Purple Coneflower
Echinacea purpurea
The garden workhorse — months of nectar for bees and butterflies, then seed heads goldfinches strip all winter.
- Full–part sun
- Dry–average
- 2–4 ft
- Blooms Jun–Sep
A field guide to native plants
The native plants made for where you live.
Find the native plants that belong in your yard — sorted by your state, your sun and soil, and the pollinators, birds, and butterflies you want to bring home. Real species, real growing conditions, no guesswork.
49STATES COVERED
93NATIVE SPECIES
18CURATED COLLECTIONS
How it works
From bare ground to buzzing in three steps.
Native plants ask less of you and give more back — less water, no fertilizer, and a yard full of bees, butterflies, and birds. The hard part is just knowing what belongs. That part we’ve done.
Start with your state
Pick where you garden. Every plant we show you is genuinely native to your region and hardy in your zone.
Filter by what you want
Pollinators, shade, clay soil, deer resistance — pick the collection that fits your yard.
Plant with confidence
Real species, real growing conditions, and honest places to buy them. No guesswork, no invasives.
Browse by goal
What do you want your garden to do?
Every collection is filtered to your state when you open it — so a pollinator garden in Vermont and one in Arizona share the goal, not the plant list.
Pollinators
Native plants that turn a yard into a season-long buff…
For bees
The native flowers that feed honey bees, bumblebees, a…
Butterflies
Nectar and host plants that bring butterflies to your …
Hummingbirds
Tubular, nectar-heavy native flowers that draw humming…
For birds
Seed, berry, and cover plants that feed songbirds year…
Deer-resistant
Native plants deer tend to walk past…
Full sun
Sun-loving native wildflowers, grasses, and shrubs for…
For shade
Woodland wildflowers, ferns, and groundcovers that thr…
A few favourites
Plants worth knowing.
A taste of the guide — keystone species that pull their weight in almost any garden across their range.
Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
Ragged lavender crowns that hum with bees, hummingbirds, and clearwing moths; foliage smells of oregano.
- Full–part sun
- Dry–average
- 2–4 ft
- Blooms Jun–Aug
Little Bluestem
Schizachyrium scoparium
The backbone grass of the prairie — blue-green in summer, glowing copper and silver all winter.
- Full sun
- Dry–average
- 2–4 ft
- Fall color
Cardinal Flower
Lobelia cardinalis
The most intense red in the native flora, built for the hummingbirds that pollinate it.
- Full–part sun
- Average–wet
- 2–4 ft
- Blooms Jul–Sep
California Poppy
Eschscholzia californica
The silken orange state flower of California, painting dry hillsides every spring.
- Full sun
- Dry
- 8–18 in
- Blooms Mar–Jun
Butterfly Weed
Asclepias tuberosa
A monarch host plant and the brightest orange in the native palette, thriving in lean, dry soil.
- Full sun
- Dry
- 1.5–2.5 ft
- Blooms Jun–Aug
Serviceberry
Amelanchier canadensis
A small four-season tree: white spring flowers, June berries for the birds, and fiery fall color.
- Full–part sun
- Average–wet
- 15–25 ft
- Blooms Apr–May
Blanketflower
Gaillardia aristata
Fiery red-and-gold wheels that bloom nonstop all summer on hot, dry, sandy ground.
- Full sun
- Dry
- 1–2.5 ft
- Blooms Jun–Sep