Promoting the Use of Native Plant Species in the Home Landscape

Perennials

A perennial plant is a plant that lives for more than two years. Many perennials grow and bloom over spring and summer, die back during fall and winter, and grow again the following year from their roots. This is not the case with all perennials. Some have adapted to survive the fall and winter months without dying back to their roots.

Maidenhair Fern

Non Flowering

Ebony Speenwort

Non Flowering

Sky Blue Aster

Rays of pale blue petals with a yellow center. Once pollinated the center turns reddish as a signal to insects to look for pollen elsewhere.

New Jersey Tea

Dense white rounded clusters 1"-3"

Bulblet Fern

Non Flowering

Crested Shield Fern

Non Flowering

Robust Male Fern

Non Flowering

Goldie’s Fern

Non Flowering

Marginal Wood Fern

Non Flowering

Northern Blazing Star

5-60 pink-purplish flowers on lance shaped stem

Dense Blazing Star

Round pink/purple densely packed flowers in a spike cluster.

Great Blue Lobelia

Lavender -blue tubular flowers crowded on upper stem

Ostrich Fern

Non Flowering

Bergamot

Round cluster of purple-lavender tubular flowers

Horsemint or Dotted Mint

Whorls of tubular yellow flowers between layers of purple spotted bracts.

Sensitive Fern

Non Flowering

Cinnamon Fern

Non Flowering

Interrupted Fern

Non Flowering

Royal Fern

Non Flowering

Foxglove Beardtongue

Long stalked ascending clusters arising from leaf axils in upper plant with flowers branching at tip of each cluster. White tubular flowers.

Hairy Beardtongue

Long thin lavender trumpet shaped blooms, five petals with hairy lower lip.

Christmas Fern

Non Flowering

Sweet Black Eyed Susan

8-25 flower heads with 10-16 yellow petals and brown dome shaped center disk.

Riddell’s Golden Rod

Flower clusters rounded and flat topped. Yellow flower with 7-9 petals.

Blue Vervain

Multiple slender spikes densely packed at top. Flowers are blue/violet with 5 petals fused at base forming a short tube.