Native range
Native plants of Maine
43 wild species and 17 plant groups in the BloomsEye library grow wild somewhere in Maine, read from Kew's World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS. The 123 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; Maine 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 60 plants, 46 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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Recorded across Maine
How many of the state's 16 counties record each wild species growing wild, from USDA PLANTS: a plant recorded in many counties is widespread in Maine; one recorded in few may be local, or simply under-recorded. A county's absence is not evidence a plant is absent. 40 of the wild species carry a county record here.
- American Elderberry
- Arborvitae
- Black Chokeberry
- Bunchberry
- Cardinal Flower
- Christmas Fern
- Northern Blue Flag Iris
- Red Maple
- Royal Fern
- Staghorn Sumac
- Winterberry
- Arrowwood
- Cinnamon Fern
- Lady Fern
- Sugar Maple
- Buttonbush
- Eastern White Pine
- Ostrich Fern
- Maidenhair Fern
- Eastern Hemlock
- Eastern Red Columbine
- Little Bluestem
- Carolina Rose
- Potentilla
- Chives
- Creeping Phlox
- False Sunflower
- Mountain Laurel
- New England Aster
- Wild Ginger
- Bottlebrush Grass
- Switchgrass
- Ninebark
- Garden Phlox
- Honeylocust
- Summersweet
- Butterfly Weed
- Flowering Dogwood
- Shrubby St. John's Wort
- Virginia Bluebells
Garden forms of Maine natives
123 garden forms, each a named selection of a species that grows wild in Maine and each naming its wild parent. A garden form is not the wild plant, so it is listed here and never counted above.
- Abbotswood
- Adams Elderberry
- Alma Pötschke
- Alpine Carpet Juniper
- Amazing Grace
- Amber Jubilee
- Aquavita Juniper
- Arctic Fire Red Twig Dogwood
- Arctic Fire Yellow Dogwood
- Athena Gold False Sunflower
- Autumn Colors
- Bailey Compact American Cranberrybush
- Balmy Purple
- Bar Harbor Juniper
- Berry Heavy
- Berry Poppins
- Berry Scape Aronia
- Black Hills Spruce
- Blackhawks Big Bluestem
- Blaze
- Blue Blaze Viburnum
- Blue Chip Juniper
- Blue Muffin Viburnum
- Blue Paradise
- Blue Rug Juniper
- Bobee Northern Bayberry
- Bridesmaid Mountain Laurel
- Bright Eyes
- Bubblegum Pink Garden Phlox
- Candy Stripe
- Carol Mountain Laurel
- Carousel Mountain Laurel
- Cheer Drops Arborvitae
- Cherokee Brave
- Cherokee Chief
- Cherokee Princess
- Cherry Berries Wintergreen
- Cherry Brandy
- Claire Grace
- Cloud Nine
- Columnar White Pine
- Coppertina
- Coral Flame
- Danica
- David
- DeGroot's Spire
- Denver Daisy
- Diabolo
- Drummond's Pink
- Dwarf Alberta Spruce
- Dwarf White Pine
- Early Sunrise
- Elf Mountain Laurel
- Emerald Blue
- Emerald Green
- Emerald Pink
- Fire Chief
- Gentsch White
- Golden Globe
- Goldfinger
- Goldilocks
- Grand Marshall
- Happy Face Yellow
- Heavy Metal
- Holmstrup
- Hummingbird
- Indian Summer
- Jeana
- Jeddeloh Hemlock
- Laura
- Lemony Lace Elderberry
- Little Devil
- Luminary Ultraviolet
- Major Wheeler
- Mango Tango
- McKay's White
- New England Aster 'Barr's Pink'
- New England Aster 'Harrington's Pink'
- Nicky
- Northwind
- Nugget
- Orange Perfection
- Orange Whisper
- Pardon My Purple
- Patricia Ballard
- Pink Beauty
- Pink Spire
- Pink Whisper
- Prairie Sun
- Professor Kippenberg
- Purple Beauty
- Purple Dome
- Purple Phlox
- Purple Rooster
- Rainbow Pillar
- Red Ace
- Red Sprite
- Red Wings
- Rheingold
- Robert Poore
- Ruby Spice
- Sarah Mountain Laurel
- Scarlet Flame
- Shenandoah
- Sixteen Candles
- Snow Flurry
- Starfire
- Sugar Buzz Cherry Pops
- Sugar Shack Buttonbush
- Summer Wine
- Tangerine
- Techny
- Tiger Eyes Sumac
- Tiny Wine
- Toto Gold
- Twilight Zone
- Vanilla Spice
- Weeping Hemlock
- Weeping White Pine
- White Delight
- White Flame
- Winter Gold
- Winter Red
Plant groups native to Maine
17 plant groups sold under one name whose wild species grow in Maine; the count beside each is how many of its wild species the record finds in the state.
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