Native range
Native plants of Wisconsin
51 wild species and 18 plant groups in the BloomsEye library grow wild somewhere in Wisconsin, read from Kew's World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS. The 111 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; Wisconsin 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 69 plants, 54 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.
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Recorded across Wisconsin
How many of the state's 72 counties record each wild species growing wild, from USDA PLANTS: a plant recorded in many counties is widespread in Wisconsin; one recorded in few may be local, or simply under-recorded. A county's absence is not evidence a plant is absent. 51 of the wild species carry a county record here.
- Cinnamon Fern
- Lady Fern
- Maidenhair Fern
- Pennsylvania Sedge
- Eastern Red Columbine
- Ostrich Fern
- Royal Fern
- Bottlebrush Grass
- American Elderberry
- Bunchberry
- False Sunflower
- Wild Ginger
- Winterberry
- Eastern White Pine
- Red Maple
- Staghorn Sumac
- Little Bluestem
- Carolina Rose
- Sugar Maple
- New England Aster
- Ninebark
- Switchgrass
- Arborvitae
- Butterfly Weed
- Cardinal Flower
- Prairie Smoke
- Eastern Hemlock
- Northern Blue Flag Iris
- Buttonbush
- Potentilla
- River Birch
- Kalm's St. John's Wort
- Black Chokeberry
- Aromatic Aster
- Christmas Fern
- Honeylocust
- Palm Sedge
- Creeping Phlox
- Anise Hyssop
- Chives
- Virginia Bluebells
- Queen of the Prairie
- Purple Coneflower
- Blackhaw
- Fragrant Sumac
- Flava (Yellow Trumpet)
- Shrubby St. John's Wort
- Trumpet Vine
- Eastern Redbud
- Hardy Hibiscus
- Northern Sea Oats
Garden forms of Wisconsin natives
111 garden forms, each a named selection of a species that grows wild in Wisconsin and each naming its wild parent. A garden form is not the wild plant, so it is listed here and never counted above.
- Abbotswood
- Adams Elderberry
- Alba Gayfeather
- Alma Pötschke
- Alpine Carpet Juniper
- Amazing Grace
- Amber Jubilee
- Appalachian Red
- Aquavita Juniper
- Arctic Fire Red Twig Dogwood
- Arctic Fire Yellow Dogwood
- Athena Gold False Sunflower
- Autumn Colors
- Baby Joe Dwarf Joe Pye Weed
- Bailey Compact American Cranberrybush
- Bar Harbor Juniper
- Berry Heavy
- Berry Poppins
- Black Hills Spruce
- Blackhawks Big Bluestem
- Blackjack Gold Black-Eyed Susan
- Blaze
- Blonde Ambition Blue Grama Grass
- Blue Chip Juniper
- Blue Moon Woodland Phlox
- Blue Rug Juniper
- Candy Stripe
- Cheer Drops Arborvitae
- Cherry Berries Wintergreen
- Cherry Brandy
- Claire Grace
- Cobalt-n-Gold Hypericum
- Coconut Lime
- Columnar White Pine
- Coppertina
- Crimson Trumpet
- Danica
- DeGroot's Spire
- Denver Daisy
- Diabolo
- Drummond's Pink
- Dwarf Alberta Spruce
- Dwarf White Pine
- Early Sunrise
- Emerald Blue
- Emerald Green
- Emerald Pink
- Fire Chief
- Flame Thrower
- Forest Pansy
- Gentsch White
- Golden Globe
- Goldfinger
- Goldilocks
- Goldsturm
- Green Jewel
- Gro-Low Fragrant Sumac
- Happy Face Yellow
- Hearts of Gold
- Heavy Metal
- Holmstrup
- Indian Summer
- Jeddeloh Hemlock
- Lavender Twist
- Lemony Lace Elderberry
- Little Devil
- Luna Pink Swirl
- Luna White
- Magnus
- Mango Tango
- McKay's White
- New England Aster 'Barr's Pink'
- New England Aster 'Harrington's Pink'
- Northwind
- Nugget
- October Skies
- Orange Whisper
- Pink Beauty
- Pink Double Delight
- Pink Whisper
- PowWow Wild Berry
- Prairie Sun
- Purple Beauty
- Purple Dome
- Raydon's Favorite
- Red Ace
- Red Sprite
- Red Wings
- Rheingold
- River Mist
- Royal White Redbud
- Ruby Falls
- Scarlet Flame
- Shenandoah
- Snow Flurry
- Sugar Shack Buttonbush
- Summer Wine
- Sunny Boulevard St. John's Wort
- Tangerine
- Techny
- The Rising Sun
- Tiger Eyes Sumac
- Tiny Wine
- Toto Gold
- Twilight Zone
- Weeping Hemlock
- Weeping White Pine
- White Delight
- White Swan
- Winter Gold
- Winter Red
Plant groups native to Wisconsin
18 plant groups sold under one name whose wild species grow in Wisconsin; the count beside each is how many of its wild species the record finds in the state.
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