Groundcovers, aquatics, herbs, host plants, pollinator favorites and more. Native perennials are a hardy bunch that reliably come back year after year. Once established, they rarely need supplemental watering and no added fertilizer is required in the landscape. Consider swapping out non-native flowers and cultivars and replacing them with some of these beautiful straight native species. Even those considered “short-lived” will persist many years through annual reseeding. If you’d like to obtain free seedlings from your parent plants, consider only using natural mulch as dyed/bagged mulch can have weed inhibitors that negatively impact germination. For even more success, pull back a bit of the natural mulch to expose some soil at the base of the parent plant. Seeds that have good ground contact are more likely to germinate!

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Master List

Click on the species scientific name to jump to it’s fact sheet below.

Click on the common name to visit a separate web page for that species (includes Fact Sheets, Quick Cards, and more info when available)

• Acorus americanus – Sweet Flag
• Agastache foeniculum – Anise Hyssop
• Agastache nepetoides – Yellow Giant Hyssop
• Agastache scrophulariifolia – Purple Giant Hyssop
• Ageratina altissima – White Snakeroot
• Allium cernuum – Nodding Onion
• Amsonia tabernaemontana – Eastern Bluestar
• Anaphalis margaritacea – Pearly Everlasting
• Anemone canadensis – Canada Anemone
• Anemone cylindrica – Candle Anemone
• Anemone virginiana – Tall Thimbleweed
• Antennaria plantaginifolia – Pussytoes
• Apocynum cannabinum – Dogbane
• Aquilegia canadensis – Columbine
• Aralia racemosa – American Spikenard
• Aruncus dioicus – Goatsbeard
• Asarum canadense – Wild Ginger
• Baptisia australis – Blue Wild Indigo
• Baptisia tinctoria – Small Yellow Wild Indigo
• Brickellia eupatorioides – False Boneset
• Caltha palustris – Marsh Marigold
• Chelone glabra – White turtlehead
• Conoclinium coelestinum – Blue Mistflower
• Coreopsis tripteris – Tall Coreopsis
• Cryptotaenia canadensis – Honewort
• Dalea purpurea – Purple Prairie Clover
• Delphinium exaltatum – Tall Larkspur
• Desmodium canadense – Showy Tick Trefoil
• Desmodium paniculatum – Panicled Tick Trefoil
• Dicentra eximia – Bleeding Heart
• Echinacea purpurea – Purple Coneflower
• Eryngium yuccifolium – Rattlesnake Master
• Eupatorium altissimum – Tall Boneset
• Eupatorium hyssopifolium – Hyssop Leaved Boneset
• Eupatorium perfoliatum – Common Boneset
• Eutrochium fistulosum – Hollow Joe Pye Weed
• Eutrochium maculatum – Spotted Joe Pye Weed
• Filipendula rubra – Queen of the Prairie
• Gentiana andrewsii – Bottle Gentian
• Geranium maculatum – Wild Geranium
• Helenium autumnale – Helen’s Flower
• Helenium flexuosum – Purple Headed Sneezeweed
• Helianthus giganteus – Tall Sunflower
• Heliopsis helianthoides – Early Sunflower
• Heuchera americana – Coral Bells
• Hibiscus laevis – Smooth Rose Mallow
• Hibiscus moscheutos – Swamp Rose Mallow
• Houstonia longifolia – Longleaf Bluets
• Iris cristata – Dwarf Crested Iris
• Iris versicolor – Blue Flag Iris
• Liatris pilosa – Grass Leaf Blazing Star
• Liatris scariosa var niewlandii – Northern Blazing Star
• Liatris spicata – Marsh Blazing Star
• Lobelia cardinalis – Cardinal Flower
• Lobelia siphilitica – Great Blue Lobelia
• Lobelia spicata – Pale Spiked Lobelia
• Ludwigia alternifolia – Seedbox
• Lysimachia ciliata – Fringed Loosestrife
• Mimulus ringens – Allegheny Monkeyflower
• Mitella diphylla – Bishop’s Cap
• Monarda bradburiana – Eastern Bee Balm
• Monarda fistulosa – Bee Balm
• Monarda didyma – Scarlet Bee Balm
• Monarda punctata – Spotted Bee Balm
• Oenothera friticosa ssp tetragona – Narrowleaf Sundrops
• Opuntia humifusa – Eastern Prickly Pear Cactus
• Osmorhiza longistylus – Aniseroot
• Pachysandra procumbens – Allegheny Pachysandra
• Packera aurea – Golden Groundsel
• Packera aurea var gracilis – Golden Ragwort
• Penstemon calycosus – Calico Beardtongue
• Penstemon digitalis – Foxglove Beardtongue
• Penstemon hirsutus – Hairy Beardtongue
• Penstemon laevigatus – Eastern Smooth Beardtongue
• Penthorum sedoides – Ditch Stonecrop
• Phlox divaricata – Woodland Phlox
• Phlox maculata – Meadow Phlox
• Physalis longifolia – Longleaf Groundcherry
• Physostegia virginiana – Obedient Plant
• Polemonium reptans – Jacob’s Ladder
• Potentilla palustris – Marsh Cinquefoil
• Ratibida pinnata – Yellow Coneflower
• Rhexia virginica – Meadow Beauty
• Rudbeckia fulgida var fulgida – Orange Coneflower
• Rudbeckia laciniata – Cutleaf Coneflower
• Sagittaria latifolia – Arrowhead
• Salvia lyrata – Lyre Leaved Sage
• Scutellaria incana – Hoary Skullcap
• Sedum ternatum – Woodland Stonecrop
• Senna hebecarpa – Wild Senna
• Silphium perfoliatum – Cup Plant
• Silphium trifoliatum – Whorled Rosinweed
• Sisyrinchium angustifolium – Blue Eyed Grass
• Stachys tenuifolia – Slender Betony
• Stylophorum diphyllum – Wood Poppy
• Teucrium canadense – American Germander
• Thalictrum dasycarpum – Purple Meadow Rue
• Thalictrum dioicum – Early Meadow Rue
• Thalictrum pubescens – Tall Meadow Rue
• Tiarella cordifolia – Heartleaf Foamflower
• Tradescantia ohiensis – Ohio Spiderwort
• Tradescantia virginiana – Virginia Spiderwort
• Verbena hastata – Blue Vervain
• Verbena urticifolia – White Vervain
• Verbesina alternifolia – Wingstem
• Vernonia gigantea – Giant Ironweed
• Vernonia noveboracensis – New York Ironweed
• Veronicastrum virginicum – Culver’s Root
• Viola pedata – Bird’s Foot Violet
• Viola pubescens var eriocarpa – Smooth Yellow Violet
• Viola sororia – Blue Violet
• Viola sororia f. princeana – Blue Violet (Bicolor form)
• Vola sororia f. rubra – Blue Violet (Pink form)
• Viola striata – Striped Cream Violet
• Zizia aptera – Heartleaf Golden Alexanders
• Ziza aurea – Golden Alexanders
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  *Please note, as Arcadia Natives is located in Pennsylvania, most companion plants suggested on the Fact Sheets are for the Mid-Atlantic region. Always do your research first and choose plants that are native to your ecoregion.

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