Native & Nativar Plants

 

Benefits:

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

Native & Nativar Plants 451 to 480 of 624 total

  • True Native Plant
    Common Witchhazel Stem with Leaves and Blooms
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    Growing Zones: 4 to 8

    American Beauties Native Plants

    Common Witch Hazel

    $73.99
  • Sunbini® Creeping Zinnia Growing in the Sunlight
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    Growing Zones: 9 to 11

    Proven Winners

    Sunbini® Creeping Zinnia

    $15.74
  • Healthy Honeybee Bush Honeysuckle Plants
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    Growing Zones: 4 to 8

    Honeybee Bush Honeysuckle

    $60.99
  • Baby Joe Dwarf Joe Pye Weed In Bushes
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    Growing Zones: 3 to 8

    Baby Joe Dwarf Joe Pye Weed

    $59.99
  • Northern Lights Tufted Hairgrass Foliage
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    Growing Zones: 4 to 10

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    Northern Lights Tufted Hairgrass

    $28.49
  • Husker Red Beard Tongue Flower Close Up
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    Growing Zones: 4 to 8

    American Beauties Native Plants

    Husker Red Beardtongue

    $39.49
  • Dakota™ Burgundy Beardtongue Flowering in the Garden
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    Growing Zones: 3 to 8

    Dakota™ Burgundy Beardtongue

    $38.49
  • Copper Low Bush Honeysuckle Close Up
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    Growing Zones: 3 to 8

    American Beauties Native Plants

    Copper Low Bush Honeysuckle

    $60.99
  • Fiber Optics Buttonbush Flower Close Up
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    Growing Zones: 4 to 9

    First Editions Plants

    Fiber Optics® Buttonbush

    $73.99
  • Eupatorium dubium Little Joe
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    Growing Zones: 4 to 8

    American Beauties Native Plants

    Little Joe Joe Pye Weed

    $49.99
  • Kodiak Black Diervilla Foliage up Close
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    Growing Zones: 5 to 7

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    Kodiak® Black Diervilla

    $31.49 - $54.99
  • True Native Plant
    Healthy Early Meadow-Rue
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    Growing Zones: 4 to 8

    Early Meadow-Rue

    $38.49
  • Healthy Golden Sunset™ Indiangrass
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    Growing Zones: 3 to 9

    American Beauties Native Plants

    Golden Sunset™ Indiangrass

    $51.49
  • Common New England Aster Flowering
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    Growing Zones: 4 to 8

    American Beauties Native Plants

    Common New England Aster

    $49.99
  • Gemo St. John's Wort Blooms & Leaves
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    Growing Zones: 4 to 9

    American Beauties Native Plants

    Gemo St. John's Wort

    $60.99
  • Little Goblin Guy Winterberry Holly Leaves Up Close
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    Growing Zones: 3 to 9

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    Little Goblin® Guy Winterberry Holly

    $29.99 - $61.49
  • Double Scoop Orangeberry Coneflower Red Bloom Up Close
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    Growing Zones: 4 to 9

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    Double Scoop Orangeberry Coneflower

    $27.99
  • Snowcicle Hydrangea Flowering
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    Growing Zones: 5 to 9

    Snowcicle Hydrangea

    $70.49
  • True Native Plant
    Eastern Bluestar Flowering
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    Growing Zones: 3 to 9

    Eastern Bluestar

    $40.49
  • Pardon My Pink Bee Balm Blooming in Pot
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    Growing Zones: 4 to 8

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    Pardon My Pink Bee Balm

    $29.99 - $42.99
  • Pinxterbloom Azalea Flowering
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    Growing Zones: 4 to 8

    Pinxterbloom Azalea

    $63.99 - $88.99
  • Running Tapestry Foamflower Stems with Leaves and Flowers
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    Growing Zones: 3 to 8

    American Beauties Native Plants

    Running Tapestry Foamflower

    $38.49
  • True Native Plant
    New York Ironweed Flower Petal Close Up
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    Growing Zones: 4 to 8

    American Beauties Native Plants

    New York Ironweed

    $49.99
  • Healthy Bixby Azalea
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    Growing Zones: 5 to 8

    Bixby Azalea

    $56.99
  • Tiny_Wine_Gold_Ninebark_Foliage_and_Blooms
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    Growing Zones: 3 to 7

    Proven Winners

    Tiny Wine® Gold Ninebark

    $30.99 - $55.49
  • Fireworks Goldenrod Flowering
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    Growing Zones: 5 to 8

    Fireworks Goldenrod

    $49.99
  • Firedance Dogwood Blooming
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    Growing Zones: 2 to 7

    First Editions Plants

    Firedance™ Dogwood

    $73.99
  • Healthy Blue Mist Dwarf Fothergilla
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    Growing Zones: 5 to 8

    Blue Mist Dwarf Fothergilla

    $64.49 - $81.59
  • True Native Plant
    Nannyberry Viburnum Covered in Blooms
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    Growing Zones: 2 to 8

    American Beauties Native Plants

    Nannyberry Viburnum

    $73.99
  • True Native Plant
    Bloodstone Thrift flowering
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    Growing Zones: 3 to 8

    Proven Selections

    Bloodstone Thrift

    $28.49

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.