Native Plants

Welcome to Pine Grove Farm! We are passionate about preserving and promoting the beauty of NC native plants/trees/shrubs and grasses. We currently have 173 and counting naturally occurring or cultivated NC native plants. Here's a summary of what we offer:

1. Selected Native Plants: We are working to provide a small selection of high-quality NC native plants. Whether you're looking to enhance your garden, or restore natural habitats, native plants will help you bring vibrant colors and sustainable ecosystems to life.

2. Advice and Guidance: Whether you're a seasoned gardener or a beginner, we're here to help answer your questions and help you achieve your native plant goals.

3. Conservation and Sustainability: At Pine Grove Farm, we prioritize conservation and sustainability. By using native plants, you contribute to the preservation of local ecosystems, support pollinators, and promote biodiversity. We are committed to ethical sourcing and sustainable practices throughout our Farm, ensuring that our plants have a minimal environmental impact.

4. Educational Resources: We believe in the power of education and awareness. Our website provides a wealth of resources to help you deepen your understanding of native plants and their benefits. We are working to organize workshops and events where you can learn directly from experts and connect with fellow native plant enthusiasts.

Join us in our mission to bring the beauty and ecological value of NC native plants to your landscape. Whether you're an individual homeowner, a landscaper, or an organization dedicated to conservation, Pine Grove Farm can help with all things native plant related. Let's create a more vibrant, sustainable, and biodiverse world together!

Canopy Trees: 16 Naturally Occurring

  1. Long Leaf Pine, Pinus australis
  2. Loblolly Pine, Pinus taeda
  3. Eastern White Pine, Pinus strobus
  4. Carolina Hemlock, Tsuga carolininia
  5. Post Oak, Quercus stellata
  6. Blackjack Oak, Quercas marilandica
  7. Southern Red / Quercus falcata
  8. Northern Red / Quercus rubra
  9. Willow Oak, Quercus phellos
  10. Pignut Hickory, Carya glabra
  11. Common Persimmon, Diospyros virginiana
  12. Mockernut Hickory, Carya tomentosa
  13. Eastern Red Maple, Acer rubrum
  14. Black Willow, Salix Nigra
  15. River Birch, Betula Nigra
  16. Southern Magnolia, Magnolia Grandiflora

Understory Trees: 12 – 7 Naturally Occurring / 5 Planted

  1. Flowering Dogwood, Cornus florida
  2. Sassafras, Sassafras albidum
  3. Eastern Red Cedar, Juniperus virginiana
  4. American Holly, Ilex Opaca
  5. Wild Black Cherry, Prunus serotina
  6. Turkey / Scrub Oak, Quercus laevis
  7. Carolina Cherry Laurel, Prunus caroliniana
  8. Redbud Trees, Cercis canadensis
  9. Carolina Fringe, Chionanthus virginicus
  10. Red Buckeye, Aesculus pavia
  11. Bottlebrush Buckeye, Aesculus parviflora
  12. Painted Buckeye, Aesculus sylvatica

Herbaceous Flowering Plants:Summer-blooming:
60 – 18 Naturally Occurring / 42 Planted

