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Native Plants
Native Plants at Rutgers Nursery
| Category | Common Plant Name | Botanical Plant Name |
| Grass | Pennsylvania Sedge | Carex pensylvanica |
| Grass | Prairie Dropseed | Sporobolus heterolepis |
| Perennial | Actaea Bugbane | Actaea racemosa (Cimicifuga) |
| Perennial | Maidenhair Fern | Adiantum pedatum |
| Perennial | Anise Agastache | Agastache foeniculum |
| Perennial | Bluestar Amsonia | Amsonia hubrichtii |
| Perennial | Plantain-Leaf Pussytoes | Antennaria plantaginifolia |
| Perennial | Dutchman’s Pipe Vine | Aristolochia macrophylla |
| Perennial | Goat’s Beard | Aruncus dioicus |
| Perennial | Swamp Milkweed | Asclepias incarnata |
| Perennial | White Milkweed | Asclepias perennis |
| Perennial | Butterfly Weed | Asclepias tuberosa |
| Perennial | Lady Fern | Athyrium felix-femina |
| Perennial | False Indigo | Baptisia australis |
| Perennial | White Largeleaf Baptisia | Baptisia leucantha |
| Perennial | False Chamomile | Boltonia asteroides |
| Perennial | Winecups | Callirhoe involucrata |
| Perennial | White Turtlehead | Chelone glabra |
| Perennial | Pink Turtlehead | Chelone lyonii |
| Perennial | Tall Coreopsis | Coreopsis tripteris |
| Perennial | Eastern Wood Fern | Dryopteris marginalis |
| Perennial | Pale Echinacea | Echinacea pallida |
| Perennial | Purple Coneflower Echinacea | Echinacea purpurea |
| Perennial | Blue Rattlesnake Master | Eryngium yuccifolium |
| Perennial | Hyssopleaf Boneset | Eupatorium hyssopifolium |
| Perennial | Large Leaf Aster | Eurybia macrophylla |
| Perennial | Eastern Showy Aster | Eurybia spectabilis |
| Perennial | Spotted Geranium | Geranium maculatum |
| Perennial | Bowman’s Root | Gillenia trifoliata |
| Perennial | Hardy Hibiscus | Hibiscus moscheutos |
| Perennial | Crested Iris | Iris cristata |
| Perennial | Blue Flag Iris | Iris versicolor |
| Perennial | Appalachian Blazing Star | Liatris microcephala |
| Perennial | Blazing Star | Liatris spicata |
| Perennial | Cardinal Flower Lobelia | Lobelia cardinalis |
| Perennial | Great Blue Lobelia | Lobelia siphilitica |
| Perennial | Ostrich Fern | Matteuccia struthiopteris |
| Perennial | Virginia Bluebells | Mertensia virginica |
| Perennial | Spotted Bee Balm | Monarda punctata |
| Perennial | Narrow-leaf Sundrops | Oenothera fruticosa |
| Perennial | Pachysandra Native | Pachysandra procumbens |
| Perennial | Beard Tongue | Penstemon digitalis |
| Perennial | Obedient Plant | Physostegia virginiana |
| Perennial | Christmas Fern | Polystichum acrostichoides |
| Perennial | Clustered Mountain Mint | Pycnanthemum muticum |
| Perennial | Cutleaf Rudbeckia | Rudbeckia laciniata |
| Perennial | Sweet Goldenrod | Solidago odora |
| Perennial | New England Aster | Symphyotrichum novae-angliae |
| Perennial | New York Aster | Symphyotrichum novi-belgii |
| Perennial | Tiarella Foamflower | Tiarella cordifolia |
| Perennial | Ohio Spiderwort | Tradescantia ohiensis |
| Perennial | Merry Bells Bellwort | Uvularia grandiflora |
| Perennial | Verbena Blue Vervain | Verbena hastata |
| Perennial | New York Ironweed | Vernonia noveboracensis |
| Perennial | Culver’s Root | Veronicastrum virginicum |
| Perennial | Golden Alexander | Zizia aurea |
| Shrub | Bottlebrush Buckeye | Aesculus parviflora |
| Shrub | Red Aronia | Aronia arbutifolia |
| Shrub | Black Aronia | Aronia melanocarpa |
| Shrub | Carolina Allspice | Calycanthus floridus |
| Shrub | Comptonia Sweet Fern | Comptonia peregrina |
| Shrub | Silky Dogwood | Cornus amomum |
| Shrub | Gray Dogwood | Cornus racemosa |
| Shrub | Eastern Red Cedar | Juniperus virginiana |
| Shrub | Coast Leucothoe | Leucothoe axillaris |
| Shrub | Northern Spicebush | Lindera benzoin |
| Shrub | Northern Bayberry | Morella pensylvanica |
| Shrub | Arrowwood Viburnum | Viburnum dentatum |
| Shrub | Nannyberry Viburnum | Viburnum lentago |
| Tree | Ohio Buckeye | Aesculus glabra |
| Tree | Paw Paw | Asimina triloba |
| Tree | Shagbark Hickory | Carya ovata |
| Tree | Northern Catalpa | Catalpa speciosa |
| Tree | Common Hackberry | Celtis occidentalis |
| Tree | Eastern Redbud | Cercis canadensis |
| Tree | American Beech | Fagus grandifolia |
| Tree | Kentucky Coffee Tree | Gymnocladus dioicus |
| Tree | Black Walnut | Juglans nigra |
| Tree | Tulip Tree | Liriodendron tulipifera |
| Tree | Sweetbay Magnolia | Magnolia virginiana |
| Tree | Black Gum | Nyssa sylvatica |
| Tree | Hophornbeam | Ostrya virginiana |
| Tree | Sycamore | Platanus occidentalis |
| Tree | White Oak | Quercus alba |
| Tree | Swamp White Oak | Quercus bicolor |
| Tree | Scarlet Oak | Quercus coccinea |
| Tree | Northern Pin Oak | Quercus ellipsoidalis |
| Tree | Bur Oak | Quercus macrocarpa |
| Tree | Chinkapin Oak | Quercus muehlenbergii |
| Tree | Pin Oak | Quercus palustris |
| Tree | Northern Red Oak | Quercus rubra |
| Tree | Rosebay Rhododendron | Rhododendron maximum |
| Tree | Bald Cypress | Taxodium distichum |
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