Salt-tolerant Native Plants for Southern Ontario Gardens
​Wildflowers, Grasses, Sedges, Rushes
Asters (Symphyotrichum spp.)
Barren strawberry (Waldsteinia fragarioides)
Beardtongue (Penstemon spp.)
Wild bergamot (Monarda fistulosa)
Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta)
Boneset (Eupatorium perfoliatum)
Canada Anemone (Anemone canadensis)
Canada Wild Rye (Elymus canadensis)
Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)
Dotted Mint (Monarda punctata)
Field Pussytoes (Antennaria neglecta)
Golden Alexanders (Zizia spp.)
Goldenrods - grey, showy, stiff, & zigzag (Solidago nemoralis, Solidago speciosa, Oligoneuron rigidum, Solidago flexicaulis)
Grama grasses (Bouteloua spp.)
Grey-head coneflower (Ratibida pinnata)
Helen’s flower or sneezeweed (Helenium autumnale)
Hoary vervain (Verbena stricta)
Indian/Yellow prairie grass (Sorghastrum nutans)
Lanceleaf coreopsis (Coreopsis lanceolata)
Little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium)
Milkweeds, butterfly & swamp (Asclepias tuberosa & Asclepias incarnata)
Nodding Onion (Allium cernuum)
Obedient plant (Physostegia virginiana)
Pearly Everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea)
Phlox (Phlox spp.)
Prairie dropseed (Sporobolus heterolepis)
Prickly pear (Opuntia humifusa)
Purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea)
Rattlesnake master (Eryngium yuccifolium)
Round-headed Bushclover (Lespedeza capitata)
Rough blazing star (Liatris aspera)
Rushes, soft & path (Juncus effusus & Juncus tenuis)
Sedge, fox (Carex vulpinoidea)
Showy Tick Trefoil, Desmodium canadense
Silverweed (Potentilla anserina)
Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum)
Tall Meadow Rue, Thalictrum pubescens
Turtlehead, Chelone glabra
Wild indigos, blue (Baptisia australis)
Wild Strawberry (Fragaria virginiana)
Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
Trees & Shrubs
American plum (Prunus americana)
Black chokeberry (Aronia melanocarpa)
Black gum (Nyssa sylvatica)
Black walnut (Juglans nigra)
Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis)
Chokecherry (Prunus virginiana)
Clove currant (Ribes odoratum)
Eastern cottonwood (Populus deltoides)
Eastern red cedar (Juniperus virginiana)
Elderberry (Sambucus canadensis)
Fringetree (Chionanthus virginicus)
Hackberry (Celtis occidentalis)
Lead plant; indigo bush (Amorpha canescens & Amorpha fruticosa)
Kentucky coffee tree (Gymnocladus dioicus)
Leatherwood (Dirca palustris)
New Jersey tea (Ceanothus americanus)
Northern catalpa (Catalpa speciosa)
Oaks (Quercus spp.)
Red buckeye (Aesculus pavia)
River birch (Betula nigra)
Shagbark hickory (Carya ovata)
Spicebush (Lindera benzoin)
St. John’s wort (Hypericum prolificum)
Sumacs (Rhus spp.)
Sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua)
Thornless honeylocust (Gleditsia triacanthos var. inermis)
Viburnums (Viburnum spp.)
Winterberry (Ilex verticillata)
Vines
American bittersweet (Celastrus scandens)
Trumpet vine (Campsis radicans)
Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia)