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Alabama

Alabama, United States of America: 5 ecoregions. Each with its climate now and toward 2050, and its conservation tier.

Landscape and climate

Five ecoregions reach Alabama, and the split is between the coastal plain and the uplands. The Southeast US conifer savannas cover the south, the longleaf pine country that once ran unbroken to the Gulf and now sits in the Nature Imperiled tier. North and east of it the land rises into the Appalachian mixed mesophytic forests and the Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests, both temperate broadleaf systems, with the Piedmont between them and the Interior Plateau US Hardwood Forests to the northwest. For a garden that means two quite different palettes in one state: fire-adapted pine and grassland species on the sandy south, and a deep hardwood understory of trilliums, ferns and spring ephemerals in the north.

Native plants of Alabama

Species in the catalog recorded as native to Alabama, each with its climate-fit grade and planting guidance.

Adam's needle Allegheny blackberry American basswood American beautyberry American elderberry American hazelnut American holly American hophornbeam American persimmon American plum American sweetgum American sycamore Annabelle hydrangea Aromatic aster Arrowwood viburnum Bald cypress Big bluestem Black cherry Black chokeberry Black oak Black tupelo (black gum)Black walnut Black willow Black-eyed Susan Blackhaw viburnum Bloodroot Blue false indigo Blue vervain Boneset Boxelder Bur oak Butterfly weed California poppy Canada lily Canadian serviceberry Cardinal flower Carolina allspice (sweetshrub)Catawba rhododendron Chestnut oak Chinkapin oak Christmas fern Common blue violet Common hackberry Common juniper Common milkweed Common ninebark Common witch hazel Common yarrow Cutleaf coneflower Dense blazing star Dwarf crested iris Dwarf fothergilla Eastern cottonwood Eastern prickly pear Eastern red cedar Eastern redbud Flowering dogwood Foamflower Fox grape Foxglove beardtongue Garden pepper Garden phlox Golden alexanders Green hawthorn Groundnut Hairy alumroot Hardy hibiscus Highbush blueberry Honey locust Indian grass Indian pink Inkberry Lady fern Lanceleaf coreopsis Largeflower tickseed Little bluestem Loblolly pine Mapleleaf viburnum Marginal wood fern Mayapple Maypop (purple passionflower)Mountain laurel New England aster New York ironweed Northern maidenhair fern Northern red oak Northern spicebush Oakleaf hydrangea Ohio buckeye Orange coneflower Pagoda dogwood Pale purple coneflower Pawpaw Pecan Pinxter azalea Plains coreopsis Possumhaw Possumhaw viburnum Post oak Purple coneflower Ramps Red maple Red mulberry River birch River oats Sassafras Shagbark hickory Short-toothed mountain mint Side-oats grama Silky dogwood Silver maple Smooth blue aster Southern live oak Southern magnolia Southern red oak Stiff goldenrod Sugar maple Summersweet (sweet pepperbush)Sunchoke Swamp milkweed Swamp sunflower Swamp white oak Sweet Joe-Pye weed Sweetbay magnolia Switchgrass Threadleaf coreopsis Trumpet honeysuckle Tulip tree (yellow poplar)Virginia iris Virginia sweetspire White oak White wood aster Whorled milkweed Wild bergamot Wild geranium Wild ginger Wild lupine Willow oak Winterberry Woodland phlox Yaupon Yellow buckeye

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United States of America

Ecoregions here

Appalachian mixed mesophytic forests Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests Interior Plateau US Hardwood Forests Piedmont Southeast US conifer savannas