Native range
Native plants of Kansas
131 wild species and 18 plant groups in the BloomsEye library grow wild somewhere in Kansas, read from Kew's World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS. The 93 garden forms of them are listed apart below, each naming its wild parent.
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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; Kansas 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 149 plants, 133 have been checked against outside sources (2 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.
Foliage
Foliage
Recorded across Kansas
How many of the state's 105 counties record each wild species growing wild, from USDA PLANTS: a plant recorded in many counties is widespread in Kansas; one recorded in few may be local, or simply under-recorded. A county's absence is not evidence a plant is absent. 121 of the wild species carry a county record here.
- Indiangrass
- Little Bluestem
- Mexican Hat
- Sideoats Grama
- Sunflower
- Switchgrass
- Honeylocust
- Purple Prairie Clover
- Dotted Blazing Star
- Buffalograss
- Common Hackberry
- Fragrant Sumac
- Leadplant
- Purple Poppy Mallow
- Common Blue Grama Grass
- Golden Currant
- Smooth Sumac
- American Elderberry
- Eastern Red Cedar
- Chokecherry
- Stiff Goldenrod
- Whorled Milkweed
- Purple Lovegrass
- Aromatic Aster
- Butterfly Weed
- Common Milkweed
- Blue Indigo
- Swamp Milkweed
- Bur Oak
- Foxglove Penstemon
- Virginia Creeper
- Prairie Junegrass
- Wild Bee Balm
- Buttonbush
- Silver Maple
- Cardinal Flower
- Common Black-Eyed Susan
- Showy Milkweed
- Kentucky Coffeetree
- Eastern Redbud
- Great Blue Lobelia
- Chinkapin Oak
- Smooth Solomon's Seal
- False Sunflower
- Woodland Phlox
- Flava (Yellow Trumpet)
- Trumpet Vine
- Golden Alexanders
- Prairie Blazing Star
- Common Pawpaw
- New Jersey Tea
- Northern Red Oak
- Northern Sea Oats
- Eastern Red Columbine
- Gray-Headed Coneflower
- Pale Purple Coneflower
- Rattlesnake Master
- American Linden
- Common Persimmon
- Mayapple
- Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
- Alkali Sacaton
- American Hazelnut
- American Hophornbeam
- Common Sneezeweed
- Maidenhair Fern
- Brown-Eyed Susan
- Pin Oak
- Smooth Blue Aster
- Foxglove Beardtongue
- Sweet Joe Pye Weed
- Roundleaf Ragwort
- White-Tinged Sedge
- Blackfoot Daisy
- Apricot Lisianthus
- Blue Lisianthus
- Cream Lisianthus
- Lisianthus
- Picotee Lisianthus
- Pink Lisianthus
- Rose Lisianthus
- White Lisianthus
- Culver's Root
- Sugar Maple
- Blackhaw
- New England Aster
- False Solomon's Seal
- Marginal Wood Fern
- Sensitive Fern
- White Oak
- Carolina Rose
- Downy Serviceberry
- Prairie Dropseed Grass
- Gray's Sedge
- Bottlebrush Grass
- Pink Muhly Grass
- Blue Mistflower
- Christmas Fern
- Rosy Sedge
- Wild Ginger
- Possumhaw Holly
- Wild Geranium
- Creeping Jacob's Ladder
- Soft Rush
- Texas Sedge
- River Birch
- Rubber Rabbitbrush
- Spicebush
- Coral Honeysuckle
- Eastern Bluestar
- Garden Phlox
- Hardy Hibiscus
- Ninebark
- Palm Sedge
- Royal Fern
- Southern Blue Flag
- Chocolate Flower
- Flowering Dogwood
- Purple Coneflower
- Smooth Hydrangea
- Zigzag Goldenrod
Garden forms of Kansas natives
93 garden forms, each a named selection of a species that grows wild in Kansas 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
- Arctic Fire Red Twig Dogwood
- Arctic Fire Yellow Dogwood
- Athena Gold False Sunflower
- Autumn Beauty
- Autumn Colors
- Autumn Gold Narrow-Leaved Sunflower
- Baby Joe Dwarf Joe Pye Weed
- Blackhawks Big Bluestem
- Blackjack Gold Black-Eyed Susan
- Blaze
- Blonde Ambition Blue Grama Grass
- Blue Moon Woodland Phlox
- Blue Paradise
- Bright Eyes
- Bubblegum Pink Garden Phlox
- Cherokee Brave
- Cherokee Chief
- Cherokee Princess
- Cherry Brandy
- Claire Grace
- Cloud Nine
- Coconut Lime
- Coppertina
- Coral Flame
- Crimson Comet Buttonbush
- Crimson Trumpet
- Dakota Burgundy Beardtongue
- David
- Denver Daisy
- Diabolo
- DreamScape Hydrangea
- Early Sunrise
- Flame Thrower
- Forest Pansy
- Giant Sunflower
- Goldilocks
- Green Jewel
- Gro-Low Fragrant Sumac
- Hearts of Gold
- Heavy Metal
- Incrediball Hydrangea
- Indian Summer
- Invincibelle Spirit II Hydrangea
- Jeana
- Laura
- Lavender Twist
- Lemon Queen
- Little Devil
- Luminary Ultraviolet
- Luna Pink Swirl
- Luna White
- Magnus
- Major Wheeler
- Mammoth
- Moulin Rouge
- New England Aster 'Barr's Pink'
- New England Aster 'Harrington's Pink'
- Nicky
- Northwind
- Nugget
- October Skies
- Orange Perfection
- Pink Double Delight
- PowWow Wild Berry
- Prairie Sun
- Purple Dome
- Purple Phlox
- Raydon's Favorite
- Ring of Fire
- River Mist
- Robert Poore
- Royal White Redbud
- Ruby Falls
- Shenandoah
- Snow Flurry
- Soraya
- Starfire
- Strawberry Blonde
- Sugar Shack Buttonbush
- Summer Wine
- Teddy Bear
- The Rising Sun
- Tiny Wine
- Toto Gold
- Twilight Zone
- Velvet Queen
- White Flame
- White Swan
Plant groups native to Kansas
18 plant groups sold under one name whose wild species grow in Kansas; the count beside each is how many of its wild species the record finds in the state.
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