Native & Nativar Plants

 

Benefits:

  • Helps Wildlife
  • Conserves Water
  • Low Maintenance
  • No Fertilizers, Pesticides or Herbicides Required

Native & Nativar Plants 361 to 390 of 624 total

  • Growing Broomsedge Grass in a Pot
    Growing Zones: 5 to 8

    American Beauties Native Plants

    Broomsedge Grass

    $40.49
  • Rudbeckia triloba 'Blackjack Gold'
    Growing Zones: 3 to 8

    American Beauties Native Plants

    Blackjack Gold Black-Eyed Susan

    $49.49
  • Yellow Anise Tree Foliage
    Growing Zones: 8 to 9

    Yellow Anise Tree

    $57.49
  • Suncredible® Saturn Sunflower Blooms and Foliage

    (6)

    Growing Zones: 9 to 11

    Proven Winners

    Suncredible® Saturn Sunflower

    $15.74 - $39.99
  • healthy LUMINARY™ 'Backlight' Phlox paniculata

    (5)

    Growing Zones: 3 to 8

    Proven Winners

    Luminary Backlight Phlox

    $30.99 - $42.99
  • Opening Act Romance' Phlox flowering
    Growing Zones: 4 to 8

    Proven Winners

    Opening Act Romance Phlox

    $30.99 - $41.99
  • Pardon My Rose' Monarda didyma flowering

    (3)

    Growing Zones: 4 to 8

    Proven Winners

    Pardon My Rose Bee Balm

    $29.99 - $41.49
  • Pardon My Lavender II' Monarda didyma flowering
    Growing Zones: 4 to 9

    Proven Winners

    Pardon My Lavender II Bee Balm

    $29.99 - $41.49
  • Healthy Leading Lady Razzberry' Monarda

    (4)

    Growing Zones: 4 to 9

    Proven Winners

    Leading Lady Razzberry Bee Balm

    $29.99 - $42.99
  • Leading Lady Pink' Monarda Flower

    (2)

    Growing Zones: 4 to 9

    Proven Winners

    Leading Lady Pink Bee Balm

    $30.99 - $40.49
  • Healthy Leading Lady Amethyst' Monarda
    Growing Zones: 4 to 8

    Proven Winners

    Leading Lady Amethyst Bee Balm

    $29.99 - $41.49
  • String Theory Amsonia Plants Flowering and Foliage in the Spring
    Growing Zones: 4 to 9

    Proven Winners

    String Theory Amsonia

    $30.99 - $41.49
  • Short Annas Magic Ball Arborvitae Shrub

    (10)

    Growing Zones: 3 to 7

    Proven Winners

    Annas Magic Ball® Arborvitae

    $31.99 - $65.99
  • Emerald Squeeze™ Arborvitae Growing in the Landscaping
    Growing Zones: 2 to 7

    Bloomables

    Emerald Squeeze™ Arborvitae

    $63.49
  • Horsford Dwarf Eastern White Pine
    Growing Zones: 4 to 9

    Horsford Dwarf Eastern White Pine

    $73.99 - $91.49
  • True Native Plant
     Healthy Allegheny Monkeyflower

    (1)

    Growing Zones: 3 to 8

    American Beauties Native Plants

    Allegheny Monkeyflower

    $39.49
  • True Native Plant
    Native Purple Coneflower Blooming

    (4)

    Growing Zones: 4 to 9

    American Beauties Native Plants

    Native Purple Coneflower

    $39.49 - $49.99
  • Row of Shamrock Inkberry Holly Garden Border
    Sold Out

    (0)

    Growing Zones: 4 to 9

    Shamrock Inkberry Holly

    $61.49 - $73.99
  • True Native Plant
    Native Blue Cardinal Flower Flowers Growing Close Up
    Sold Out

    (1)

    Growing Zones: 4 to 8

    American Beauties Native Plants

    Native Blue Cardinal Flower

    $39.49
  • True Native Plant
    Wild Geranium  Flowering
    Sold Out
    Growing Zones: 3 to 8

    Wild Geranium

    $41.49
  • Best Seller
    Decadence Pink Lemonade False Indigo with Pink Yellow Flowers
    Sold Out

    (13)

    Growing Zones: 4 to 9

    Proven Winners

    Decadence® Pink Lemonade False Indigo

    $29.99 - $58.99
  • True Native Plant On Sale
    Sweetfern Growing in the Sunlight
    Sold Out

