What are some good native perennials for my landscape?

Question:

What are some good native perennials for my landscape?

Answer:

Dozens of native prairie and woodland perennials are wonderful ornamental additions to the landscape.  These plants are all native to the state of Iowa.  The list includes plants that grow in a wide variety of conditions, from sun to shade and wet to dry soil conditions.

• yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
• northern maidenhair fern (Adiantum pedatum)
• prairie onion (Allium stellatum)
• leadplant (Amorpha canescens)
• big bluestem (Andropogon gerardi)
• wild columbine (Aquilegia canadensis) 
• Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum)
• prairie sage (Artemisia ludoviciana)
• goat's beard (Aruncus dioicus)
• wild ginger (Asarum canadense)
• butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa)
• lady fern (Athyrium filix-femina)
• white wild indigo (Baptisia lactea)
• side-oats grama (Bouteloua curtipendula)
• New Jersey tea (Ceanothus americanus)
• northern sea oats (Chasmanthium latifolium)
• prairie tickseed (Coreopsis palmata)
• white lady slipper (Cypripedium candidum)
• purple prairie clover (Dalea purpurea)
• tufted hairgrass (Deschampsia cespitosa)
• Dutchman's breeches (Dicentra cucullaria) 
• shooting star (Dodecatheon meadia)
• intermediate wood fern (Dryopteris intermedia)
• pale purple coneflower (Echinacea pallida)
• purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea)
• closed bottle gentian (Gentiana andrewsii)
• wild geranium (Geranium maculatum)
• prairie smoke (Geum triflorum)
• sneezeweed (Helenium autumnale)
• false sunflower (Heliopsis helianthoides)
• prairie alumroot (Heuchera richardsonii)
• prairie blazing star (Liatris pycnostachya)
• Michigan lily (Lilium michiganense)
• wood lily (Lilium philadelphicum)
• great blue lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica)
• fringed loosestrife (Lysimachia ciliata)
• false Solomon's seal (Maianthemum racemosa) 
• ostrich fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris)
• Virginia bluebells (Mertensia virginica)
• wild bergamont (Monarda fistulosa) 
• spotted beebalm (Monarda punctata)
• sensitive Fern (Onoclea sensibilis)
• eastern prickly pear (Opuntia compressa)
• cinnamon fern (Osmunda cinnamomeum)
• switchgrass (Panicum virgatum )
• wild quinine (Parthenium integrifolium)
• foxglove beardtongue (Penstemon digitalis) 
• large-flowered beardtongue (Penstemon grandiflorus)
• woodland phlox (Phlox divaricata)
• wild sweet William (Phlox maculata)
• May apple (Podophyllum peltatum)
• Solomon's seal (Polygonatum biflorum)
• Christmas Fern (Polystichum acrostichoides)
• self-heal (Prunella vulgaris)
• slender mountain mint (Pycnanthemum tenuifolium)
• Virginia mountain mint (Pycnanthemum virginianum)
• longhead coneflower (Ratibida columnifera)
• prairie coneflower (Ratibida pinnata)
• black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta)
• sweet coneflower (Rudbeckia subtomentosa)
• bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis) 
• little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium)
• small skullcap (Scutellaria parvula)
• compass plant (Silphium laciniatum)
• Indian grass (Sorghastrum nutans)
• giant goldenrod (Solidago gigantea)
• Missouri goldenrod (Solidago missouriensis)
• stiff goldenrod (Solidago rigida)
• showy goldenrod (Solidago speciosa)
• prairie dropseed (Sporobolus heterolepis)
• smooth blue aster (Symphyotrichum laeve)
• New England aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae)
• aromatic aster (Symphyotrichum oblongifolium)
• willowleaf aster (Symphyotrichum praealtum)
• purple meadow rue (Thalictrum dasycarpum)
• prairie spiderwort (Tradescantia bracteata)
• Ohio spiderwort (Tradescantia ohiensis)
• merrybells (Uvularia grandiflora)
• hoary vervain (Verbena stricta)
• ironweed (Vernonia fasciculata)
• Culver's root (Veronicastrum virginicum)
• bird's foot violet (Viola pedata)
• soapweed (Yucca glauca)
• golden Alexander (Zizia aurea)