Native Plant Guide
Do you need plants for a specific area of your garden or landscape? Below are featured suggestions for the following soil and light conditions: dry and sunny; moist and sunny; dry and shady; or moist and shady.
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Dry & Sunny
Moist & Sunny
plantain-leaf pussytoes Photo credit: Martha Moss
bearberry Photo credit: Martha Moss
wild indigo Photo by Martha Moss
gray birch Photo credit: Martha Moss
purple lovegrass Photo credit: Martha Moss
sheep laurel Photo credit: Martha Moss
sundial lupine Photo credit: Martha Moss
hop-hornbeam Photo credit: Cathy Rees
beach plum Photo credit: Martha Moss
clustered mountain mint Photo credit: Martha Moss
swamp milkweed Photo credit: Martha Moss
marsh marigold Photo credit: Martha Moss
button bush Photo credit: Leslie Clapp
blue flag iris Photo credit: Martha Moss
great blue lobelia Photo credit: Martha Moss
black tupelo Photo credit: Martha Moss
rhodora Photo credit: Martha Moss
swamp azalea Photo credit: Avy Claire
steeplebush Photo credit: Martha Moss
tall meadow rue Photo credit: Martha Moss
Dry & Shady
Moist & Shady
striped maple Photo credit: Martha Moss
red columbine Photo credit: Martha Moss
Pennsylvania sedge Photo credit: Martha Moss
sweetfern Photo credit: Martha Moss
large-leaved wood aster Photo credit: Avy Claire
Eastern white pine Photo credit: Martha Moss
Christmas fern Photo credit: Martha Moss
Northern red oak Photo credit: Martha Moss
blue-stem goldenrod Photo credit: Martha Moss
maple-leaf viburnum Photo credit: Martha Moss
red maple Photo credit: Martha Moss
black birch Photo credit: Martha Moss
American hornbeam Photo credit: Martha Moss
bunchberry Photo credit: Martha Moss
summersweet Photo credit: Martha Moss
witch hazel Photo credit: Martha Moss
mountain holly Photo credit: Martha Moss
long beech fern Photo credit: Martha Moss
golden ragwort Photo credit: Martha Moss
winterberry Photo credit: Leslie Clapp