Native range
Native Plants by State and Province
A native plant is one that grows wild where you garden. The library holds 111 wild species and 20 plant groups native to North America; each page below is the cut for one state, province or territory, read from Kew's World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS: the wild species first, with how many of the state's counties record each one, the garden forms of them apart, and the plant groups with their counts.
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.
United States
- Alabama75 wild species, 20 plant groups
- Alaska7 wild species, 5 plant groups
- Arizona21 wild species, 13 plant groups
- Arkansas61 wild species, 19 plant groups
- California17 wild species, 12 plant groups
- Colorado29 wild species, 16 plant groups
- Connecticut57 wild species, 19 plant groups
- Delaware46 wild species, 17 plant groups
- District of Columbia41 wild species, 13 plant groups
- Florida52 wild species, 18 plant groups
- Georgia75 wild species, 20 plant groups
- Idaho10 wild species, 14 plant groups
- Illinois56 wild species, 19 plant groups
- Indiana59 wild species, 18 plant groups
- Iowa50 wild species, 17 plant groups
- Kansas45 wild species, 18 plant groups
- Kentucky62 wild species, 19 plant groups
- Louisiana55 wild species, 18 plant groups
- Maine43 wild species, 17 plant groups
- Maryland66 wild species, 19 plant groups
- Massachusetts50 wild species, 18 plant groups
- Michigan56 wild species, 18 plant groups
- Minnesota51 wild species, 18 plant groups
- Mississippi60 wild species, 19 plant groups
- Missouri60 wild species, 19 plant groups
- Montana22 wild species, 15 plant groups
- Nebraska34 wild species, 17 plant groups
- Nevada12 wild species, 9 plant groups
- New Hampshire45 wild species, 18 plant groups
- New Jersey56 wild species, 17 plant groups
- New Mexico32 wild species, 16 plant groups
- New York57 wild species, 18 plant groups
- North Carolina76 wild species, 20 plant groups
- North Dakota22 wild species, 16 plant groups
- Ohio62 wild species, 18 plant groups
- Oklahoma59 wild species, 18 plant groups
- Oregon14 wild species, 13 plant groups
- Pennsylvania63 wild species, 18 plant groups
- Rhode Island43 wild species, 17 plant groups
- South Carolina70 wild species, 20 plant groups
- South Dakota33 wild species, 16 plant groups
- Tennessee70 wild species, 19 plant groups
- Texas61 wild species, 18 plant groups
- Utah21 wild species, 13 plant groups
- Vermont50 wild species, 16 plant groups
- Virginia76 wild species, 19 plant groups
- Washington14 wild species, 14 plant groups
- West Virginia56 wild species, 18 plant groups
- Wisconsin51 wild species, 18 plant groups
- Wyoming26 wild species, 15 plant groups
Canada
- Alberta11 wild species, 15 plant groups
- British Columbia11 wild species, 14 plant groups
- Labrador6 wild species, 3 plant groups
- Manitoba21 wild species, 17 plant groups
- New Brunswick28 wild species, 9 plant groups
- Newfoundland13 wild species, 7 plant groups
- Northwest Territories8 wild species, 7 plant groups
- Nova Scotia27 wild species, 10 plant groups
- Nunavut3 wild species, 2 plant groups
- Ontario46 wild species, 18 plant groups
- Prince Edward Island18 wild species, 8 plant groups
- Quebec37 wild species, 15 plant groups
- Saskatchewan13 wild species, 15 plant groups
- Yukon8 wild species, 5 plant groups
How the lists are made
Each plant's native range is read from Kew's World Checklist of Vascular Plants together with USDA PLANTS, two votes per state, with every human decision on a ledger, by the same program behind the continent-wide list. A state's page lists the species the record calls native to it and, apart from them, the garden forms (named selections, each naming its wild parent) and the plant groups whose wild species grow there. A county's absence from the record is not evidence a plant is absent, so no page says a plant is not native to your area. For your own county, the free garden planner reads a ZIP.
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