Native range
Native plants of Utah
65 wild species and 13 plant groups in the BloomsEye library grow wild somewhere in Utah, read from Kew's World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS. The 79 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; Utah 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 78 plants, 71 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 Utah
How many of the state's 29 counties record each wild species growing wild, from USDA PLANTS: a plant recorded in many counties is widespread in Utah; one recorded in few may be local, or simply under-recorded. A county's absence is not evidence a plant is absent. 61 of the wild species carry a county record here.
- Chokecherry
- Creeping Oregon Grape
- Douglas Fir
- Idaho Fescue
- Quaking Aspen
- Redosier Dogwood
- Rubber Rabbitbrush
- Showy Milkweed
- Sulfur Flower Buckwheat
- Western Serviceberry
- Golden Currant
- Alderleaf Mountain Mahogany
- Tufted Hairgrass
- Prairie Junegrass
- Red Elderberry
- Potentilla
- Alkali Sacaton
- Prairie Smoke
- Firecracker Penstemon
- Colorado Blue Spruce
- Common Blue Grama Grass
- False Solomon's Seal
- California Fuchsia
- Lady Fern
- Rocky Mountain Penstemon
- Common Sneezeweed
- Fernbush
- Honeylocust
- Kinnikinnick
- Nodding Onion
- Smooth Sumac
- Sideoats Grama
- Western Columbine
- Desert Four O'Clock
- Spotted Joe Pye Weed
- Apache Plume
- Common Blanketflower
- Little Bluestem
- Swamp Milkweed
- Switchgrass
- Mexican Hat
- Butterfly Weed
- Cardinal Flower
- Desert Globemallow
- Flava (Yellow Trumpet)
- Indiangrass
- Trumpet Vine
- California Poppy
- Common Black-Eyed Susan
- New England Aster
- Smooth Blue Aster
- Yellow California Poppy
- California Buckwheat
- Common Snowberry
- Goodding's Verbena
- Wild Bee Balm
- Brown-Eyed Susan
- Buffalograss
- Desert Willow
- Golden Columbine
- Hardy Hibiscus
Garden forms of Utah natives
79 garden forms, each a named selection of a species that grows wild in Utah 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
- Arctic Fire Red Twig Dogwood
- Arctic Fire Yellow Dogwood
- Autumn Colors
- Baby Blue
- Blackhawks Big Bluestem
- Blackjack Gold Black-Eyed Susan
- Blaze
- Blonde Ambition Blue Grama Grass
- Blue Arrow Juniper
- Blue Paradise
- Bright Eyes
- Bubblegum Pink Garden Phlox
- California Poppy (Cream/White)
- California Poppy (Rose/Pink Mix)
- Candy Stripe
- Cherry Brandy
- Claire Grace
- Coral Flame
- Crimson Trumpet
- David
- Denver Daisy
- Deschampsia Goldtau Grass
- Drummond's Pink
- Emerald Blue
- Emerald Pink
- Eye Candy Moss Phlox
- Eye Shadow Moss Phlox
- Fat Albert
- Globe Blue Spruce
- Goldfinger
- Goldilocks
- Gro-Low Fragrant Sumac
- Happy Face Yellow
- Heavy Metal
- Hoopsii
- Indian Summer
- Ivory Castle
- Jeana
- Laura
- Lemony Lace Elderberry
- Luminary Ultraviolet
- Luna Pink Swirl
- Luna White
- Mango Tango
- McKay's White
- Mikado
- Montgomery
- New England Aster 'Barr's Pink'
- New England Aster 'Harrington's Pink'
- Nicky
- Northwind
- Orange Perfection
- Orange Whisper
- Pink Beauty
- Pink Whisper
- Prairie Sun
- Purple Beauty
- Purple Dome
- Purple Gleam
- Purple Phlox
- Red Ace
- Red Wings
- Regent Serviceberry
- Robert Poore
- Rose Chiffon
- Scarlet Flame
- Shenandoah
- Skyrocket Juniper
- Snow Flurry
- Starfire
- Tangerine
- Toto Gold
- Twilight Zone
- White Delight
- White Flame
Plant groups native to Utah
13 plant groups sold under one name whose wild species grow in Utah; the count beside each is how many of its wild species the record finds in the state.
Keep exploring
Growing natives in Utah
This list is the library's cut of Utah's flora, not a planting guide. For sources, plant sales and local advice, Utah has its own native plant society, the Utah Native Plant Society, and its extension office, Utah State University Extension; both are linked below and neither is connected to BloomsEye.
Native to your own county
This page is the whole state. In the free garden planner, enter your ZIP and Garden Check lists these same plants for your location, marks the ones recorded growing wild in your county, and places any of them in your plan; its Browse tab answers for any of the 65 states, provinces and territories with no account.
Design your garden
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