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Every plant in the guide.
The full 105-species library behind Regional Garden: keystone North American natives, with the conditions, wildlife value, and range for each. Start with the family you are looking for.
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What is in this library, and what is not
This guide is deliberately small. It holds keystone species: plants that support disproportionate numbers of insects and birds, that are widely available from native nurseries, and that a gardener can actually succeed with. A list ten times longer would be easy to assemble and much less useful, because most of it would name plants you cannot buy and would not want to start with.
Nothing here is exotic for its own sake. If a species is in this guide, it is because it does real work in a garden somewhere across its range: feeding specialist bees, hosting caterpillars that songbirds need, holding a slope, tolerating the clay or the drought or the shade that made the site difficult in the first place.
How to read a plant entry
Every entry carries the conditions the plant needs, its mature size, when and in what color it blooms, the hardiness zones it survives, and the wildlife it supports. Those fields are the useful part: a plant that suits your light and moisture will usually succeed, and a plant that does not will usually fail no matter how well you tend it.
Match the plant to the conditions you already have rather than changing the conditions to suit the plant. Dry shade under a maple is a real habitat with real natives adapted to it; it is not a lawn that needs fixing.
Native to the continent is not native to your yard
Every species here is native to part of North America. That is not the same as being native to where you garden, and the difference matters more than it sounds. A prairie species planted into an eastern woodland is not restoring anything.
Use the state guides to see which of these plants belong in your region, and confirm anything you are unsure about with your state native plant society before you buy. County-level range data is freely available and worth checking.
Sources: USDA PLANTS Database (native status and range); Biota of North America Program, North American Plant Atlas (county-level distribution); USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map (zones).