North Carolina Recommended
Commercially available native plant species suitable for planned landscapes in North Carolina. 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.scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
Dicentra canadensis | Squirrel Corn | |
Dichondra carolinensis | Carolina Ponyfoot Ponyfoot | |
Digitaria ciliaris | Southern Crabgrass | |
Dichanthelium clandestinum | Deertongue Deer-tongue | |
Dichanthelium commutatum | Variable Panicgrass | |
Digitaria cognata | Carolina Crabgrass Fall Witchgrass | |
Dicentra cucullaria | Dutchman's Breeches | |
Dichanthelium depauperatum | Starved Panicgrass | |
Dichanthelium dichotomum | Cypress Panicgrass | |
Dichanthelium dichotomum var. dichotomum | Cypress Panicgrass | |
Dichanthelium dichotomum var. ensifolium | Cypress Panicgrass Sword-Leaf Panicgrass | |
Dichanthelium dichotomum var. tenue | Cypress Panicgrass | |
Dicentra eximia | Turkey Corn Fringed Bleedinghearts Wild Bleedingheart | |
Digitaria filiformis | Slender Crabgrass | |
Dichanthelium latifolium | Broad-leaf Witch Grass Broadleaf Rosette Grass Broadleaved Panicgrass | |
Dichanthelium laxiflorum | Openflower Rosette Grass | |
Dichanthelium leucothrix | Rough Panicgrass | |
Dichanthelium linearifolium | Slimleaf Panicgrass | |
Diervilla lonicera | Northern Bush Honeysuckle Northern Bush-honeysuckle Diervilla | |
Dichanthelium longiligulatum | Coastal Plain Panicgrass Coastalplain Panicgrass | |
Dichanthelium meridionale | Matting Rosette Grass | |
Diarrhena obovata | Hairy Beakgrain Obovate Beakgrain | |
Dichanthelium oligosanthes | Heller's Rosette Grass | |
Dichanthelium oligosanthes var. oligosanthes | Heller's Rosette Grass | |
Dichanthelium oligosanthes var. scribnerianum | Scribner's Rosette Grass | |
Dichanthelium ovale | Eggleaf Rosette Grass | |
Dichanthelium ovale var. addisonii | Addison's Rosette Grass | |
Dichanthelium ovale var. ovale | Eggleaf Rosette Grass | |
Dirca palustris | Eastern Leatherwood Western Leatherwood Ropebark Wicopy | |
Diplazium pycnocarpon | Glade Fern | |
Dioscorea quaternata | Fourleaf Yam Wild Yam Colic Root Yam Root | |
Dichanthelium ravenelii | Ravenel's Rosette Grass | |
Dichanthelium sabulorum | Hemlock Rosette Grass | |
Dichanthelium sabulorum var. patulum | Hemlock Rosette Grass Hemlock Witch Grass | |
Dichanthelium sabulorum var. thinium | Hemlock Rosette Grass | |
Dichanthelium scabriusculum | Woolly Rosette Grass | |
Dichanthelium scoparium | Velvet Panicum | |
Distichlis spicata | Saltgrass Coastal Salt Grass Inland Salt-grass | |
Dichanthelium sphaerocarpon | Roundseed Panicgrass | |
Dichanthelium spretum | Eaton's Rosette Grass | |
Dichanthelium sphaerocarpon var. isophyllum | Many-flowered Witch Grass Roundseed Panicgrass | |
Dichanthelium sphaerocarpon var. sphaerocarpon | Round-fruit Witch Grass Round-fruited Panicgrass Roundseed Panicgrass | |
Diodia teres | Poorjoe | |
Diodia teres var. hystricina | Poorjoe Rough Buttonweed | |
Diodia teres var. teres | Poorjoe Rough Buttonweed | |
Digitaria villosa | Shaggy Crab Grass Shaggy Crabgrass | |
Diodia virginiana | Virginia Buttonweed Buttonweed | |
Dioscorea villosa | Wild Yam | |
Diospyros virginiana | Common Persimmon Eastern Persimmon Possumwood Date Plum Winter Plum Jove's Fruit | |
