Native Garden Plant Species
This list of 64 native plants found in the East Side Native Plant Garden was compiled by Christian Alcaide and Ryan Griffin. The species that were put there in the spring and fall of 2024 along with other individual plants added over time are shown using green text.
Many of the added plants were donated by Tracey Schiess. The other native species were present or have emerged after the area was cleared of introduced species prior to planting.
Click on a plant species name to see an image and information on the Wikipedia page for it.
You can test your Native Garden plant species ID knowledge here.
| 1. | American Jumpseed |
| 2. | Anise Hyssop |
| 3. | Awlfruit Sedge |
| 4. | Black Chokeberry |
| 5. | Black Raspberry |
| 6. | Blackhaw Viburnum |
| 7. | Blue Lobelia |
| 8. | Blue Mistflower |
| 9. | Blue Mountain Mint |
| 10. | Blue Vervain |
| 11. | Brown-eyed Susan |
| 12. | Canada Goldenrod |
| 13. | Cardinal Flower |
| 14. | Common Blue Violet |
| 15. | Common Milkweed |
| 16. | Cutleaf Coneflower |
| 17. | Eastern Nightshade |
| 18. | Evening Primrose |
| 19. | Foxglove Beardtongue |
| 20. | Groundsel Tree |
| 21. | Hairy Sedge |
| 22. | Hollow Joe Pye Weed |
| 23. | Horsetail |
| 24. | Jack in the Pulpit |
| 25. | Jewelweed |
| 26. | Lizard's Tail |
| 27. | Lowbush Blueberry |
| 28. | Meadow Rue |
| 29. | Narrow Leaf Mountain Mint |
| 30. | New York Aster |
| 31. | New York Ironweed |
| 32. | Obedient Plant |
| 33. | Panicled Aster |
| 34. | Philadelphia Fleabane |
| 35. | Purple Coneflower |
| 36. | Purple Joe Pye Weed |
| 37. | Purplestem Angelica |
| 38. | Purplestem Beggarticks |
| 39. | Red Twig Dogwood |
| 40. | Running Five Fingers |
| 41. | Sensitive Fern |
| 42. | Slender Path Rush |
| 43. | Soft Rush |
| 44. | Spicebush |
| 45. | Spotted St. John's Wort |
| 46. | Stout Woodreed |
| 47. | Strawberry |
| 48. | Swamp Agrimonia |
| 49. | Swamp Buttercup |
| 50. | Swamp Dogwood |
| 51. | Swamp Milkweed |
| 52. | Swamp Rose Mallow |
| 53. | Swamp Sunflower |
| 54. | Swan’s Sedge |
| 55. | Turtle Head |
| 56. | Virgin's Bower |
| 57. | Virginia Bluebell |
| 58. | Virginia Creeper |
| 59. | Virginia Stickseed |
| 60. | White Avens |
| 61. | White Snakeroot |
| 62. | White Wood Aster |
| 63. | Winterberry |
| 64. | Yellow Trout Lily |