Illinois Recommended
Commercially available native plant species suitable for planned landscapes in Illinois. Visit our Suppliers Directory to locate businesses that sell native plants or seeds or provide professional landscape or consulting services in this state. Visit the Organizations Directory to locate native plant societies, conservation groups, governmental agencies, botanical gardens, arboreta, and other plant-related organizations in this state.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
Oenothera biennis | Common Evening-primrose King's Cure-all Common Evening Primrose | |
Oenothera rhombipetala | Fourpoint Evening-primrose Four-point Evening Primrose Diamond Petal Primrose Greater Four-point Evening-primrose | |
Opuntia humifusa | Low Prickly Pear Smooth Prickly Pear Devil's Tongue | |
Opuntia macrorhiza | Bigroot Prickly Pear Twist-spine Prickly Pear Common Prickly Pear Plains Prickly Pear | |
Osmunda cinnamomea | Cinnamon Fern | |
Osmorhiza claytonii | Clayton's Sweetroot Hairy Sweet-cicely Sweet Jarvil | |
Osmunda claytoniana | Interrupted Fern | |
Ostrya virginiana | Eastern Hop-hornbeam American Hop-hornbeam Woolly Hop-hornbean Eastern Ironwood Roughbark Ironwood Ironwood Deerwood Leverwood | |
Parthenocissus quinquefolia | Virginia Creeper | |
Pascopyrum smithii | Western Wheatgrass | |
Panicum virgatum | Switchgrass Wand Panic Grass | |
Penstemon digitalis | Mississippi Penstemon Mississippi Beardtongue Smooth White Penstemon Smooth White Beardtongue Talus Slope Penstemon Talus Slope Beardtongue Foxglove Penstemon Foxglove Beardtongue | |
Peritoma serrulata | Rocky Mountain Bee-plant Stinking-clover Bee Spiderflower Navajo Spinach Pink Cleome Toothed Spiderflower Skunkweed | |
Phlox divaricata ssp. laphamii | Lapham's Phlox Blue Phlox Sweet William | |
Physocarpus opulifolius | Common Ninebark Atlantic Ninebark | |
Phlox pilosa | Downy Phlox Prairie Phlox Fragrant Phlox | |
Physostegia virginiana | Fall Obedient Plant False Dragonhead Virginia Lions-heart | |
Pinus strobus | Eastern White Pine Weymouth Pine | |
Platanus occidentalis | American Sycamore Eastern Sycamore American Plane Tree Plane Tree Buttonwood Buttonball Tree | |
Polystichum acrostichoides | Christmas Fern | |
Polygonatum biflorum | Smooth Solomon's Seal Great Solomon's-seal Sealwort | |
Populus deltoides | Eastern Cottonwood Carolina Poplar Necklace Poplar Alamo | |
Podophyllum peltatum | Mayapple Indian Apple Wild Mandrake Pomme De Mai Podophylle Pelt | |
Polemonium reptans | Greek Valerian Jacob's Ladder | |
Populus tremuloides | Quaking Aspen Golden Aspen Trembling Aspen Mountain Aspen Aspen Trembling Poplar Alamo Blanco | |
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