Plants Native to the Coast of North Eastern Massachusetts

Is it Native? Will Pollinators Benefit?

While working in the garden this spring, I checked out many of the plants using the app Plant Net to try to ID them. Followed by an inquiry on the web about whether the plant was native to this area. To my surprise, some of the plants I had encouraged are NOT native, some I had been pulling out were native pollinator-beneficial and some things I have planted are Native!

 

The following is from the Native Plant Trust

Filters: Perennial, Pollinator Powerhouse Plant, NE Coastal Zone 

 

Achillea millefolium
common yarrow

 

Chamaepericlymenum canadense
bunchberry

 

Doellingeria umbellata
flat top aster

 

Erigeron pulchellus
Robin's plantain fleabane

 

Eupatorium hyssopifolium
hyssop leaved boneset

 

Eupatorium perfoliatum
boneset

 

Eurybia divaricata
white wood-aster

 

 

Eurybia macrophylla
big leaf aster

 

 

Eurybia schreberi
Shreber's wood-aster

 

 

Fragaria vesca
woodland strawberry

 

 

Fragaria virginiana
wild strawberry

 

 

Geranium maculatum
wild geranium

 

 

 

Helianthus decapetalus
thin-leaved sunflower

 

 

 

Helianthus divaricatus
woodland sunflower

 

 

 

Helianthus tuberosus
sunchoke

 

 

 

Ionactis linariifolia
stiff aster

 

 

 

Lupinus perennis
sundial lupine

 

 

 

 

Polygonatum biflorum
King Solomon's seal

 

 

 

 

Polygonatum pubescens
downy Solomons seal

 

 

 

 

Prunella vulgaris
common selfheal

 

 

 

 

Solidago bicolor
white goldenrod

 

 

 

 

 

Solidago caesia
wreath goldenrod

 

 

 

 

 

Solidago flexicaulis
zig-zag goldenrod

 

 

 

 

 

Solidago nemoralis
gray goldenrod

 

 

 

 

 

Solidago odora
sweet goldenrod

 

 

 

 

 

 

Solidago puberula
downy goldenrod

 

 

 

 

 

Solidago rugosa
rough goldenrod

 

 

 

 

 

 

Solidago sempervirens
sea side goldenrod

 

 

 

 

 

 

Solidago uliginosa
bog goldenrod

 

 

 

 

 

 

Swida alternifolia
pagoda dogwood

 

 

 

 

 

 

Symphyotrichum cordifolium
blue wood aster

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Symphyotrichum laeve
smooth aster

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Symphyotrichum novae-angliae
New England aster

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Symphyotrichum novi-belgii
New York aster

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Verbena urticifolia
white vervain

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Viola pedata
birds foot violet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Viola sororia
woolly blue violet