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Native plants in Yonkers
965 plants are genuinely native to this area — not merely able to survive here. They are grouped below by what they do in a garden, from canopy trees down to groundcovers.
Best represented here: perennials (517), grasses (191), shrubs (158) · 718 of them need no watering beyond Yonkers’s own rainfall
Showing 306 plants · 659 more are native here but not in the catalog yet
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Trees71
Canopy and structureShrubs69
Backbone plantingGrasses38
Movement and texturePerennials133
Seasonal colourVines5
Verticals and screensFerns20
Shade and dampSucculents1
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