Wyoming native plants
Wyoming is high, dry, cold, and windy — sagebrush basin and mountain range, most of it above 5,000 feet. Its natives handle a very short season, hard frost in any month at altitude, alkaline soil, and drought.
Bedfellow lists 405 of these.
The 30 most-observed are listed here — see all 405 in search.
- Virginia Creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia)
- Large Beardtongue (Penstemon grandiflorus)
- Common Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
- Tufted Evening Primrose (Oenothera caespitosa)
- False Solomon's Seal (Maianthemum racemosum)
- Sensitive Fern (Onoclea sensibilis)
- Boxelder (Acer negundo)
- Green Ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica)
- Selfheal (Prunella vulgaris)
- Canada Mayflower (Maianthemum canadense)
- Bracken Fern (Pteridium aquilinum)
- Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta)
- Wild Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa)
- American Elderberry (Sambucus canadensis)
- Ponderosa Pine (Pinus ponderosa)
- American Elm (Ulmus americana)
- Douglas Fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii)
- Thimbleberry (Rubus parviflorus)
- Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides)
- Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata)
- Chokecherry (Prunus virginiana)
- Red Elderberry (Sambucus racemosa)
- Mexican Hat (Ratibida columnifera)
- Wild Sarsaparilla (Aralia nudicaulis)
- Great Blue Lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica)
- Eastern Cottonwood (Populus deltoides)
- Starry False Solomon's Seal (Maianthemum stellatum)
- Prairie Verbena (Glandularia bipinnatifida)
- Bunchberry (Cornus canadensis)
- Smooth Sumac (Rhus glabra)
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- Milkweeds: monarch host plants
- Native plants for hummingbirds
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- Native groundcover plants
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