Native range

Native plants of Virginia

206 wild species and 19 plant groups in the BloomsEye library grow wild somewhere in Virginia, read from Kew's World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS. The 171 garden forms of them are listed apart on the first page, each naming its wild parent.

Showing 61 to 120 of 225 plants

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; Virginia 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 225 plants, 210 have been checked against outside sources (6 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.

Foliage
Wild Ginger
Asarum
Full shadeZones 4–86 inModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
Full sunZones 3–84 ftHigh
Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
Full sunZones 4–82.5 ftModerate
American Holly
Ilex opaca
Full sunZones 5–935 ftModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Indiangrass
Sorghastrum nutans
Full sunZones 4–96 ftModerate
Black Cohosh
Actaea racemosa
Part shadeZones 3–85 ftModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Purple Lovegrass
Eragrostis spectabilis
Full sunZones 5–91.5 ftLow
White-Tinged Sedge
Carex albicans
Part shadeZones 4–81.5 ftModerate
Bottlebrush Grass
Elymus hystrix
Part shadeZones 5–93 ftModerate
Great Blue Lobelia
Lobelia siphilitica
Part shadeZones 4–92.5 ftHigh
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Adam's Needle
Yucca filamentosa
Full sunZones 5–102.5 ftLow
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
White Wood Aster
Eurybia divaricata
Part shadeZones 3–82 ftModerate
Wild Geranium
Geranium maculatum
Part shadeZones 3–81.5 ftModerate
Foliage
River Birch
Betula nigra
Full sunZones 4–949 ftHigh
Foliage
Honeylocust
Gleditsia triacanthos
Full sunZones 3–949 ftModerate
American Hophornbeam
Ostrya virginiana
Part shadeZones 3–932 ftModerate
American Wintergreen
Gaultheria procumbens
Part shadeZones 3–88 inModerate
Listed as toxic to cats
Arrowwood
Viburnum dentatum
Full sunZones 3–88 ftModerate
Coral Honeysuckle
Lonicera sempervirens
Full sunZones 4–915 ftModerate
American Linden
Tilia americana
Full sunZones 3–870 ftModerate
Foliage
Marginal Wood Fern
Dryopteris marginalis
Part shadeZones 3–81.5 ftModerate
Goatsbeard
Aruncus dioicus
Part shadeZones 3–74 ftModerate
Silver Maple
Acer saccharinum
Full sunZones 3–939 ftModerate
Sweet Joe Pye Weed
Eutrochium purpureum
Full sunZones 4–96 ftModerate
Hardy Hibiscus
Hibiscus moscheutos
Full sunZones 5–94 ftHigh
Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
Part shadeZones 3–88 inLow
Sweetgum
Liquidambar styraciflua
Full sunZones 5–969 ftModerate
Woodland Stonecrop
Sedum ternatum
Part shadeZones 4–88 inModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Northern Sea Oats
Chasmanthium latifolium
Part shadeZones 3–83.5 ftModerate
Shrubby St. John's Wort
Hypericum prolificum
Full sunZones 4–83 ftModerate
Willow Oak
Quercus phellos
Full sunZones 5–957 ftModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs
Foliage
Eastern Hemlock
Tsuga canadensis
Part shadeZones 3–749 ftModerate
Swamp Azalea
Rhododendron viscosum
Part shadeZones 4–95 ftModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Brown-Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia triloba
Full sunZones 4–83.5 ftModerate
Green and Gold
Chrysogonum virginianum
Part shadeZones 5–98 inModerate
Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
Part shadeZones 3–83 ftModerate
False Sunflower
Heliopsis
Full sunZones 3–94 ftModerate
Garden Phlox
Phlox paniculata
Full sunZones 4–83.5 ftModerate
Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
Full sunZones 4–91.5 ftModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Foliage
Eastern White Pine
Pinus strobus
Full sunZones 3–859 ftModerate
Wild Bee Balm
Monarda fistulosa
Full sunZones 3–93 ftModerate
Blue Wood Sedge
Carex flaccosperma
Part shadeZones 5–88 inModerate
Ninebark
Physocarpus opulifolius
Full sunZones 3–76.5 ftModerate
Pin Oak
Quercus palustris
Full sunZones 4–860 ftModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs
Virginia Bluebells
Mertensia virginica
Part shadeZones 3–81.5 ftModerate
Roundleaf Ragwort
Packera obovata
Part shadeZones 3–81.5 ftModerate
Black Chokeberry
Aronia melanocarpa
Full sunZones 3–85 ftModerate
Pagoda Dogwood
Cornus alternifolia
Part shadeZones 3–720 ftModerate
Foliage
Sugar Maple
Acer saccharum
Full sunZones 3–859 ftModerate
Sweetbay Magnolia
Magnolia virginiana
Part sunZones 5–1030 ftHigh
Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
Full sunZones 4–95 ftLow
Zigzag Goldenrod
Solidago flexicaulis
Part shadeZones 3–82.5 ftModerate
Heartleaf Foamflower
Tiarella cordifolia
Part shadeZones 3–812 inModerate
Virginia Sweetspire
Itea virginica
Part sunZones 5–94.5 ftModerate
Chinkapin Oak
Quercus muehlenbergii
Full sunZones 5–750 ftModerate
Dwarf Crested Iris
Iris cristata
Part shadeZones 4–88 inModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Rosebay Rhododendron
Rhododendron maximum
Part shadeZones 3–711 ftModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Shadblow Serviceberry
Amelanchier canadensis
Part shadeZones 4–824 ftModerate
Staghorn Sumac
Rhus typhina
Full sunZones 4–820 ftLow
Crossvine
Bignonia capreolata
Full sunZones 5–943 ftModerate

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