Native range
Native plants of North Dakota
84 wild species and 16 plant groups in the BloomsEye library grow wild somewhere in North Dakota, read from Kew's World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS. The 66 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; North Dakota 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 100 plants, 92 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 North Dakota
How many of the state's 53 counties record each wild species growing wild, from USDA PLANTS: a plant recorded in many counties is widespread in North Dakota; one recorded in few may be local, or simply under-recorded. A county's absence is not evidence a plant is absent. 74 of the wild species carry a county record here.
- Mexican Hat
- Prairie Junegrass
- Purple Prairie Clover
- Common Blanketflower
- Western Serviceberry
- Chokecherry
- Dotted Blazing Star
- Redosier Dogwood
- Common Blue Grama Grass
- Little Bluestem
- Smooth Blue Aster
- Prairie Smoke
- Sunflower
- Showy Milkweed
- Anise Hyssop
- Quaking Aspen
- Switchgrass
- Wild Bee Balm
- Whorled Milkweed
- Bur Oak
- Smooth Solomon's Seal
- Leadplant
- Long-Beaked Sedge
- Nannyberry Viburnum
- Common Black-Eyed Susan
- Aromatic Aster
- Buffalograss
- Prairie Dropseed Grass
- Sideoats Grama
- Common Sneezeweed
- Eastern Red Columbine
- Common Hackberry
- Common Milkweed
- American Hazelnut
- Rubber Rabbitbrush
- Spotted Joe Pye Weed
- Common Snowberry
- False Sunflower
- Golden Alexanders
- Common Pussy Willow
- Paper Birch
- Swamp Milkweed
- Tufted Hairgrass
- American Cranberrybush Viburnum
- Golden Currant
- Kinnikinnick
- American Linden
- Bottlebrush Grass
- New England Aster
- American Hophornbeam
- Indiangrass
- American Elderberry
- Ostrich Fern
- Smooth Sumac
- Potentilla
- Bristleleaf Sedge
- Great Blue Lobelia
- False Solomon's Seal
- Wild Ginger
- Zigzag Goldenrod
- Bunchberry
- Lady Fern
- Prairie Blazing Star
- Sensitive Fern
- Alkali Sacaton
- Honeylocust
- Red Elderberry
- Culver's Root
- Eastern Red Cedar
- Flava (Yellow Trumpet)
- Ninebark
- Purple Lovegrass
- Trumpet Vine
- Wild Geranium
Garden forms of North Dakota natives
66 garden forms, each a named selection of a species that grows wild in North Dakota 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
- Amber Jubilee
- Aquavita Juniper
- Arctic Fire Red Twig Dogwood
- Arctic Fire Yellow Dogwood
- Athena Gold False Sunflower
- Autumn Beauty
- Autumn Colors
- Bailey Compact American Cranberrybush
- Bar Harbor Juniper
- Blackhawks Big Bluestem
- Blaze
- Blonde Ambition Blue Grama Grass
- Blue Arrow Juniper
- Blue Chip Juniper
- Blue Rug Juniper
- Cherry Brandy
- Claire Grace
- Compact Andorra Juniper
- Coppertina
- Crimson Trumpet
- Denver Daisy
- Deschampsia Goldtau Grass
- Diabolo
- Giant Sunflower
- Goldfinger
- Goldilocks
- Gro-Low Fragrant Sumac
- Happy Face Yellow
- Heavy Metal
- Indian Summer
- Lemon Queen
- Lemony Lace Elderberry
- Little Devil
- Mammoth
- Mango Tango
- McKay's White
- Moulin Rouge
- New England Aster 'Barr's Pink'
- New England Aster 'Harrington's Pink'
- Northwind
- Nugget
- October Skies
- Orange Whisper
- Pink Beauty
- Pink Whisper
- Prairie Sun
- Purple Dome
- Raydon's Favorite
- Red Ace
- Regent Serviceberry
- Ring of Fire
- Shenandoah
- Skyrocket Juniper
- Snow Flurry
- Soraya
- Strawberry Blonde
- Summer Wine
- Tangerine
- Teddy Bear
- Tiny Wine
- Toto Gold
- Twilight Zone
- Velvet Queen
Plant groups native to North Dakota
16 plant groups sold under one name whose wild species grow in North Dakota; the count beside each is how many of its wild species the record finds in the state.
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