    (6)

    Growing Zones: 2 to 8

    Sweetfern

    $53.99
    $47.49
  • Best Seller
    Summerific Perfect Storm Hibiscus Bush
    Sold Out

    (8)

    Growing Zones: 4 to 9

    Proven Winners

    Summerific® Perfect Storm Hibiscus

    $29.99 - $73.99
  • True Native Plant
    Fleabane Growing in the Sunlight
    Sold Out
    Growing Zones: 4 to 9

    American Beauties Native Plants

    Fleabane

    $38.49
  • Summerific Holy Grail Hibiscus with Red Blooms
    Sold Out

    (8)

    Growing Zones: 4 to 9

    Proven Winners

    Summerific® Holy Grail Hibiscus

    $29.99 - $73.99
  • Invincibelle Wee White Hydrangea Flowers
    Sold Out

    (16)

    Growing Zones: 3 to 8

    Proven Winners

    Invincibelle Wee White® Hydrangea

    $32.99 - $68.49
  • Large Proven Accents Silver Falls Dichondra Plant in Patio Planter
    Sold Out

    (6)

    Growing Zones: 9 to 11

    Proven Winners

    Proven Accents® Silver Falls Dichondra

    $15.74
  • Summerific Cherry Choco Latte Hibiscus Bush
    Sold Out

    (13)

    Growing Zones: 4 to 9

    Proven Winners

    Summerific® Cherry Choco Latte Hibiscus

    $29.99 - $73.99
  • True Native Plant
    Big Bluestem Grass on the Ground
    Sold Out
    Growing Zones: 3 to 8

    American Beauties Native Plants

    Big Bluestem Grass

    $41.49
  • Best Seller
    Heuchera Dolce Wildberry with Purple Foliage
    Sold Out

    (9)

    Growing Zones: 4 to 9

    Proven Winners

    Dolce® Wildberry Coral Bells

    $30.99 - $42.99

What Is a Native Plant?

Throughout this website and many other gardening resources, you'll see references to native plants. It’s fairly easy to decipher the meaning of native, but let’s delve into what native means in gardening and why it’s increasingly important to choose native plants, especially where saving water is a concern.

Although the concept should be simple, you might find conflicting information about whether a particular plant you like is considered native. So I’d like to first briefly define the term. A native plant grows naturally in a particular region or location. Easy enough, but you can move a plant to a region at some point in time, and wait for it to adapt. Once it does, it’s still no more native to the region.

For a plant to be native, humans have not intervened in its setting down roots. So a plant native to New Mexico has been there long before any gardener thought it might look great against a rock. And along the East coast, native plants were in place before the Europeans arrived on ships and began settling and farming. People also have not intervened or altered the plants; the plants have evolved to local conditions on their own over many plant generations. So the two main qualifiers are no people involvement and geography.

Why Aren’t All Plants Native?

Maybe to understand why you don’t walk down the sidewalk and see blocks of native plants, you have to grasp the concept and history of introduced and invasive plants. Introduced, or non-native, plants are brought by people to a location other than their native one. Not all non-native plants cause problems and become invasive, but they might be harder to grow, require more water, etc. And they can be introduced accidentally or brought intentionally.

An invasive plant, on the other hand, is a non-native brought to a new area that spreads and establishes itself rapidly and soon disrupts local ecosystems. An example in New Mexico is salt cedar. The salt cedar tree was introduced here and is sucking up water along streams and river banks, damaging important native trees such as cottonwoods. Most of the worst weeds we deal with in the Southwest first came here as ornamental plants.

Why Are Native Plants Important?

As opposed to invasive plants, native plants are balanced with and support local ecosystems. They don’t take all of the water that other plants and animals need to survive. They offer cover and food for animals and have adapted to typical climate and soil environments. If you think about it, a plant that survives at 9,000 feet and 120 miles from the nearest population center needs no help from people to make it through the cold winter or the hot summer. That plant should need little help from a gardener who lives nearby and in the same zone.

It’s important to preserve native plants and important to include them in garden plans. When you select plants native to your area, you support the birds and critters that also roam your neighborhood or nearby wilderness areas, use less water and make gardening easier on yourself. Your plants will stay healthier because they already know what to expect! Look for help selecting native plants from local master gardener groups, native plant societies, and coop extension services. We will also mark any plants as native whenever possible as well in each plant's description.