Native range
Native Plants by State and Province
A native plant is one that grows wild where you garden. The library holds 319 wild species and 20 plant groups native to North America; each page below is the cut for one state, province or territory, read from Kew's World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS: the wild species first, with how many of the state's counties record each one, the garden forms of them apart, and the plant groups with their counts.
Range data from the World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 4.0, adapted) and USDA PLANTS. How the native range is credited.
United States
- Alabama191 wild species, 20 plant groups
- Alaska25 wild species, 5 plant groups
- Arizona70 wild species, 13 plant groups
- Arkansas176 wild species, 19 plant groups
- California76 wild species, 12 plant groups
- Colorado83 wild species, 16 plant groups
- Connecticut164 wild species, 19 plant groups
- Delaware144 wild species, 17 plant groups
- District of Columbia115 wild species, 13 plant groups
- Florida133 wild species, 18 plant groups
- Georgia193 wild species, 20 plant groups
- Idaho54 wild species, 14 plant groups
- Illinois177 wild species, 19 plant groups
- Indiana174 wild species, 18 plant groups
- Iowa147 wild species, 17 plant groups
- Kansas131 wild species, 18 plant groups
- Kentucky182 wild species, 19 plant groups
- Louisiana146 wild species, 18 plant groups
- Maine128 wild species, 17 plant groups
- Maryland189 wild species, 19 plant groups
- Massachusetts155 wild species, 18 plant groups
- Michigan161 wild species, 18 plant groups
- Minnesota144 wild species, 18 plant groups
- Mississippi157 wild species, 19 plant groups
- Missouri177 wild species, 19 plant groups
- Montana73 wild species, 15 plant groups
- Nebraska117 wild species, 17 plant groups
- Nevada47 wild species, 9 plant groups
- New Hampshire126 wild species, 18 plant groups
- New Jersey169 wild species, 17 plant groups
- New Mexico92 wild species, 16 plant groups
- New York175 wild species, 18 plant groups
- North Carolina201 wild species, 20 plant groups
- North Dakota84 wild species, 16 plant groups
- Ohio179 wild species, 18 plant groups
- Oklahoma167 wild species, 18 plant groups
- Oregon60 wild species, 13 plant groups
- Pennsylvania184 wild species, 18 plant groups
- Rhode Island124 wild species, 17 plant groups
- South Carolina179 wild species, 20 plant groups
- South Dakota105 wild species, 16 plant groups
- Tennessee189 wild species, 19 plant groups
- Texas174 wild species, 18 plant groups
- Utah65 wild species, 13 plant groups
- Vermont140 wild species, 16 plant groups
- Virginia206 wild species, 19 plant groups
- Washington58 wild species, 14 plant groups
- West Virginia168 wild species, 18 plant groups
- Wisconsin147 wild species, 18 plant groups
- Wyoming82 wild species, 15 plant groups
Canada
- Alberta48 wild species, 15 plant groups
- British Columbia59 wild species, 14 plant groups
- Labrador16 wild species, 3 plant groups
- Manitoba78 wild species, 17 plant groups
- New Brunswick76 wild species, 9 plant groups
- Newfoundland38 wild species, 7 plant groups
- Northwest Territories23 wild species, 7 plant groups
- Nova Scotia70 wild species, 10 plant groups
- Nunavut5 wild species, 2 plant groups
- Ontario142 wild species, 18 plant groups
- Prince Edward Island49 wild species, 8 plant groups
- Quebec113 wild species, 15 plant groups
- Saskatchewan59 wild species, 15 plant groups
- Yukon21 wild species, 5 plant groups
How the lists are made
Each plant's native range is read from Kew's World Checklist of Vascular Plants together with USDA PLANTS, two votes per state, with every human decision on a ledger, by the same program behind the continent-wide list. A state's page lists the species the record calls native to it and, apart from them, the garden forms (named selections, each naming its wild parent) and the plant groups whose wild species grow there. A county's absence from the record is not evidence a plant is absent, so no page says a plant is not native to your area. For your own county, the free garden planner reads a ZIP.
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