Native range

Native plants of Tennessee

70 wild species and 19 plant groups in the BloomsEye library grow wild somewhere in Tennessee, read from Kew's World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS. The 152 garden forms of them are listed apart on the first page, each naming its wild parent.

Showing 61 to 89 of 89 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; Tennessee 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 89 plants, 70 have been checked against outside sources (3 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.

Creeping Phlox
Phlox subulata
Full sunZones 3–96 inLow
Large Fothergilla
Fothergilla major
Full sunZones 4–88 ftModerate
Appalachian Sedge
Carex appalachica
Part shadeZones 3–88 inLow
American Smoketree
Cotinus obovatus
Full sunZones 4–817 ftModerate
Carolina Jessamine
Gelsemium sempervirens
Full sunZones 6–1015 ftModerate
Sweetbay Magnolia
Magnolia virginiana
Part sunZones 5–1030 ftHigh
Canby's Mountain Lover
Paxistima canbyi
Part shadeZones 4–712 inModerate
Palm Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
Part sunZones 4–92.5 ftModerate
Summersweet
Clethra alnifolia
Part shadeZones 3–96 ftHigh
Pink Dogwood
Cornus florida var. rubra
Part shadeZones 5–920 ftModerate
Goldenrod
Solidago
Full sunZones 3–93 ftLow
Aster
Symphyotrichum
Full sunZones 3–83 ftModerate
Perennial Sunflower
Helianthus
Full sunZones 4–95 ftModerate
Trillium
Trillium
Full shadeZones 4–812 inModerate
Penstemon
Penstemon
Full sunZones 3–82.5 ftLow
Blazing Star
Liatris
Full sunZones 3–93 ftLow
Bee Balm
Monarda
Full sunZones 3–93 ftModerate
Black-Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia
Full sunZones 3–92.5 ftLow
Coreopsis
Coreopsis
Full sunZones 4–92 ftLow
False Indigo
Baptisia
Full sunZones 3–93.5 ftLow
Listed as toxic to cats
Ironweed
Vernonia
Full sunZones 4–95 ftModerate
Joe Pye Weed
Eutrochium
Full sunZones 4–96 ftHigh
Serviceberry
Amelanchier
Part sunZones 4–820 ftModerate
Spiderwort
Tradescantia
Part sunZones 3–91.5 ftModerate
Listed as toxic to dogs and cats
Foam Flower
Tiarella
Part shadeZones 3–812 inModerate
Sneezeweed
Helenium
Full sunZones 3–83.5 ftModerate
Turtlehead
Chelone
Part sunZones 3–83 ftHigh
Bluestar
Amsonia
Full sunZones 4–93 ftModerate
Obedient Plant
Physostegia
Full sunZones 3–93.5 ftModerate

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