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Georgia

Georgia, United States of America: 4 ecoregions. Each with its climate now and toward 2050, and its conservation tier.

Landscape and climate

Four ecoregions reach Georgia, and they stack from the coast to the mountains. The Southeast US conifer savannas cover the coastal plain across the bottom half of the state, a temperate grassland and savanna system in the Nature Imperiled tier. Above the fall line the Piedmont takes over, and the northern corner rises into the Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests and the Appalachian mixed mesophytic forests, both temperate broadleaf systems. The gardening consequence is a real north-south split. The coastal plain suits longleaf pine, wiregrass and the fire-adapted flora that goes with them, while the north Georgia mountains support a hardwood understory with a spring ephemeral season that the coastal plain never gets.

Native plants of Georgia

Species in the catalog recorded as native to Georgia, 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 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 Butterfly weed California poppy Canada lily Canadian serviceberry Cardinal flower Carolina allspice (sweetshrub)Catawba rhododendron Chestnut oak Chinkapin oak Chokecherry 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 Eastern white pine Florida torreya Flowering dogwood Foamflower Fox grape 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 Nannyberry 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 Prairie dropseed Purple coneflower Ramps Red maple Red mulberry River birch River oats Sassafras Scarlet bee balm Shagbark hickory Short-toothed mountain mint Side-oats grama Silky dogwood Silver maple Smooth blue aster Southern live oak Southern magnolia Southern red oak Spotted Joe-Pye weed Stiff goldenrod Sugar maple Summersweet (sweet pepperbush)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 White wood aster Whorled milkweed Wild bergamot Wild geranium Wild ginger Wild lupine Wild senna Willow oak Winterberry Woodland phlox Yaupon Yellow birch Yellow buckeye

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Ecoregions here

Appalachian mixed mesophytic forests Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests Piedmont Southeast US conifer savannas