Lois Stack, ornamental horticulture specialist for the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, offers the following suggestions for gardeners who are new to native plants.
Trees
Small tree: American hornbeam
Large tree: red oak
Evergreen: red pine
Shrubs
Native viburnums (mapleleaf, hobblebush, arrowwood, nannyberry and highbush cranberry varieties)
Serviceberry
Native roses (meadow, Carolina and Virginia varieties)
Ground cover
Bearberry
Lowbush blueberry
Creeping juniper
Perennials
Jack-in-the-pulpit
Solomon’s seal
Bloodroot
Ferns
Hay-scented fern
Christmas fern
Maidenhair fern
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