State or province

Missouri

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

Landscape and climate

Five ecoregions reach Missouri and four are in the Nature Imperiled tier. The Central US forest-grasslands transition and Central Tallgrass prairie cover the north and west, the Ozark Highlands mixed forests the south, the Mississippi lowland forests the southeastern bootheel, and the Southeast US conifer savannas reach the far south. The Ozarks are the anchor: an old, rocky, deeply dissected upland with a flora that reflects long isolation, including glades that behave like small prairies on limestone. A Missouri garden has three honest options depending on where it sits, prairie in the north and west, oak and hickory woodland through the middle, and glade planting on thin rocky ground in the south.

Native plants of Missouri

Species in the catalog recorded as native to Missouri, 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 red raspberry 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 false indigo Blue grama Blue vervain Boneset Boxelder Bur oak Butterfly weed California poppy Canada anemone Canada goldenrod Cardinal flower Chinkapin oak Chokecherry Christmas fern Common blue violet Common hackberry Common ninebark Common sunflower Common witch hazel Common yarrow Cutleaf coneflower Dense blazing star Eastern cottonwood Eastern prickly pear Eastern red cedar Eastern redbud Flowering dogwood Foxglove beardtongue Garden phlox Golden alexanders Gray dogwood Green hawthorn Groundnut Hairy alumroot Hardy hibiscus Honey locust Indian grass Indian pink Jack pine Lady fern Lanceleaf coreopsis Largeflower tickseed Little bluestem Marginal wood fern Mayapple Maypop (purple passionflower)Nannyberry Narrow-leaved coneflower 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 Pawpaw Pecan Plains coreopsis Possumhaw Post oak Prairie dropseed Prairie ironweed Purple coneflower Pussy willow Quaking aspen 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 Soapweed yucca 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 strawberry Willow oak Winterberry Woodland phlox

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United States of America

Ecoregions here

Central Tallgrass prairie Central US forest-grasslands transition Mississippi lowland forests Ozark Highlands mixed forests Southeast US conifer savannas