Native range

Native plants of Indiana

174 wild species and 18 plant groups in the BloomsEye library grow wild somewhere in Indiana, read from Kew's World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS. The 152 garden forms of them are listed apart on the first page, each naming its wild parent.

Showing 121 to 180 of 192 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; Indiana 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 192 plants, 179 have been checked against outside sources (2 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.

Palm Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
Part sunZones 4–92.5 ftModerate
Leadplant
Amorpha canescens
Full sunZones 2–92.5 ftLow
Foliage
Marginal Wood Fern
Dryopteris marginalis
Part shadeZones 3–81.5 ftModerate
Potentilla
Potentilla fruticosa
Full sunZones 2–73 ftLow
American Wintergreen
Gaultheria procumbens
Part shadeZones 3–88 inModerate
Listed as toxic to cats
Goatsbeard
Aruncus dioicus
Part shadeZones 3–74 ftModerate
Black Cohosh
Actaea racemosa
Part shadeZones 3–85 ftModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Foliage
Ostrich Fern
Matteuccia struthiopteris
Part shadeZones 3–74 ftHigh
Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
Full sunZones 3–91.5 ftLow
Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
Full sunZones 3–82 ftModerate
Seersucker Sedge
Carex plantaginea
Part shadeZones 4–812 inModerate
Dwarf Crested Iris
Iris cristata
Part shadeZones 4–88 inModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
Full sunZones 4–92.5 ftLow
Foliage
Eastern White Pine
Pinus strobus
Full sunZones 3–859 ftModerate
Purple Coneflower
Echinacea purpurea
Full sunZones 3–83 ftLow
Foliage
Eastern Hemlock
Tsuga canadensis
Part shadeZones 3–749 ftModerate
Deam's Black-Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia fulgida var. deamii
Full sunZones 4–92.5 ftModerate
Northern Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
Part shadeZones 3–73 ftModerate
Crossvine
Bignonia capreolata
Full sunZones 5–943 ftModerate
Red Elderberry
Sambucus racemosa
Full sunZones 3–710 ftModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
American Cranberrybush Viburnum
Viburnum opulus var. americanum
Full sunZones 2–710 ftModerate
Blue Indigo
Baptisia australis
Full sunZones 3–93.5 ftModerate
Listed as toxic to cats
Bristleleaf Sedge
Carex eburnea
Part shadeZones 2–88 inModerate
Eastern Bluestar
Amsonia tabernaemontana
Full sunZones 3–92.5 ftModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Prairie Blazing Star
Liatris pycnostachya
Full sunZones 3–93.5 ftModerate
Prairie Dropseed Grass
Sporobolus heterolepis
Full sunZones 3–92.5 ftLow
Silky Dogwood
Cornus amomum
Part shadeZones 4–88.5 ftModerate
Kalm's St. John's Wort
Hypericum kalmianum
Full sunZones 4–72.5 ftModerate
Long-Beaked Sedge
Carex sprengelii
Part shadeZones 3–72.5 ftModerate
Tufted Hairgrass
Deschampsia cespitosa
Part shadeZones 4–92.5 ftModerate
Cucumbertree Magnolia
Magnolia acuminata
Full sunZones 4–865 ftModerate
Foliage
Hay Scented Fern
Dennstaedtia punctilobula
Part shadeZones 3–82 ftModerate
Possumhaw Holly
Ilex decidua
Full sunZones 5–912 ftModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
Full sunZones 3–82 ftLow
Foliage
Bald Cypress
Taxodium distichum
Full sunZones 4–959 ftHigh
Pale Purple Coneflower
Echinacea pallida
Full sunZones 3–102.5 ftModerate
Bunchberry
Cornus canadensis
Part shadeZones 2–68 inModerate
Mountain Laurel
Kalmia latifolia
Part shadeZones 5–99 ftModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Paper Birch
Betula papyrifera
Part shadeZones 2–732 ftModerate
Foliage
Arborvitae
Thuja occidentalis
Full sunZones 3–820 ftModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Kinnikinnick
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
Full sunZones 3–78 inModerate
Mexican Hat
Ratibida columnifera
Full sunZones 4–92.5 ftLow
Virginia Sweetspire
Itea virginica
Part sunZones 5–94.5 ftModerate
Swamp Sunflower
Helianthus angustifolius
Full sunZones 5–96 ftModerate
Indian Pink
Spigelia marilandica
Part shadeZones 5–91.5 ftModerate
Pink Muhly Grass
Muhlenbergia capillaris
Full sunZones 5–92.5 ftLow
American Holly
Ilex opaca
Full sunZones 5–935 ftModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Big Bluestem
Andropogon gerardi
Full sunZones 4–96 ftLow
Common Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
Full sunZones 3–74.5 ftModerate
Coral Honeysuckle
Lonicera sempervirens
Full sunZones 4–915 ftModerate
Creeping Phlox
Phlox subulata
Full sunZones 3–96 inLow
Eastern Star Sedge
Carex radiata
Part shadeZones 4–81.5 ftModerate
Pink Dogwood
Cornus florida var. rubra
Part shadeZones 5–920 ftModerate
Splitbeard Bluestem
Anatherum ternarium
Full sunZones 6–103 ftLow
Goldenrod
Solidago
Full sunZones 3–93 ftLow
Aster
Symphyotrichum
Full sunZones 3–83 ftModerate
Perennial Sunflower
Helianthus
Full sunZones 4–95 ftModerate
Black-Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia
Full sunZones 3–92.5 ftLow
Blazing Star
Liatris
Full sunZones 3–93 ftLow
Penstemon
Penstemon
Full sunZones 3–82.5 ftLow

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