Native range
Native plants of Montana
73 wild species and 15 plant groups in the BloomsEye library grow wild somewhere in Montana, read from Kew's World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS. The 51 garden forms of them are listed apart below, each naming its wild parent.
Showing 1 to 60 of 88 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; Montana 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 88 plants, 77 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.
Foliage
Foliage
Recorded across Montana
How many of the state's 56 counties record each wild species growing wild, from USDA PLANTS: a plant recorded in many counties is widespread in Montana; one recorded in few may be local, or simply under-recorded. A county's absence is not evidence a plant is absent. 52 of the wild species carry a county record here.
- Common Blanketflower
- Redosier Dogwood
- Mexican Hat
- Dotted Blazing Star
- Chokecherry
- Wild Bee Balm
- Rubber Rabbitbrush
- Potentilla
- Prairie Smoke
- Kinnikinnick
- Purple Prairie Clover
- Quaking Aspen
- Sunflower
- Western Serviceberry
- Golden Currant
- Sulfur Flower Buckwheat
- Creeping Oregon Grape
- Showy Milkweed
- Nodding Onion
- Common Snowberry
- Red Elderberry
- Bunchberry
- Common Milkweed
- Smooth Blue Aster
- Common Blue Grama Grass
- Prairie Junegrass
- False Solomon's Seal
- Long-Beaked Sedge
- Common Sneezeweed
- Whorled Milkweed
- Sideoats Grama
- Chives
- Paper Birch
- Alkali Sacaton
- Buffalograss
- Switchgrass
- Western Red Cedar
- Bur Oak
- Smooth Sumac
- Tall Oregon Grape
- Tufted Hairgrass
- Anise Hyssop
- Aromatic Aster
- Douglas Fir
- Little Bluestem
- New England Aster
- American Cranberrybush Viburnum
- American Elderberry
- Common Pussy Willow
- Leadplant
- Soft Rush
- Western Wild Ginger
Garden forms of Montana natives
51 garden forms, each a named selection of a species that grows wild in Montana 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
- Arctic Fire Red Twig Dogwood
- Arctic Fire Yellow Dogwood
- Autumn Beauty
- Bailey Compact American Cranberrybush
- Bar Harbor Juniper
- Black Hills Spruce
- Blackhawks Big Bluestem
- Blaze
- Blonde Ambition Blue Grama Grass
- Blue Arrow Juniper
- Blue Chip Juniper
- Blue Rug Juniper
- Claire Grace
- Compact Andorra Juniper
- Deschampsia Goldtau Grass
- Dwarf Alberta Spruce
- Giant Sunflower
- Goldfinger
- Gro-Low Fragrant Sumac
- Happy Face Yellow
- Heavy Metal
- Lemon Queen
- Lemony Lace Elderberry
- Mammoth
- Mango Tango
- McKay's White
- Moulin Rouge
- New England Aster 'Barr's Pink'
- New England Aster 'Harrington's Pink'
- Northwind
- October Skies
- Orange Whisper
- Pink Beauty
- Pink Whisper
- Purple Dome
- Raydon's Favorite
- Red Ace
- Regent Serviceberry
- Ring of Fire
- Shenandoah
- Skyrocket Juniper
- Snow Flurry
- Soraya
- Strawberry Blonde
- Tangerine
- Teddy Bear
- Twilight Zone
- Velvet Queen
Plant groups native to Montana
15 plant groups sold under one name whose wild species grow in Montana; the count beside each is how many of its wild species the record finds in the state.
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Native to your own county
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