Plants of Southern New Jersey

Oxygenating Plants

coontail

True Aquatics (with standing water above crown, sun)

white water lily+

spatterdock*

Emergents (very shallow water or muck soil, sun)

broadleaf arrowhead

blue flag+

cattail, narrow & broad+

goldenclub+

lizard tail

marsh marigold

monkeyflower, Allegheny

pickerelweed*

rice cutgrass

scouringrush horsetail

slender blue iris+

water knotweed

Marsh Plants (shallow water, sun)/Wet Meadow (saturated soil, sun)

arrow arum*

cardinal flower*

common boneset

golden ragwort

goldenrod

jewelweed

joe pyeweed

NY ironweed

rosemallow

saltmarsh mallow

sneezeweed

swamp loosestrife+

swamp milkweed+

swamp sunflower*

swamp verbena

turtlehead+

meadow beauty+

Swamp (wet woods, shade)

joe pyeweed

black bugbane

jack in the pulpit

jewelweed

Rushes and Sedges for wet places

awlfruit sedge

burreed

common three-square

cordgrass

soft rush

tussock sedge

woolgrass*

Ferns for wet places

cinnamon fern+

interrupted fern

lady fern+

ostrich fern

royal fern

sensitive fern+

Virginia chain fern

Shrubs for wet places

alder

arrowwood viburnum

buttonbush+

inkberry

possomhaw viburnum

red chokeberry

silky dogwood

spicebush

steeplebush

swamp azalea+

swamp rose

sweetpepper bush

Virginia sweetspire

winterberry

Trees for wet places

Atlantic white cedar

black gum

black willow

green ash

pin oak

red maple

river birch

serviceberry

swamp white oak*

sweet gum

sweetbay magnolia

sycamore

Sources of Native Aquatic Plants:

Bowman's Hill Wildflower Preserve (online seed ordering available)
P.O. Box 685
New Hope, PA 18939
215 862-2924
http://www.bhwp.org

Earth First Native Plant Nursery (online ordering available)
2501 Tilton Rd. #810
Egg Harbor Twp, NJ 08234
609 287-5090
http://www.earthfirstnatives.com

Pond Pro Aquatics
2443 Monmouth Road
Jobstown, NJ 08041
609 723-4220

Triple Oaks Nursery & Herb Garden (pondside shrubs)
2359 Delsea Drive
Franklinville, NJ 08322-2539
856 694-4272
http://www.tripleoaks.com

New Jersey Native Plant & Seed Exchange
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nativeplantexchange

All images either +Renee Brecht, * Robert H. Mohlenbrock @ USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database; remainder used under Creative Copyleft License, wikicommons