State or province

Indiana

Indiana, United States of America: 3 ecoregions. Each with its climate now and toward 2050, and its conservation tier.

Landscape and climate

Three ecoregions reach Indiana and two are in the Nature Imperiled tier. The Central US forest-grasslands transition covers the west, the Southern Great Lakes forests the north, and the Interior Plateau US Hardwood Forests the south. The state therefore sits on a seam: prairie and savanna influence on one side, closed eastern hardwood forest on the other, and the transition between them running through the middle rather than along a clean edge. For planting, that seam is an advantage. Both a prairie planting and a woodland understory have genuine claim to being native here, and the honest question is which one your particular corner of the state was, which the ecoregion links below will answer better than the state line does.

Native plants of Indiana

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

Adam's needle Allegheny blackberry American arborvitae American basswood American elderberry American hazelnut American holly American hophornbeam American persimmon American plum American red raspberry American sweetgum American sycamore Annabelle hydrangea Aromatic aster Arrowwood viburnum Bald cypress Balsam fir Big bluestem Black cherry Black chokeberry Black oak Black walnut Black willow Black-eyed Susan Blackhaw viburnum Bloodroot Blue false indigo Blue flag iris Blue vervain Boneset Boxelder Bur oak Butterfly weed Canada anemone Canada goldenrod Canada lily Canadian serviceberry Cardinal flower Chestnut oak Chinkapin oak Chokecherry Christmas fern Common blue violet Common hackberry Common hops Common juniper Common milkweed Common ninebark Common sunflower 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 Garden phlox Golden alexanders Gray birch Gray dogwood Green hawthorn Groundnut Hairy alumroot Hardy hibiscus Highbush blueberry Honey locust Indian grass Indian pink Jack pine Lady fern Lanceleaf coreopsis Largeflower tickseed Little bluestem Mapleleaf viburnum Marginal wood fern Mayapple Maypop (purple passionflower)Mountain laurel Nannyberry New England aster New Jersey tea Northern maidenhair fern Northern red oak Northern spicebush Ohio buckeye Orange coneflower Ostrich fern Pagoda dogwood Pale purple coneflower Paper birch Pawpaw Pecan Plains coreopsis Possumhaw Possumhaw viburnum Post oak Prairie dropseed Prairie ironweed Purple coneflower Pussy willow Quaking aspen Ramps Red maple Red mulberry Red-osier dogwood River birch River oats Sassafras Scarlet bee balm Shagbark hickory Side-oats grama Silky dogwood Silver maple Smooth blue aster Southern red oak Spotted Joe-Pye weed Stiff goldenrod Sugar maple Sunchoke Swamp milkweed Swamp sunflower Swamp white oak Sweet Joe-Pye weed Switchgrass Trumpet honeysuckle Tulip tree (yellow poplar)Virginia iris Virginia sweetspire White oak Whorled milkweed Wild bergamot Wild geranium Wild lupine Wild senna Wild strawberry Winterberry Woodland phlox Yellow birch Yellow buckeye

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United States of America

Ecoregions here

Central US forest-grasslands transition Interior Plateau US Hardwood Forests Southern Great Lakes forests