Native range
Native plants of Michigan
56 wild species and 18 plant groups in the BloomsEye library grow wild somewhere in Michigan, read from Kew's World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS. The 132 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; Michigan 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 74 plants, 57 have been checked against outside sources (4 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 Michigan
How many of the state's 83 counties record each wild species growing wild, from USDA PLANTS: a plant recorded in many counties is widespread in Michigan; one recorded in few may be local, or simply under-recorded. A county's absence is not evidence a plant is absent. 48 of the wild species carry a county record here.
- American Elderberry
- Eastern Red Columbine
- Red Maple
- Sugar Maple
- Winterberry
- Bunchberry
- Arborvitae
- Cardinal Flower
- Ninebark
- Pennsylvania Sedge
- Eastern White Pine
- Eastern Hemlock
- Staghorn Sumac
- Wild Ginger
- Potentilla
- Bottlebrush Grass
- Butterfly Weed
- Little Bluestem
- New England Aster
- Kalm's St. John's Wort
- False Sunflower
- Switchgrass
- Carolina Rose
- Northern Blue Flag Iris
- Creeping Phlox
- Flowering Dogwood
- Garden Phlox
- Shrubby St. John's Wort
- Tulip Tree
- Honeylocust
- Palm Sedge
- Fragrant Sumac
- Celandine Poppy
- Eastern Redbud
- Hardy Hibiscus
- Purple Coneflower
- Blackhaw
- Queen of the Prairie
- Chives
- Prairie Smoke
- Virginia Bluebells
- Annual Phlox
- Lavender Annual Phlox
- Northern Sea Oats
- Peach Annual Phlox
- Purple Annual Phlox
- Red Annual Phlox
- White Annual Phlox
Garden forms of Michigan natives
132 garden forms, each a named selection of a species that grows wild in Michigan 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
- Alba Gayfeather
- Alma Pötschke
- Alpine Carpet Juniper
- Amazing Grace
- Amber Jubilee
- Amethyst Falls Wisteria
- Appalachian Red
- Aquavita Juniper
- Arctic Fire Red Twig Dogwood
- Arctic Fire Yellow Dogwood
- Athena Gold False Sunflower
- Autumn Colors
- Baby Joe Dwarf Joe Pye Weed
- Bailey Compact American Cranberrybush
- Balmy Purple
- Bar Harbor Juniper
- Berry Heavy
- Berry Poppins
- Black Hills Spruce
- Blackhawks Big Bluestem
- Blackjack Gold Black-Eyed Susan
- Blaze
- Blonde Ambition Blue Grama Grass
- Blue Chip Juniper
- Blue Moon Woodland Phlox
- Blue Paradise
- Blue Rug Juniper
- Bright Eyes
- Bubblegum Pink Garden Phlox
- Candy Stripe
- Cheer Drops Arborvitae
- Cherokee Brave
- Cherokee Chief
- Cherokee Princess
- Cherry Berries Wintergreen
- Cherry Brandy
- Claire Grace
- Cloud Nine
- Cobalt-n-Gold Hypericum
- Coconut Lime
- 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
- Emerald Blue
- Emerald Green
- Emerald Pink
- Fire Chief
- Flame Thrower
- Forest Pansy
- Gentsch White
- Golden Globe
- Goldfinger
- Goldilocks
- Goldsturm
- Grand Marshall
- Green Jewel
- Gro-Low Fragrant Sumac
- Happy Face Yellow
- Hearts of Gold
- Heavy Metal
- Holmstrup
- Indian Summer
- Jeana
- Jeddeloh Hemlock
- Laura
- Lavender Twist
- Lemony Lace Elderberry
- Little Devil
- Luminary Ultraviolet
- Luna Pink Swirl
- Luna White
- Magnus
- 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
- Pink Beauty
- Pink Double Delight
- Pink Whisper
- PowWow Wild Berry
- Prairie Sun
- Purple Beauty
- Purple Dome
- Purple Phlox
- Purple Rooster
- Red Ace
- Red Sprite
- Red Wings
- Rheingold
- River Mist
- Robert Poore
- Royal White Redbud
- Ruby Falls
- Scarlet Flame
- Shenandoah
- Snow Flurry
- Starfire
- Sugar Buzz Cherry Pops
- Summer Wine
- Sunny Boulevard St. John's Wort
- Tangerine
- Techny
- The Rising Sun
- Tiger Eyes Sumac
- Tiny Wine
- Toto Gold
- Twilight Zone
- Weeping Hemlock
- Weeping White Pine
- White Delight
- White Flame
- White Swan
- Winter Gold
- Winter Red
Plant groups native to Michigan
18 plant groups sold under one name whose wild species grow in Michigan; the count beside each is how many of its wild species the record finds in the state.
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