Planting native: What are the options?

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