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Maryland

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

Landscape and climate

Five ecoregions reach Maryland, which is a lot for its size and matches how different its ends feel. The Mid-Atlantic US coastal savannas and Northeastern Coastal Forests cover the Eastern Shore and the bay country, the Southeast US conifer savannas reach the southern edge, and the west rises through the Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests into the Appalachian mixed mesophytic forests. Three of the five are in the Nature Imperiled tier. Practically, Maryland runs from tidewater to mountains in about three hours, and the planting changes with it: salt tolerance and sandy soil near the bay, a full hardwood understory in the western counties.

Native plants of Maryland

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

Adam's needle Allegheny blackberry American arborvitae American basswood American beautyberry 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 Beach plum 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 lily Canadian serviceberry Cardinal flower Carolina allspice (sweetshrub)Chestnut oak Chinkapin oak Chokecherry Christmas fern Colorado blue spruce Common blue violet Common hackberry Common hops Common juniper Common milkweed Common ninebark Common witch hazel Common yarrow Cutleaf coneflower Dense blazing star Dwarf crested iris Eastern cottonwood Eastern prickly pear Eastern red cedar Eastern redbud Eastern white pine Flowering dogwood Foamflower Fox grape Foxglove beardtongue Golden alexanders Gray birch Gray dogwood Green hawthorn Groundnut Hardy hibiscus Highbush blueberry Honey locust Indian grass 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 Orange coneflower Ostrich fern Pagoda dogwood Paper birch Pawpaw Pecan Pinxter azalea Plains coreopsis Possumhaw Possumhaw viburnum Post oak Prairie dropseed Pussy willow Quaking aspen Ramps Red maple Red mulberry Red spruce Red-osier dogwood 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 magnolia Southern red oak Spotted Joe-Pye weed Stiff goldenrod Sugar maple Sunchoke Swamp milkweed Swamp sunflower Swamp white oak 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 lupine Wild senna Wild strawberry Willow oak Winterberry Woodland phlox Yellow birch Yellow buckeye

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Ecoregions here

Appalachian mixed mesophytic forests Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests Mid-Atlantic US coastal savannas Northeastern Coastal Forests Southeast US conifer savannas