Native range
Native plants of Maine
128 wild species and 17 plant groups in the BloomsEye library grow wild somewhere in Maine, read from Kew's World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS. The 131 garden forms of them are listed apart below, each naming its wild parent.
Showing 1 to 60 of 145 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; Maine 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 145 plants, 135 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 Maine
How many of the state's 16 counties record each wild species growing wild, from USDA PLANTS: a plant recorded in many counties is widespread in Maine; one recorded in few may be local, or simply under-recorded. A county's absence is not evidence a plant is absent. 116 of the wild species carry a county record here.
- American Elderberry
- American Hophornbeam
- American Linden
- Arborvitae
- Black Chokeberry
- Bunchberry
- Cardinal Flower
- Christmas Fern
- Common Black-Eyed Susan
- Common Pussy Willow
- Common Witch Hazel
- Downy Serviceberry
- False Solomon's Seal
- Marginal Wood Fern
- New York Aster
- Northern Blue Flag Iris
- Northern Bush Honeysuckle
- Northern Red Oak
- Pagoda Dogwood
- Paper Birch
- Quaking Aspen
- Red Maple
- Royal Fern
- Sensitive Fern
- Soft Rush
- Spotted Joe Pye Weed
- Staghorn Sumac
- White Turtlehead
- Winterberry
- American Wintergreen
- Arrowwood
- Chokecherry
- Cinnamon Fern
- Hay Scented Fern
- Kinnikinnick
- Lady Fern
- Nannyberry Viburnum
- Red Elderberry
- Redosier Dogwood
- Silky Dogwood
- Sugar Maple
- Zigzag Goldenrod
- American Cranberrybush Viburnum
- Buttonbush
- Eastern White Pine
- Ostrich Fern
- Shadblow Serviceberry
- Swamp Milkweed
- Common Milkweed
- Maidenhair Fern
- Mapleleaf Viburnum
- Tufted Hairgrass
- Eastern Hemlock
- Eastern Red Columbine
- Little Bluestem
- Rosy Sedge
- Silver Maple
- White-Tinged Sedge
- Blue-Stemmed Goldenrod
- Common Snowberry
- White Oak
- Carolina Rose
- Golden Alexanders
- Golden Ragwort
- Northern Bayberry
- American Hazelnut
- Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
- Potentilla
- American Hornbeam
- Chives
- Creeping Phlox
- False Sunflower
- Mountain Laurel
- New England Aster
- Smooth Sumac
- Wild Bee Balm
- Brome-Like Sedge
- Bur Oak
- Eastern Red Cedar
- Seersucker Sedge
- Virginia Creeper
- Wild Ginger
- Bottlebrush Grass
- Switchgrass
- Wild Geranium
- Black Gum
- Long-Beaked Sedge
- Purple Lovegrass
- Swamp White Oak
- Ninebark
- Pale Purple Coneflower
- Rosebay Rhododendron
- Garden Phlox
- Honeylocust
- Indiangrass
- Summersweet
- Great Burnet
- New Jersey Tea
- Smooth Blue Aster
- Butterfly Weed
- Clustered Mountain Mint
- Coral Honeysuckle
- Creeping Woodland Phlox
- Culver's Root
- Flowering Dogwood
- Great Blue Lobelia
- Hollow Joe Pye Weed
- Inkberry Holly
- Mayapple
- Prairie Junegrass
- Red Chokeberry
- Shrubby St. John's Wort
- Smooth Solomon's Seal
- Spicebush
- Swamp Azalea
- Virginia Bluebells
Garden forms of Maine natives
131 garden forms, each a named selection of a species that grows wild in Maine and each naming its wild parent. A garden form is not the wild plant, so it is listed here and never counted above.
- Abbotswood
- Alma Pötschke
- Alpine Carpet Juniper
- Amazing Grace
- Amber Jubilee
- Aquavita Juniper
- Arctic Fire Red Twig Dogwood
- Arctic Fire Yellow Dogwood
- Athena Gold False Sunflower
- Autumn Colors
- Bailey Compact American Cranberrybush
- Balmy Purple
- Bar Harbor Juniper
- Berry Heavy
- Berry Poppins
- Berry Scape Aronia
- Black Hills Spruce
- Blackhawks Big Bluestem
- Blaze
- Blue Blaze Viburnum
- Blue Chip Juniper
- Blue Muffin Viburnum
- Blue Paradise
- Blue Rug Juniper
- Bobee Northern Bayberry
- Bridesmaid Mountain Laurel
- Bright Eyes
- Bubblegum Pink Garden Phlox
- Bunny Blue Sedge
- Candy Stripe
- Carol Mountain Laurel
- Carousel Mountain Laurel
- Cheer Drops Arborvitae
- Cherokee Brave
- Cherokee Chief
- Cherokee Princess
- Cherry Berries Wintergreen
- Cherry Brandy
- Claire Grace
- Cloud Nine
- Columnar White Pine
- Compact Andorra Juniper
- Coppertina
- Coral Flame
- Crimson Comet Buttonbush
- Danica
- David
- DeGroot's Spire
- Densa Inkberry
- Denver Daisy
- Deschampsia Goldtau Grass
- Diabolo
- Drummond's Pink
- Dwarf Alberta Spruce
- Dwarf White Pine
- Early Sunrise
- Elf Mountain Laurel
- Emerald Blue
- Emerald Green
- Emerald Pink
- Eye Candy Moss Phlox
- Eye Shadow Moss Phlox
- Fire Chief
- Fireworks Goldenrod
- Gentsch White
- Golden Globe
- Goldfinger
- Goldilocks
- Grand Marshall
- Happy Face Yellow
- Heavy Metal
- Holmstrup
- Hummingbird
- Indian Summer
- Jeana
- Jeddeloh Hemlock
- Laura
- Lemony Lace Elderberry
- Little Devil
- Luminary Ultraviolet
- Major Wheeler
- Mango Tango
- McKay's White
- New England Aster 'Barr's Pink'
- New England Aster 'Harrington's Pink'
- Nicky
- Northwind
- Nugget
- Orange Perfection
- Orange Whisper
- Pardon My Purple
- Patricia Ballard
- Pink Beauty
- Pink Spire
- Pink Whisper
- Prairie Sun
- Professor Kippenberg
- Purple Beauty
- Purple Dome
- Purple Phlox
- Purple Rooster
- Rainbow Pillar
- Red Ace
- Red Sprite
- Red Wings
- Rheingold
- Robert Poore
- Ruby Spice
- Sarah Mountain Laurel
- Scarlet Flame
- Shamrock Inkberry Holly
- Shenandoah
- Sixteen Candles
- Snow Flurry
- Starfire
- Sugar Buzz Cherry Pops
- Sugar Shack Buttonbush
- Summer Wine
- Tangerine
- Techny
- Tiger Eyes Sumac
- Tiny Wine
- Toto Gold
- Twilight Zone
- Vanilla Spice
- Weeping Hemlock
- Weeping White Pine
- White Delight
- White Flame
- Winter Gold
- Winter Red
Plant groups native to Maine
17 plant groups sold under one name whose wild species grow in Maine; the count beside each is how many of its wild species the record finds in the state.
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