Landscaping with Natives

Are you ready to plant some natives?  Maybe you want to replace your Crepe Myrtle or boxwoods, add a good looking specimen to your yard or cover an ugly bare hill to control erosion. It can be difficult to chose what plants to use if you aren’t familiar with them.  Help is here. Photos of natives that have been planted in this area are shown.  It shows how they have been used by Forsyth Audubon in its plantings and by some of your fellow members at their homes.  Photos show the plants at various stages and seasons, including in bloom, and closeups of the flowers and fruit. Thanks to Jean Chamberlain, Lisa Gould, Don Lendle, and Cara Woods for contributing photos.

Photo by Cara Woods

Small trees

Downy Serviceberry Amelanchier arborea

Serviceberry Amelanchier canadensis

Pawpaw Asimina triloba

Eastern Redbud Cercis canadensis

White Fringetree Chionanthus virginicus

American Hazelnut Corylus americana

Flowering Dogwood Cornus florida

Witch Hazel Hamamelis virginiana

American Holly Ilex opaca

Magnolia Magnolia virginiana/Magnolia grandiflora

Sourwood Oxydendrum arboreum

Coming soon:

Silky Dogwood Cornus amomum

Shrubs

Bottlebush Buckeye Aesculus parviflora

Red Buckeye Aesculus pavia

Red Chokeberry Aronia arbutifolia

American Beautyberry Callicarpa americana

Sweetshrub/Carolina Allspice Calycanthus floridus

New Jersey Tea Ceanothus americanus

Sweetpepper Bush/Summersweet Clethra alnifolia

Bush Honeysuckle Diervilla rivularis

Strawberry Bush/Hearts -a-bustin Euonymus americanus

Witch Alder Fothergilla major

Oakleaf Hydrangea Hydrangea quercifolia

Shrubby St. John’s-wort and Bushy St John’s-wort Hypericum prolificum/densiflorum/frondosum

Deciduous Holly Ilex decidua

Inkberry Ilex glabra

Winterberry Holly Ilex verticillata

Virginia Sweetspire Itea virginica

Yaupon Holly Ilex vomitoria

Dwarf Yaupon Holly Ilex vomitoria

Doghobble Leucothoe fontanesiana

Spicebush Lindera benzoin

Ninebark Physocarpus opulifolius

Flame Azalea Rhododendron calendulaceum

Pinxter Azalea Rhododendron periclymenoides

Smooth Sumac Rhus glabra

Staghorn Sumac Rhus typhina

Elderberry Sambucus canadensis

American Arborvitae Thuja occidentalis

Highbush/Rabbiteye Blueberry Vaccinium corymbosum/ashei

Mapleleaf Viburnum Viburnum acerifolium

Arrowwood Viburnum Viburnum dentatum

Possumhaw Viburnum Viburnum nudum

Blackhaw Viburnum Viburnum prunifolium

Coming soon:

Buttonbush Cephalanthus occidentalis,
Hydrangea – Abetwo Hydrangea aborescens, American Holly Ilex opaca,
Mountain Laurel Kalmia latifolia, Rhododendron Rhododendron catawbiense,
Fragrant Sumac Rhus aromatica

Vines

Yellow/Carolina Jessamine Gelsemium sempervirens

Coral/Trumpet Honeysuckle Lonicera sempervirens

Virginia Creeper Parthenocissus quinquefolia

Coming soon: American Groundnut Apios americana

Ground Covers

Green-and-gold Chrysogonum virginianum

Woodland phlox Phlox stolonifera

Creeping Moss Phlox Phlox subulata

Partridge-berry/Checkerberry Mitchella repens

Grasses/Sedges

Fringed leaf sedge Carex crinita

Pennsylvania Sedge Carex pensylvanica

River oats Chasmanthium latifolium

Switchgrass Panicum virgatum

Little Bluestem Schizachyrium scoparium

Wildflowers, Ferns and other Herbaceous Plants

Anise Hyssop Agastache foeniculum

Bluestar Amsonia tabernaemontana

Columbine Aquilegia canadensis

Jack-in-the-pulpit Arisaema triphyllum

Wild Ginger Asarum canadense

Butterfly-weed Asclepias tuberosa

Milkweed Asclepias syriac, Asclepias purpurascens

Wood Aster Aster divaricatus, Symphyotrichum cordifolium

Turtlehead Chelone glabra

Blue Mist Flower Conoclinium coelestinum

Marginal Wood-fern Dryopteris marginalis

Cheyenne Spirit Coneflower Echinacea

Purple Coneflower Echinacea purpurea

Joe Pye Weed Eutrochium purpureum

Wild Geranium Geranium maculatum

Carolina Silverbells Halesia carolina

American Alumroot Heuchera americana

Hairy Alumroot Heuchera villosa

Blazing Star Liatris spicata

Cardinal Flower Lobelia cardinalis

Ostrich Fern Matteuccia struthiopteris

Virginia B;uebells Mertensia virginica

Allegheny Monkey Flower Mimulus ringens

Bee Balm Monarda didyma

Allegheny Spurge Pachysandra procumbrens

Golden Groundsel Packera aurora

Carolina Phlox Phlox carolina

Wild Blue Phlox Phlox divaricata

Garden Phlox Phlox paniculata

Mayapple Podophyllum peltatum

Jacob’s Ladder Polemonium reptans

Running five Fingers Potentilla canadensis

Mountain Mint Pycnanthemum

Pinxterbloom Azalea Rhododendron periclymenoides

Black-eyed Susan Rudbeckia hirta

Cut leaf Coneflower Rudbeckia laciniata

Bloodroot Sanguinaria canadensis

Goldenrod Solidago

Indian Pink Spigelia marilandica

Stoke’s Asters Stokesia laevis

Aromatic Aster Symphyotrichum oblongifolium

Foamflower Tiarella cordifolia

Trillium Trillium sessile

Ironweed Vernonia fasciculata