The WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with CLEAN WATERS and healthy forests, wildlife and NATURAL AREAS for the benefit of present and future generations.

Western Pennsylvania, celebrated for its picturesque Allegheny Mountains and the Laurel Highlands’ lush valleys, is home to a rich variety of native plants. The region’s distinct landscapes provide an ideal setting for sustainable gardens, which is why we’ve created a list of the best native plants for Western Pennsylvania.

Practice responsible landscaping techniques. Choose the right plants for the site: wet or dry, shade or sun, acid or neutral soil. Learn to identify the local plants to guide plant selection.

The beautiful and varied landscapes of Western Pennsylvania range from high plateaus and mountain ridges to vast forests and rich river valleys. These lands and waterways provide and sustain native, rare, threatened and endangered plants, animals and ecosystems that, in some cases, are found nowhere else on Earth.

There are more than 2,000 native plant species in Western Pennsylvania. This list includes easy-to-find and easy-to-grow native flowering native plants. Please see our recommended resources for more information on other species, as well as grasses, shrubs, and trees.

Get your hands dirty and dig a little deeper, the varieties of plants that thrive in western Pennsylvania are many. Play with different color, bloom schedule, and height combinations to spice up your landscape.

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The Western Pennsylvania Conservancy (WPC) is a private nonprofit conservation organization founded in 1932 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. WPC has contributed land to 12 state parks and conserved more than 290,000 acres of natural lands.

explores native to Western Pennsylvania, low-growing and low-maintenance groundcovers which act as a lawn alterna-tive for the front of your property, where municipal require-ments may prohibit returning to meadow or growing food. For other ideas, a simple internet search will provide more than enough resources. Works Cited “Plant Finder.”

If you took advantage of Wild Ones plant rescues, seed gatherings and exchanges, you could conceivably landscape at no expense. Most natural landscapers, however, choose to buy seed and plants from native plant nurseries.