There are so many Japanese native plants due simply to geography. Japan is a long, narrow, mountainous country that spans over 2,000 miles from north to south, with latitudes equivalent to Maine south to Florida.
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Polygonatum humile 'Shiro Shima'
Item #: 11865
Zones: 4a to 9b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 3" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Shade
Origin: Japan
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Polygonatum odoratum 'Angel Wing' PP 21,543
Item #: 3167
Zones: 4a to 9b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 18" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: China, Japan, Korea
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Polygonatum odoratum 'Byakko'
Item #: 7624
Zones: 4a to 9b, at least
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 30" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Shade
Origin: Japan
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Polygonatum odoratum 'Variegatum'
Item #: 895
Zones: 4a to 9b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 20" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Shade
Origin: Asia, China, Japan
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Polystichum makinoi
Next crop available: 02/11/2022
Item #: 6508
Zones: 5a to 8b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 24" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: China, India, Japan
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Polystichum polyblepharum
Item #: 1266
Zones: 5b to 9b, at least
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 18" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Shade
Origin: Japan, Korea
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Primula japonica
Item #: 1789
Zones: 4a to 8b, at least
Dormancy: Summer, Fall
Height: 18" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: Japan
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Pyrrosia lingua 'Alabama Gold'
Item #: 4104
Zones: 7b to 10b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 10" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: China, Japan, Taiwan
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Pyrrosia lingua 'Hiryu'
Item #: 8923
Zones: 7b to 10b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 7" tall
Culture: Light Shade
Origin: China, Japan, Taiwan
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Pyrrosia lingua 'Kei Kan'
Item #: 6896
Zones: 7b to 10b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 7" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: China, Japan, Taiwan
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Pyrrosia lingua 'Nokogiri Ba'
Item #: 10022
Zones: 7b to 10b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 8" tall
Culture: Light Shade
Origin: China, Japan
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Rohdea japonica
Item #: 1088
Zones: 6a to 10b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 12" tall
Culture: Light Shade to Shade
Origin: Japan
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Rohdea japonica 'Chirimen Boshi'
Item #: 2147
Zones: 6a to 10b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 12" tall
Culture: Light Shade to Shade
Origin: Japan
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Rohdea japonica 'Go Dai Takane'
Item #: 12634
Zones: 6a to 9b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 12" tall
Culture: Light Shade to Shade
Origin: Japan
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Rohdea japonica 'Gunjaku'
Item #: 2152
Zones: 6a to 10b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 10" tall
Culture: Light Shade to Shade
Origin: Japan
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Rohdea japonica 'Herbie'
Next crop available: 01/21/2022
Item #: 2705
Zones: 6a to 10b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 8" tall
Culture: Light Shade to Shade
Origin: Japan
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Rohdea japonica 'Talbot Manor'
Item #: 2149
Zones: 6a to 10b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 10" tall
Culture: Light Shade to Shade
Origin: Japan
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Salvia glabrescens 'Elk Yellow & Purple'
Item #: 11050
Zones: 5b to 7b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 18" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: Japan
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Salvia koyamae
Item #: 1269
Zones: 4b to 10b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 24" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: Japan
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Selaginella borealis
Next crop available: 01/14/2022
Item #: 5120
Zones: 6a to 8b, at least
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 2" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: Japan
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Smilacina japonica 'Korean Treasure'
Item #: 16617
Zones: 4b to 7b, at least
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 15" tall
Culture: Light Shade
Origin: China, Japan, Korea, Russia
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Syneilesis aconitifolia
Next crop available: 05/27/2022
Item #: 3400
Zones: 3a to 8b, at least
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 18" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: China, Japan, Korea
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Syneilesis palmata
Item #: 5617
Zones: 4a to 8b, at least
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 15" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: Japan, Korea
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Thelypteris glanduligera 'Green Shag'
Item #: 4694
Zones: 7b to 8b, at least
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 36" tall
Culture: Light Shade to Shade
Origin: China, India, Japan, Korea, Vietnam
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Trachelospermum asiaticum 'Snow Rose'
Item #: 12080
Zones: 7b to 10b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 6" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: China, India, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Tricyrtis 'Manten no Hoshi'
Item #: 10684
Zones: 6a to 8b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 24" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Tricyrtis 'Momoyama'
Item #: 8922
Zones: 4a to 8b, at least
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 36" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: Japan
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Tricyrtis perfoliata
Next crop available: 01/21/2022
Item #: 6929
Zones: 5a to 7a
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 12" tall
Culture: Light Shade
Origin: Japan
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Zingiber kawagoii 'Ali'
Item #: 14880
Zones: 7b to 9b, possibly colder
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 30" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Shade
Origin: China, Taiwan
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Zingiber mioga
Item #: 2725
Zones: 6a to 9b, possibly colder
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 36" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Shade
Origin: China, Japan
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Zingiber mioga 'Silver Arrow'
Item #: 7626
Zones: 6a to 9b, possibly colder
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 36" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: Japan
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Zingiber mioga 'White Feather'
Item #: 7501
Zones: 6a to 9b, possibly colder
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 36" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: Japan
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
More Information About Plants from Japan
Garden plants from the Land of the Rising Sun ... including Aucuba, Paeonia and more.
Even though Japan is only the size of California, it has a bewildering variety of botanical treasures. The reason there are so many Japanese native plants is simple...geography. Japan is a long, narrow, mountainous country that spans over 2,000 miles from north to south, with latititudes equivalent to Maine south to Florida. With all of this varied terrain, there are a large number of eco-regions that support over 6,000 species of Japanese native plants. Here at Plant Delights Nursery, we have an enormous on-line plant catalog from which we have created this mini-catalog of garden-worthy Japanese native plants.
Japanese native plants include landscape plants such as ferns (arachniodes, athyrium, blechnum), woodland plants (arisaema, asarum), flowering perennials (aster, begonia, iris, paeonia), ornamental grasses (carex, miscanthus), groundcovers (liriope, ophiopogon), woody perennials (aucuba, boehmeria, chamaecyparis), and hardy orchids (bletilla, calanthe, cremastra). Countless beautiful varieties and cultivars of Japanese native plants have been bred by the masterful plant breeders and gardeners of Japan. We know you will love our collection of plants from Japan and if you buy some, we just might say "Domo arigato" to you. When you are ready to buy Japanese native plants for your garden, check out our online list of Japanese native plants for sale.