List of Native Plants

Flowers

Common Name
Scientific Name
Habitat
Bloom Time
Canada MayflowerMaianthemum ProcumbensWoodsSpring
Star FlowerTrientialis BorealisWoodsSpring
PipsissewaChimaphila MachlateWoodsSummer
Lady's SlipperCyripedium AcaulieWoodsSpring
Trailing ArbutusEpigaea RepensWoodsSpring
MilkweedAsclepias SyriacaFieldsSummer
Butterfly WeedAsclepias TuberosaFieldsSummer
Golden AsterChrysopsis FalcataFieldsSummer to Fall
AsterAster Spp.FieldsFall
GoldenrodSolidago Spp.FieldsFall
LupineLupinus PerennisFieldsSpring
Cardinal FlowerLobelia CardinalisPond ShoreSummer to Fall
Joe Pye WeedEupatorium Spp.Pond ShoreSummer to Fall
BonesetEupatorium PerfoliatumPond ShoreSummer to Fall
GoldenrodEuthamia TenuifoliaPond ShoreSummer to Fall
Plymouth GentianSabatia KennedyanaPond ShoreSummer to Fall


Low Growing

Common Name
Scientific Name
Habitat
Bloom Time
Partridge BerryMitchella RespensWoodsMay
Tea BerryGaultheria ProcumbensWoodsMay
BearberryArctostaphylos Uva-UrsiDry SunnyApril to May
Sweet FernComptonia PergrinaDry SunnyApril to May
Lowbush BlueberryVaccinium PallidumDry SunnyApril to May
Little Bluestem GrassSchizacharium ScopariumDry Sunny
Switch GrassPannicum VirgatumFields
Hay-Scented FernDennstaedtia PunctibobulaWoods
New York FernDryopteris NoveboracensisMoist Woods
Cinnamon FernOsmunda CinnamomeaSwampsMay to June
Royal FernOsmunda RegalisSwamps

Shrubs

Common Name
Scientific Name
Habitat
Bloom Time
CinquefoilPotentilla FruticosaFieldsJuly
Beach PlumPrunus MaritimaDry SunnyJune
Sumacs (Not Poison)Rhus TyphinaDry SunnyJuly
Pasture RoseRosa CarolinaDry SunnyJune
Virginia RoseRosa VirginianaDry SunnyJune
Black HuckleberryGaylussacia BaccataDry Oak - Pine WoodsMay
BayberryMyrica PensylvanicaDry SunnyMay to June
Maple-Leaved ViburnumViburnum AcerifoliumWoodsMay
Wild RaisinViburnum Nudum Var. CassinoidesMoist WoodsMay
ArrowwoodViburnum Dentatum Var. LucidumWoodsJune
Highbush CranberryViburnum TrilobumMoist WoodsMay
InkberryIlex GlabraMoist WoodsJune to July
Sheep LaurelKalmia AngustifoliaMoist to DryMay to June
Mountain LaurelKalmia LatifoliaMoist to DryMay to June
Silky DogwoodCornus AmoniumMoist WoodsMay to June
Grey DogwoodCornus RacemosaMoist WoodsMay to June
Red-osier DogwoodCornus SericeaMoist WoodsJune
MeadowsweetSpiraea LatifoliaWet MeadowsJune to July