Special Collections
Iowa Recommended
Commercially available native plant species suitable for planned landscapes in Iowa. 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 |
| Cornus obliqua | Silky Dogwood Pale Dogwood Swamp Dogwood Kinnikinnik | |
| Coreopsis palmata | Stiff Tickseed Stiff Coreopsis Finger Coreopsis | |
| Cornus racemosa | Gray Dogwood | |
| Cornus sericea | Red Osier Dogwood Red Osier Red-twig Dogwood | |
| Crataegus crus-galli | Cockspur Hawthorn Cockspur Thorn Newcastle Hawthorn Newcastle Thorn Hog Apple | |
| Crataegus mollis | Downy Hawthorn White Thorn Whitethorn Scarlet Hawthorn Scarlet Haw Red Haw Downy Thorn | |
| Desmodium canadense | Showy Tick Trefoil | |
| Dicentra cucullaria | Dutchman's Breeches | |
| Diervilla lonicera | Northern Bush Honeysuckle Northern Bush-honeysuckle Diervilla | |
| Dirca palustris | Eastern Leatherwood Western Leatherwood Ropebark Wicopy | |
| Dodecatheon meadia | Eastern Shooting Star Shooting Star Pride Of Ohio Roosterheads Prairie Pointers | |
| Dryopteris cristata | Crested Woodfern Crested Wood Fern Buckler Fern | |
| Echinacea angustifolia | Black Samson Black Samson Echinacea Narrow-leaf Coneflower | |
| Echinacea purpurea | Eastern Purple Coneflower Purple Coneflower | |
| Elymus canadensis | Canada Wild Rye Canadian Wildrye Prairie Wildrye Nodding Wildrye | |
| Euphorbia corollata | Flowering Spurge | |
| Euthamia graminifolia | Flat-top Goldentop Grass-leaved Goldenrod | |
| Eupatorium perfoliatum | Common Boneset | |
| Eutrochium purpureum | Purple Joepyeweed Sweet-scented Joepyeweed Sweet Joepyeweed | |
| Fraxinus americana | White Ash American Ash Cane Ash Smallseed White Ash Biltmore White Ash Biltmore Ash | |
| Fraxinus pennsylvanica | Green Ash Red Ash Swamp Ash River Ash Water Ash Darlington Ash | |
| Fragaria virginiana | Virginia Strawberry Wild Strawberry | |
| Gentiana alba | Plain Gentian Yellow Gentian Cream Gentian | |
| Gentiana andrewsii | Closed Bottle Gentian Closed Gentian Bottle Gentian | |
| Geranium maculatum | Spotted Geranium Wild Geranium Cranesbill | |
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