Websites
http://www.nativeplanttrust.org/
Native Plant Trust/Garden in the Woods
- Click on the Go Botany tab to find an extensive database of plants you will find in the wild in New England. This is searchable by type of plant, by name, and by plant characteristics (e.g. leaf shape, flower type, etc.)
- Click on For Your Garden, then Garden Plant Finder. This is a searchable database of the native plants that are more available in the nursery trade, including their Garden Shop, along with good information about the plant and the conditions it prefers.
http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/
Missouri Botanical Garden
- Click on Gardens and Gardening>Plant Finder to access a searchable database of highly useful specifics about native plants, cultivars, hybrids, and some non-natives that are in the nursery trade. This is my go-to site to find out more about a plant, including its origins.
Plant Lists
These are all plants I have successfully grown in my Cape Cod garden, updated through June 2021.
| Sunny Pollinator Perennials | ||||||
| Anise Hyssop | Agastache foeniculum | |||||
| Bluestar | Amsonia hubrechtii | |||||
| Bluestar | Amsonia tabernaemontana | |||||
| Canana anemone | Anemone canadensis | |||||
| Virginia anemone | Anemone virginiana | |||||
| Swamp milkweed | Asclepias incarnata | |||||
| Butterfly weed | Asclepias tuberosa | |||||
| False indigo | Baptisia australis | |||||
| Tickseed | Coreopsis verticillata ‘Zagreb’ | |||||
| Tickseed | Coreopsis ‘Jethro Tull’ | |||||
| Boneset | Eupatorium perfoliatum | |||||
| Coastal Joe-Pye weed | Eutrochium dubium ‘Little Joe’ | |||||
| Blanketflower | Gaillardia ‘Arizona Apricot’ | |||||
| Wild Geranium | Geranium maculatum | |||||
| Sneezeweed | Helenium autumnale ‘Salsa’ | |||||
| False sunflower | Heliopsis helianthoides, ‘Tuscan Gold’ | |||||
| Blazing star | Liatris spicata | |||||
| Blue lobelia | Lobelia siphilitica | |||||
| Bee balm | Monarda didyma ‘Jacob Cline’ | |||||
| Spotted beebalm | Monarda punctata | |||||
| Common sundrops | Oenothera fruiticosa | |||||
| Eastern prickly pear | Opuntia humifusa | |||||
| Beardtongue | Penstemon digitalis, P. ‘Dark Towers’ | |||||
| Obedient plant | Physostegia virginiana ‘Miss Manners’ | |||||
| Blunt mountain mint | Pycnanthemum muticum | |||||
| Slender mountain mint | Pycnanthemum tenuifolium | |||||
| Common mountain mint | Pycnanthemum virginianum | |||||
| Black-eyed susan | Rudbeckia hirta | |||||
| Mad dog skullcap | Scutellaria laterifolia | |||||
| Goldenrod | Solidago ‘Fireworks’, S. odora, S. canadensis, S. rugosa | |||||
| Spiderwort | Tradescantia virginiana ‘Concord Grape’ | |||||
| Culver’s root | Veronicastrum virginicum | |||||
| Golden Alexander | Zizia aurea | |||||
| Shade Perennials | |||||
| Black cohosh | Actaea racemose | ||||
| Baneberry | Actaea rubra | ||||
| Maidenhair fern | Adiantum pedantum | ||||
| Wild columbine | Aquilegia canadensis | ||||
| Goatsbeard | Aruncus dioicus | ||||
| Spikenard | Aralia racemose | ||||
| Wild ginger | Asarum canadense | ||||
| Lady fern | Athyrium angustum | ||||
| Turtlehead | Chelone glabra | ||||
| Wood fern | Dryopteris marginalis | ||||
| Trailing arbutus | Epigaea repens | ||||
| White wood aster | Eurybia divaricate | ||||
| Wild strawberry | Fragaria virginiana | ||||
| Barren strawberry | Geum fragarioides | ||||
| Coralbells | Heuchera ‘Black Pearl’ | ||||
| Mayflower | Maianthemum canadense | ||||
| False Solomon’s seal | Maianthemum racemosum | ||||
| Partridgeberry | Mitchella repens | ||||
| Christmas fern | Polystichum acrostichoides | ||||
| Bloodroot | Sanguinaria canadensis | ||||
| Grasses | |||||
| Pennsylvania sedge | Carex pensylvanicum | ||||
| Tufted hairgrass | Deschampsia fluxuosa | ||||
| Switchgrass | Panicum virgatum | ||||
| Little bluestem | Schizachyrium scoparium | ||||
| Prairie dropseed | Sporobolus heterolepsis | ||||
| Shrubs | |||||
| Chokeberry | Aronia melanocarpa | ||||
| Sweet pepperbush | Clethra alnifolia ‘Ruby Spice’ | ||||
| Sweet pepperbush | Clethra alnifolia ‘Sixteen Candles’ | ||||
| Sweet fern | Comptonia peregrinis | ||||
| Fothergilla | Fothergilla gardenia | ||||
| Black huckleberry | Gaylussacia baccata | ||||
| Smooth hydrangea | Hydrangea arborescens | ||||
| Oak-leaf hydrangea | Hydrangea quercifolium | ||||
| St. John’s wort | Hypericum perforatum cultivar | ||||
| Inkberry | Ilex glabra | ||||
| Winterberry | Ilex verticillate | ||||
| Virginia sweetspire | Itea virginica | ||||
| Sheep laurel | Kalmia angustifolia | ||||
| Bayberry | Myrica pensylvanica | ||||
| Virginia creeper | Parthenocissus quinquefolia | ||||
| Ninebark | Physocarpus opulifolius | ||||
| Beach plum | Prunus maritima | ||||
| Great rosebay | Rhododendron maximum | ||||
| Fragrant sumac | Rhus aromatica ‘Gro-Low’ | ||||
| Silky dogwood | Swida amomum | ||||
| Yellow twig dogwood | Swida sericea | ||||
| Arrowwood viburnum | Viburnum dentatum | ||||
| Witherod viburnum | Viburnum nudum | ||||
| Yellowroot | Xanthorhiza simplicissima | ||||
| Trees | ||||
| Red maple | Acer rubrum | |||
| Redbud | Cercis canadensis | |||
| Witch hazel | Hamamelis virginiana | |||
| Red cedar | Juniperus virginiana | |||
| White pine | Pinus strubus | |||
| Black cherry | Prunum serotine | |||
| Black Oak | Quercus velutina | |||
| White oak | Quercus alba | |||
| Winged sumac | Rhus copallina | |||
Goldenrod Garden 