Native plants for containers and pots
Renting, or gardening on a balcony or patio, doesn't rule out natives — pollinators find containers readily. These species stay in scale and tolerate the harsher conditions a pot imposes: roots that freeze and bake far more than they would in the ground. Go bigger than looks necessary, since a large pot swings less in temperature and dries out more slowly.
Bedfellow lists 416 of these.
The 30 most-observed are listed here — see all 416 in search.
- Tufted Evening Primrose (Oenothera caespitosa)
- Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis)
- Christmas Fern (Polystichum acrostichoides)
- Spring Beauty (Claytonia virginica)
- California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica)
- Selfheal (Prunella vulgaris)
- Wild Geranium (Geranium maculatum)
- Canada Mayflower (Maianthemum canadense)
- Partridgeberry (Mitchella repens)
- Firewheel (Gaillardia pulchella)
- Virginia Bluebells (Mertensia virginica)
- Yellow Trout Lily (Erythronium americanum)
- Cut-leaved Toothwort (Cardamine concatenata)
- Blue Dicks (Dichelostemma capitatum)
- Large-flowered Trillium (Trillium grandiflorum)
- Lyre-leaf Sage (Salvia lyrata)
- Rue Anemone (Thalictrum thalictroides)
- Western Trillium (Trillium ovatum)
- Woodland Phlox (Phlox divaricata)
- Dutchman's Breeches (Dicentra cucullaria)
- Ebony Spleenwort (Asplenium platyneuron)
- Red Trillium (Trillium erectum)
- Wild Sarsaparilla (Aralia nudicaulis)
- Wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens)
- Starry False Solomon's Seal (Maianthemum stellatum)
- Prairie Verbena (Glandularia bipinnatifida)
- Engelmann's Hedgehog Cactus (Echinocereus engelmannii)
- Antelope Horns (Asclepias asperula)
- Frogfruit (Phyla nodiflora)
- Green Antelopehorn (Asclepias viridis)