Protecting & Restoring Long Island's Peconic Bays

Peconic-Friendly Plant Database

Use the search filters to search for plants. You should register if you plan to save or print your list.

View our tutorial video if you are unsure how to start.

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Add plants to your list by clicking on the wheelbarrow icon

Visit the Create a Peconic Friendly Yard page to learn about the benefits of planting natives in your yard.

Visit the Homeowner Rewards Program page to learn about the rebate program for native plantings.

Create a Plant List

Search Filters

Use the search filters below to identify plants. The list at right will change as you make selections. View the tutorial video if you are unsure how to search.

To search for a specific plant, enter common name or scientific name below.
Regional help text.
Select yes if you wish to narrow your list to native plants only.
Select if you would like plants that attract birds or pollinators like bees, butterflies and other beneficial insects.
Select based on whether you have a problem with deer in your yard.
Make selection based the amount of sunlight or shade in the area you'd like to plant.
Select based on whether your soil is medium drained or periodically wet or moist, well drained or mostly dry or if your soil is wet most of the time.
Make selections based on whether your planting areas are dry most of the time (including extended periods during which there is little or no rain) or if your planting areas have access to irrigation.
If your property is located near the coast and subject to salt spray or salt water, consider plants with high to medium salt tolerance.

All Plants

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Pinus strobus ‘Fastigiata’

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Columnar Eastern White Pine

Columnar Eastern White Pine is a small- to medium-sized, long-needled evergreen conifer with a narrow, columnar shape. Branches grow upright, giving...

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Hylotelephium telephium

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Sedum, Stonecrop

Sedum is an easy-to-grow perennial with succulent green leaves and dense clusters of rosy-pink, star-shaped flowers which bloom from late summer...

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Astilbe spp.

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Astilbe, False Goat's Beard

Astilbe is a shade-loving, summer-flowering perennial with fern-like, dark green foliage. Feathery plumes of tiny, wispy flowers in a variety of...

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Hosta spp.

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Hosta, Plantain Lily

Hosta is a flowering perennial mainly grown for its attractive foliage. The Hosta genus includes many species and varieties with different...

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Lamprocapnos spectabilis

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Bleeding Heart

Bleeding Heart is a shade-loving, spring-flowering perennial. Blooming April-May, the heart-shaped, pink flowers dangle from long, arching stems...

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Scaevola aemula

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Fanflower, Fairy Fanflower

Fanflower is a sprawling, tender perennial grown as an annual in New Jersey. Bluish-purple, fan-shaped flowers with yellow "throats" bloom on...

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Catharanthus roseus

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Madagascar Periwinkle, Periwinkle, Annual Vinca

Madagascar Periwinkle is a tender perennial grown as an annual in New Jersey. It has attractive, glossy leaves and rose-pink, phlox-like flowers,...

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Pentas lanceolata

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Egyptian Starcluster, Pentas

Egyptian Starcluster is a flowering tropical plant grown as an annual in New Jersey. It has lush, green foliage and large, rounded clusters of...

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Chelone glabra

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White Turtlehead

White Turtlehead has white, pink-tinged flowers, which bloom August-October. The blooms resemble the head of a turtle, thus its common name. ...

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Monarda fistulosa

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Wild Bergamot, Beebalm

Wild Bergamot is a highly adaptable, wildlife-friendly perennial. Its showy, tubular, white, pink, or purple flowers form round, wispy clusters atop...

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