Native Plant Data Sheets
View our Native Plant Species Sheets to learn more about all the varieties you can grow.
These PDF signs which have photos and information including: season of interest, height, spread, water needs, native region, elevation, important to know facts, maintenance, characteristics, garden uses, habitat, and propagation tips.
Thanks to Peggy Hanson who helped us get all of these created for sharing, they are super helpful to help everyone learn propagating and growing native plants in their landscapes.
ORIGINAL SHEETS
(THESE SHEETS BELOW ARE OW OUTDATED, view these Native Plant Species Sheets instead for updated info)
Download any of our native plant species data sheets in PDFs below:
Annuals
- Argemone pleiacantha – Southwestern Pricklypoppy
- Argemone polyanthemos – Crested/Annual Pricklypoppy
- Cleome serrulata/Peritoma serrulata – Rocky Mountain Bee Plant
- Coreopsis tinctoria – Plains Coreopsis/Golden Tickseed
- Euphorbia marginata – Snow on the Mountain
- Helianthus annuus – Common Sunflower
- Machaeranthera tanacetifolia – Tansyleaf Tansyaster
- Polanisia dodecandra – Redwhisker Clammyweed
- Solanum rostratum – Buffalo Bur
- Thelesperma filifolium – Stiff Greenthread
Perennials/Biennials
- Anaphalis margaritacea – Pearly Everlasting
- Achillea millefolium – Common Yarrow
- Agastache foeniculum – Anise Hyssop, Blue Giant Hyssop
- Agastache rupestris – Sunset Hyssop
- Agoseris aurantiaca – Orange Agoseris, Mountain Dandelion
- Asclepias incarnata – Swamp/Rose Milkweed
- Asclepias speciosa – Showy Milkweed
- Asclepias syriaca – Common Milkweed
- Asclepias tuberosa – Butterfly Weed/Milkweed/Flower
- Aquilegia caerulea – Colorado Blue Columbine
- Berlandiera lyrata – Chocolate Flower
- Brickellia eupatorioides – False Boneset
- Callirhoe involucrata – Winecups
- Chamaenerion angustifolium – Fireweed
- Dalea purpurea – Purple Prairie Clover
- Datura wrightii – Sacred Datura/Thorn Apple/Angel Trumpet/Jimsonweed
- Dieteria bigelovii – Bigelow’s Tansy-Aster
- Engelmannia pinnatifida/E. persistenia – Engelmann’s Daisy
- Eriogonum umbellatum – Sulfur Flower Buckwheat
- Gaillarida aristata – Blanketflower
- Gaillardia x grandiflora – Blanket Flower hybrids & cultivars
- Helianthus maximiliani – Maximilian Sunflower
- Heterotheca villosa – Hairy False Goldenaster
- Heterotheca villosa var. foliosa – Hairy False Goldenaster
- Iris missouriensis – Rocky Mountain Iris
- Liatris punctata – Dotted Blazing Star
- Linum lewisii – Wild Blue Flax
- Mirabilis multiflora – Colorado Four O’Clock
- Monarda fistulosa – Bee Balm/Wild Bergamot
- Oenothera coronopifolia – Crownleaf Evening Primrose
- Onosmodium bejariense var. occidentale – Western Marbleseed
- Oxytropis lambertii – Purple Locoweed
- Penstemon secundiflorus – Sidebells Penstemon
- Penstemon strictus – Rocky Mountain Penstemon
- Penstemon unilateralis – Oneside Penstemon
- Phacelia hastata – Silverleaf Phacelia/Silverleaf Scorpionweed
- Ratibida columnifera – Prairie Coneflower
- Ratibida pinnata – Grey-Headed Coneflower/Pinnate Prairie Coneflower
- Rudbeckia hirta – Black-Eyed Susan
- Rudbeckia lacinata – Cutleaf Coneflower
- Solidago multiradiata – Rocky Mountain Goldenrod
- Solidago spp. – Goldenrod
- Sphaeralcea munroana – Munro’s Globemallow
- Symphyotrichum oblongifolium – Aromatic Aster
- Xanthisma spinulosum – Cutleaf Ironplant/Lacy Sleepy Daisy/Spiny Goldenweed
- Zinnia grandiflora – Rocky Mountain/Prairie Zinnia
Grasses
- Achnatherum hymenoides/Oryzopsis hymenoides – Indian Rice Grass
- Andropogon gerardii – Big Bluestem
- Bothriochloa laguroides ssp. torreyana – Silver Bluestem/Silver Beard Grass
- Bouteloua curtipendula – Sideoats Grama
- Bouteloua gracilis – Blue Grama
- Elymus canadensis – Canada Wild Rye
- Koeleria macrantha – June Grass
- Panicum virgatum – Switchgrass
- Schizachyrium scoparium – Little Bluestem
- Sorghastrum nutans – Indian Grass
- Sporobolus airoides – Alkali Sacaton
- Sporobolus heterolepsis – Prairie Dropseed
Shrubs & Subshrubs
- Amorpha nana – Dwarf Leadplant
- Amorpha canescens – Leadplant
- Amorpha fruticosa – False Indigo
- Atriplex canescens – Fourwing Saltbush
- Cercocarpus montanus __ Alder-Leaf Mountain Mahogany
- Ericameria nauseosa var. nauseosa __ Dwarf Blue Rabbitbrush
- Fallugia paradoxa __ Apache Plume
- Senecio flaccidus __ Threadleaf Ragwort
Native Seed Germination Tips
For tips and tricks on how to germinate many of the species listed above, please refer to the Germination Guide for Native Seeds compiled by Wild Ones Front Range Chapter member Jan Midgley. As Jan conducts her research into germination best practices, she will provide updates to this guide. Many thanks to Jan for helping to demystify how to grow native plants from seed!