Native range
Native plants of Arkansas
61 wild species and 19 plant groups in the BloomsEye library grow wild somewhere in Arkansas, read from Kew's World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS. The 115 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; Arkansas 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 80 plants, 59 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 Arkansas
How many of the state's 75 counties record each wild species growing wild, from USDA PLANTS: a plant recorded in many counties is widespread in Arkansas; one recorded in few may be local, or simply under-recorded. A county's absence is not evidence a plant is absent. 60 of the wild species carry a county record here.
- American Elderberry
- Buttonbush
- Eastern Redbud
- Red Maple
- Honeylocust
- Flava (Yellow Trumpet)
- Lady Fern
- Trumpet Vine
- River Birch
- Flowering Dogwood
- Christmas Fern
- Northern Sea Oats
- Butterfly Weed
- Bald Cypress
- Carolina Rose
- Cardinal Flower
- American Beautyberry
- Royal Fern
- Cinnamon Fern
- Little Bluestem
- False Sunflower
- Fragrant Sumac
- Maidenhair Fern
- Smooth Hydrangea
- Shrubby St. John's Wort
- Purple Coneflower
- Switchgrass
- Ozark Witch Hazel
- Virginia Sweetspire
- Blackhaw
- Wild Ginger
- Ninebark
- Cherokee Sedge
- Eastern Red Columbine
- Sugar Maple
- Carolina Jessamine
- Tulip Tree
- Aromatic Aster
- Arrowwood
- Goatsbeard
- Bottlebrush Grass
- Garden Phlox
- American Smoketree
- Sweetbay Magnolia
- Creeping Phlox
- New England Aster
- Blue Indigo
- Virginia Bluebells
- Annual Phlox
- Lavender Annual Phlox
- Peach Annual Phlox
- Purple Annual Phlox
- Red Annual Phlox
- White Annual Phlox
- Winterberry
- Celandine Poppy
- Pennsylvania Sedge
- Palm Sedge
- Black Chokeberry
- Large Fothergilla
Garden forms of Arkansas natives
115 garden forms, each a named selection of a species that grows wild in Arkansas and each naming its wild parent. A garden form is not the wild plant, so it is listed here and never counted above.
- Adams Elderberry
- Alba Gayfeather
- Alma Pötschke
- Amazing Grace
- Amber Jubilee
- Amethyst Falls Wisteria
- Annabelle
- Appalachian Red
- Aquavita Juniper
- Athena Gold False Sunflower
- Autumn Bride Coral Bells
- Autumn Colors
- Baby Joe Dwarf Joe Pye Weed
- Barbara Ann Climbing Hydrangea
- Bayside Bonito Southern Wax Myrtle
- Berry Heavy
- Berry Poppins
- Berry Scape Aronia
- Blackhawks Big Bluestem
- Blackjack Gold Black-Eyed Susan
- Blaze
- Blue Blaze Viburnum
- Blue Moon Wisteria
- Blue Moon Woodland Phlox
- Blue Muffin Viburnum
- Blue Paradise
- Bordeaux Dwarf Yaupon Holly
- Brandywine Viburnum
- Bright Eyes
- Bronze Wave Coral Bells
- Bubblegum Pink Garden Phlox
- Candy Stripe
- Caramel
- Cherokee Brave
- Cherokee Chief
- Cherokee Princess
- Cherry Brandy
- Citronelle
- Claire Grace
- Cloud Nine
- Coconut Lime
- Coppertina
- Coral Flame
- Crème Brûlée
- Crimson Trumpet
- David
- Denver Daisy
- Diabolo
- Drummond's Pink
- Early Sunrise
- Emerald Blue
- Emerald Pink
- Falling Waters
- 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
- Magnus
- Major Wheeler
- Moonbeam
- New England Aster 'Barr's Pink'
- New England Aster 'Harrington's Pink'
- Nicky
- Northwind
- Nugget
- October Skies
- Orange Perfection
- Peve Minaret
- Pink Double Delight
- PowWow Wild Berry
- Prairie Sun
- Purple Beauty
- Purple Dome
- Purple Phlox
- Raydon's Favorite
- Red Sprite
- Red Wings
- River Mist
- Robert Poore
- Route 66
- Royal White Redbud
- Ruby Falls
- Scarlet Flame
- Screaming Yellow
- Shawnee Brave
- Shenandoah
- Sienna Sunset
- Snow Flurry
- Starfire
- Sugar Shack Buttonbush
- Summer Wine
- The Rising Sun
- Tiny Wine
- Toto Gold
- Twilight Zone
- White Delight
- White Flame
- White Swan
- Winter Gold
- Winter Red
- Zagreb
Plant groups native to Arkansas
19 plant groups sold under one name whose wild species grow in Arkansas; the count beside each is how many of its wild species the record finds in the state.
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