Jersey-Friendly Plant Database

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Search for a specific plant or use the search filters below to identify plants. The list of plants will change as you make selections. As you select more filters your list will narrow. View the tutorial video if you are unsure how to search.

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To search for a specific plant, enter common name or scientific name below.

Select a Region

New Jersey is divided into four main physiographic regions based on differences in relief, landforms, and geology – Ridge and Valley, Highlands, Piedmont, and Coastal Plain. The boundary between each region is determined by a major change in topography and geology. For more information see New Jersey’s physiographic regions

Select one of these options if you live in one of these ecoregions. Leave unchecked if you are not sure.

Select yes if you wish to narrow your list to New Jersey native plants only. Learn more.

Select based on whether you have a problem with deer in your yard. Learn more.

Select if you would like plants that attract birds or pollinators like bees, butterflies and other beneficial insects. Link for more info.

Make selection based the amount of sunlight or shade in the area you'd like to plant. Learn more.

If you know your soil type, make the appropriate selection. Learn more about soil types.

If you know your soil pH, make a selection. If you are uncertain, consider getting a soil test.

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Select based on whether your soil is wet most of the time, periodically wet or moist (medium-drained), or dry most of the time (well-drained). Learn more.

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. Learn more.

If your property is in a coastal area and subject to salt spray or salt water (or if you’re planting along roadways frequently exposed to winter de-icing products), consider plants with high to medium salt tolerance. Learn more.

Plants

photo of Dryopteris cristata
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Dryopteris cristata

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Crested Woodfern, Crested Shield Fern

Crested Woodfern is an evergreen fern. The tall, fertile fronds die back in the winter, but the infertile fronds stay green throughout the winter...

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Diospyros virginiana

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Persimmon

Persimmon is a deciduous tree known for its edible fruit. Its white to whitish-green, fragrant flowers bloom in the spring. Persimmon is usually...

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Dianthus plumarius

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Grass Pink, Border Pink, Feathered Pink

Grass Pink is a mat-forming, flowering perennial with narrow, grass-like, gray-green leaves. It is covered with fragrant, pink flowers May-July. This...

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Deschampsia flexuosa

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Wavy Hairgrass

Wavy Hairgrass is a winter-hardy, ornamental grass with fine-textured, hair-like blades. Feathery purple to bronze flowers appear July-September,...

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Dennstaedtia punctilobula

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Eastern Hayscented Fern, Hay-scented Fern

Eastern Hayscented Fern is a deciduous fern with light-green, finely textured, lacy fronds. The fronds can be cut for use in flower arrangements. ...

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Delosperma spp.

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Ice Plant

Ice Plant is a long-blooming, succulent plant with excellent drought resistance. Its attractive leaves reflect light in a way that makes them appear...

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Dasiphora fruticosa ssp. floribunda

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Shrubby Cinquefoil, Golden Hardhack, Potentilla

Shrubby Cinquefoil is a low-growing, long-blooming, deciduous shrub. It has small, grayish-green, compound leaves and is covered with showy, yellow...

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Crocus vernus

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Crocus, Dutch Crocus, Spring Crocus

Crocus is one of the first plants to bloom in the spring. It grows from a corm, which is a bulb-like underground stem structure. White or purple...

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Crataegus crus-galli

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Cockspur Hawthorn

Cockspur Hawthorn is a small, low-branched tree, also grown as a tall shrub. Flat clusters of white flowers with a somewhat unpleasant odor bloom in...

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Cotinus coggygria

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Smoketree, European Smoketree, Smokebush

Common Smoketree is a deciduous shrub with bluish-green leaves. It gets its name from flower parts covering the shrub with attractive, smoke-like,...