Detailed information about the native plants being propagated by the Spring Island Trust Native Plant Project has been gathered by staff through research and experience growing these plants in a garden setting. If you cite or quote this information please credit the Spring Island Trust Native Plant Project.

Looking for more help choosing native plants?

This website highlights native plants (search by zip code) that support birds. You can even search by which group of birds you'd like to attract and plant selections will be generated for you.

The National Wildlife Federation, based on the research of Dr. Doug Tallamy, has created a database by zip code to find plants that host the highest numbers of butterflies and moths to feed birds and other wildlife where you live.

These plant lists, developed by ecoregion, show which genera of native plants support the most unique pollinator species.

Resources used in assembling SITNPP information were the following:

Bringing Nature Home

Bringing Nature Home is a website that supports the books and lecture series about the benefits of native plant gardening by University of Delaware professor Doug Tallamy. He offers a simple solution that anyone with a patch of earth — no matter how small — can follow: Make a contribution to biodiversity by choosing native plants.

Gardening with Native Plants of the South

Sally Wasowski and Andy Wasowski. 1994 Taylor Publishing Company.

Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry and Lower Pee Dee

Richard D. Porcher. 1995 University of South Carolina Press.
(Out of print, but a new version is in progress)

Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast

Laura Cotterman, Damon Waitt, Alan Weakley. 2019 Timber Press.

Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses

James H. Miller and Karl V. Miller. 1999 Southern Weed Science Society.

Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States

Alan S. Weakley. 2020 University of North Carolina Herbarium.

Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas

Albert E. Radford, Harry E. Ahles, and C. Ritchie Bell. 1968 University of North Carolina Press.