Native range
Native plants of Missouri
60 wild species and 19 plant groups in the BloomsEye library grow wild somewhere in Missouri, read from Kew's World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS. The 101 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; Missouri 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 79 plants, 58 have been checked against outside sources (5 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 Missouri
How many of the state's 115 counties record each wild species growing wild, from USDA PLANTS: a plant recorded in many counties is widespread in Missouri; one recorded in few may be local, or simply under-recorded. A county's absence is not evidence a plant is absent. 59 of the wild species carry a county record here.
- American Elderberry
- Eastern Redbud
- Honeylocust
- Buttonbush
- Butterfly Weed
- Eastern Red Columbine
- Fragrant Sumac
- Wild Ginger
- Carolina Rose
- Flava (Yellow Trumpet)
- Trumpet Vine
- Blackhaw
- Sugar Maple
- River Birch
- False Sunflower
- Maidenhair Fern
- Christmas Fern
- Flowering Dogwood
- Shrubby St. John's Wort
- Little Bluestem
- Ninebark
- Switchgrass
- Aromatic Aster
- Cardinal Flower
- Northern Sea Oats
- New England Aster
- Garden Phlox
- Goatsbeard
- Purple Coneflower
- Virginia Bluebells
- Lady Fern
- Bottlebrush Grass
- Red Maple
- Smooth Hydrangea
- Hardy Hibiscus
- Ozark Witch Hazel
- Palm Sedge
- Royal Fern
- Blue Indigo
- Celandine Poppy
- Bald Cypress
- Pennsylvania Sedge
- Tulip Tree
- Cinnamon Fern
- Ostrich Fern
- Virginia Sweetspire
- American Smoketree
- Cherokee Sedge
- Winterberry
- Queen of the Prairie
- American Beautyberry
- Annual Phlox
- Arrowwood
- Black Chokeberry
- Lavender Annual Phlox
- Peach Annual Phlox
- Purple Annual Phlox
- Red Annual Phlox
- White Annual Phlox
Garden forms of Missouri natives
101 garden forms, each a named selection of a species that grows wild in Missouri 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
- Alba Gayfeather
- Alma Pötschke
- Amber Jubilee
- Amethyst Falls Wisteria
- Annabelle
- Appalachian Red
- Aquavita Juniper
- Athena Gold False Sunflower
- Autumn Bride Coral Bells
- Autumn Colors
- Autumn Gold Narrow-Leaved Sunflower
- Baby Joe Dwarf Joe Pye Weed
- Berry Heavy
- Berry Poppins
- Blackhawks Big Bluestem
- Blackjack Gold Black-Eyed Susan
- Blaze
- Blonde Ambition Blue Grama Grass
- Blue Blaze Viburnum
- Blue Moon Wisteria
- Blue Moon Woodland Phlox
- Blue Muffin Viburnum
- Blue Paradise
- Bright Eyes
- Bronze Wave Coral Bells
- Bubblegum Pink Garden Phlox
- Caramel
- Cherokee Brave
- Cherokee Chief
- Cherokee Princess
- Cherry Brandy
- Citronelle
- Claire Grace
- Cloud Nine
- Coconut Lime
- Coppertina
- Coral Flame
- Crimson Trumpet
- David
- Denver Daisy
- Diabolo
- Early Sunrise
- Falling Waters
- Flame Thrower
- Forest Pansy
- Goldilocks
- Goldsturm
- Green Jewel
- Gro-Low Fragrant Sumac
- Hearts of Gold
- Heavy Metal
- Henry's Garnet Sweetspire
- Incrediball Hydrangea
- Indian Summer
- Invincibelle Spirit II Hydrangea
- Jeana
- Laura
- Lavender Twist
- Lemony Lace Elderberry
- Little Devil
- Little Henry Sweetspire
- Luminary Ultraviolet
- Luna Pink Swirl
- Luna White
- Magnus
- Major Wheeler
- New England Aster 'Barr's Pink'
- New England Aster 'Harrington's Pink'
- Nicky
- Northwind
- Nugget
- October Skies
- Orange Perfection
- Peve Minaret
- Pink Double Delight
- PowWow Wild Berry
- Prairie Sun
- Purple Dome
- Purple Phlox
- Raydon's Favorite
- Red Sprite
- River Mist
- Robert Poore
- Royal White Redbud
- Ruby Falls
- Screaming Yellow
- Shawnee Brave
- Shenandoah
- Snow Flurry
- Starfire
- Sugar Shack Buttonbush
- Summer Wine
- The Rising Sun
- Tiny Wine
- Toto Gold
- Twilight Zone
- White Flame
- White Swan
- Winter Gold
- Winter Red
Plant groups native to Missouri
19 plant groups sold under one name whose wild species grow in Missouri; the count beside each is how many of its wild species the record finds in the state.
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