Native Plants for Maine

TREES

Balsam fir • Red maple (Swamp maple) • Sugar maple • Rock maple • Mountain maple • Yellow birch • Paper birch • Gray birch • American hornbeam • Blue-beech • Pagoda dogwood • Cockspur thorn • White ash • Green ash • Larch • Hackmatack • Tamarack • Black gum • American hophornbeam • White spruce • Cat spruce • Black spruce • Jack pine • Red pine • Norway pine • White pine • Bigtooth aspen • Quaking aspen • Trembling aspen • Pin cherry (fire cherry, bird cherry) • Black cherry • White oak • Northern red oak • Black willow • American mountainash • Northern white cedar • Arborvitae • Basswood • American linden • Eastern hemlock

SHRUBS                                                              

Downy serviceberry • Eastern serviceberry • Smooth serviceberry • Allegheny serviceberry • Bog rosemary • Buttonbush • Sweetfern • Gray dogwood • Red osier dogwood • American hazelnut • Bush-honeysuckle • Leatherwood • Common witchhazel • Winterberry • Black-alder • Common juniper • Sheep laurel • Lambkill • Sweetgale • Northern bayberry • Bush cinquefoil • Black chokeberry • Beach plum • Chokecherry • Rhodora • Labrador tea • Staghorn sumac • Meadow rose • Pasture rose • Virginia rose • Pussy willow • American elder • Scarlet elder • Canadian yew • Highbush blueberry • Mapleleaf viburnum • Hobblebush • Arrowwood viburnum • Nannyberry • Witherod • Wild-raisin • Highbush cranberry 

VINES AND GROUND COVERS                         

Running serviceberry • Bearberry • American bittersweet • Virgin’s bower • Bunchberry • Checkerberry • Wintergreen • Creeping juniper • Partridgeberry • Woodbine • Virginia creeper • Lowbush blueberry • Cranberry • Fox grape   

FLOWERING PERENNIALS

White baneberry • Red baneberry • Columbine • Spikenard • Silverweed • Jack-in-the-pulpit • Milkweed • Marsh marigold • Harebell • Blue cohosh • White turtlehead • Bluebead-lily • Trout-lily • Dog’s-tooth-violet • Joe-pye weed • Boneset • Blue flag • Indian cucumber-root • Obedient plant • Solomon’s seal • Bloodroot • New England aster • New York aster • Foam flower • Wild-oats • Violet • Viola species   

FERNS           

Maidenhair fern • Lady fern • Hay-scented fern • Spinulose wood fern • Marginal wood fern • Ostrich fern • Sensitive fern • Cinnamon fern • Interrupted fern • Royal fern • Long beech fern • Christmas fern