Native Plants
The Ponderosa Garden Center is Cape Cod’s Native plant destination.
Cape Cod’s Best
Our Inventory
Cape Cod’s Best
Beach Plums
Prunus maritima
Blueberries
Vaccinium corymbosum
Bayberry
Myrica pensylvanica
Sweetfern
Comptonia peregrina
Bearberry
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
Summersweet
Clethra alnifolia
New England Native Favorites:
Paw Paw Trees
Asimina triloba
Sweet Bay Magnolias
Magnolia virginiana
New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
Inkberries
Ilex glabra
Spicebush
Lindera benzoin
Arrowwood
Viburnum dentatum
Trees Native to Cape Cod:
Eastern Red Cedar
Juniperus virginiana
White Pine
Pinus strobus
Tupelo
Nyssa sylvatica
Serviceberry
Amalanchier canadensis
Birch
Betula nigra
White Oak
Quercus alba
Native Perennials to Cape Cod:
Butterfly weed
Asclepias tuberosa
New England aster
Symphotrichum novae-angliae
Native columbine
Aquilegia canadensis
Goldenrod
Solidago sempervirens
Sea lavender
Limonium carolinianum
Pink Tickseed
Coreopsis rosea
Native Grasses:
Pennsylvania sedge
Carex pennsylvanica
Little Bluestem
Schizachrium scoparium
Switch Grass
Panicum virgatum
Big Bluestem
Andropogon geradii
American Beachgrass
Ammophila breviligulata
Our Inventory
Trees
Nyssa sylvatica – Black Tupelo
Acer rubrum – Red Pointe Maple
Betula nigra – ‘Heritage’ River Birch
Quercus rubra – Northern Red Oak
Tilla americana – American Basswood
Prunus serotina – Black Cherry
Magnolia virginiana – Sweet Bay Magnolia
Prunus virginiana – Canada Red Chokecherry
Juniperus virginiana – Juniper – Eastern Red Cedar
Shrubs
Hydrangea – ‘Pinky Pollen Ring’
Hydrangea quercifolia – Oak Leaf Hydrangea
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi – Bear Berry
Clethra alnifolia – Summersweet, ‘Sixteen Candles’, ‘Pink Spire’, Sweet Pepperbush
Ilex opaca – American Holly
Morella (Myrica) pennsylvanica – Northern Bayberry
Viburnum dentatum – Arrowood, Americana, Nannyberry
Cephalanthus occidentalis – Button Bush
Vaccinium corymbosum – ‘Chippewa’ Blueberry
Sambucus canadensis – ‘Adams’
Amelanchier grandiflora – ‘Autumn Brilliance’, Apple Serviceberry
Vaccinium corymbossum – High Bush Blueberry
Ceanothus americanus – New Jersey Tea
Prunus martima – Fragrant Honeysuckle
Aristolochia macrophylla – Dutchman’s Pipe
Rhododendron viscosum – Swamp Azalea
Clematis virginiana – Virgins Bower (Similar to Sweet Autumn Clematis)
Lonicera sempervirens – ‘Major Wheeler’
Lindera benzoin – Spice Bush
Rosa virginiana – Virginia Rose
Ilex Glabra – ‘Shamrock’
Fothergilla gardenii – Dwarf Ornamental Shrub
Vaccinium angustifolium – Lo Bush Blueberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon – American Cranberry
Sambucus canadensis – American Elder
Grasses
Panicum virgatum – ‘Cape Breeze’, ‘Apache Rose’, ‘Ruby Ribbons’
Sporobolus – Prairie Dropseed
Carex pensylvanica – Pennsylvania sedge
Tridens flavus – Purple Top
Schizachyrium scoparium – ‘Standing Ovation’
Andropogon -Blackhawks “big blue stem”
Perennials
Anemone virginiana
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae – ‘Purple Dome’
Clematis virginiana
Chelona glabra – Turtle Heads
Liatris – Purple Gay Feather
Thalictrum delavayi – Meadow Rue
Oenothera biennis – Evening Primrose
Heuchera – ‘Autumn Bride’
Hibicus moscheutos – MarshMallow
Asclepias tuberosa – Butterfly Weed
Asclepias verticillata – Swamp Milkweed – ‘Ice Ballet’
Euthamia graminifolia – Solidago (Slender Goldentop)
Achilea – Common Yarrow
Echinacea purpurea – Cone Flower
Eupatorium – Joe Pye Weed
Eutrochium dubium – ‘Baby Joe’
Rudbeckia triloba – Brown Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia hirta – ‘Prairie Sun’
Rudbeckia fulgida – Black Eyed Susan
Veronia noveboracensis – New York Ironweed
Monarda punctata – Bee Balm
Lobella siphilitica – Great Blue, White Cardinal
Ageratina altissima – White Snakeroot
Pycnanthemum muticum – Mountain Mint
Solidago canadensis – Golden Rod
Spigelia marilandica – Little Red Head
Amsonia – Eastern Blue Star
Tiarella cordifolia – Foam Flower
Comptonia peregrina – Sweet Fern
Oneothera fruticosa – ‘Fireworks’
Antennaria plantaginifolia – Pussy Toes
If there is a plant you would like, and you don’t see it, ask a staff member and we might be able to bring it in for you.
Please note that the plants on this list DO NOT reflect what we currently have in stock.
This list is composed of native plants that The Ponderosa Garden Center typically carries or has carried in recent years.
