Search North American native plants

Bedfellow helps you plan a native garden that blooms all season. Filter 1782 North American native plants by region and state, light, soil moisture and type, soil pH, bloom time, height, and wildlife value — then save favorites, build companion-planting beds, and check bloom coverage month by month.

Find native plants for pollinators, butterflies, and hummingbirds; deer-resistant plants, rain-garden and groundcover plants, plants for cut flowers, and edible native plants.

Native range, scientific names, and photos come from USDA PLANTS, WCVP (Kew), GBIF, EPA ecoregions, Wikimedia Commons, and iNaturalist; growing conditions and descriptions are editorially curated. See sources & data.

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Native plants for pollinators & wildlife

Recognizable native wildflowers and grasses that feed bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds:

• Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa)
• Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea)
• Wild Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa)
• Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis)
• Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta)
• New England Aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae)
• Dense Blazing Star (Liatris spicata)
• Little Bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium)

Keystone native plants

Keystone genera support an outsized number of native caterpillar species — the food base for songbirds. A few in the catalog:

• Red Maple (Acer rubrum)
• Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida)
• White Oak (Quercus alba)
• Downy Serviceberry (Amelanchier arborea)
• Blackhaw Viburnum (Viburnum prunifolium)
• River Birch (Betula nigra)
• Shagbark Hickory (Carya ovata)
• American Beech (Fagus grandifolia)