Native & Nativar Plants

 

Benefits:

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

Native & Nativar Plants 511 to 540 of 624 total

  • True Native Plant
    American Hornbeam Growing in the Landscaping
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    Growing Zones: 3 to 9

    American Beauties Native Plants

    American Hornbeam

    $87.49
  • Harvest Moon Witch Hazel in a American Beauties Native Plants Container
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    Growing Zones: 4 to 8

    American Beauties Native Plants

    Harvest Moon Witch Hazel

    $80.49
  • Red Arrow Veronicastrum Virginicum Foliage and Blooms Close Up
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    Growing Zones: 4 to 8

    American Beauties Native Plants

    Red Arrow Veronicastrum Virginicum

    $38.49 - $49.99
  • Bluebird Smooth Aster Flowers and Leaves
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    Growing Zones: 4 to 8

    American Beauties Native Plants

    Bluebird Smooth Aster

    $37.49 - $49.99
  • Green Spice Coral Bells Foliage
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    Growing Zones: 4 to 9

    American Beauties Native Plants

    Green Spice Coral Bells

    $38.49
  • True Native Plant
    Canada Anemone Windflower Leaves and Flowers
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    Growing Zones: 3 to 8

    American Beauties Native Plants

    Canada Anemone Windflower

    $38.49
  • Purpleleaf Bailey Select American Hazelnut
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    Growing Zones: 4 to 9

    Purpleleaf Bailey Select American Hazelnut

    $72.99
  • True Native Plant
    Sundial Wild Lupine Flower Close Up
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    Growing Zones: 3 to 8

    American Beauties Native Plants

    Sundial Wild Lupine

    $38.99
  • Brodie Eastern Red Cedar Shrub Close Up
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    Growing Zones: 3 to 8

    American Beauties Native Plants

    Brodie Eastern Red Cedar

    $76.49
  • Dolce Appletini Coral Bells In Pot
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    Growing Zones: 4 to 9

    Proven Winners

    Dolce® Appletini Coral Bells

    $29.49 - $36.99
  • Iron Butterfly Vernonia Stem with Foliage and Blooms
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    Growing Zones: 4 to 8

    American Beauties Native Plants

    Iron Butterfly Vernonia

    $38.49
  • Reka Highbush Blueberry Fruit Close Up
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    Growing Zones: 4 to 7

    Reka Highbush Blueberry

    $73.99
  • Healthy Black Truffle Cardinal Flower
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    Growing Zones: 5 to 9

    Black Truffle Cardinal Flower

    $38.49
  • Nantucket Viburnum Blooming
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    Growing Zones: 6 to 9

    Plants That Work

    Nantucket Viburnum

    $79.49
  • Tiddlywinks Mountain Laurel
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    Growing Zones: 5 to 9

    Tiddlywinks Mountain Laurel

    $65.49 - $84.49
  • Semmes Beauty Oakleaf Hydrangea Leaves Main
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    Growing Zones: 5 to 9

    Semmes Beauty Oakleaf Hydrangea

    $62.49
  • Desert Eve Rose Yarrow Growing under the Sunlight
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    Growing Zones: 4 to 9

    Desert Eve™ Rose Yarrow

    $34.99
  • Healthy Dolce® Frosted Berry Coral Bells
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    Growing Zones: 4 to 9

    Dolce® Frosted Berry Coral Bells

    $37.49
  • Tilt A Swirl™ Hydrangea Blooms in Green and Pink
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    Growing Zones: 5 to 8

    Bloomin Easy

    Tilt A Swirl™ Hydrangea

    $58.49
  • Milkmaid Tropical Milkweed flower and leaves
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    Growing Zones: 3 to 9

    Proven Winners

    Milkmaid Tropical Milkweed

    $28.49
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    Christmas Wintergreen - White Birch Decorative Pot
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    Growing Zones: 3 to 7

    Christmas Wintergreen - White Birch Decorative Pot

    $44.99
  • True Native Plant
    Goat's Rue Flowering
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    Growing Zones: 3 to 9

    Goat's Rue

    $35.99
  • Thundercloud Sedum Flowering
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    Growing Zones: 4 to 8

    Thundercloud Sedum

    $38.49
  • Larinem Park Stonecrop Sedum Flowering
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    Growing Zones: 3 to 8

    Larinem Park Stonecrop Sedum

    $38.49
  • Healthy Giant Soloman's Seal  Plant
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    Growing Zones: 3 to 8

    Giant Solomon's Seal

    $38.99
  • True Native Plant
    Healthy American Beech Tree
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    Growing Zones: 4 to 9

    American Beech Tree

    $89.99
  • Smoke Signal Little Bluestem Grass on the Ground
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    Growing Zones: 3 to 8

    Smoke Signal Little Bluestem Grass

    $39.99 - $49.99
  • True Native Plant
    Dutchman's Breeches Flowering
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    Growing Zones: 3 to 7

    American Beauties Native Plants

    Dutchman's Breeches

    $38.49
  • Rocky Road Grape Spring Phlox Flowers
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    Growing Zones: 4 to 8

    Plants That Work

    Rocky Road Grape Spring Phlox

    $38.99
  • True Native Plant
    Healthy Staghorn Sumac
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    Growing Zones: 3 to 8

    American Beauties Native Plants

    Staghorn Sumac

    $89.99
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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.