State or province

New Jersey

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

Landscape and climate

Five ecoregions reach New Jersey, a lot for its size. That explains why its regions feel so unlike each other. The Northeastern Coastal Forests and Mid-Atlantic US coastal savannas cover the east and shore, the Atlantic coastal pine barrens hold the south, and the northwest rises into the Northeastern Hardwoods and the Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests. Three are in the Nature Imperiled tier. The Pine Barrens are the remarkable one, a large fire-adapted sand system inside the most densely populated state, with a flora including plants found almost nowhere else nearby. Gardening there means acidic sand and accepting what likes it, which is a different project from the richer soil in the northern counties.

Native plants of New Jersey

Species in the catalog recorded as native to New Jersey, 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 Arrowwood viburnum Bald cypress 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 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 Foamflower Fox grape Foxglove beardtongue Golden alexanders Gray birch Gray dogwood 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 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 Paper birch Pawpaw Plains coreopsis Possumhaw viburnum Post oak Pussy willow Quaking aspen Ramps Red maple Red mulberry Red pine 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 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 Woodland phlox Yellow birch Yellow buckeye

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United States of America

Ecoregions here

Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests Atlantic coastal pine barrens Mid-Atlantic US coastal savannas Northeastern Coastal Forests Northeastern Hardwoods