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Native Plants For Your Yard

Having a mix of herbaceous plants, shrubs and trees can attract a variety of pollinators to your yard.
Here's a partial list of common native trees, shrubs and wildflowers that are well adapted to our climate and easy to grow in your yard. 

Native Plants For Your Yard

This is a small sample of common native plants that can easily be grown in your yard. For a more comprehensive list view the native plant lists on the Ohio Department of Natural Resources website. 
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Trees

A bush with small white flowers and green leaves.

Shrubs

Bees resting on small, pink flowers of a green plant.

Herbaceous Plants

American Serviceberry
Eastern Redbud
Flowering Dogwood
​Pawpaw

Oaks
Maples
Tulip Poplar
Shagbark Hickory


American Bladdernut
Arrowwood Viburnum
Buttonbush
Chokeberry
Elderberry

Ninebark
Spicebush
​Wild Hydrangea
Witchhazel
​Hazelnut
Bee Balm
Black-Eyed Susan
Blue False/Wild Indigo
Butterfly weed
Cutleaf Coneflower
Dense Blazing Star
Great Blue Lobelia
Golden Alexander
Lanceleaf coreopsis
New England Aster
Purple Coneflower
Blazing Star  
Spotted Joe Pye Weed
Wild Columbine
Swamp Milkweed
Wild Bergamot

Other Pollinator resources
Plant for Pollinators, Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden
Gardening for Pollinators, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Pollinator Quick Guide, The Ohio State University Extension Office
Save Ohio Bees
Selecting Plants for Pollinators 
Plant a Pollinator Garden - Ohio Native Plants

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  • Home
  • About
    • Partnership Opportunities
    • Government Regulations
    • Ohio River Watershed
  • Rain Barrel Art Project
    • Participate
    • Selected Artists
    • Auction
    • What is a Rain Barrel?
    • Rain Barrel Photos
  • Take Action
    • Workshops >
      • Stormwater Field Day
      • Rain Barrel Workshops
      • Upcoming
      • Archive
    • Buffer the Banks
    • Top 10 Tips
    • See Something, Say Something
  • Sales
  • Plant for Pollinators
    • Native Plants for Pollinators
    • Benefits of Native Plants
    • Plant a Pollinator Garden