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