Native plants of the Rockies & Great Basin
These 54 plants belong to the Rockies & Great Basin. They were here before the gardens were: they know the weather, live on the rain that falls, and feed the insects and birds that grew up alongside them. Plant a few and your yard starts to fit its place.
Berries and small fruit (2)
- Golden currant (clove currant) · zones 2–8
- Serviceberry · zones 4–8
Native and wild plants (51)
- American cranberrybush · zones 2–7
- American plum · zones 3–8
- Anise hyssop · zones 3–8
- Banana yucca · zones 5–9
- Beaked hazelnut · zones 4–8
- Black-eyed Susan · zones 3–9
- Blanket flower · zones 3–10
- Blue elderberry · zones 5–10
- Blue grama · zones 3–10
- Blue vervain · zones 3–8
- Camas · zones 4–8
- Cattail · zones 3–10
- Chokecherry · zones 2–7
- Common juniper · zones 2–7
- Common sunflower · zones 2–11
- Desert globemallow · zones 6–10
- Douglas fir · zones 4–8
- Dwarf fireweed (paunnat, river beauty) · zones 1–6
- Fireweed · zones 2–7
- Gambel oak · zones 4–8
- Goldenrod · zones 3–9
- Highbush cranberry (squashberry) · zones 2–6
- Little bluestem · zones 3–9
- Mountain huckleberry · zones 4–8
- Mountain sorrel (qunguliq) · zones 1–6
- New England aster · zones 3–8
- Ninebark · zones 2–8
- Nodding onion · zones 3–9
- Nootka rose · zones 3–8
- Oregon grape · zones 5–9
- Paper birch · zones 2–7
- Pinyon pine · zones 4–8
- Ponderosa pine · zones 3–7
- Prairie smoke · zones 3–7
- Prickly wild rose · zones 1–6
- Purple prairie clover · zones 3–8
- Quaking aspen · zones 1–7
- Riverbank grape · zones 2–8
- Rocky Mountain penstemon · zones 4–8
- Showy milkweed · zones 3–9
- Sideoats grama · zones 3–9
- Silver buffaloberry · zones 2–7
- Smooth sumac · zones 2–9
- Swamp milkweed · zones 3–8
- Thimbleberry · zones 3–8
- Western columbine · zones 4–8
- Western red cedar · zones 5–8
- Western sand cherry · zones 3–6
- Wild bergamot · zones 3–9
- Wild strawberry · zones 3–9
- Yarrow (native) · zones 3–9
Helper plants for soil, wildlife and biomass (1)
- Milkweed · zones 3–9
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General guidance, not professional advice. Conditions vary by yard and year; for local specifics ask your county extension office. Never eat a wild plant you cannot identify with certainty. Traditional uses are shared as history, not medical advice. © 2026 Sean Priest · Irie Orchard. Terms & credits · Privacy · Home