White Birch | |
Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats Grama Banderilla Banderita Navajita | |
Bouteloua gracilis | Blue Grama | |
Bromus kalmii | Arctic Brome Prairie Brome Wild Chess | |
Campanulastrum americanum | American Bellflower Tall Bellflower | |
Carpinus caroliniana | American Hornbeam Blue Beech Water Beech Musclewood Ironwood | |
Calamagrostis canadensis | Bluejoint | |
Carya ovata | Shagbark Hickory Carolina Hickory Scalybark Hickory Upland Hickory Shellbark Hickory | |
Caltha palustris | Yellow Marsh Marigold Cowslip | |
Carex pensylvanica | Pennsylvania Sedge | |
Campanula rotundifolia | Bluebell Bellflower Bluebell Of Scotland Bluebell Harebell Witches' Thimble | |
Carex stipata | Awlfruit Sedge Awl-fruited Sedge Stalk-grain Sedge | |
Ceanothus americanus | New Jersey Tea Redroot | |
Celtis occidentalis | Common Hackberry Northern Hackberry American Hackberry Nettle Tree Beaverwood False Elm | |
Cephalanthus occidentalis | Common Buttonbush Buttonbush Button Willow Honey Bells Honeybells Honey Balls Honeyballs Button-bush | |
Celastrus scandens | American Bittersweet | |
Chamerion angustifolium ssp. angustifolium | Fireweed Narrow-leaf Fireweed Willow Herb | |
Chamaecrista fasciculata | Partridge Pea Sleepingplant Sensitive Plant | |
Chelone glabra | White Turtlehead | |
Cornus alternifolia | Alternateleaf Dogwood Alternate-leaf Dogwood Pagoda Dogwood | |
Corylus americana | American Hazelnut American Filbert | |
Cornus canadensis | Bunchberry Dogwood Canadian Bunchberry | |
Cornus obliqua | Silky Dogwood Pale Dogwood Swamp Dogwood Kinnikinnik | |
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