The following plant profiles were put together with information gathered from Native Plant Trust Garden Plant Finder, Native Plant Trust Go Botany, BONAP, CapeCodNativePlants.org, National Wildlife Federation Native Plant Finder, Gegear Lab at UMASS Dartmouth, Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, Prairie Moon Nursery, and Wild Seed Project.
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“Full profiles” include identification pictures. Everything else will be updated later this year.
Cape Cod Native Plants
Plants native to Barnstable County:
- ​Achillea millefolium – Common Yarrow
- Ageratina altissima – White Snakeroot – full profile
- Anaphalis margaritacea – Pearly Everlasting
- Andropogon gerardii – Big Bluestem
- Antennaria plantaginifolia – Plantain Pussytoes
- Aquilegia canadensis – Wild Columbine
- Arisaema triphyllum – Jack-in-the Pulpit
- Asclepias incarnata – Swam Milkweed
- Asclepias syriaca – Common Milkweed – full profile
- Asclepias tuberosa – Butterfly Milkweed – full profile
- Asclepias verticillata – Whorled Milkweed
- Baptisia tinctoria – Yellow Wild Indigo
- Chamaecrista fasciculata – Partridge Pea – full profile
- Chelone glabra – White Turtlehead
- Claytonia virginica – Virginia Spring Beauty
- Eragrostis spectabilis – Purple Lovegrass
- Eupatorium hyssopifolium – Hyssop-leaved Boneset
- Eurybia divaricata – White Wood Aster
- Fragaria virginiana – Wild Strawberry
- ​Houstonia caerulea – Bluets
- Lespedeza capitata – Round-headed Bush Clover
- Lilium philadelphicum – Prairie Lily
- Lobelia cardinalis – Cardinal Flower – full profile
- Lupinus perennis – Wild Lupine – full profile
- Mimulus ringens – Allegheny Monkeyflower
- Oenothera biennis – Common Evening Primrose – full profile
- Packera aurea – Golden Groundsel – full profile
- Panicum virgatum – Switchgrass
- Pedicularis canadensis – Wood Betony
- Prunella vulgaris – Common Selfheal
- Pseudognaphalium obtussifolium – Sweet Everlasting
- Pycnanthemum muticum – Mountain Mint – full profile
- Pycnanthemum tenuifolium – Slender Mountain Mint
- Pycnanthemum virginianum – Virginia Mountain Mint
- Rudbeckia hirta – Black-eyed Susan – full profile
- Schizachyrium scoparium – Little Bluestem
- Sisyrinchium angustifolium – Blue-eyed Grass
- Soildago caesia – Blue-stemmed Goldenrod
- Solidago nemoralis – Old Field Goldenrod
- Solidago odora – Sweet Goldenrod – full profile
- Solidago rugosa – Wrinkleleaf Goldenrod – full profile
- Spiraea tomentosa – Steeplebush
- Symphyotrichum laeve – Smooth Blue Aster – full profile
- Symphyotrichum novae-angliae – New England Aster
- ​Triodanis perfoliata – Venus’ Looking Glass
- Uvularia sessifolia – Wild Oats
- Vaccinium corymbosum – Highbush Blueberry
- Vernonia noveboracensis – New York Ironweed
- Veronicastrum virginicum – Culver’s Root
- Viola sororia – Common Blue Violet – full profile
Cape Cod Near-Native Plants
Not native to Cape Cod, but native to Massachusetts, New England, or Ecoregion 84 (Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens):
- Blephilia ciliata – Downy Woodmint
- Dicentra cucularia – Dutchman’s Breeches
- Eutrochium purpureum – Sweet Joe Pye Weed
- Hepatica acutiloba – Sharp-lobed Hepatica
- Hypericum prolificum – Shrubby St. John’s Wort
- Lespedeza capitata – Round-headed Bush Clover
- Liatris spicata – Blazing Star
- Lonicera sempervirens – Trumpet Honeysuckle
- Monarda fistulosa – Wild Bergamot
- Monarda punctata – Spotted Bee Balm – full profile
- Oxalis violacea – Violet Wood Sorrel
- Penstemon hirsutus – Hairy Beardtongue
- Rudbeckia triloba – Brown-eyed Susan
- Senna hebecarpa – Wild Senna
- Solidago flexicaulis – Zig Zag Goldenrod
- Solidago speciosa – Showy Goldenrod
- Symphyotrichum cordifolium – Blue Wood Aster – full profile
- Thalictrum thalictroides – Rue Anemone
- Zizia aurea – Golden Alexander
US Native Plants
Not native to Cape Cod or New England, but native to North America and provide ecological value: