List of Native Plants     

 

 

 

Native Plant Lists:            

   

  Native Plants for home landscapes in James City County, New Kent and Charles City

 [Webmaster's note: many of these plants are also native to Gloucester, Mathews and York Counties.]

The above lists were produced by the James City County unit of the Virginia Cooperative Extension (www.ext.vt.edu) and compiled by JCC/W master gardener and John Clayton member Sue Voigt and Virginia Cooperative Extension agent Leanne DuBois with help from John Clayton president and master gardener Helen Hamilton and other members of the Virginia Native Plant Society.  According to the Digital Atlas of Virginia, the species listed are identified as native to James City County, New Kent and Charles City. 

 

Drought Tolerant Native Plants

Drought Tolerant Perennials  

This list was compiled by Helen Hamilton, president of the John Clayton Chapter of the Virginia Native Plant Society.

 

Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation (VDCR) - native plants

www.dcr.virginia.gov/natural_heritage/nativeplants.shtml

The site contains the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation lists of native plants for the  various regions of Virginia and other information about native plants and conservation.

 

America's Anniversary Garden: Native Plants

www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/envirohort/426-223/426-223.html

Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE) developed the America's Anniversary Garden™ to help individuals, communities, and groups commemorate America's 400th Anniversary with a signature landscape, garden, or container planting. These signature gardens have red, white, and blue color schemes and are being promoted throughout Virginia and beyond.  This site gives information about the anniversary commemoration, native plants and includes a red, white and blue native plant list (near the bottom of the page).

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  To offer additions to this list, please contact our Webmaster Jan Newton.

 

Invasive Plants and their Native Alternatives:

 

Non-native, invasive plants are sometimes the exotic ornamental plants that homeowners and landscapers put in flower beds, yards, and along roadsides.  While others are referred to as noxious weeds.  Though exotics sometimes look pretty, if they are invasive when they escape into the wild, they can pose serious environmental threats.

 

What is an Invasive Plant Species?

An "invasive species" is defined as a species that is

  1. Non-native (or alien) to the ecosystem under consideration; and,
  2. Whose introduction causes or is likely to cause economic or environmental harm or harm to human health.

 

Invasive Plant Lists:

  

www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/nativegardening/alternatives.shtml

USDA Forest Service site with loads of native plant information and list of alternatives to invasive species.  

 

 www.dcr.virginia.gov/natural_heritage/invspinfo.shtml

Virginia Department of Conservation & Recreation offers a great site about invasive plants of Virginia and includes list of alien invasives.

 

http://www.nps.gov/plants/alien/pubs/midatlantic/index.htm

National Park Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service provide on-line and Adobe Acrobat printable versions of their Plant Invaders of Mid-Atlantic Natural Areas publication. 

 

http://www.vnps.org/invasive.html

Virginia Native Plant Society provides lists, links and information about invasive plants.

 

http://www.nps.gov/plants/alien/index.htm

Weeds Gone Wild: Alien Plant Invaders of Natural Areas site offers information, lists, publications and articles about alien invasive plants.

 

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Compiled by Helen Hamilton, president of John Clayton Chapter of the Virginia Native Plant Society

 
 This section is Under Construction     - More coming soon...
 
 

John Clayton Chapter of the VNPS, P.O. Box 1128, Williamsburg, VA 23187, www.claytonvnps.org

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