Native Plant Directory
Listed below are links to information about native shoreline plants. This is not a complete listing. For more information, please visit the Wildflower Association of Michigan or the Michigan Natural Shoreline Partnership‘s native plant list.
Common Name (Scientific Name):
Flowers
Blackeyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta)
Culver’s root (Veronicastrum virginicum)
Great blue lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica)
Lanceleaf tickseed (Coreopsis lanceolata)
New England aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae)
Red columbine ( Aquilegia canadensis)
Roundleaf ragwort (Packera obovata)
Sky blue aster (Symphyotrichum oolentangiense)
Spotted Joe Pye weed (Eupatoriadelphus maculatus var bruneri)
Swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata)
Wild bergamot (Monarda fistulosa)
Wild quinine (Parthenium auriculatum)
Grasses and sedges
Big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii)
Eastern bottlebrush grass (Elymus hystrix)
Little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium)
Sideoats grama (Bouteloua curtipendula)
Shrubs
Common elderberry (Sambucus nigra)
Gray dogwood (Cornus racemosa)
New Jersey tea (Ceanothus americanus)
Purpleosier (Streamco) willow (Salix purpurea)
Redosier dogwood (Cornus sericea)
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