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North Carolina

North Carolina, United States of America: 4 ecoregions. Each with its climate now and toward 2050, and its conservation tier.

Landscape and climate

Four ecoregions reach North Carolina, arranged in the three bands the state is usually described by. The Southeast US conifer savannas and Mid-Atlantic US coastal savannas cover the coastal plain, both in the Nature Imperiled tier. The Piedmont holds the middle. The Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests cover the mountains in the west. That western band is one of the richest temperate forest areas in North America for plant diversity, with a spring ephemeral season and a salamander and fern flora to match. The practical result is a state where the same species list genuinely does not work end to end. Coastal plain gardens want fire-adapted pine savanna natives; mountain gardens want the cove hardwood understory.

Native plants of North Carolina

Species in the catalog recorded as native to North Carolina, 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 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 vervain Boneset Boxelder Butterfly weed California poppy Canada lily Canadian serviceberry Cardinal flower Carolina allspice (sweetshrub)Catawba rhododendron 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 Dwarf crested iris Dwarf fothergilla Eastern cottonwood Eastern prickly pear Eastern red cedar Eastern redbud Eastern white pine Flowering dogwood Foamflower Fox grape Foxglove beardtongue Garden phlox Golden alexanders Gray birch Gray dogwood 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 New York ironweed Northern maidenhair fern Northern red oak Northern spicebush Oakleaf hydrangea Orange coneflower Pagoda dogwood Pale purple coneflower Paper birch Pawpaw Pecan Pinxter azalea Plains coreopsis Possumhaw Possumhaw viburnum Post oak Prairie dropseed Purple coneflower Pussy willow Quaking aspen Ramps Red maple Red mulberry Red spruce River birch River oats Sassafras Scarlet bee balm Shagbark hickory Short-toothed mountain mint Silky dogwood Silver maple Smooth blue aster Southern live oak Southern magnolia Southern red oak Spotted Joe-Pye weed Stiff goldenrod Sugar maple Summersweet (sweet pepperbush)Sunchoke Swamp milkweed Swamp sunflower Swamp white oak Sweet crabapple Sweet Joe-Pye weed Sweetbay magnolia Switchgrass Threadleaf coreopsis Trumpet honeysuckle Tulip tree (yellow poplar)Venus flytrap Virginia iris Virginia sweetspire White oak White wood aster Whorled milkweed Wild bergamot Wild geranium Wild ginger Wild lupine Wild senna Wild strawberry Willow oak Winterberry Woodland phlox Yaupon Yellow birch Yellow buckeye

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United States of America

Ecoregions here

Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests Mid-Atlantic US coastal savannas Piedmont Southeast US conifer savannas