Native plants for cut flowers
Natives that hold up in a vase: strong straight stems, flowers that keep for days after cutting, and enough vigor to bloom again after you take some. Cut in early morning, strip the leaves below the waterline, and leave plenty standing for the pollinators and the seedheads.
Bedfellow lists 239 of these.
The 30 most-observed are listed here — see all 239 in search.
- Eastern Redbud (Cercis canadensis)
- Wild Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa)
- Eastern Red Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)
- Salal (Gaultheria shallon)
- River Oats (Chasmanthium latifolium)
- New England Aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae)
- Common Boneset (Eupatorium perfoliatum)
- Tall Joe-pye Weed (Eutrochium altissimum)
- Western Columbine (Aquilegia formosa)
- California Bush Sunflower (Encelia californica)
- American White Waterlily (Nymphaea odorata)
- Meadowsweet (Spiraea alba)
- Spotted Beebalm (Monarda punctata)
- American Bellflower (Campanulastrum americanum)
- Golden Alexanders (Zizia aurea)
- Evergreen Huckleberry (Vaccinium ovatum)
- Scarlet Gilia (Ipomopsis aggregata)
- Shrubby Cinquefoil (Dasiphora fruticosa)
- Foxglove Beardtongue (Penstemon digitalis)
- Big Bluestem (Andropogon gerardii)
- Large-flowered Bellwort (Uvularia grandiflora)
- Engelmann's Daisy (Engelmannia peristenia)
- Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea)
- Sideoats Grama (Bouteloua curtipendula)
- Fringed Loosestrife (Lysimachia ciliata)
- Flowering Spurge (Euphorbia corollata)
- Plains Coreopsis (Coreopsis tinctoria)
- Arrowleaf Balsamroot (Balsamorhiza sagittata)
- Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum)
- Canada Anemone (Anemone canadensis)