Montana native plants
Montana spans Rocky Mountain valleys and northern Great Plains, with cold winters, short seasons, low rainfall, and wind as a constant. Its natives handle drought, alkaline soil, and a frost date that can arrive in any month at altitude.
Bedfellow lists 394 of these.
The 30 most-observed are listed here — see all 394 in search.
- Large Beardtongue (Penstemon grandiflorus)
- Common Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
- Tufted Evening Primrose (Oenothera caespitosa)
- False Solomon's Seal (Maianthemum racemosum)
- Boxelder (Acer negundo)
- Green Ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica)
- Selfheal (Prunella vulgaris)
- Canada Mayflower (Maianthemum canadense)
- Bracken Fern (Pteridium aquilinum)
- Wild Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa)
- American Elderberry (Sambucus canadensis)
- Ponderosa Pine (Pinus ponderosa)
- American Elm (Ulmus americana)
- Douglas Fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii)
- Thimbleberry (Rubus parviflorus)
- Western Trillium (Trillium ovatum)
- Western Sword Fern (Polystichum munitum)
- Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides)
- Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata)
- Chokecherry (Prunus virginiana)
- Red Elderberry (Sambucus racemosa)
- Mexican Hat (Ratibida columnifera)
- Wild Sarsaparilla (Aralia nudicaulis)
- Eastern Cottonwood (Populus deltoides)
- Starry False Solomon's Seal (Maianthemum stellatum)
- Bunchberry (Cornus canadensis)
- Smooth Sumac (Rhus glabra)
- Cutleaf Coneflower (Rudbeckia laciniata)
- Blue Elderberry (Sambucus cerulea)
- Philadelphia Fleabane (Erigeron philadelphicus)
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