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

Photo Credit: https://www.mass.gov/service-details/coastal-landscaping-in-massachusetts-plant-list

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’

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

Product availability is subject to change.
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.