Ohio Native Perennials, Trees, and Shrubs (Zone 6b)
Ohio has a great diverse selection of native perennials, trees, and shrubs. It’s crucial to put native plants in your garden because they are adapted to support your regional ecosystem, soil health, and native insects.
Here is a list of some of the native perennials, shrubs, and trees that we carry:
- Coneflower – Echinacea purpurea
- Milkweed – Asclepias tuberosa
- Black-eyed Susan – Rudbeckia hirta
- Bee balm – Monarda didyma
- Cardinal Flower – lobelia cardinalis
- Virginial bluebells, Mertensia virginica
- Phlox
- Iris
- Blue eyed grass
- Penstemon
- Clematis
- Heuchera coral bells
- Catch fly
- Goats beard
- Azalea
- Rhododendron spp.
- Bottlebrush buckeye, Aesculus parviflora
- Brambles (blackberry, raspberry, dewberry and many more), Rubus spp.
- Buttonbush, Cephalanthus occidentalis
- Chokeberry, Aronia spp
- Dogwood (shrub dogwoods), Cornus spp.
- Elderberry, Sambucus spp.
- Ninebark, Physocarpus opulifolius
- Spicebush, Lindera benzoin
- Sumac, Rhus spp.
- Viburnum, Viburnum spp.
- Ohio Buckeye, aesculus glabra
- Tulip tree, liriodendron tulipfera
- White oak, quercus alba
- Sugar maple, acer saccharum
- Pawpaw, asimina triloba
- Eastern redbud, cercis canadensis
- Flowering dogwood, cornus florida
- Eastern red cedar, juniperus virginiana
- Serviceberry, Amelanchier spp.
