Search North American native plants

Bedfellow helps you plan a native garden that blooms all season. Filter 1596 North American native plants by region and state, light, soil moisture and type, soil pH, bloom time, height, and wildlife value — then save favorites, build companion-planting beds, and check bloom coverage month by month.

Native range, scientific names, and photos come from USDA PLANTS, GBIF, Wikimedia Commons, and iNaturalist; growing conditions and descriptions are editorially curated. See sources & data.

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Keystone native plants

Keystone genera support an outsized number of native caterpillar species — the food base for songbirds. A few in the catalog:

• Red Maple (Acer rubrum)
• Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida)
• White Oak (Quercus alba)
• Downy Serviceberry (Amelanchier arborea)
• Blackhaw Viburnum (Viburnum prunifolium)
• River Birch (Betula nigra)
• Northern Red Oak (Quercus rubra)
• Bur Oak (Quercus macrocarpa)
• Black Oak (Quercus velutina)
• Chinkapin Oak (Quercus muehlenbergii)
• Pin Oak (Quercus palustris)
• Shagbark Hickory (Carya ovata)