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Environmentally Responsible Full Service Native Plant Nursery and Garden Center In Alexandria, Virginia that offers range of native trees, shrubs, perennials, and vines. You can find them at Four Mile Run Farmers' Market on Sundays from 9am to 1pm during Market season. They offer free delivery to all Alexandria mailing addresses and all Northern Virginia locations inside the Beltway. Call them for a delivery estimate outside that area.

Regularly updated list of periodic native plant sales in Northern Virginia maintained by Plant NOVA Natives

Plant NOVA Natives is the all-volunteer, joint marketing campaign of a grand coalition of non-profit, governmental, and private groups, all working to reverse the decline of native plants and wildlife in Northern Virginia. Our strategy is to encourage residents as well as public and commercial entities to install native plants as the first step toward creating wildlife habitat and functioning ecosystems on their own properties.

Provides the largest native plant collection available for retail sales in the United States. With a network of growers across the Midwest, we supply over 700 North American species.

Prairie Restorations, Inc. was founded in 1977 as one of the first companies in the nation devoted exclusively to designing, restoring, and managing native prairie plant communities.

The Reston Association’s Board of Directors updated the invasive plant ban in June, 2016 to include all the plants on the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) Heritage Program’s invasive plant list. Even though many of these plants can be purchased at nurseries and garden centers they are detrimental to our environment

Roundstone Native Seed has been growing and supplying high quality regionally adapted Native Seeds to the eastern United States for over 20 years.

Plants whose native habitats are coastal dunes or saltwater/brackish water marshes and/or those that can tolerate salt spray from roadside salt applications. Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia (MGNV)

List of seedling sales and giveaway in Northern Virginia maintained by Plant NOVA Natives

App by iNaturalist that uses the power of image recognition technology to identify the plants and animals all around you.

Seven Bends Nursery LLC is a native plant nursery focusing on sustainable horticulture and ecosystem based landscaping. Their boutique nursery produces high quality plant material that benefits our livelihood, peace of mind, and health of our landscapes

Native Grasses, Buffalograss and Wildflower Seeds

A design-and-build ecological landscaping company.

Contains detailed descriptions and photographs of 4,630 plants that grow in and around North Carolina. A great number of these plants also are found in Virginia

The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation is an international nonprofit organization that protects the natural world through the conservation of invertebrates and their habitats.

Toadshade Wildflower Farm started in 1996 to make native wildflowers, particularly perennials, more easily available. Their intention is to 1) provide native, perennial, propagated wildflower plants, 2) identify available plants clearly by both common and scientific name, 3) clearly summarize the native range and growth requirements of the wildflowers for sale, and 4) educate folks about the importance of native plants & encourage people to give them a try.

This is not an exhaustive list of native trees and shrubs that support our native bees, but
these are some of the most recommended. This list was shared with Plant NOVA Natives by Dr. Sam
Droege of the USGS Bee Lab.

These plants adapt to drier, well-drained sites and can tolerate local rain shortages. Most thrive in sun and heat, although a few prefer locations with some shade. Some also grow well in exposed areas or on slopes. Master Gardeners Northern Virginia (MGNV)

Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia: These plants help control storm water runoff and ponding by absorbing excess moisture. They are well-suited to conditions in rain gardens, in low spots that collect water, near downspouts, or along water’s edge. Master Gardeners Northern Virginia (MGNV)

Find native plant species that suit your needs. This project is a collaboration between the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation and the Virginia Native Plant Society.

Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) tool allows you to search by Characteristic or Name and helps you choose the perfect native plant species to transform your design into a thriving reality.

The Virginia Native Plant Society (VNPS), founded in 1982 as the Virginia Wildflower Preservation Society, is a nonprofit organization of individuals who share an interest in Virginia’s native plants and habitats.

Riparian buffers support a variety of plants and animals, particularly plants that are adapted to periodic flooding or saturated soils. Riparian forest buffers consist of four vegetation zones. Zone 1, the emergent vegetation zone, is permanently to semipermanently flooded and often dominated by grasses, sedges, rushes and other herbaceous plants. Zone 2, the riverside thicket, may be seasonally to temporarily flooded and is often characterized by emergent aquatic species, shrubs and a few tree species. Zone 3, the saturated forest, has soils that are saturated to poorly drained. Zone 4, the well-drained forest, is also known as upland forest and has dry soil. Zones 3 and 4 are dominated by trees but also contain shrub and herb layers in the understo. Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation and the Virginia Native Plant Society.

App created by Virginia Tech that can narrow the list of potential tree or shrub species based on your GPS location and simple questions about the tree or shrub.

Watermark Woods goal is making native plants more readily available to the people of Loudoun County was the way to make a difference in our community.

Nursery dedicated to discovering, growing, and promoting rare and unusual plants that are native to the Appalachian region.

Yellow House Natives is a native perennial nursery in Berryville, Virginia with approximately 3,000 plants made up of 60 or so varieties that are all natives. If you are interested in visiting my nursery, please contact the nursery first