Native range
Native plants of West Virginia
56 wild species and 18 plant groups in the BloomsEye library grow wild somewhere in West Virginia, read from Kew's World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS. The 136 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; West Virginia 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, 56 have been checked against outside sources (2 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 West Virginia
How many of the state's 55 counties record each wild species growing wild, from USDA PLANTS: a plant recorded in many counties is widespread in West Virginia; one recorded in few may be local, or simply under-recorded. A county's absence is not evidence a plant is absent. 54 of the wild species carry a county record here.
- Christmas Fern
- Flowering Dogwood
- Sugar Maple
- Red Maple
- Smooth Hydrangea
- Eastern Redbud
- Maidenhair Fern
- Tulip Tree
- Wild Ginger
- Mountain Laurel
- American Elderberry
- Butterfly Weed
- Carolina Rose
- Goatsbeard
- Lady Fern
- Bottlebrush Grass
- Eastern Hemlock
- Staghorn Sumac
- Eastern Red Columbine
- Blackhaw
- Garden Phlox
- Cardinal Flower
- Honeylocust
- Virginia Bluebells
- Eastern White Pine
- False Sunflower
- Buttonbush
- River Birch
- Shrubby St. John's Wort
- Cinnamon Fern
- Flava (Yellow Trumpet)
- Trumpet Vine
- Ninebark
- Royal Fern
- Winterberry
- Little Bluestem
- Creeping Phlox
- Switchgrass
- Black Chokeberry
- Pennsylvania Sedge
- Celandine Poppy
- New England Aster
- Fragrant Sumac
- Hardy Hibiscus
- Aromatic Aster
- Carolina Allspice
- Bunchberry
- Blue Indigo
- Canby's Mountain Lover
- Queen of the Prairie
- Arborvitae
- Arrowwood
- Ostrich Fern
- Appalachian Sedge
Garden forms of West Virginia natives
136 garden forms, each a named selection of a species that grows wild in West Virginia 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
- Alpine Carpet Juniper
- Amazing Grace
- Amber Jubilee
- Amethyst Falls Wisteria
- Annabelle
- Appalachian Red
- Aquavita Juniper
- Arctic Fire Red Twig Dogwood
- Arctic Fire Yellow Dogwood
- Athena Gold False Sunflower
- Autumn Bride Coral Bells
- Autumn Colors
- Baby Joe Dwarf Joe Pye Weed
- Bailey Compact American Cranberrybush
- Balmy Purple
- Berry Heavy
- Berry Poppins
- Berry Scape Aronia
- Blackhawks Big Bluestem
- Blackjack Gold Black-Eyed Susan
- Blaze
- Blue Blaze Viburnum
- Blue Moon Woodland Phlox
- Blue Muffin Viburnum
- Blue Paradise
- Brandywine Viburnum
- Bridesmaid Mountain Laurel
- Bright Eyes
- Bronze Wave Coral Bells
- Bubblegum Pink Garden Phlox
- Candy Stripe
- Caramel
- Carol Mountain Laurel
- Carousel Mountain Laurel
- Cheer Drops Arborvitae
- Cherokee Brave
- Cherokee Chief
- Cherokee Princess
- Cherry Berries Wintergreen
- Cherry Brandy
- Citronelle
- Claire Grace
- Cloud Nine
- Color Guard Yucca
- Columnar White Pine
- Coppertina
- Coral Flame
- Crème Brûlée
- Crimson Trumpet
- Danica
- David
- DeGroot's Spire
- Denver Daisy
- Diabolo
- Drummond's Pink
- Dwarf White Pine
- Early Sunrise
- Elf Mountain Laurel
- Emerald Blue
- Emerald Green
- Emerald Pink
- Fire Chief
- Flame Thrower
- Forest Pansy
- Gentsch White
- Golden Globe
- Goldilocks
- Goldsturm
- Grand Marshall
- Gro-Low Fragrant Sumac
- Hearts of Gold
- Heavy Metal
- Holmstrup
- Incrediball Hydrangea
- Indian Summer
- Invincibelle Spirit II Hydrangea
- Jeana
- Jeddeloh Hemlock
- Laura
- Lavender Twist
- Lemony Lace Elderberry
- Little Devil
- Luminary Ultraviolet
- Luna Pink Swirl
- Luna White
- Major Wheeler
- Moonbeam
- New England Aster 'Barr's Pink'
- New England Aster 'Harrington's Pink'
- Nicky
- Northwind
- Nugget
- October Skies
- Orange Perfection
- Pardon My Purple
- Patricia Ballard
- Prairie Sun
- Professor Kippenberg
- Purple Beauty
- Purple Dome
- Purple Phlox
- Purple Rooster
- Raydon's Favorite
- Red Sprite
- Red Wings
- Rheingold
- River Mist
- Robert Poore
- Route 66
- Royal White Redbud
- Ruby Falls
- Sarah Mountain Laurel
- Scarlet Flame
- Shenandoah
- Sienna Sunset
- Snow Flurry
- Starfire
- Sugar Buzz Cherry Pops
- Sugar Shack Buttonbush
- Summer Wine
- Techny
- The Rising Sun
- Tiger Eyes Sumac
- Tiny Wine
- Toto Gold
- Twilight Zone
- Weeping Hemlock
- Weeping White Pine
- White Delight
- White Flame
- Winter Gold
- Winter Red
- Zagreb
Plant groups native to West Virginia
18 plant groups sold under one name whose wild species grow in West Virginia; the count beside each is how many of its wild species the record finds in the state.
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