Lehigh Valley Native Plant Directory

This directory provides area residents with a one-stop local resource for native plants:

Where to buy native plants

Homegrown National Park^®
The Lehigh Valley Native Plant Directory is a project of the Master Gardeners in Lehigh and Northampton counties to promote the Homegrown National Park^®.

The Homegrown National Park (HNP), founded by University of Delaware entomology professor Doug Tallamy, is a nationwide not-for-profit organization. Tallamy is also author of The New York Times best-seller “Nature’s Best Hope” and several other acclaimed, groundbreaking titles.

HNP’s goal is to encourage homeowners, corporations, schools, libraries, houses of worship, farmers, and all other landowners to plant native plants, as well as remove invasive plants to help regenerate biodiversity, restore our ecosystem, and protect the food chain. Without insects, we cannot grow food.

The mission of the Homegrown National Park is to replace 20 million acres of invasive and foreign plants with native plants. Tallamy’s research shows, only native plants provide sustenance to America’s dwindling insect population, a threat to the well-being of our food chain.

The 20 million acres, mainly east of the Mississippi River, represents the amount of private land, mostly homes with mowed lawns and decorated with non-native trees and other plants which have zero food value to insects. Lands west of the Mississippi River offer mostly adequate habitats for insects thanks to the large number of US National Parks and other public lands.

HNP is the largest not-for-profit cooperative conservation project ever undertaken in the US.

Join up!
The Homegrown National Park website provides a map where you can add your new and existing native plantings. You will be asked to provide approximate planting size and date, and you have the option to include your planting goal. Signing up on the map is easy and free. Your exact location is not disclosed, only the ZIP code. Please indicate that you were “lit up by” Lehigh Valley Master Gardeners.

Regardless of the size of your yard or patio, you can help promote biodiversity with plants that attract pollinators and provide food for native insects. Every native planting site—big, small, or tiny—helps the Lehigh Valley do its share in increasing biodiversity and by generating lots of dots on the map of the Homegrown National Park^®.

The directory will be updated as needed. Last update: March 5, 2024.

The Master Gardeners of Lehigh and Northampton counties thank the Lehigh Gap Nature Center for hosting the Lehigh Valley Native Plant Directory on its website.