Native range
Native plants of District of Columbia
115 wild species and 13 plant groups in the BloomsEye library grow wild somewhere in District of Columbia, read from Kew's World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS. The 89 garden forms of them are listed apart below, each naming its wild parent.
Showing 1 to 60 of 128 plants
How this list is made
Derived from each plant's native-range record, checked against Kew's World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS with every decision on a ledger; District of Columbia is read off the record's own range, and the order is how many of the state's counties record each plant, as stored in the BloomsEye library, which was written with AI assistance. Of these 128 plants, 116 have been checked against outside sources (1 fully verified); the rest have not been checked yet, and each plant's own page says which. The cards are AI-generated illustrations.
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.
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Recorded across District of Columbia
How many of the state's 1 counties record each wild species growing wild, from USDA PLANTS: a plant recorded in many counties is widespread in District of Columbia; one recorded in few may be local, or simply under-recorded. A county's absence is not evidence a plant is absent. 110 of the wild species carry a county record here.
- Allegheny Serviceberry
- American Elderberry
- American Hazelnut
- American Holly
- American Hophornbeam
- American Linden
- American Wintergreen
- Aromatic Aster
- Arrowwood
- Black Chokeberry
- Black Cohosh
- Blackhaw
- Blue Wood Aster
- Bottlebrush Grass
- Brome-Like Sedge
- Butterfly Weed
- Cardinal Flower
- Carolina Rose
- Chokecherry
- Christmas Fern
- Cinnamon Fern
- Clustered Mountain Mint
- Common Black-Eyed Susan
- Common Hackberry
- Common Milkweed
- Common Pawpaw
- Common Sneezeweed
- Common Snowberry
- Common Witch Hazel
- Coral Honeysuckle
- Creeping Jacob's Ladder
- Culver's Root
- Downy Serviceberry
- Dwarf Crested Iris
- Eastern Red Cedar
- Eastern Redbud
- Eastern Star Sedge
- False Solomon's Seal
- Flava (Yellow Trumpet)
- Flowering Dogwood
- Fragrant Sumac
- Garden Phlox
- Golden Alexanders
- Golden Ragwort
- Gray's Sedge
- Green and Gold
- Hardy Hibiscus
- Hay Scented Fern
- Honeylocust
- Indiangrass
- Lady Fern
- Little Bluestem
- Maidenhair Fern
- Mapleleaf Viburnum
- Marginal Wood Fern
- Mayapple
- Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
- New England Aster
- New Jersey Tea
- New York Ironweed
- Ninebark
- Nodding Onion
- Northern Red Oak
- Northern Sea Oats
- Ostrich Fern
- Pin Oak
- Pink Muhly Grass
- Pinxterbloom Azalea
- Possumhaw Holly
- Possumhaw Viburnum
- Purple Lovegrass
- Red Chokeberry
- Red Maple
- River Birch
- Rosy Sedge
- Royal Fern
- Sensitive Fern
- Shadblow Serviceberry
- Shrubby St. John's Wort
- Sideoats Grama
- Silky Dogwood
- Silver Maple
- Smooth Blue Aster
- Smooth Hydrangea
- Smooth Solomon's Seal
- Smooth Sumac
- Soft Rush
- Southern Blue Flag
- Spicebush
- Staghorn Sumac
- Swamp Milkweed
- Sweetbay Magnolia
- Sweetgum
- Switchgrass
- Trumpet Vine
- Tulip Tree
- Virginia Bluebells
- Virginia Creeper
- Virginia Sweetspire
- White Fringetree
- White Turtlehead
- White Wood Aster
- Whorled Milkweed
- Wild Bee Balm
- Wild Geranium
- Wild Ginger
- Willow Oak
- Winterberry
- Woodland Phlox
- Woodland Stonecrop
Garden forms of District of Columbia natives
89 garden forms, each a named selection of a species that grows wild in District of Columbia and each naming its wild parent. A garden form is not the wild plant, so it is listed here and never counted above.
- Alma Pötschke
- Amber Jubilee
- Annabelle
- Appalachian Red
- Aquavita Juniper
- Autumn Colors
- Berry Heavy
- Berry Poppins
- Berry Scape Aronia
- Blackhawks Big Bluestem
- Blaze
- Blue Blaze Viburnum
- Blue Moon Woodland Phlox
- Blue Muffin Viburnum
- Blue Paradise
- Brandywine Viburnum
- Bright Eyes
- Bubblegum Pink Garden Phlox
- Bunny Blue Sedge
- Cherokee Brave
- Cherokee Chief
- Cherokee Princess
- Cherry Berries Wintergreen
- Cherry Brandy
- Claire Grace
- Cloud Nine
- Coppertina
- Coral Flame
- Crème Brûlée
- Crimson Trumpet
- David
- Denver Daisy
- Designer Threads Golden Needles Coreopsis
- Designer Threads Heartstrings Coreopsis
- Designer Threads Scarlet Ribbons Coreopsis
- Diabolo
- DreamScape Hydrangea
- Flame Thrower
- Forest Pansy
- Goldilocks
- Gro-Low Fragrant Sumac
- Hearts of Gold
- Heavy Metal
- Henry's Garnet Sweetspire
- Incrediball Hydrangea
- Indian Summer
- Invincibelle Spirit II Hydrangea
- Jeana
- Laura
- Lavender Twist
- Little Devil
- Little Henry Sweetspire
- Luminary Ultraviolet
- Luna Pink Swirl
- Luna White
- Major Wheeler
- Moonbeam
- New England Aster 'Barr's Pink'
- New England Aster 'Harrington's Pink'
- Nicky
- Northwind
- Nugget
- October Skies
- Orange Perfection
- Prairie Sun
- Purple Dome
- Purple Phlox
- Rainbow Pillar
- Raydon's Favorite
- Red Sprite
- River Mist
- Robert Poore
- Route 66
- Royal White Redbud
- Ruby Falls
- Shenandoah
- Sienna Sunset
- Snow Flurry
- Starfire
- Summer Wine
- The Rising Sun
- Tiger Eyes Sumac
- Tiny Wine
- Toto Gold
- Twilight Zone
- White Flame
- Winter Gold
- Winter Red
- Zagreb
Plant groups native to District of Columbia
13 plant groups sold under one name whose wild species grow in District of Columbia; the count beside each is how many of its wild species the record finds in the state.
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