Native range
Native plants of Oklahoma
167 wild species and 18 plant groups in the BloomsEye library grow wild somewhere in Oklahoma, read from Kew's World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS. The 99 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; Oklahoma 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 185 plants, 166 have been checked against outside sources (5 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 Oklahoma
How many of the state's 77 counties record each wild species growing wild, from USDA PLANTS: a plant recorded in many counties is widespread in Oklahoma; one recorded in few may be local, or simply under-recorded. A county's absence is not evidence a plant is absent. 122 of the wild species carry a county record here.
- Common Hackberry
- Chinkapin Oak
- Bur Oak
- Butterfly Weed
- Fragrant Sumac
- Eastern Redbud
- Common Black-Eyed Susan
- Silver Maple
- Mexican Hat
- Buttonbush
- Dotted Blazing Star
- Purple Prairie Clover
- Blue Indigo
- Little Bluestem
- Northern Sea Oats
- Flowering Dogwood
- Sideoats Grama
- Smooth Sumac
- Switchgrass
- Pale Purple Coneflower
- Purple Poppy Mallow
- Whorled Milkweed
- Cardinal Flower
- Eastern Red Cedar
- Northern Red Oak
- Wild Bee Balm
- Blue Mistflower
- Foxglove Penstemon
- Leadplant
- Purple Lovegrass
- Virginia Creeper
- Aromatic Aster
- Buffalograss
- Indiangrass
- Pin Oak
- American Elderberry
- Golden Currant
- Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
- Common Persimmon
- Honeylocust
- Apricot Lisianthus
- Blue Lisianthus
- Cream Lisianthus
- Lisianthus
- Picotee Lisianthus
- Pink Lisianthus
- Rose Lisianthus
- White Lisianthus
- New Jersey Tea
- Prairie Blazing Star
- Sugar Maple
- Roundleaf Ragwort
- Flava (Yellow Trumpet)
- Kentucky Coffeetree
- Maidenhair Fern
- Rattlesnake Master
- Trumpet Vine
- Black Gum
- Smooth Solomon's Seal
- Carolina Rose
- Golden Alexanders
- Mayapple
- Possumhaw Holly
- Stiff Goldenrod
- White Oak
- Alkali Sacaton
- Foxglove Beardtongue
- Red Maple
- Downy Serviceberry
- River Birch
- Soft Rush
- Brown-Eyed Susan
- Prairie Junegrass
- Woodland Phlox
- Swamp Milkweed
- White-Tinged Sedge
- Willow Oak
- Pink Muhly Grass
- Showy Milkweed
- Common Pawpaw
- Ozark Witch Hazel
- American Hophornbeam
- American Smoketree
- Christmas Fern
- Gray-Headed Coneflower
- Great Blue Lobelia
- Blackfoot Daisy
- Common Blue Grama Grass
- Eastern Red Columbine
- Hardy Hibiscus
- American Alumroot
- Creeping Jacob's Ladder
- False Solomon's Seal
- Sweet Joe Pye Weed
- Common Sneezeweed
- American Linden
- Chokecherry
- Culver's Root
- Marginal Wood Fern
- Wild Geranium
- Wild Ginger
- Bald Cypress
- Blackhaw
- Bottlebrush Grass
- Chocolate Flower
- Common Witch Hazel
- Prairie Dropseed Grass
- Spicebush
- American Hazelnut
- Common Milkweed
- Rosy Sedge
- Sensitive Fern
- Southern Blue Flag
- Alderleaf Mountain Mahogany
- Apache Plume
- Coral Honeysuckle
- False Sunflower
- Gray's Sedge
- New England Aster
- Ninebark
- Rubber Rabbitbrush
- Smooth Hydrangea
Garden forms of Oklahoma natives
99 garden forms, each a named selection of a species that grows wild in Oklahoma 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
- Amethyst Falls Wisteria
- Annabelle
- Appalachian Red
- Aquavita Juniper
- Athena Gold False Sunflower
- Autumn Colors
- Autumn Gold Narrow-Leaved Sunflower
- Baby Joe Dwarf Joe Pye Weed
- Bayside Bonito Southern Wax Myrtle
- Berry Scape Aronia
- Blackhawks Big Bluestem
- Blackjack Gold Black-Eyed Susan
- Blaze
- Blonde Ambition Blue Grama Grass
- Blue Arrow Juniper
- Blue Moon Wisteria
- Blue Moon Woodland Phlox
- Blue Paradise
- Bordeaux Dwarf Yaupon Holly
- 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
- Dressed To Thrill Crossvine
- Early Sunrise
- Falling Waters
- Fireworks Goldenrod
- Flame Thrower
- Forest Pansy
- Goldilocks
- Goldsturm
- Green Jewel
- Gro-Low Fragrant Sumac
- Hearts of Gold
- Heavy Metal
- Henry's Garnet Sweetspire
- Incrediball Hydrangea
- Indian Summer
- Invincibelle Spirit II Hydrangea
- Jeana
- Laura
- Lavender Twist
- Little Devil
- Little Henry Sweetspire
- Luminary Ultraviolet
- Luna Pink Swirl
- Luna White
- Magnus
- Major Wheeler
- New England Aster 'Barr's Pink'
- New England Aster 'Harrington's Pink'
- Nicky
- Northwind
- Nugget
- October Skies
- Oklahoma Redbud
- Orange Perfection
- Peve Minaret
- Pink Double Delight
- PowWow Wild Berry
- Prairie Sun
- Purple Dome
- Purple Phlox
- Raydon's Favorite
- River Mist
- Robert Poore
- Royal White Redbud
- Ruby Falls
- Screaming Yellow
- Shawnee Brave
- Shenandoah
- Skyrocket Juniper
- Snow Flurry
- Starfire
- Sugar Shack Buttonbush
- Summer Wine
- The Rising Sun
- Tiny Wine
- Toto Gold
- Twilight Zone
- Undaunted Muhly Grass
- White Flame
- White Swan
Plant groups native to Oklahoma
18 plant groups sold under one name whose wild species grow in Oklahoma; the count beside each is how many of its wild species the record finds in the state.
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