Native plants for cut flowers
Natives that hold up in a vase: strong straight stems, flowers that keep for days after cutting, and enough vigor to bloom again after you take some. Cut in early morning, strip the leaves below the waterline, and leave plenty standing for the pollinators and the seedheads.
Bedfellow lists 328 of these.
The 30 most-observed are listed here — see all 328 in search.
- Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)
- Eastern Redbud (Cercis canadensis)
- False Solomon's Seal (Maianthemum racemosum)
- Eastern White Pine (Pinus strobus)
- Eastern Red Cedar (Juniperus virginiana)
- Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa)
- Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta)
- Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis)
- Eastern Hemlock (Tsuga canadensis)
- Mountain Laurel (Kalmia latifolia)
- Wild Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa)
- Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida)
- American Elderberry (Sambucus canadensis)
- Eastern Red Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)
- Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis)
- Staghorn Sumac (Rhus typhina)
- Winged Sumac (Rhus copallinum)
- Blue Mistflower (Conoclinium coelestinum)
- American Witch Hazel (Hamamelis virginiana)
- Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata)
- Great Blue Lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica)
- Smooth Sumac (Rhus glabra)
- Starry False Solomon's Seal (Maianthemum stellatum)
- Salal (Gaultheria shallon)
- New England Aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae)
- River Oats (Chasmanthium latifolium)
- Cutleaf Coneflower (Rudbeckia laciniata)
- Western Columbine (Aquilegia formosa)
- California Bush Sunflower (Encelia californica)
- Common Boneset (Eupatorium perfoliatum)