Native Plants of South Dakota
Native plants of South Dakota include mixed grass prairie species adapted to extreme temperatures and variable precipitation. These plants support grassland ecosystems.
Acer saccharinum
Silver Maple Soft Maple White Maple
Actaea rubra
Red Baneberry
Adiantum pedatum
Northern Maidenhair Fern Maidenhair Fern
Allium canadense
Meadow Garlic Wild Garlic Wild Onion
Allium stellatum
Autumn Onion Prairie Onion
Amelanchier arborea
Common Serviceberry Downy Serviceberry Shadbush Juneberry Junebush Shadblow Sarvis
American vetch
Vicia americana
Amorpha fruticosa
Indigo Bush False Indigo Bush False Indigo Desert False Indigo
Amorpha nana
Dwarf False Indigo Fragrant Indigo-bush Fragrant False Indigo Dwarf Wild Indigo
Andropogon gerardii
Big Bluestem Tall Bluestem Turkeyfoot
Andropogon hallii
Sand Bluestem
Anemone canadensis
Canadian Anemone Round-leaf Thimbleweed Canada Anemone Windflower Meadow Anemone
Anemone cylindrica
Candle Anemone Long-headed Thimbleweed Longhead Thimbleweed Thimbleweed
Aquilegia canadensis
Eastern Red Columbine Wild Red Columbine
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
Kinnikinnick Red Bearberry Kinnikinnik
Arisaema triphyllum
Jack In The Pulpit Indian Jack In The Pulpit Jack-in-the-pulpit
Asclepias incarnata
Swamp Milkweed Pink Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
Whorled Milkweed Eastern Whorled Milkweed
Athyrium filix-femina
Common Lady Fern Subarctic Lady Fern Lady Fern Ladyfern
Betula papyrifera
Paper Birch Canoe Birch White Birch
Blue giant hyssop
Agastache foeniculum
Bouteloua curtipendula
Sideoats Grama Banderilla Banderita Navajita
Bouteloua gracilis
Blue Grama
Bromus kalmii
Arctic Brome Prairie Brome Wild Chess
Calamagrostis canadensis
Bluejoint
Campanula rotundifolia
Bluebell Bellflower Bluebell Of Scotland Bluebell Harebell Witches' Thimble
Carex pensylvanica
Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex stipata
Awlfruit Sedge Awl-fruited Sedge Stalk-grain Sedge
Celastrus scandens
American Bittersweet
Celtis occidentalis
Common Hackberry Northern Hackberry American Hackberry Nettle Tree Beaverwood False Elm
Chamaecrista fasciculata
Partridge Pea Sleepingplant Sensitive Plant
Chamerion angustifolium ssp. angustifolium
Fireweed Narrow-leaf Fireweed Willow Herb
Chokecherry
Prunus virginiana
Cornus canadensis
Bunchberry Dogwood Canadian Bunchberry
Cornus racemosa
Gray Dogwood
Cornus sericea
Red Osier Dogwood Red Osier Red-twig Dogwood
Corylus americana
American Hazelnut American Filbert
Crataegus mollis
Downy Hawthorn White Thorn Whitethorn Scarlet Hawthorn Scarlet Haw Red Haw Downy Thorn
Dasiphora fruticosa ssp. floribunda
Shrubby Cinquefoil Golden Hardhack Potentilla
Desmodium canadense
Showy Tick Trefoil
Dotted blazing star
Liatris punctata
Eastern pasqueflower
Pulsatilla patens
Echinacea angustifolia
Black Samson Black Samson Echinacea Narrow-leaf Coneflower
Elymus canadensis
Canada Wild Rye Canadian Wildrye Prairie Wildrye Nodding Wildrye
Erythranthe floribunda
Manyflowered Monkeyflower Purple-stem Monkey-flower Many-flowered Monkey-flower Many Flowered Monkey Flower
Eupatorium perfoliatum
Common Boneset
Euphorbia corollata
Flowering Spurge
Euthamia graminifolia
Flat-top Goldentop Grass-leaved Goldenrod
Fragaria virginiana
Virginia Strawberry Wild Strawberry
Fraxinus pennsylvanica
Green Ash Red Ash Swamp Ash River Ash Water Ash Darlington Ash
Gaillardia aristata
Common Gaillardia Great Blanketflower Blanketflower Brown-eyed Susan
Gentiana andrewsii
Closed Bottle Gentian Closed Gentian Bottle Gentian
Geum triflorum
Old Man's Whiskers Prairie Smoke Purple Avens
Golden tickseed
Coreopsis tinctoria
Helenium autumnale
Common Sneezeweed Fall Sneezeweed Autumn Sneezeweed
Heliopsis helianthoides
Smooth Oxeye Oxeye Sunflower False Sunflower
Large beardtongue
Penstemon grandiflorus
Leadplant
Amorpha canescens
Maximilian sunflower
Helianthus maximiliani
Narrowleaf coneflower
Echinacea angustifolia
Prairie ironweed
Vernonia fasciculata
Prairie spiderwort
Tradescantia occidentalis
Purple prairie clover
Dalea purpurea
Rocky Mountain beeplant
Cleome serrulata
Scarlet globemallow
Sphaeralcea coccinea
Showy milkweed
Asclepias speciosa
Showy ticktrefoil
Desmodium canadense
Silver buffaloberry
Shepherdia argentea
Smooth blue aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
Stiff goldenrod
Oligoneuron rigidum
Stiff sunflower
Helianthus pauciflorus
Upright prairie coneflower
Ratibida columnifera
Wild bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
Woods' rose
Rosa woodsii