  1. Kidney-Leaf Rosinweed, Silphium compositum
  2. Juniperleaf/Rustweed, Polypremum procumbens
  3. Prairie Fleabane, Erigeron strigosus
  4. Dixie Whitetop Aster, Sericocarpus tortfolius
  5. Sandhill Thistle, Cirsium repandum
  6. Roundhead Bushclover, Lespedeza capitata
  7. Slender Bushclover, Lespedeza virginica
  8. Rabbit Tobacco, Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium
  9. Spotted Wintergreen, Chimaphila maculate
  10. Cranefly Orchid, Tipularia discolor
  11. Hyssopleaf Thoroughwort, Eupatorium hyssopifolium
  12. Clasping Milkweed, Asclepias amplexicaulis
  13. Rough/Wrinkle Leaf Goldenrod, Solidago rugosa
  14. Coastal Dawnflower, Stylisma patens
  15. Sandhills Blazing Star, Liatris Cokeri
  16. Licorice Bedstraw, Galium circaezans
  17. Roundleaf Tick Trefoil, Desmodium rotundifolium
  18. Mistflower/Blue Boneset, Conoclinium coelestinum
  19. Lance-leaf, Plains, Large Flowered & Goldenmane, Coreopsis
  20. Purple Coneflower, Echinacea purpurea
  21. Black-eyed Susan, Rudbeckia hirta
  22. Red Bee Balm, Monarda didyma
  23. Swamp Milkweed, Asclepias incarnata
  24. Clustered Mountain Mint, Pycnanthemum muticum
  25. Cardinal Flower, Lobelia cardinalis
  26. Stokes Aster, Stokesia laevis
  27. Joe-Pye Weed, Eutrochium fistulosum
  28. Orange Butterfly Weed, Asclepias tuberosa
  29. Scaly Blazing Star, Liatris squarrossa
  30. Blanket Flower, Gaillardia pulchells
  31. Wild Bergamot, Monarda fistulosa
  32. Blue Wild indigo, Baptistia Australis
  33. Green & Gold, Chrysogonum virginianum
  34. Nodding Onion, Allium cernuum
  35. Red Bee Balm, Monarda Didyma Jacob Kline
  36. Common Milkweed, Asclepias syriaca
  37. Yarrow, Achillea millefolium
  38. Narrow leaf Mountain Mint, Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
  39. Orange Coneflower, Rudbeckia fulgida
  40. Roundleaf Thoroughwort, Eupatorium rotundifolium
  41. Rattlesnake Master, Eryngium Yuccifolum
  42. Golden Alexandar, Zizea Aurea
  43. White Wild Indigo, Baptisia Alba
  44. Culvers Root, Veronicastrum virginicum
  45. Sweet Joe Pye Weed, Eutrochium purpureum
  46. Gaura Biennis, Oenothera gaura
  47. Great Blue Lobelia, Lobelia Siphilitica
  48. Queen of the Prairie, Filipendula rubra
  49. Brown-eyed Susan, Rudbeckia Triloba
  50. Obedient Plant, Physostegia virginiana
  51. American Alumroot, Heuchera
  52. Ginseng, Panax quinquefolius
  53. Poke Milkweed, Asclepias exaltata
  54. Common Leopards Bane, Arnica acaulis
  55. Cup Plant, Silphium Perfoliatum
  56. Compass Plant, Silphium Laciniatum
  57. Spider Milkweed, Asclepias viridis
  58. Whorled Milkweed, Asclepias verticillate
  59. Pink Turtlehead, Chelone obliqua
  60. Boneset, Eupatorium perfoliatum

Herbaceous Flowering Plants: Fall-blooming:
19 – 10 Naturally Occurring / 9 Planted

  1. Poorjoe, Hexasepalum teres
  2. Bearded Beggarticks, Bidens aristosa
  3. Licorice/Anise Goldenrod, Solidago odora
  4. Sandywoods Chaffhead, Carpheohorus bellidifolius
  5. Threadleaf False Foxglove, Agalinis setacea
  6. Maryland Golden Aster, Chrysopsis mariana
  7. Pineland Silkgrass, Pityopsis aspera
  8. Dogfennel, Eupatorium capillifolium
  9. Forked Blue Curls, Trichostema dichotomum
  10. White Panicled Aster, Symphyotrichum lanceolatum
  11. Spotted Bee Balm, Monarda punctata
  12. Partridge Pea, Chamaecrista fasciculata
  13. Swamp Sunflower, Helianthus angustifolius
  14. Dense Blazing Star, Liatris spicata
  15. Heart leaved aster Symphyotrichum cordifolium
  16. Blue stemmed Goldenrod, Solidago caesei
  17. Slender Goldenrod, Solidago erecta
  18. Stiff Goldenrod, Solidago Rigida
  19. Devils Grandmother, Elephantopus tomentosus

Herbaceous Flowering Plants: Spring-blooming: 29 – 22 Naturally Occurring / 7 Planted

