Special Collections
Montana Recommended
Commercially available native plant species suitable for planned landscapes in Montana. 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 |
| Juniperus communis | Common Juniper | |
| Juniperus horizontalis | Creeping Juniper Creeping Savin | |
| Juniperus scopulorum | Rocky Mountain Juniper Rocky Mountain Red Cedar Mountain Red Cedar Colorado Red Cedar Western Red Cedar River Juniper Western Juniper Cedro Rojo | |
| Kalmia microphylla | Alpine Laurel | |
| Krascheninnikovia lanata | Winterfat | |
| Larix occidentalis | Western Larch Western Tamarack | |
| Linum lewisii | Wild Blue Flax Prairie Flax Lewis Flax Lewis's Flax | |
| Liatris punctata | Dotted Blazing Star Dotted Gayfeather Dotted Liatris Purples | |
| Lonicera involucrata | Twinberry Honeysuckle Black Twinberry Honeysuckle Black Twinberry Bearberry Honeysuckle Four-line Honeysuckle | |
| Mahonia repens | Creeping Barberry Creeping Oregon-grape | |
| Machaeranthera tanacetifolia | Tahoka Daisy Tansy-aster Tansey-leaf Tansy-aster Tansyleaf Tansyaster | |
| Mimulus lewisii | Purple Monkeyflower Great Purple Monkeyflower Lewis Monkeyflower Lewis's Monkeyflower | |
| Mirabilis nyctaginea | Heartleaf Four O'Clock | |
| Monarda fistulosa | Wild Bergamot Beebalm | |
| Nemophila breviflora | Basin Nemophila Great Basin Baby-blue-eyes Great Basin Nemophila | |
| Oenothera caespitosa | Tufted Evening Primrose Gumbo Evening Primrose Gumbo Lily Fragrant Evening Primrose Tufted Evening-primrose | |
| Pascopyrum smithii | Western Wheatgrass | |
| Panicum virgatum | Switchgrass Wand Panic Grass | |
| Peritoma lutea | Yellow Bee-plant Yellow Spiderflower | |
| Peritoma serrulata | Rocky Mountain Bee-plant Stinking-clover Bee Spiderflower Navajo Spinach Pink Cleome Toothed Spiderflower Skunkweed | |
| 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 | |
| Picea engelmannii | Engelmann's Spruce Engelmann Spruce | |
| Pinus flexilis | Limber Pine Pino Enano | |
| Pinus monticola | Western White Pine | |
| Pinus ponderosa | Ponderosa Pine Western Yellow Pine Pino Blanco | |
| Populus tremuloides | Quaking Aspen Golden Aspen Trembling Aspen Mountain Aspen Aspen Trembling Poplar Alamo Blanco | |
| Prunus americana | American Plum Wild Plum | |
| Prunus virginiana | Chokecherry Common Chokecherry Choke Cherry | |
| Pseudotsuga menziesii | Douglas Fir Blue Douglas Fir | |
| Pulsatilla patens ssp. multifida | Cutleaf Anemone Pasqueflower Wild Crocus | |
| Purshia tridentata | Antelope Bitterbrush Bitterbrush Antelope Brush | |
| Ranunculus cardiophyllus | Heartleaf Buttercup Heart-leaf Buttercup | |
| Ratibida columnifera | Mexican Hat Red-spike Mexican Hat Upright Prairie Coneflower Prairie Coneflower Long-headed Coneflower Thimbleflower | |
| Rhus glabra | Smooth Sumac | |
| Rhus trilobata | Skunkbush Skunkbush Sumac Fragrant Sumac Aromatic Sumac Scented Sumac Ill-scented Sumac Basketbush Squawbush | |
| Rudbeckia hirta | Black-eyed Susan Common Black-eyed Susan Brown-eyed Susan Blackeyed Susan | |
| 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 | |
| Sorghastrum nutans | Indiangrass Yellow Indiangrass Indian Grass | |
| Sorbus scopulina | Greene's Mountain Ash Cascade Mountain-ash Western Mountain-ash | |
| Spiraea betulifolia | White Spirea | |
| Sphaeralcea coccinea | Scarlet Globemallow Caliche Globemallow | |
| Sphaeralcea munroana | Munro's Globemallow White-stem Globe-mallow | |
| Thuja plicata | Western Red Cedar Western Arborvitae Canoe Cedar | |
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