Connecticut Recommended
Commercially available native plant species suitable for planned landscapes in Connecticut. 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 |
Achillea millefolium | Common Yarrow Western Yarrow Yarrow Milfoil | |
Actaea pachypoda | White Baneberry Dolls Eyes | |
Actaea racemosa var. racemosa | Black Cohosh Black Bugbane Bugbane Black Snakeroot Fairy Candles | |
Acer rubrum | Red Maple Scarlet Maple Soft Maple | |
Actaea rubra | Red Baneberry | |
Acer saccharinum | Silver Maple Soft Maple White Maple | |
Acer saccharum | Sugar Maple Northern Sugar Maple | |
Adiantum pedatum | Northern Maidenhair Fern Maidenhair Fern | |
Agastache scrophulariifolia | Purple Giant Hyssop Purple Giant-hyssop | |
Alnus incana ssp. rugosa | Speckled Alder | |
Alnus serrulata | Smooth Alder Hazel Alder Brookside Alder Tag Alder Common Alder Black Alder | |
Amelanchier canadensis | Canadian Serviceberry Canadian Service-berry Shadblow Serviceberry Juneberry Shadbush Junebush | |
Anemone canadensis | Canadian Anemone Round-leaf Thimbleweed Canada Anemone Windflower Meadow Anemone | |
Andropogon gerardii | Big Bluestem Tall Bluestem Turkeyfoot | |
Anaphalis margaritacea | Western Pearly Everlasting Pearly-everlasting | |
Antennaria plantaginifolia | Woman's Tobacco Ladies' Tobacco Everlasting Mouse Ear Plantain-leaf Pussytoes | |
Anemone quinquefolia | Wood Anemone Nightcaps Windflower | |
Aquilegia canadensis | Eastern Red Columbine Wild Red Columbine | |
Aronia arbutifolia | Red Chokeberry Red Chokecherry | |
Arisaema dracontium | Green Dragon Dragonroot Greendragon | |
Aralia nudicaulis | Wild Sarsaparilla | |
Arisaema triphyllum | Jack In The Pulpit Indian Jack In The Pulpit Jack-in-the-pulpit | |
Asarum canadense | Canadian Wild Ginger Wild Ginger | |
Asarum caudatum | British Columbia Wild Ginger Long-tail Wild Ginger | |
Asclepias purpurascens | Purple Milkweed | |
Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly Weed Butterfly Milkweed Orange Milkweed Pleurisy Root Chigger Flower Chiggerweed | |
Betula lenta | Sweet Birch Cherry Birch Black Birch Mahogany Birch | |
Betula populifolia | Gray Birch White Birch Aspen-leaved Birch | |
Blephilia ciliata | Downy Pagoda-plant Sunny Woodmint Ohio Horsemint | |
Campanulastrum americanum | American Bellflower Tall Bellflower | |
Carpinus caroliniana | American Hornbeam Blue Beech Water Beech Musclewood Ironwood | |
Carya glabra | Pignut Hickory Sweet Pignut Hickory Coast Pignut Hickory Pignut Sweet Pignut Smoothbark Hickory Broom Hickory Red Hickory Swamp Hickory Switch Hickory Switchbud Hickory | |
Carya ovata | Shagbark Hickory Carolina Hickory Scalybark Hickory Upland Hickory Shellbark Hickory | |
Caltha palustris | Yellow Marsh Marigold Cowslip | |
Campsis radicans | Trumpet Creeper Trumpet Vine Common Trumpet Creeper Cow Vine Foxglove Vine Hellvine Devil's Shoestring | |
Campanula rotundifolia | Bluebell Bellflower Bluebell Of Scotland Bluebell Harebell Witches' Thimble | |
Carya tomentosa | Mockernut Hickory Mockernut Hickory Big Bud Hickory Mockernut White Hickory Whiteheart Hickory Fragrant Hickory Bigbud Hickory Hardbark Hickory Hognut Bullnut | |
Ceanothus americanus | New Jersey Tea Redroot | |
Celastrus scandens | American Bittersweet | |
Chamerion angustifolium ssp. angustifolium | Fireweed Narrow-leaf Fireweed Willow Herb | |
Chamaelirium luteum | Fairywand Blazing Star | |
Chrysopsis mariana | Maryland Goldenaster Maryland Golden-aster | |
Chamaecyparis thyoides | Atlantic White Cedar | |
Clintonia borealis | Bluebead Yellow Bluebead-lily Clintonia Blue-bead Lily | |
Claytonia caroliniana | Carolina Springbeauty | |
Claytonia virginica | Virginia Springbeauty Springbeauty | |
Cornus alternifolia | Alternateleaf Dogwood Alternate-leaf Dogwood Pagoda Dogwood | |
Conoclinium coelestinum | Blue Mistflower Wild Ageratum Blue Boneset | |
Cornus florida | Flowering Dogwood Virginia Dogwood Florida Dogwood White Cornel Arrowwood American Boxwood False Box St. Peter's Crown Corona De San Pedro | |
Coreopsis lanceolata | Lanceleaf Coreopsis Lance-leaved Coreopsis Lanceleaf Tickseed Sand Coreopsis | |
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