Native range
Native plants of Idaho
54 wild species and 14 plant groups in the BloomsEye library grow wild somewhere in Idaho, read from Kew's World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS. The 39 garden forms of them are listed apart below, each naming its wild parent.
Showing 1 to 60 of 68 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; Idaho 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 68 plants, 64 have been checked against outside sources; 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 Idaho
How many of the state's 44 counties record each wild species growing wild, from USDA PLANTS: a plant recorded in many counties is widespread in Idaho; one recorded in few may be local, or simply under-recorded. A county's absence is not evidence a plant is absent. 48 of the wild species carry a county record here.
- Rubber Rabbitbrush
- Chokecherry
- Golden Currant
- False Solomon's Seal
- Red Elderberry
- Redosier Dogwood
- Sulfur Flower Buckwheat
- Western Serviceberry
- Creeping Oregon Grape
- Showy Milkweed
- Tufted Hairgrass
- Prairie Smoke
- Prairie Junegrass
- Idaho Fescue
- Quaking Aspen
- Douglas Fir
- Western Mock Orange
- Common Sneezeweed
- Common Snowberry
- Kinnikinnick
- Lady Fern
- Potentilla
- Common Blanketflower
- Tall Oregon Grape
- Soft Rush
- Alkali Sacaton
- Paper Birch
- Western Red Cedar
- Fernbush
- Smooth Blue Aster
- Nodding Onion
- Western Sword Fern
- Western Wild Ginger
- Deer Fern
- Chives
- Smooth Sumac
- Swamp Milkweed
- American Cranberrybush Viburnum
- Bunchberry
- Cascade Oregon Grape
- Colorado Blue Spruce
- Common Black-Eyed Susan
- Redflower Currant
- Wild Bee Balm
- California Fuchsia
- Common Blue Grama Grass
- Spotted Joe Pye Weed
- Western Columbine
Garden forms of Idaho natives
39 garden forms, each a named selection of a species that grows wild in Idaho and each naming its wild parent. A garden form is not the wild plant, so it is listed here and never counted above.
- Abbotswood
- Alpine Carpet Juniper
- Arctic Fire Red Twig Dogwood
- Arctic Fire Yellow Dogwood
- Autumn Colors
- Baby Blue
- Bailey Compact American Cranberrybush
- Black Hills Spruce
- Blaze
- Blonde Ambition Blue Grama Grass
- Blue Arrow Juniper
- Cherry Brandy
- Claire Grace
- Denver Daisy
- Deschampsia Goldtau Grass
- Dwarf Alberta Spruce
- Fat Albert
- Globe Blue Spruce
- Goldfinger
- Goldilocks
- Gro-Low Fragrant Sumac
- Happy Face Yellow
- Hoopsii
- Indian Summer
- Lemony Lace Elderberry
- Mango Tango
- McKay's White
- Montgomery
- Orange Whisper
- Pink Beauty
- Pink Whisper
- Prairie Sun
- Red Ace
- Regent Serviceberry
- Skyrocket Juniper
- Snow Flurry
- Tangerine
- Toto Gold
- Twilight Zone
Plant groups native to Idaho
14 plant groups sold under one name whose wild species grow in Idaho; the count beside each is how many of its wild species the record finds in the state.
Keep exploring
Native to your own county
This page is the whole state. In the free garden planner, enter your ZIP and Garden Check lists these same plants for your location, marks the ones recorded growing wild in your county, and places any of them in your plan; its Browse tab answers for any of the 65 states, provinces and territories with no account.
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