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Fall Native Plants for Richmond, VA
Introduction
Native plants add beauty and life to any garden or yard. Whether you want shrubs, ferns, grasses, vines, or trees, choosing the right ones is key. This easy guide lists popular plants alphabetically and groups similar types to help you find what works best for you.
Native Ferns
C
- Chain Ferns
- Netted Chain Fern
- Virginia Chain Fern
- Christmas Fern
- Cinnamon Fern
E
- Ebony Spleenwort
H
-
Hay-scented Fern
M
-
Marsh Fern
N
- New York Fern
- Northern Maidenhair Fern
R
-
Royal Fern
S
- Sensitive Fern
- Southern Bracken Fern
- Southern Lady Fern
W
- Wood Ferns
- Crested Wood Fern
- Evergreen Wood Fern
- Marginal Wood Fern
Native Grasses
B
- Bluestems, Broomsedge
- Bushy Bluestem
- Splitbeard Bluestem
- Blunt Broom Sedge
- Bottlebrush or Bristly Sedge
- Broomsedge, Broomstraw
C
- Canadian Rush
- Common Rush, Soft Rush
- Creeping Sedge
- Curly Dan, Poverty Oatgrass
D
- Deer-tongue Grass
E
- Eastern Gammagrass
- Eastern Woodland Sedge
F
- Fowl Mannagrass
G
- Giant Plumegrass
H
- Hair-awn Muhly, Pink Muhlygrass
- Hop Sedge
I
- Indian Grass
L
- Little Bluestem
- Long-fringed Sedge
P
- Pennsylvania Sedge
- Purple Love Grass, Tumblegrass
- Purpletop, Tall Redtop
R
- River Oats
- Rushes
- Canadian Rush
- Common Rush, Soft Rush
S
- Sedges
- Eastern Woodland Sedge
- Bottlebrush or Bristly Sedge
- Long-fringed Sedge
- Creeping Sedge
- Hop Sedge
- Pennsylvania Sedge
- Tussock or Upright Sedge
- Blunt Broom Sedge
- Soft-stem Bulrush
- Splitbeard Bluestem
- Switchgrass
T
- Tussock or Upright Sedge
W
- Woolgrass
Native Perennials
A
- Alleghany Stonecrop
- American Alumroot
- American Bellflower (Tall Bellflower)
- Appalachian Bugbane
- Arrow-arum (Tuckahoe)
- Asters
- Eastern Silvery Aster
- Heart-leaved Aster (Blue Wood Aster)
- Large-flowered Aster
- New England Aster
- New York Aster
B
- Beebalms
- Wild Bergamot
- Horsemint (Spotted Beebalm)
- Bloodroot
- Blue Vervain
- Boneset
- Broad-leaved Arrowhead (Duck Potato)
C
- Cardinal Flower
- Carolina Elephantsfoot
- Carolina Geranium
- Carolina Wild-petunia
- Common Bluets
- Common Jack-in-the-pulpit
- Common Partridge-pea
- Common Wild Ginger
- Common Wild Quinine
- Common Yarrow
- Coneflowers
- Orange Coneflower
- Black-eyed Susan
- Cut-leaf Sunflower (Green-headed Coneflower)
- Purple Coneflower
- Coreopsises
- Lobed Coreopsis
- Whorled or Threadleaf Coreopsis
F
- Flowering Spurge
- Foamflower
G
- Garden Phlox
- Golden-alexanders (Common Golden-alexanders)
- Goldenrods
- Blue-stemmed Goldenrod
- Wreath Goldenrod
- Gray Goldenrod
- Sweet Goldenrod
- Rough-stemmed or Wrinkleleaf Goldenrod
- Grass-leaved Goldenrod
- Early Goldenrod
- Small’s Goldenrod (Pineywoods Goldenrod)
- Downy Goldenrod
- Rough-stemmed Goldenrod (Wrinkle-leaf Goldenrod)
- Green and Gold
- Grass-leaf or Gayfeather Blazing Star
H
- Hairy Alumroot
- Hyssop Scullcap
- Hyssopleaf Thoroughwort
I
- Irises
- Dwarf Crested Iris
- Slender Blue Flag
- Coastal Plain Dwarf Violet Iris
- Virginia Blue Flag
J
- Jewelweed (Orange or Spotted Jewelweed)
- Joe-pye-weeds
- Three-nerved Joe-pye-weed
- Hollow Joe-pye-weed
- Sweet-scented or Purple Joe-pye-weed
L
- Lizard’s Tail (Water-dragon)
- Lyre-leaf Sage
M
- Maryland Golden-aster
- Maryland or Southern Wild Senna
- Mayapple
- Meadow Beauties
- Maryland or Pale Meadow Beauty
- Virginia Meadow Beauty
- Milkweeds
- Swamp Milkweed
- Common Milkweed
- Butterfly-weed
- White Milkweed
- Mistflower
- Mountain Mints
- Hoary Mountain-mint
- Narrow-leaf Mountain-mint
- Clustered Mountain-mint
N
- Narrow-leaved Blue-eyed Grass
- New York Ironweed
- Northern Horse Balm
O
-
Oxeye (Smooth Oxeye)
P
- Patridge-berry