Dichanthelium villosissimum | Whitehair Rosette Grass White-haired Panic Grass | |
Dichanthelium villosissimum var. villosissimum | Whitehair Rosette Grass | |
Diodia virginiana var. virginiana | Virginia Buttonweed | |
Dichanthelium wrightianum | Wright's Panicgrass Wright's Rosette Grass Wright's Witch Grass | |
Doellingeria infirma | Appalachian Flat-topped White Aster Cornel-leaf Whitetop | |
Dodecatheon meadia | Eastern Shooting Star Shooting Star Pride Of Ohio Roosterheads Prairie Pointers | |
Dodecatheon meadia ssp. meadia | Common Shooting-star Prairie Shooting star Pride of Ohio Pride-of-Ohio | |
Doellingeria sericocarpoides | Southern Whitetop | |
Doellingeria umbellata | Parasol Whitetop Flat-topped White Aster | |
Doellingeria umbellata var. umbellata | Parasol Whitetop Flat-top Aster | |
Dryopteris ×australis | Woodfern | |
Dryopteris ×boottii | Boott's Woodfern | |
Dryopteris ×burgessii | Burgess' Woodfern Woodfern | |
Dryopteris carthusiana | Spinulose Woodfern Spinulose Wood Fern Shield Fern Toothed Wood Fern | |
Drosera capillaris | Pink Sundew | |
Dryopteris campyloptera | Mountain Woodfern | |
Dryopteris celsa | Log Fern | |
Dryopteris cristata | Crested Woodfern Crested Wood Fern Buckler Fern | |
Drosera filiformis | Threadleaf Sundew | |
Dryopteris goldiana | Goldie's Woodfern | |
Drosera intermedia | Spoonleaf Sundew | |
Dryopteris intermedia | Intermediate Woodfern Evergreen Wood-fern Fancy Wood Fern | |
Dryopteris ×leedsii | Leeds' Woodfern | |
Dryopteris marginalis | Marginal Woodfern Marginal Fern Marginal Shieldfern | |
Dryopteris ×neowherryi | Woodfern | |
Dracocephalum parviflorum | American Dragonhead | |
Draba ramosissima | Branched Draba Branched Whitlow-grass Branched Whitlowgrass | |
Drosera rotundifolia | Roundleaf Sundew | |
Drosera rotundifolia var. rotundifolia | Roundleaf Sundew | |
Dryopteris ×separabilis | Woodfern | |
Dryopteris ×slossoniae | Slosson's Woodfern Woodfern | |
Dryopteris ×triploidea | Triploid Woodfern | |
Dryopteris ×uliginosa | Woodfern | |
Dulichium arundinaceum | Threeway Sedge Three-sided Sedge | |
Dulichium arundinaceum var. arundinaceum | Three-way Sedge | |
Dyssodia papposa | Dogweed Fetid Marigold | |
Echinodorus cordifolius | Creeping Burhead Lance-leaf Burhead Radican Sword Burhead Creeping Water-plantain | |
Echinochloa crus-pavonis | Gulf Cockspur Grass Gulf Barnyard Grass Gulf Cock's-spur Grass | |
Echinochloa crus-pavonis var. macera | Gulf Cockspur Grass | |
Echinocystis lobata | Wild Cucumber | |
Echinochloa muricata | American Barnyard Grass Rough Barnyard Grass Barnyard Grass American Cockspur Grass Wild Millet | |
Echinochloa muricata var. microstachya | Rough Barnyard Grass Rough Barnyardgrass | |
Echinochloa muricata var. muricata | Rough Barnyardgrass Rough Barnyard Grass | |
Eclipta prostrata | Pie Plant False Daisy Eclipta | |
Echinochloa walteri | Coast Cockspur Grass | |
Eleocharis acicularis | Needle Spikerush | |
Eleocharis acicularis var. acicularis | Needle Spikerush | |
Eleocharis albida | White Spikerush | |
Elatine americana | American Waterwort | |
Elephantopus carolinianus | Carolina Elephantsfoot | |
Elymus canadensis | Canada Wild Rye Canadian Wildrye Prairie Wildrye Nodding Wildrye | |
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