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Arkansas

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

Landscape and climate

Five ecoregions meet in Arkansas, which is why the state feels like several places at once. The Ozark Highlands mixed forests and Ozark Mountain forests cover the north and west, both temperate broadleaf systems in the Nature Could Recover tier. The Mississippi lowland forests run down the eastern edge along the river, the Southeast US conifer savannas reach the south, and the Piney Woods come in from the southwest. The practical divide is wet bottomland against dry upland: the delta side suits bald cypress, oaks and anything that tolerates heavy soil and periodic flooding, while the Ozark side is rockier and better drained, and rewards plants suited to thin soil over limestone.

Native plants of Arkansas

Species in the catalog recorded as native to Arkansas, 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 Canada goldenrod Canada lily Cardinal flower Chinkapin oak Chokecherry Christmas fern Common blue violet Common hackberry Common ninebark Common sunflower Common witch hazel Common yarrow Cutleaf coneflower Dense blazing star Dwarf crested iris Eastern cottonwood Eastern prickly pear Eastern red cedar Eastern redbud Flowering dogwood Foxglove beardtongue Garden phlox Golden alexanders Gray dogwood 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)New England aster New Jersey tea Northern maidenhair fern Northern red oak Northern spicebush Ohio buckeye Orange coneflower Pagoda dogwood Pale purple coneflower Pawpaw Pecan Plains coreopsis Possumhaw Possumhaw viburnum Post oak Prairie dropseed Purple coneflower Red maple Red mulberry River birch River oats Sassafras Shagbark hickory Short-toothed mountain mint Side-oats grama Silver maple Smooth blue aster Soapweed yucca Southern magnolia Southern red oak Stiff goldenrod Sugar maple Sunchoke Swamp milkweed Swamp sunflower Sweet crabapple Sweet Joe-Pye weed Sweetbay magnolia Switchgrass Threadleaf coreopsis Trumpet honeysuckle Tulip tree (yellow poplar)Virginia iris Virginia sweetspire White oak Whorled milkweed Wild bergamot Wild geranium Willow oak Winterberry Yaupon

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United States of America

Ecoregions here

Mississippi lowland forests Ozark Highlands mixed forests Ozark Mountain forests Piney Woods Southeast US conifer savannas