- Plantain-leaf Pussytoes
- Purple False Foxglove
R
- Ragworts
- Small’s Ragwort
- Golden or Heartleaf Ragwort
- Rattlesnake Master
- Round-lobed Hepatica (Liverleaf)
S
- Skunk Cabbage
- Smooth Beard-tongue
- Solomon’s-seal
- Spikenard (American Spikenard)
- Spring Beauty (Virginia Spring Beauty)
- St. John’s-wort
- Dwarf St. John’s-wort
- Shrubby St. John’s-wort
- Spotted St. John’s-wort
- Striped Wintergreen
- Sundial Lupine
- Sundrops
- Common Evening-primrose
- Narrow-leaf Sundrops (Southern Sundrops)
- Sunflowers
- Narrow-leaved Sunflower
- Thin-leaved Sunflower
- Woodland Sunflower
- Swamp Sunflower
- Sneezeweed
- Common Sneezeweed
- Southern Sneezeweed
T
- Toothed White-top Aster
- Turk’s-cap Lily
V
- Virginia Heartleaf
- Virginia Spiderwort
- Violets
- Sand Violet (LeConte’s Violet)
- Marsh Blue Violet
- Bird’s-foot Violet
- Primrose-leaved Violet
- Downy Yellow Violet
- Arrow-leaved Violet
- Common Blue Violet
- Striped Violet (Cream Violet)
W
- White Turtlehead (Pink Turtlehead)
- White Wood Aster
- Wild Bleeding Heart
- Wild Blue Phlox (Woodland Phlox)
- Wild Geranium
- Wild or Eastern Red Columbine
- Wild Pink (Northern Wild Pink)
- Wild Strawberry
Y
-
Yellow Wild Indigo
Native Shrubs
A
- American Beauty-berry
- American Hazelnut
- Arrow-wood
B
- Black Raspberry
- Blueberry, Deerberry
- Buttonbush, Button Willow
C
-
Common Elderberry
D
- Deciduous Holly, Possum-haw
- Deerberry
E
-
Early Lowbush Blueberry
H
-
High-tide Bush, Groundsel Tree
M
- Maple-leaf Viburnum
- Mountain Laurel
N
- New Jersey Tea
- Northern Bayberry
- Northern Spicebush, Spicebush
P
-
Possum-haw
R
-
Red Chokeberry
S
- Silky Dogwood
- Smooth or Hazel Alder
- Strawberry-bush, Heart’s-a-bustin’
- Sumacs
- Winged or Shining Sumac
- Smooth Sumac
- Sweet Pepperbush
- Sweetshrub, Carolina Allspice
V
- Virginia Sweetspire
- Viburnum
- Black Haw
- Arrow-wood
- Possum-haw
- Maple-leaf Viburnum
W
- Wax Myrtle
- Wild Azalea, Pinxter Azalea
- Wild Hydrangea
- Winterberry
- Witch Hazel
Native Trees
A
- Allegheny Chinquapin
- American Beech
- American Holly
- American Hornbeam, Ironwood
B
- Black Walnut
C
- Cherries
- Black Cherry
- Chickasaw Plum
- Common Hackberry
- Common Persimmon
- Common Silverbell
E
- Eastern Boxelder
- Eastern Cottonwood
- Eastern Redbud
- Eastern Redcedar
F
- Flowering Dogwood
- Fringetree, Old Man’s Beard
M
- Mockernut Hickory
N
- Northern Hackberry
O
- Oaks
- Blackjack Oak
- Black Oak
- Chestnut Oak
- Northern Red Oak
- Pin Oak
- Post Oak
- Scarlet Oak
- Southern Red Oak, Spanish Oak
- Swamp Chestnut Oak
- Water Oak
- Willow Oak
P
- Pawpaw, Common Pawpaw
- Pines
- Shortleaf Pine
- Loblolly Pine
- Virginia Pine
R
- Red Maple
- Red Mulberry
- River Birch
S
- Sassafras
- Serviceberries
- Canadian Serviceberry, Juneberry
- Downy Serviceberry
- Sourwood, Sorrel Tree
- Sweetbay, Sweetbay Magnolia
- Sycamore, American Sycamore
T
- Tulip-tree, Tulip-poplar
Native Vines
A
- American Wisteria, Atlantic Wisteria
C
- Cross-vine
G
- Groundnut
P
- Passion vine
- Purple Passion-flower, Maypop
- Yellow Passion-flower
T
- Trumpet-creeper
- Trumpet or Coral Honeysuckle
V
- Virginia-creeper
- Virgin’s-bower
Y
- Yellow or Carolina Jessamine
Conclusion
Using native plants helps your garden thrive and supports local wildlife. With this list, you can pick plants that are strong, beautiful, and perfect for your space—no matter your gardening experience.
If you have any questions that weren’t answered or need more information, feel free to stop by and see us at either the Broad St. or Mechanicsville location. You can also give us a call or drop us an email at info@stranges.com. We’re here to help you grow better!
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