  1. Tread Softly, Spurge Nettle (not a true nettle), Finger Rot, Cnidoscolus stimulosus
  2. Bird-foot Violet, Viola pedata
  3. Blue Toadflax, Nuttallanthus canadensis
  4. Yellow Wood Sorrel, Oxalis stricta
  5. Flowering Spurge, Euphorbia corollata
  6. Southeastern Flowering Spurge, Euphorbia pubentissima
  7. Smalls Ragwort, Packera anonyma
  8. Small Venus Looking Glass, Triodanis perfoliate
  9. Goats Rue, Tephrosia virginiana
  10. Grassleaf Roseling (Spiderwort family), Cuthbertia graminea
  11. Poor Man’s Pepper, Lepidium virginicum
  12. Tiny Bluet, Houstonia pusilla
  13. Wild Pansy, Viola bicolor
  14. Pine Barren/Carolina Sandwort, Minuartia caroliniana
  15. Evening Primrose, Oenothera biennis
  16. Trailing arbutus/Mayflower, Epigaea repens
  17. Roundleaf bluet, Houstonia procumbens
  18. Woolly sunbonnets/Pineland daisy, Chaptalia tomentosa
  19. Blue Sandhill Lupine, Lupinus diffuses
  20. Coastal Plain Wireplant, Stipulicida setacea
  21. Carolina Horsenettle, Solanum carolinense
  22. Narrow blue-eyed grass, Sisyrinchium angustfolium
  23. Columbine, Aquilegia canadensis
  24. Goldenseal, Hydrastis canadensis
  25. Wild Ginger, Asarum canadense
  26. Lyre Leaf Sage, Salvia Lyrata
  27. Spring Beauty, Claytonia Virginica
  28. Mayapple, Podophyllum peltatum
  29. Virginia Spiderwort, Tradescantia virginiana

Shrubs: 15 – 9 Naturally Occurring / 6 Planted

  1. St Andrews Cross, Hypericum hypericoides
  2. Dwarf Huckleberry, Gaylussacia Dumosa
  3. Sawtooth Blackberry, Rubus argutus
  4. Eastern Prickly Pear, Opuntia humifusa
  5. Deerberry, Vaccinium stamineum
  6. Flameleaf Sumac, Rhus copallinum
  7. Sandhills Saint Johns Wort, Hypericum lloydii
  8. Poison Oak, Toxicodendron pubescens
  9. Eastern Mayhaw, Craetaegus aestivalis
  10. Highbush Blueberry, Vaccinium corymbosum
  11. Snow Queen Oakleaf Hydrangea, Hydrangea quercifolia
  12. American Beautyberry, Callicarpa americana
  13. Fothergilla gardenia, Dwarf fothergilla
  14. Virginia Sweetspire, Itea virginica
  15. Allspice, Calycanthus floridus

Ferns: 2 – 2 Naturally Occurring

  1. Bracken Fern, Pteridium latiusculum
  2. Ebony Spleenwort, Asplenium platyneuron

Grasses: 12 – 11 Naturally Occurring / 1 Planted

  1. Carolina Wiregrass/Pineland Threeawn, Aristida stricta
  2. Orange Grass/Pine Weed, Hypericum gentianoides
  3. Common Rush, Juncus effuses
  4. Broomsedge bluestem, Andropogon virginicus
  5. Purple Lovegrass, Eragrostis spectabilis
  6. Deer-tongue witchgrass, Dichanthelium clandestinum
  7. Velvet Panicum, Dichanthelium scoparium
  8. Little Bluestem, Schizachyrium scoparium
  9. Splitbeard Bluestem, Andropogon ternarius
  10. Rough Bent Grass, Agrostis scrabra
  11. Silky Oat Grass, Danthonia sericea
  12. Pink Muhly Grass, Muhlenbergia capillaris

Vines: Herbaceous or Woody: 5 – 5 Naturally Occurring

  1. Muscadine, Vitis rotundifolia – SE native
  2. Virginia Creeper, Parthenocissus quinquefolia
  3. Carolina Jessamine, Gelsemium Sempervirens
  4. Cat Greenbriar, Smilax glauca
  5. Purple Passionflower/Maypop, Passiflora incarnata

Mosses & Lichens: 3 – 3 Naturally Occurring

  1. Broom forkmoss, Dicranum scoparium
  2. Juniper haircap, Polytrichum juniperinum
  3. Pincushion moss, Leucobryum glaucum