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Plants for Michigan

26 plants, from native lists held for Michigan.

Native is a claim about a range, and ranges have edges.

Plants named by lists held for Michigan

  • American arborvitae Thuja occidentalis

    tree

    • Native Native Range: Eastern North America
    • Native Michigan Native Plants

    Zones 2 to 7

  • Big bluestem in a prairie planting: tall stems with branched turkey-foot seed heads
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    big bluestem Andropogon gerardii

    grass

    • Native Michigan Native Plants

    Zones not recorded

  • black cherry Prunus serotina

    tree

    • Native Michigan Native Plants

    Zones not recorded

  • Black-eyed Susan: a loose plant with a few large yellow flowers with dark centres and bristly stems
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    black-eyed Susan Rudbeckia hirta

    perennial

    • Native Native: native to great plains or rocky mountain region (the page's own key for “– native”)
    • Native Michigan Native Plants

    Zones not recorded

  • A broad bur oak in an open lawn, with acorns in shaggy fringed caps on a near branch
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    bur oak Quercus macrocarpa

    tree

    • Native Native Range: Northern and central United States, southeastern Canada
    • Native Michigan Native Plants

    Zones 3 to 8

  • Butterfly weed in bloom: flat clusters of bright orange flowers over narrow leaves
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    butterfly weed Asclepias tuberosa

    perennial

    • Native Native Range: Eastern and southern United States
    • Native Michigan Native Plants

    Zones 3 to 9

  • A chokecherry in spring bloom, hung with drooping spikes of small white flowers
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    chokecherry Prunus virginiana

    tree

    • Native Native Range: North America
    • Native Michigan Native Plants

    Zones 2 to 7

  • A hackberry in a park lawn, its grey trunk covered in corky warts and ridges
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    common hackberry Celtis occidentalis

    tree

    • Native Native Range: Central and northeastern North America
    • Native Michigan Native Plants

    Zones 2 to 9

  • creeping juniper Juniperus horizontalis

    shrub

    • Native Native Range: North America
    • Native Michigan Native Plants

    Zones 3 to 9

  • An eastern redcedar at a field edge: a narrow evergreen with shredding red-brown bark and blue berries
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    eastern redcedar Juniperus virginiana

    tree

    • Native Michigan Native Plants

    Zones not recorded

  • eastern white pine Pinus strobus

    tree

    • Native Michigan Native Plants

    Zones not recorded

  • foxglove beardtongue Penstemon digitalis

    perennial

    • Native Michigan Native Plants

    Zones not recorded

  • Fragrant sumac in autumn: a low mound of three-part leaves turning orange and scarlet
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    fragrant sumac Rhus aromatica

    shrub

    • Native Native Range: North America
    • Native Michigan Native Plants

    Zones 3 to 9

  • Indian grass in a prairie planting: an upright blue-green clump under narrow golden plumes
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    Indian grass Sorghastrum nutans

    grass

    • Native Michigan Native Plants

    Zones not recorded

  • Little bluestem in autumn: an upright clump of copper-orange grass with silvery seed tufts
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    little bluestem Schizachyrium scoparium

    grass

    • Native Native Range: Eastern North America
    • Native Michigan Native Plants

    Zones 3 to 9

  • northern red oak Quercus rubra

    tree

    • Native Native Range: Eastern North America
    • Native Michigan Native Plants

    Zones 4 to 8

  • pagoda dogwood Cornus alternifolia

    shrub

    • Native Native Range: Eastern North America
    • Native Michigan Native Plants

    Zones 3 to 7

  • Prairie dropseed: a fountain-like mound of fine green blades under airy seed heads
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    prairie dropseed Sporobolus heterolepis

    grass

    • Native Native Range: North America
    • Native Michigan Native Plants

    Zones 3 to 9

  • Purple coneflower in bloom: pink-purple drooping petals around spiky orange-brown cones
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    purple coneflower Echinacea purpurea

    perennial

    • Native Native Range: Eastern and central North America
    • Native narrowleaf coneflower entry: SDSU (2025): narrowleaf coneflower is the only coneflower native to South Dakota — purple coneflower is not
    • Native Michigan Native Plants

    Zones 3 to 8

  • A young red maple in a front lawn in autumn, its whole crown scarlet
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    red maple Acer rubrum

    tree

    • Native Native Range: Eastern and central North America
    • Native Michigan Native Plants

    Zones 3 to 9

  • showy goldenrod Solidago speciosa

    perennial

    • Native Michigan Native Plants

    Zones not recorded

  • swamp milkweed Asclepias incarnata

    perennial

    • Native Michigan Native Plants

    Zones not recorded

  • sweet crabapple Malus coronaria

    tree

    • Native Michigan Native Plants

    Zones not recorded

  • Switchgrass in a border: an upright clump of blue-green blades under airy pink-tan seed heads
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    switch grass Panicum virgatum

    grass

    • Native Native Range: North America
    • Native Michigan Native Plants

    Zones 5 to 9

  • white oak Quercus alba

    tree

    • Native Michigan Native Plants

    Zones not recorded

  • Wild bergamot in a meadow bed: shaggy pale lavender-pink flower heads on upright stems
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    wild bergamot Monarda fistulosa

    perennial

    • Native Michigan Native Plants

    Zones not recorded

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Nurseries that carry this kind of stock

Listed in Michigan: Grahek's Cadillac, Knapp Valley Gardens Grand Rapids, Landscape Source Macomb, Ultimate Nursery Macomb, Soulliere Landscaping, Patio & Garden Center Saint Clair Shores, KBK Garden Center Saline, and more. Set your area and the nearest come first, by distance and never by price. What any of them has today is theirs to answer. Every yard, by state.