Native range

Native plants of Ontario

142 wild species and 18 plant groups in the BloomsEye library grow wild somewhere in Ontario, read from Kew's World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS. The 109 garden forms of them are listed apart on the first page, each naming its wild parent.

Showing 121 to 160 of 160 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; Ontario is read off the record's own range, and the order is how many of the record's areas each plant reaches, then by name, as stored in the BloomsEye library, which was written with AI assistance. Of these 160 plants, 151 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.

Stiff Goldenrod
Solidago rigida
Full sunZones 3–93.5 ftModerate
Foliage
Sugar Maple
Acer saccharum
Full sunZones 3–859 ftModerate
Swamp Milkweed
Asclepias incarnata
Full sunZones 3–93.5 ftModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Swamp White Oak
Quercus bicolor
Full sunZones 4–855 ftModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs
Sweet Joe Pye Weed
Eutrochium purpureum
Full sunZones 4–96 ftModerate
Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
Full sunZones 4–95 ftLow
Tufted Hairgrass
Deschampsia cespitosa
Part shadeZones 4–92.5 ftModerate
Tulip Tree
Liriodendron tulipifera
Full sunZones 4–966 ftModerate
Virginia Bluebells
Mertensia virginica
Part shadeZones 3–81.5 ftModerate
Virginia Creeper
Parthenocissus quinquefolia
Full sunZones 3–940 ftModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Western Serviceberry
Amelanchier alnifolia
Full sunZones 2–918 ftModerate
White Oak
Quercus alba
Full sunZones 3–965 ftModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs
White Turtlehead
Chelone glabra
Part shadeZones 3–83 ftHigh
White Wood Aster
Eurybia divaricata
Part shadeZones 3–82 ftModerate
White-Tinged Sedge
Carex albicans
Part shadeZones 4–81.5 ftModerate
Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
Full sunZones 4–91.5 ftModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Wild Bee Balm
Monarda fistulosa
Full sunZones 3–93 ftModerate
Wild Geranium
Geranium maculatum
Part shadeZones 3–81.5 ftModerate
Foliage
Wild Ginger
Asarum
Full shadeZones 4–86 inModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Winterberry
Ilex verticillata
Full sunZones 3–96.5 ftHigh
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Woodland Phlox
Phlox divaricata
Part shadeZones 3–812 inModerate
Zigzag Goldenrod
Solidago flexicaulis
Part shadeZones 3–82.5 ftModerate
Goldenrod
Solidago
Full sunZones 3–93 ftLow
Aster
Symphyotrichum
Full sunZones 3–83 ftModerate
Perennial Sunflower
Helianthus
Full sunZones 4–95 ftModerate
Serviceberry
Amelanchier
Part sunZones 4–820 ftModerate
Trillium
Trillium
Full shadeZones 4–812 inModerate
Bee Balm
Monarda
Full sunZones 3–93 ftModerate
Blazing Star
Liatris
Full sunZones 3–93 ftLow
Penstemon
Penstemon
Full sunZones 3–82.5 ftLow
Black-Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia
Full sunZones 3–92.5 ftLow
Coreopsis
Coreopsis
Full sunZones 4–92 ftLow
Joe Pye Weed
Eutrochium
Full sunZones 4–96 ftHigh
False Indigo
Baptisia
Full sunZones 3–93.5 ftLow
Listed as toxic to cats
Foam Flower
Tiarella
Part shadeZones 3–812 inModerate
Ironweed
Vernonia
Full sunZones 4–95 ftModerate
Obedient Plant
Physostegia
Full sunZones 3–93.5 ftModerate
Sneezeweed
Helenium
Full sunZones 3–83.5 ftModerate
Spiderwort
Tradescantia
Part sunZones 3–91.5 ftModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Turtlehead
Chelone
Part sunZones 3–83 ftHigh

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