State or province

Mississippi

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

Landscape and climate

Two ecoregions cover Mississippi and both are in the Nature Imperiled tier. The Southeast US conifer savannas hold most of the state, and the Mississippi lowland forests run up the western side along the river. The division is simple and useful: bottomland on the delta side, pine savanna uplands everywhere else. The delta soil is deep, heavy and periodically flooded, which suits oaks, bald cypress and a wet-tolerant understory. The savanna country is sandier and was shaped by regular fire, so longleaf pine, wiregrass and the flowering understory that depends on an open canopy are the natives there. Both rankings say most of the original structure is gone, which makes either planting worth doing.

Native plants of Mississippi

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

Adam's needle American basswood American beautyberry American elderberry American hazelnut American holly American hophornbeam American persimmon American plum American sweetgum American sycamore Annabelle hydrangea Aromatic aster 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 vervain Boneset Boxelder Bur oak Butterfly weed Canada goldenrod Cardinal flower Carolina allspice (sweetshrub)Chestnut oak Chinkapin oak Christmas fern Common blue violet Common hackberry Common milkweed Common witch hazel Common yarrow Cutleaf coneflower Dense blazing star Dwarf crested iris Eastern cottonwood Eastern prickly pear Eastern red cedar Eastern redbud Flowering dogwood Foamflower Foxglove beardtongue 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 New England aster Northern maidenhair fern Northern red oak Northern spicebush Oakleaf hydrangea Ohio buckeye Orange coneflower Pagoda dogwood Pawpaw Pecan Plains coreopsis Possumhaw Possumhaw viburnum Post oak Purple coneflower Red maple Red mulberry River birch River oats Sassafras Shagbark hickory Short-toothed mountain mint Side-oats grama Silky dogwood Silver maple Smooth blue aster Southern live oak Southern magnolia Southern red oak Stiff goldenrod Sugar maple Sunchoke Swamp sunflower Sweet Joe-Pye weed Sweetbay magnolia Switchgrass Threadleaf coreopsis Trumpet honeysuckle Tulip tree (yellow poplar)Virginia iris Virginia sweetspire White oak Whorled milkweed Wild bergamot Wild geranium Wild ginger Wild lupine Willow oak Winterberry Woodland phlox Yaupon Yellow buckeye

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United States of America

Ecoregions here

Mississippi lowland forests Southeast US conifer savannas