Native range
Native plants of Kansas
45 wild species and 18 plant groups in the BloomsEye library grow wild somewhere in Kansas, read from Kew's World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS. The 91 garden forms of them are listed apart below, each naming its wild parent.
Showing 1 to 60 of 63 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; Kansas 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 63 plants, 44 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.
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Recorded across Kansas
How many of the state's 105 counties record each wild species growing wild, from USDA PLANTS: a plant recorded in many counties is widespread in Kansas; one recorded in few may be local, or simply under-recorded. A county's absence is not evidence a plant is absent. 42 of the wild species carry a county record here.
- Little Bluestem
- Sunflower
- Switchgrass
- Honeylocust
- Fragrant Sumac
- American Elderberry
- Aromatic Aster
- Butterfly Weed
- Blue Indigo
- Buttonbush
- Cardinal Flower
- Eastern Redbud
- False Sunflower
- Flava (Yellow Trumpet)
- Trumpet Vine
- Northern Sea Oats
- Eastern Red Columbine
- Maidenhair Fern
- Apricot Lisianthus
- Blue Lisianthus
- Cream Lisianthus
- Lisianthus
- Picotee Lisianthus
- Pink Lisianthus
- Rose Lisianthus
- White Lisianthus
- Sugar Maple
- Blackhaw
- New England Aster
- Carolina Rose
- Bottlebrush Grass
- Christmas Fern
- Wild Ginger
- River Birch
- Garden Phlox
- Hardy Hibiscus
- Ninebark
- Palm Sedge
- Royal Fern
- Flowering Dogwood
- Purple Coneflower
- Smooth Hydrangea
Garden forms of Kansas natives
91 garden forms, each a named selection of a species that grows wild in Kansas 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
- Alma Pötschke
- Amber Jubilee
- Annabelle
- Appalachian Red
- Aquavita Juniper
- Arctic Fire Red Twig Dogwood
- Arctic Fire Yellow Dogwood
- Athena Gold False Sunflower
- Autumn Beauty
- Autumn Colors
- Autumn Gold Narrow-Leaved Sunflower
- Baby Joe Dwarf Joe Pye Weed
- Blackhawks Big Bluestem
- Blackjack Gold Black-Eyed Susan
- Blaze
- Blonde Ambition Blue Grama Grass
- Blue Moon Woodland Phlox
- Blue Paradise
- Bright Eyes
- Bubblegum Pink Garden Phlox
- Cherokee Brave
- Cherokee Chief
- Cherokee Princess
- Cherry Brandy
- Claire Grace
- Cloud Nine
- Coconut Lime
- Coppertina
- Coral Flame
- Crimson Trumpet
- David
- Denver Daisy
- Diabolo
- Early Sunrise
- Flame Thrower
- Forest Pansy
- Giant Sunflower
- Goldilocks
- Green Jewel
- Gro-Low Fragrant Sumac
- Hearts of Gold
- Heavy Metal
- Incrediball Hydrangea
- Indian Summer
- Invincibelle Spirit II Hydrangea
- Jeana
- Laura
- Lavender Twist
- Lemon Queen
- Little Devil
- Luminary Ultraviolet
- Luna Pink Swirl
- Luna White
- Magnus
- Major Wheeler
- Mammoth
- Moulin Rouge
- New England Aster 'Barr's Pink'
- New England Aster 'Harrington's Pink'
- Nicky
- Northwind
- Nugget
- October Skies
- Orange Perfection
- Pink Double Delight
- PowWow Wild Berry
- Prairie Sun
- Purple Dome
- Purple Phlox
- Raydon's Favorite
- Ring of Fire
- River Mist
- Robert Poore
- Royal White Redbud
- Ruby Falls
- Shenandoah
- Snow Flurry
- Soraya
- Starfire
- Strawberry Blonde
- Sugar Shack Buttonbush
- Summer Wine
- Teddy Bear
- The Rising Sun
- Tiny Wine
- Toto Gold
- Twilight Zone
- Velvet Queen
- White Flame
- White Swan
Plant groups native to Kansas
18 plant groups sold under one name whose wild species grow in Kansas; the count beside each is how many of its wild species the record finds in the state.
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