Native range
Native plants of Nebraska
117 wild species and 17 plant groups in the BloomsEye library grow wild somewhere in Nebraska, read from Kew's World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS. The 74 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; Nebraska 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 134 plants, 121 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 Nebraska
How many of the state's 93 counties record each wild species growing wild, from USDA PLANTS: a plant recorded in many counties is widespread in Nebraska; one recorded in few may be local, or simply under-recorded. A county's absence is not evidence a plant is absent. 108 of the wild species carry a county record here.
- Mexican Hat
- Switchgrass
- Chokecherry
- Sideoats Grama
- Prairie Junegrass
- Purple Prairie Clover
- Leadplant
- Dotted Blazing Star
- Swamp Milkweed
- Common Blue Grama Grass
- Indiangrass
- Stiff Goldenrod
- Common Milkweed
- Little Bluestem
- Great Blue Lobelia
- Whorled Milkweed
- Common Hackberry
- Wild Bee Balm
- American Elderberry
- Bur Oak
- Buffalograss
- Smooth Sumac
- Redosier Dogwood
- Eastern Red Cedar
- Purple Lovegrass
- Showy Milkweed
- Smooth Solomon's Seal
- Common Black-Eyed Susan
- Common Sneezeweed
- Golden Currant
- Aromatic Aster
- Purple Poppy Mallow
- False Sunflower
- Butterfly Weed
- Eastern Red Columbine
- American Linden
- New England Aster
- Long-Beaked Sedge
- Spotted Joe Pye Weed
- Apricot Lisianthus
- Blue Lisianthus
- Cream Lisianthus
- Lisianthus
- Picotee Lisianthus
- Pink Lisianthus
- Rose Lisianthus
- Silver Maple
- White Lisianthus
- American Hophornbeam
- Rosy Sedge
- Woodland Phlox
- Alkali Sacaton
- Fragrant Sumac
- Honeylocust
- Sensitive Fern
- Smooth Blue Aster
- Sweet Joe Pye Weed
- Western Serviceberry
- Bottlebrush Grass
- Golden Alexanders
- Gray-Headed Coneflower
- Kentucky Coffeetree
- Maidenhair Fern
- Northern Red Oak
- American Hazelnut
- Buttonbush
- Eastern Redbud
- False Solomon's Seal
- Prairie Blazing Star
- Prairie Dropseed Grass
- Virginia Creeper
- White-Tinged Sedge
- Bristleleaf Sedge
- Cardinal Flower
- New Jersey Tea
- Blue Wood Aster
- Downy Serviceberry
- Flava (Yellow Trumpet)
- Nannyberry Viburnum
- Quaking Aspen
- Southern Blue Flag
- Trumpet Vine
- Brown-Eyed Susan
- Foxglove Penstemon
- Mayapple
- Ninebark
- Alderleaf Mountain Mahogany
- Chinkapin Oak
- Common Pawpaw
- Common Snowberry
- Creeping Oregon Grape
- Culver's Root
- Rubber Rabbitbrush
- Anise Hyssop
- Garden Phlox
- Lady Fern
- Nodding Onion
- Pale Purple Coneflower
- Paper Birch
- American Cranberrybush Viburnum
- Blue Indigo
- Foxglove Beardtongue
- Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
- Ostrich Fern
- Soft Rush
- Texas Sedge
- White Oak
- Zigzag Goldenrod
Garden forms of Nebraska natives
74 garden forms, each a named selection of a species that grows wild in Nebraska 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
- Alpine Carpet Juniper
- Amber Jubilee
- Appalachian Red
- Aquavita Juniper
- Arctic Fire Red Twig Dogwood
- Arctic Fire Yellow Dogwood
- Athena Gold False Sunflower
- Autumn Colors
- Autumn Gold Narrow-Leaved Sunflower
- Baby Joe Dwarf Joe Pye Weed
- Bailey Compact American Cranberrybush
- Bar Harbor Juniper
- Blackhawks Big Bluestem
- Blackjack Gold Black-Eyed Susan
- Blaze
- Blonde Ambition Blue Grama Grass
- Blue Arrow Juniper
- Blue Chip Juniper
- Blue Moon Woodland Phlox
- Blue Paradise
- Blue Rug Juniper
- Bright Eyes
- Bubblegum Pink Garden Phlox
- Cherry Brandy
- Claire Grace
- Compact Andorra Juniper
- Coppertina
- Coral Flame
- Crimson Comet Buttonbush
- Crimson Trumpet
- Dakota Burgundy Beardtongue
- David
- Denver Daisy
- Diabolo
- Flame Thrower
- Forest Pansy
- Goldilocks
- Gro-Low Fragrant Sumac
- Hearts of Gold
- Heavy Metal
- Indian Summer
- Jeana
- Laura
- Lavender Twist
- Little Devil
- Luminary Ultraviolet
- 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
- Raydon's Favorite
- Regent Serviceberry
- River Mist
- Robert Poore
- Royal White Redbud
- Ruby Falls
- Shenandoah
- Skyrocket Juniper
- Snow Flurry
- Starfire
- Sugar Shack Buttonbush
- Summer Wine
- The Rising Sun
- Tiny Wine
- Toto Gold
- Twilight Zone
- White Flame
Plant groups native to Nebraska
17 plant groups sold under one name whose wild species grow in Nebraska; the count beside each is how many of its wild species the record finds in the state.
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