Native range
Native plants of Vermont
140 wild species and 16 plant groups in the BloomsEye library grow wild somewhere in Vermont, read from Kew's World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS. The 121 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; Vermont 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 156 plants, 145 have been checked against outside sources (4 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 Vermont
How many of the state's 14 counties record each wild species growing wild, from USDA PLANTS: a plant recorded in many counties is widespread in Vermont; one recorded in few may be local, or simply under-recorded. A county's absence is not evidence a plant is absent. 121 of the wild species carry a county record here.
- American Hophornbeam
- Downy Serviceberry
- False Solomon's Seal
- Lady Fern
- Marginal Wood Fern
- Redosier Dogwood
- Wild Ginger
- Arborvitae
- Bunchberry
- Chokecherry
- Christmas Fern
- Golden Alexanders
- Maidenhair Fern
- Northern Bush Honeysuckle
- Ostrich Fern
- Quaking Aspen
- Red Elderberry
- Royal Fern
- Seersucker Sedge
- Sensitive Fern
- Soft Rush
- Swamp Milkweed
- White Turtlehead
- Zigzag Goldenrod
- American Hornbeam
- American Linden
- Black Chokeberry
- Blue-Stemmed Goldenrod
- Cinnamon Fern
- Common Black-Eyed Susan
- Common Pussy Willow
- Eastern Hemlock
- Eastern White Pine
- Hay Scented Fern
- Nannyberry Viburnum
- Northern Blue Flag Iris
- Pagoda Dogwood
- Paper Birch
- Rosy Sedge
- Spotted Joe Pye Weed
- Sugar Maple
- White-Tinged Sedge
- American Cranberrybush Viburnum
- American Wintergreen
- Bottlebrush Grass
- Eastern Red Columbine
- Golden Ragwort
- Red Maple
- Silver Maple
- Staghorn Sumac
- Brome-Like Sedge
- Common Snowberry
- Northern Red Oak
- Potentilla
- Silky Dogwood
- Winterberry
- Bristleleaf Sedge
- False Sunflower
- Long-Beaked Sedge
- Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
- American Elderberry
- New York Aster
- Wild Bee Balm
- Cardinal Flower
- Carolina Rose
- Common Hackberry
- Common Witch Hazel
- Eastern Red Cedar
- Mapleleaf Viburnum
- Pennsylvania Sedge
- Sweet Joe Pye Weed
- Virginia Creeper
- American Hazelnut
- Bur Oak
- Buttonbush
- New Jersey Tea
- Purple Lovegrass
- Wild Geranium
- Kinnikinnick
- Little Bluestem
- Queen of the Prairie
- Roundleaf Ragwort
- Spicebush
- White Oak
- Black Gum
- Creeping Jacob's Ladder
- Creeping Phlox
- Fragrant Sumac
- Garden Phlox
- Indiangrass
- Mayapple
- Rosebay Rhododendron
- Smooth Blue Aster
- Tufted Hairgrass
- Woodland Stonecrop
- Clustered Mountain Mint
- Creeping Woodland Phlox
- Smooth Sumac
- Swamp White Oak
- Switchgrass
- Blue Indigo
- Blue Wood Aster
- Brown-Eyed Susan
- Chives
- Coral Honeysuckle
- Culver's Root
- Flowering Dogwood
- Honeylocust
- Mountain Laurel
- Ninebark
- Smooth Solomon's Seal
- Tulip Tree
- Butterfly Weed
- Chinkapin Oak
- Common Milkweed
- Gray-Headed Coneflower
- Pinxterbloom Azalea
- Prairie Junegrass
- Shrubby St. John's Wort
- Swamp Azalea
- Woodland Phlox
Garden forms of Vermont natives
121 garden forms, each a named selection of a species that grows wild in Vermont and each naming its wild parent. A garden form is not the wild plant, so it is listed here and never counted above.
- Abbotswood
- Alpine Carpet Juniper
- Amazing Grace
- Amber Jubilee
- Aquavita Juniper
- Arctic Fire Red Twig Dogwood
- Arctic Fire Yellow Dogwood
- Athena Gold False Sunflower
- Autumn Colors
- Baby Joe Dwarf Joe Pye Weed
- Bailey Compact American Cranberrybush
- Balmy Purple
- Bar Harbor Juniper
- Berry Heavy
- Berry Poppins
- Black Hills Spruce
- Blackhawks Big Bluestem
- Blackjack Gold Black-Eyed Susan
- Blaze
- Blue Chip Juniper
- Blue Moon Woodland Phlox
- Blue Paradise
- Blue Rug Juniper
- Bobee Northern Bayberry
- Bridesmaid Mountain Laurel
- Bright Eyes
- Bubblegum Pink Garden Phlox
- Bunny Blue Sedge
- Candy Stripe
- Carol Mountain Laurel
- Carousel Mountain Laurel
- Cheer Drops Arborvitae
- Cherokee Brave
- Cherokee Chief
- Cherokee Princess
- Cherry Berries Wintergreen
- Cherry Brandy
- Claire Grace
- Cloud Nine
- Columnar White Pine
- Compact Andorra Juniper
- Coppertina
- Coral Flame
- Crimson Comet Buttonbush
- Danica
- David
- DeGroot's Spire
- Denver Daisy
- Deschampsia Goldtau Grass
- Diabolo
- Drummond's Pink
- Dwarf Alberta Spruce
- Dwarf White Pine
- Early Sunrise
- Elf Mountain Laurel
- Emerald Blue
- Emerald Green
- Emerald Pink
- Eye Candy Moss Phlox
- Eye Shadow Moss Phlox
- Fire Chief
- Fireworks Goldenrod
- Gentsch White
- Golden Globe
- Goldfinger
- Goldilocks
- Grand Marshall
- Gro-Low Fragrant Sumac
- Happy Face Yellow
- Heavy Metal
- Holmstrup
- Indian Summer
- Jeana
- Jeddeloh Hemlock
- Laura
- Lemony Lace Elderberry
- Little Devil
- Luminary Ultraviolet
- Major Wheeler
- Mango Tango
- McKay's White
- Nicky
- Northwind
- Nugget
- Orange Perfection
- Orange Whisper
- Pardon My Purple
- Patricia Ballard
- Pink Beauty
- Pink Whisper
- Prairie Sun
- Professor Kippenberg
- Purple Beauty
- Purple Phlox
- Purple Rooster
- Rainbow Pillar
- Red Ace
- Red Sprite
- Red Wings
- Rheingold
- Robert Poore
- Sarah Mountain Laurel
- Scarlet Flame
- Shenandoah
- Snow Flurry
- Starfire
- Sugar Buzz Cherry Pops
- Sugar Shack Buttonbush
- Summer Wine
- Tangerine
- Techny
- Tiger Eyes Sumac
- Tiny Wine
- Toto Gold
- Twilight Zone
- Weeping Hemlock
- Weeping White Pine
- White Delight
- White Flame
- Winter Gold
- Winter Red
Plant groups native to Vermont
16 plant groups sold under one name whose wild species grow in Vermont; the count beside each is how many of its wild species the record finds in the state.
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