Native Plant Recommendations per University of Maine, extension, pub # 2500
Trees
Balsam Fir
Red Maple, Swamp Maple
Sugar Maple, Rock Maple
Mountain Maple
Yellow Birch
Paper Birch
Gray Birch
American Hornbean, Bluebeech
Pagoda Dogwood
Cockspur Thorn
White Ash
Green Ash
Larch, Hackmatack, Tamarack
Black Gum
American Hophornbeam
White Spruce, Cat Spruce
Black Spruce
Jack Pine
Red Pine, Norway Pine
White Pine
Bigtooth Aspen
Quaking Aspen, Trembing Aspen
Pin Cherry, Fire Cherry, Bird Cherry
Black Cherry
White Oak
Northern Red Oak
Black Willow
American Mountainash
Northern White-Cedar, Abrovitae
Basswood, American Linden
Eastern Hemlock
Vines & Ground Covers
Running Serviceberry
Bearberry
American Bittersweet
Virgin's Bower
Bunchberry
Checkerberry, Wintergreen
Creeping Juniper
Partridgeberry
Woodbine, Virginia Creeper
Lowbush blueberry
Cranberry
Fox grape
Perennials : Flower Plants
White Baneberry, Red Baneberry
Columbine
Spikenard
Jack-in-the-pulpit
Milkweed
Marsh Marigold
Harebell
Blue Cohosh
White Turtlehead
Bluebead Lily
Trout Lily, Dog's Tooth Violet
Joe-Pye Weed
Boneset
Blue Flag
Indian Cucumber Root
Obedient Plant
Solomon's Sea
Bloodroot
New York Aster
Foam Flower
Wild Oats
Violet
Wildflowers of Maine has its Own Page!
Shrubs
Downy Serviceberry
Eastern Serviceberry
Smooth Serviceberry, Allegheny Serviceberry
Bog Rosemary
Buttonbush
Sweetfern
Gray Dogwood
Redosier Dogwood
American Hazelnut
Bush Honeysuckle
Leatherwood
Common Witchhazel
Winterberry, Black Alder
Common Juniper
Sheep, Laurel, Lambkill
Sweetgale
Northern Bayberry
Bush Cinquefoil
Black Chokeberry
Beach Plum
Chokecherry
Rhodora
Labrador Tea
Staghorn Sumac
Meadow Rose
Pasture Rose
Virginia Rose
Pussy Willow
American Elder
Scarlet Elder
Canadian Yew
Highbush blueberry
Mapleleaf Viburnum
Hobblebush
Arrowwood Viburnum
Nannyberry
Wither, Wild Raisin
Highbush cranberry
Perennials: Ferns
Maidenhair Fern
Lady Fern
Hay Scented Fern
Spinulose Wood Fern
Marginal Wood Fern
Ostrich Fern
Sensitive Fern
Cinnamon Fern
Interrupted Fern
Royal Fern
Long Beech Fern
Christmas Fern
Non-Native Plants Considered Most Invasive In Maine include:
puple loosestrife (lythrum salicaria)
Japanese Barberry ( berberis thungerii)
Oriental Bittersweet ( celastrus orbiculatus)
Japanese Knotweed ( fallopia japonica)
Smooth and Common Buckthorn (frangula alnus and rhamnus cathartica)
non-native Honeysuckles (lonicera spp.)
garlic mustard (alliaria petiolata)
multiflora rose (rose multiflora)
small flowered tickle grass (deschampsia cespitosa ssp. parviflora)
common reed (phragmites australis)
What is Native? Is is here without human intervention.
Non-native wouldn't be here if it weren't for us foreigners!