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South Dakota Recommended
Commercially available native plant species suitable for planned landscapes in South Dakota. 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 var. depressa | Common Juniper Old Field Juniper Prostrate Juniper | |
| Juniperus horizontalis | Creeping Juniper Creeping Savin | |
| Juglans nigra | Black Walnut Eastern Black Walnut American Black Walnut | |
| Juniperus virginiana | Eastern Red Cedar Eastern Redcedar Virginia Juniper Red Juniper Pencil Cedar Carolina Cedar Red Savin | |
| Koeleria macrantha | Prairie Junegrass Junegrass Prairie Koeler's Grass | |
| Liatris aspera | Tall Blazing Star Tall Gayfeather Tall Liatris Rough Blazing Star Rough Gayfeather Rough Liatris Button Snakeroot | |
| Lilium philadelphicum | Wood Lily | |
| Liatris pycnostachya | Prairie Blazing Star Prairie Gayfeather Prairie Liatris Kansas Blazing Star Kansas Gayfeather Kansas Liatris Cat-tail Blazing Star Cat-tail Gayfeather Cat-tail Liatris Hairy Button-snakeroot | |
| Lobelia siphilitica | Great Blue Lobelia | |
| Monarda fistulosa | Wild Bergamot Beebalm | |
| Oenothera biennis | Common Evening-primrose King's Cure-all Common Evening Primrose | |
| Oenothera rhombipetala | Fourpoint Evening-primrose Four-point Evening Primrose Diamond Petal Primrose Greater Four-point Evening-primrose | |
| Opuntia macrorhiza | Bigroot Prickly Pear Twist-spine Prickly Pear Common Prickly Pear Plains Prickly Pear | |
| Osmorhiza claytonii | Clayton's Sweetroot Hairy Sweet-cicely Sweet Jarvil | |
| Ostrya virginiana | Eastern Hop-hornbeam American Hop-hornbeam Woolly Hop-hornbean Eastern Ironwood Roughbark Ironwood Ironwood Deerwood Leverwood | |
| Pascopyrum smithii | Western Wheatgrass | |
| Panicum virgatum | Switchgrass Wand Panic Grass | |
| Penstemon digitalis | Mississippi Penstemon Mississippi Beardtongue Smooth White Penstemon Smooth White Beardtongue Talus Slope Penstemon Talus Slope Beardtongue Foxglove Penstemon Foxglove Beardtongue | |
| Penstemon grandiflorus | Large Penstemon Large Beardtongue Large-flower Penstemon Large-flower Beardtongue Large-flowered Penstemon Large-flowered Beardtongue | |
| Peritoma serrulata | Rocky Mountain Bee-plant Stinking-clover Bee Spiderflower Navajo Spinach Pink Cleome Toothed Spiderflower Skunkweed | |
| Physocarpus opulifolius | Common Ninebark Atlantic Ninebark | |
| Phlox pilosa | Downy Phlox Prairie Phlox Fragrant Phlox | |
| Physostegia virginiana | Fall Obedient Plant False Dragonhead Virginia Lions-heart | |
| Polygonatum biflorum | Smooth Solomon's Seal Great Solomon's-seal Sealwort | |
| Populus deltoides | Eastern Cottonwood Carolina Poplar Necklace Poplar Alamo | |
| 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 | |
| Quercus macrocarpa | Bur Oak Burr Oak Savanna Oak Overcup Oak Prairie Oak Mossy-cup Oak Mossy-overcup Oak Blue Oak | |
| Ratibida columnifera | Mexican Hat Red-spike Mexican Hat Upright Prairie Coneflower Prairie Coneflower Long-headed Coneflower Thimbleflower | |
| Ratibida pinnata | Grayhead Coneflower Gray-headed Coneflower Grayhead Mexican Hat Gray-headed Mexican Hat Pinnate Prairie Coneflower Yellow Coneflower | |
| Rhus glabra | Smooth Sumac | |
| Rosa blanda | Smooth Rose Early Wild Rose | |
| Rudbeckia hirta | Black-eyed Susan Common Black-eyed Susan Brown-eyed Susan Blackeyed Susan | |
| Salix discolor | Pussy Willow Glaucous Willow | |
| Schizachyrium scoparium | Little Bluestem Popotillo Azul | |
| Shepherdia argentea | Silver Buffaloberry Buffaloberry | |
| Sisyrinchium campestre | Prairie Blue-eyed Grass White-eyed Grass | |
| Silphium laciniatum | Compassplant Compass Plant | |
| Silphium perfoliatum | Cup Plant Indian Cup | |
| Solidago nemoralis | Gray Goldenrod Prairie Goldenrod Oldfield Goldenrod Grayleaf Goldenrod Gray-leaved Goldenrod Dyersweed Goldenrod Dwarf Goldenrod Field Goldenrod | |
| Sorghastrum nutans | Indiangrass Yellow Indiangrass Indian Grass | |
| Solidago speciosa | Showy Goldenrod Noble Goldenrod | |
| Sporobolus heterolepis | Prairie Dropseed | |
| Symphoricarpos albus | Common Snowberry | |
| Symphyotrichum ericoides | White Heath Aster Heath Aster | |
| Thalictrum dasycarpum | Purple Meadow-rue Tall Meadow-rue Meadow Rue | |
| Tilia americana | American Basswood American Linden Lime Tree Bee Tree | |
| Typha latifolia | Broadleaf Cattail Common Cattail | |
| Vernonia fasciculata | Prairie Ironweed Common Ironweed | |
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