Native range
Native plants of South Carolina
70 wild species and 20 plant groups in the BloomsEye library grow wild somewhere in South Carolina, read from Kew's World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS. The 131 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; South Carolina 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 90 plants, 69 have been checked against outside sources (6 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 South Carolina
How many of the state's 46 counties record each wild species growing wild, from USDA PLANTS: a plant recorded in many counties is widespread in South Carolina; one recorded in few may be local, or simply under-recorded. A county's absence is not evidence a plant is absent. 63 of the wild species carry a county record here.
- Butterfly Weed
- Flava (Yellow Trumpet)
- Trumpet Vine
- American Beautyberry
- American Elderberry
- Flowering Dogwood
- Buttonbush
- Little Bluestem
- Carolina Jessamine
- Christmas Fern
- Red Maple
- Cardinal Flower
- Hardy Hibiscus
- Virginia Sweetspire
- Eastern Redbud
- Cinnamon Fern
- Royal Fern
- Summersweet
- Sweetbay Magnolia
- White Wild Indigo
- Carolina Rose
- Honeylocust
- Switchgrass
- Carolina Allspice
- Tulip Tree
- Coast Leucothoe
- Lady Fern
- Northern Sea Oats
- Mountain Laurel
- River Birch
- Arrowwood
- Bald Cypress
- Blackhaw
- Winterberry
- Annual Phlox
- Lavender Annual Phlox
- Peach Annual Phlox
- Purple Annual Phlox
- Red Annual Phlox
- White Annual Phlox
- Southern Magnolia
- Dwarf Fothergilla
- Smooth Hydrangea
- Maidenhair Fern
- Bottlebrush Grass
- Drooping Leucothoe
- Shrubby St. John's Wort
- False Sunflower
- Fragrant Sumac
- Ninebark
- Eastern Red Columbine
- Eastern White Pine
- Cherokee Sedge
- Eastern Hemlock
- Wild Ginger
- Appalachian Sedge
- Goatsbeard
- Large Fothergilla
- Allegheny Spurge
- Black Chokeberry
- Bottlebrush Buckeye
- Mountain Stewartia
- Staghorn Sumac
Garden forms of South Carolina natives
131 garden forms, each a named selection of a species that grows wild in South Carolina 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
- Alice Oakleaf Hydrangea
- Alma Pötschke
- Alpine Carpet Juniper
- Amber Jubilee
- Amethyst Falls Wisteria
- Annabelle
- Appalachian Red
- Aquavita Juniper
- Athena Gold False Sunflower
- Autumn Bride Coral Bells
- Autumn Colors
- Baby Joe Dwarf Joe Pye Weed
- Barbara Ann Climbing Hydrangea
- Bayside Bonito Southern Wax Myrtle
- Berry Heavy
- Berry Poppins
- Berry Scape Aronia
- Blackhawks Big Bluestem
- Blaze
- Blue Blaze Viburnum
- Blue Moon Wisteria
- Blue Moon Woodland Phlox
- Blue Muffin Viburnum
- Blue Paradise
- Bordeaux Dwarf Yaupon Holly
- Brandywine Viburnum
- Bridesmaid Mountain Laurel
- Bright Eyes
- Bronze Wave Coral Bells
- Bubblegum Pink Garden Phlox
- Caramel
- Carol Mountain Laurel
- Carousel Mountain Laurel
- Cherokee Brave
- Cherokee Chief
- Cherokee Princess
- Cherry Berries Wintergreen
- Cherry Brandy
- Citronelle
- Claire Grace
- Cloud Nine
- Coconut Lime
- Color Guard Yucca
- Columnar White Pine
- Coppertina
- Coral Flame
- Crème Brûlée
- Crimson Trumpet
- David
- Denver Daisy
- Diabolo
- Dwarf White Pine
- Early Sunrise
- Elf Mountain Laurel
- Falling Waters
- Flame Thrower
- Forest Pansy
- Gentsch White
- Goldilocks
- Goldsturm
- Green Jewel
- Gro-Low Fragrant Sumac
- Hearts of Gold
- Heavy Metal
- Henry's Garnet Sweetspire
- Hummingbird
- Incrediball Hydrangea
- Indian Summer
- Invincibelle Spirit II Hydrangea
- Jeana
- Jeddeloh Hemlock
- Laura
- Lavender Twist
- Little Devil
- Little Gem Magnolia
- Little Henry Sweetspire
- Luminary Ultraviolet
- Luna Pink Swirl
- Luna White
- Magnus
- Major Wheeler
- Moonbeam
- New England Aster 'Barr's Pink'
- New England Aster 'Harrington's Pink'
- Nicky
- Northwind
- Nugget
- Orange Perfection
- Patricia Ballard
- Peve Minaret
- Pink Double Delight
- Pink Spire
- PowWow Wild Berry
- Prairie Sun
- Professor Kippenberg
- Purple Dome
- Purple Phlox
- Rainbow Leucothoe
- Rainbow Pillar
- Red Sprite
- River Mist
- Robert Poore
- Route 66
- Royal White Redbud
- Ruby Falls
- Ruby Spice
- Sarah Mountain Laurel
- Scarletta Leucothoe
- Shawnee Brave
- Shenandoah
- Sienna Sunset
- Sixteen Candles
- Snowcicle Hydrangea
- Starfire
- Sugar Shack Buttonbush
- Summer Wine
- The Rising Sun
- Tiger Eyes Sumac
- Tiny Wine
- Toto Gold
- Twilight Zone
- Vanilla Spice
- Weeping Hemlock
- Weeping White Pine
- White Flame
- White Swan
- Winter Gold
- Winter Red
- Zagreb
Plant groups native to South Carolina
20 plant groups sold under one name whose wild species grow in South Carolina; the count beside each is how many of its wild species the record finds in the state.
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