Native & Nativar Plants

 

Benefits:

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

Native & Nativar Plants 181 to 210 of 624 total

  • Brilliantissima Red Chokeberry Berries on the Branch
    Growing Zones: 4 to 8

    American Beauties Native Plants

    Brilliantissima Red Chokeberry

    $59.99 - $84.99
  • Cunningham's White Rhododendron 3 Gallon Nursery Pot
    Growing Zones: 5 to 8

    Cunningham's White Rhododendron

    $60.49 - $79.99
  • Dwarf Alberta Spruce Tree

    (1)

    Growing Zones: 3 to 8

    Dwarf Alberta Spruce

    $37.49 - $85.49
  • Decadence Deluxe Pink Truffles False Indigo in Landscaping

    (2)

    Growing Zones: 4 to 9

    Proven Winners

    Decadence® Deluxe Pink Truffles False Indigo

    $29.99 - $58.99
  • Leading Lady Plum Bee Balm Purple Blooms Up Close

    (4)

    Growing Zones: 4 to 8

    Proven Winners

    Leading Lady Plum Bee Balm

    $29.99 - $40.49
  • Full Speed A Hedge® Thin Man® Arborvitae Foliage
    Growing Zones: 3 to 8

    Proven Winners

    Full Speed A Hedge® Thin Man® Arborvitae

    $32.49 - $55.99
  • Shenandoah Switch Grass on the Ground

    (1)

    Growing Zones: 4 to 8

    Shenandoah Switch Grass

    $40.49 - $53.99
  • Sunny Boulevard St. Johns Wort Yellow Blooms Up Close

    (4)

    Growing Zones: 4 to 8

    Proven Winners

    Sunny Boulevard® St. John's Wort

    $31.99 - $66.49
  • Girard's Fuchsia Azalea Flower Close Up

    (1)

    Growing Zones: 6 to 9

    Girard's Fuchsia Azalea

    $55.99 - $73.99
  • Dolce Apple Twist Coral Bells in Pot

    (4)

    Growing Zones: 4 to 9

    Proven Winners

    Dolce® Apple Twist Coral Bells

    $29.99 - $42.99
  • Carousel Mountain Laurel Blooming
    Growing Zones: 5 to 8

    Carousel Mountain Laurel

    $63.49 - $84.49
  • Pristine Blue Beardtongue Blooming

    (1)

    Growing Zones: 5 to 9

    Pristine Blue Beardtongue

    $36.49
  • On Sale
    Winterthur Witherod Viburnum Shrub

    (1)

    Growing Zones: 5 to 8

    American Beauties Native Plants

    Winterthur Witherod Viburnum

    $81.59
  • True Native Plant
    Heartleaf Foamflower Blooms & Leaves
    Growing Zones: 3 to 8

    Heartleaf Foamflower

    $37.49
  • Dwarf Tufted Hair Grass Foliage Growing in the Sunlight
    Growing Zones: 2 to 8

    American Beauties Native Plants

    Dwarf Tufted Hair Grass

    $40.49
  • Rare Plant
    Blue Gold Blueberry Berries Close Up
    Growing Zones: 4 to 8

    Blue Gold Blueberry

    $78.99
  • True Native Plant
    Healthy Celandine Poppy Plant

    (1)

    Growing Zones: 4 to 8

    Celandine Poppy

    $39.49
  • Heavy Metal Blue Switch Grass in the Garden

    (1)

    Growing Zones: 4 to 8

    Heavy Metal Blue Switch Grass

    $38.49 - $63.49
  • True Native Plant
    Healthy Christmas Wintergreen
    Growing Zones: 3 to 7

    Christmas Wintergreen

    $47.49
  • True Native Plant
    Native Bowman's Root Flower Close Up
    Growing Zones: 4 to 8

    American Beauties Native Plants

    Native Bowman's Root

    $39.49
  • Girard's Crimson Azalea blooming leaves and flowers
    Growing Zones: 5 to 8

    Girard's Crimson Azalea

    $73.99
  • Soft Touch White Pine Bush

    (2)

    Growing Zones: 3 to 8

    Soft Touch White Pine

    $69.49 - $91.49
  • Blueray Blueberry in Garden Planter

    (1)

    Growing Zones: 4 to 8

    Blueray Blueberry

    $59.99 - $73.99
  • Prairie Blues Little Bluestem Grass Growing in the Sunlight

    (1)

    Growing Zones: 4 to 8

    Prairie Blues Little Bluestem Grass

    $39.49 - $53.99
  • True Native Plant
    Common Lady Fern Foliage Growing

    (2)

    Growing Zones: 4 to 8

    Common Lady Fern

    $40.49
  • Prairie Glow Brown-Eyed Susan Covered in Blooms
    Growing Zones: 3 to 10

    American Beauties Native Plants

    Prairie Glow Brown-Eyed Susan

    $49.99
  • True Native Plant
    Woodland Aster Flowers and Leaves

    (1)

    Growing Zones: 3 to 8

    American Beauties Native Plants

    Woodland Aster

    $38.49
  • Dolce Silver Gumdrop Coral Bells in Container

    (1)

    Growing Zones: 4 to 9

    Proven Winners

    Dolce® Silver Gumdrop Coral Bells

    $29.99 - $42.99
  • Healthy Chameleon Little Bluestem Grass

    (1)

    Growing Zones: 3 to 9

    Plants That Work

    Chameleon Little Bluestem Grass

    $39.49
  • Blueberry Delight Juniper Shrub
    Growing Zones: 3 to 7

    American Beauties Native Plants

    Blueberry Delight Juniper

    $64.49 - $83.99
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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.