PRFCT x Whitmores Native Plant List

Perfect Earth Project teamed up with Whitmores Tree Farm to help you grow your East End yard. Here is a list of Whitmores-selected, PRFCT recommended native trees, shrubs, grasses, and perennials available at their East Hampton, NY, nursery. Ready to start planting? Find our planting advice here.

Trees & Shrubs

• Red Maple (Acer rubrum)
• Seed-grown Red Maple (Acer rubrum) “I love everything seed grown because it provides genetic diversity, except of course invasive plants!” —Edwina von Gal

• Bottlebrush buckeye (Aesculus parviflora)
• Red buckeye (Aesculus pavia)
• Shadblow Serviceberry (Amelanchier canadensis) “This is a great companion for wildlife. Cedar Waxwings love the berries!” —EvG
• Allegheny serviceberry (Amelanchier laevis) “The dark berries are tasty to wildlife—and humans!”

• ‘Iroquois Beauty’ chokeberry (Aronia ‘Iroquois Beauty’)
• Common pawpaw (Asimina triloba) “The fall-bearing fruit is absolutely delicious and the tree is an exclusive host plant of the zebra swallowtail butterfly.”
• Groundseltree (Baccharis halimifolia)
• River birch (Betula nigra)
• American beautyberry (Callicarpa americana)
• Carolina allspice or Eastern sweetshrub (Calycanthus floridus)
• ‘Athens’ sweetshrub (Calycanthus floridus ‘Athens’)
• Shagbark hickory (Carya ovata)
• Northern catalpa (Catalpa speciosa) “Love this tree!” —EvG
• Hackberry (Celtis occidentalis)
• Eastern redbud (Cercis canadensis)
• White fringetree (Chionanthus virginicus)
• Kentucky yellowwood (Cladrastis kentukea)
• Summersweet (Clethra alnifolia) “The white flowers have an intoxicating spicy fragrance when it blooms in late summer.”
• Virigin’s-bower (Clematis virginiana)
• Flowering dogwood (Cornus florida)
• Cornus florida ‘Appalachian Spring’
• Red twig dogwood (Cornus sericea)
• American hazelnut (Corylus americana)
• Fothergilla ‘Mt. Airy’
• Honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos)
• Kentucky coffeetree (Gymnocladus dioicus)
• Carolina silverbell (Halesia carolina)
• Oakleaf hydrangea (Hydrangea quercifolia)
• Compact inkberry (Ilex glabra ‘Compacta’) “The straight species can get leggy, so I prefer this cultivar.” —EvG
• Ilex glabra ‘Densa’
• Ilex glabra ‘Shamrock’
• Ilex glabra ‘Strongbox’ “If someone insists on boxwood, this is a good alternative” —EvG
• American holly (Ilex opaca) “Robins love the fruit!” —EvG
• Ilex opaca ‘Jersey Princess’
• Ilex opaca ‘Miss Helen’
• Ilex opaca ‘Patterson’
• ‘Winter Red’ winterberry (Ilex verticillata ‘Winter Red’)
• Yellow anisetree (Illicium parviflorum)
• Illicium × ‘Woodland Ruby’
• Eastern red cedar (Juniperus virginiana)
• Northern spicebush (Lindera benzoin) “The high-fat berries of spicebush ripen in fall just when migrating thrushes and tanagers are bulking up for their long journeys south.”
• ‘Moraine’ sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Moraine’)
• Tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) “This is a great, but underutilized tree.” —EvG
• Cucumber tree (Magnolia acuminata)
• Southern magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora)
• Sweetbay magnolia (Magnolia virginiana)
• Magnolia virginiana ‘Green Mile’
• Magnolia virginiana ‘Green Shadow’
• Magnolia virginiana ‘Moonglow’
• Magnolia virginiana ‘Northern Belle’
• Holly-leaved barberry (Mahonia aquifolium)
• Northern bayberry (Myrica pensylvanica)
• Black tupelo (Nyssa sylvatica)
• American hop-hornbeam (Ostrya virginiana)
• Pitch pine (Pinus rigida)
• Eastern white pine (Pinus strobus)
• American sycamore (Platanus occidentalis)
• Black cherry (Prunus serotina)
• White oak (Quercus alba)
• Swamp white oak (Quercus bicolor)
• Shingle oak (Quercus imbricaria)
• Pin oak (Quercus palustris)
• Red oak (Quercus rubra)
• Black oak (Quercus velutina)
• Great laurel (Rhododendron maximum)
• Fragrant sumac (Rhus aromatica)
• Staghorn sumac (Rhus typhina)
• Sassafras albidum
• ‘Redmond’ linden (Tilia americana ‘Redmond’)
• ‘Jefferson’ elm (Ulmus americana ‘Jefferson’)
• ‘Princeton’ elm (Ulmus americana ‘Princeton’)
• Arrowwood vibernum (Viburnum dentatum)
• Nannyberry (Viburnum lentago)
• Viburnum nudum ‘Winterthur’
• Blackhaw (Viburnum prunifolium)
• American cranberry bush or highbush cranberry (Viburnum trilobum)
• Viburnum trilobum ‘Wentworth’

Perennials & Grasses

• Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) “This is super attractive to pollinators and it is deer resistant!” —EvG
• Butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa) “A host plant for monarch butterflies”
• Blue wild indigo (Baptisia australis)
• Swamp rose mallow (Hibiscus moscheutos) “This beauty needs moisture.” —EvG
• Cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis) “A favorite of Ruby-throated hummingbirds, this red-flowered perennial does best in moist soil.”
• Wild bergamot (Monarda fistulosa)
• Spotted beebalm (Monarda punctata)
• Smooth Solomon’s seal (Polygonatum biflorum) “A wonderful, slow-growing perennial” —EvG
• Mountain mint (Pycnanthemum)

• ‘Green Wizard’ coneflower (Rudbeckia occidentalis ‘Green Wizard’)
• Compass plant (Silphium laciniatum)
• Slimstem reed grass (Calamagrostis stricta)
• Pennsylvania sedge (Carex pensylvanica)

• Fox sedge (Carex vulpinoidea)

• Tufted hair grass (Deschampsia cespitosa)
• Purple love grass (Eragrostis spectabilis)

• Sand love grass (Eragrostis trichodes)
• Muhly grass (Muhlenbergia capillaris)

• Prairie dropseed (Sporobolus heterolepis)

Now let’s start planting. Click here to learn more.