Native Shrubs

Winterberry holly is a native shrub that provides berries for wildlife and winter interest in the garden.

Need a shrub to replace Japanese holly or boxwood? Yaupon holly is native to the southeastern USA and may be more adapted for our warming climate.

This native shrub with fragrant flowers is adapted to the Maryland Coastal Plain.

Looking for a Maryland native shrub that produces fragrant flowers? Sweet pepperbush, also called summersweet (Clethra alnifolia) is a great flowering plant for a pollinator garden or rain garden.

Spicebush is a deciduous flowering shrub native to Maryland.

This native shrub offers multiple seasons of interest and is ideal for forest edges, bird gardens, or rain gardens.

Oakleaf hydrangea is a deciduous flowering shrub native to the southeastern U.S.

A native shrub adapted to the Maryland Coastal Plain

Mapleleaf viburnum (Viburnum acerifolium) is a deciduous flowering shrub native throughout Maryland.

Inkberry holly (Ilex glabra) is an evergreen shrub, native to the Coastal Plain region of Maryland.