Native range
Native plants of Iowa
50 wild species and 17 plant groups in the BloomsEye library grow wild somewhere in Iowa, read from Kew's World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS. The 119 garden forms of them are listed apart on the first page, each naming its wild parent.
Showing 61 to 67 of 67 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; Iowa 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 67 plants, 51 have been checked against outside sources (1 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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