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Delaware

Delaware, United States of America: 2 ecoregions. Each with its climate now and toward 2050, and its conservation tier.

Landscape and climate

Two ecoregions share Delaware, and both are in the Nature Imperiled tier. The Mid-Atlantic US coastal savannas cover the south of the state, and the Northeastern Coastal Forests the north. The boundary between them is roughly the line gardeners here already feel, between the sandy, flat, wetter lower counties and the firmer ground above the canal. Coastal savanna species handle salt wind, sand and a high water table; the northern forest palette is the familiar oak and hickory understory. Both rankings say the same thing about what is left of the original cover, which makes a planted yard here worth more ecologically than its size suggests.

Native plants of Delaware

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

Adam's needle American basswood American elderberry American hazelnut American holly American hophornbeam American persimmon American plum American sweetgum American sycamore Annabelle hydrangea Arrowwood viburnum Beach plum Big bluestem Black cherry Black chokeberry Black oak Black walnut Black willow Black-eyed Susan Blackhaw viburnum Bloodroot Blue vervain Boneset Boxelder Bur oak Butterfly weed Canada lily Canadian serviceberry Cardinal flower Carolina allspice (sweetshrub)Chestnut oak Chokecherry Christmas fern Common blue violet Common hackberry Common hops Common juniper Common milkweed Common ninebark Common witch hazel Common yarrow Cutleaf coneflower Dense blazing star Eastern cottonwood Eastern prickly pear Eastern red cedar Eastern redbud Eastern white pine Flowering dogwood Fox grape Foxglove beardtongue Golden alexanders Gray birch Gray dogwood Groundnut Hardy hibiscus Highbush blueberry Honey locust Indian grass Inkberry Lady fern Lanceleaf coreopsis Little bluestem Loblolly pine Mapleleaf viburnum Marginal wood fern Mayapple Maypop (purple passionflower)Mountain laurel Nannyberry New England aster New York ironweed Northern maidenhair fern Northern red oak Northern spicebush Orange coneflower Pagoda dogwood Pawpaw Pinxter azalea Plains coreopsis Possumhaw viburnum Post oak Pussy willow Ramps Red maple Red mulberry Red spruce Red-osier dogwood River birch River oats Sassafras Shagbark hickory Short-toothed mountain mint Silky dogwood Silver maple Smooth blue aster Southern red oak Sugar maple Sunchoke Swamp milkweed Swamp sunflower Swamp white oak Sweet crabapple Sweet Joe-Pye weed Sweetbay magnolia Switchgrass Trumpet honeysuckle Tulip tree (yellow poplar)Virginia sweetspire White oak White wood aster Whorled milkweed Wild bergamot Wild geranium Wild lupine Wild senna Willow oak Woodland phlox

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Ecoregions here

Mid-Atlantic US coastal savannas Northeastern Coastal Forests