State or province

Maine

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

Landscape and climate

Two ecoregions cover Maine, both temperate broadleaf and mixed forests and both in the Nature Imperiled tier. The Northeastern Hardwoods hold the interior and the north; the Northeastern Coastal Forests run along the shore. That tier ranking may read oddly for the most forested state in the country, and the distinction is worth keeping straight: the rank describes how much of the original ecosystem structure is intact and protected, not how many trees are standing. Maine is heavily wooded and heavily cut over. For a garden the coastal and interior split is the practical one, since the shoreline is milder and saltier and the interior is colder with a shorter season.

Native plants of Maine

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

Allegheny blackberry American arborvitae American basswood American elderberry American hazelnut American hophornbeam American plum American red raspberry American sycamore Arrowwood viburnum Balsam fir Beach plum Big bluestem Black cherry Black chokeberry Black oak Black walnut Black willow Black-eyed Susan Bloodroot Blue vervain Boneset Boxelder Bur oak Butterfly weed Canada anemone Canada lily Canadian serviceberry Cardinal flower Chestnut oak Chokecherry Christmas fern Colorado blue spruce Common blue violet Common hops Common juniper Common milkweed Common ninebark Common sunflower Common witch hazel Common yarrow Creeping juniper Cutleaf coneflower Eastern cottonwood Eastern red cedar Eastern white pine Flowering dogwood Foamflower Fox grape Foxglove beardtongue Golden alexanders Gray birch Gray dogwood Groundnut Highbush blueberry Honey locust Indian grass Inkberry Jack pine Lady fern Lanceleaf coreopsis Largeflower tickseed Little bluestem Mapleleaf viburnum Marginal wood fern Mayapple Mountain laurel Nannyberry New England aster Northern maidenhair fern Northern red oak Northern spicebush Ohio buckeye Ostrich fern Pagoda dogwood Pale purple coneflower Paper birch Plains coreopsis Possumhaw viburnum Pussy willow Quaking aspen Ramps Red maple Red pine Red spruce Red-osier dogwood Sassafras Scarlet bee balm Shagbark hickory Short-toothed mountain mint Side-oats grama Silver maple Smooth blue aster Spotted Joe-Pye weed Sugar maple Sunchoke Swamp milkweed Swamp white oak Switchgrass Trumpet honeysuckle White oak White wood aster Wild bergamot Wild geranium Wild lupine Wild strawberry Yellow birch

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United States of America

Ecoregions here

Northeastern Coastal Forests Northeastern Hardwoods