Abstract: Vegetation restoration is one of the important contents of ecological construction, there are variety ways of restoration, among which artificial planting a fast method. Special plants are often chose by the researchers and companies for the vegetation restoration. A series of surveys has found that native plants are the fittest to the local habitat conditions after long evolutionary process, as they have strong resistance, low cost, variety and are easy to cultivate, thus have incomparable advantages over other plants in the ecological construction. According to the successful application cases of native plants for vegetation restoration, it was suggested that native plants has broad application prospects in the grassland ecological restoration, mining vegetation restoration and slope vegetation restoration. They have high ornamental value as well as strong adaptability, stability and durability.

Key words: native plants, vegetation restoration, ecological remediation