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South Carolina

South 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 South Carolina in the familiar coast-to-mountain bands. The Southeast US conifer savannas and Mid-Atlantic US coastal savannas cover the lowcountry and the coastal plain, both in the Nature Imperiled tier. The Piedmont holds the midlands, and the Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests reach the upstate corner. The coastal plain is the larger share of the state and the one with the most distinctive flora, the longleaf pine and wiregrass system that depended on frequent low fire and is now among the most reduced habitat types in North America. A lowcountry garden leaning on those natives is working with the original cover; an upstate one is in hardwood forest country instead.

Native plants of South Carolina

Species in the catalog recorded as native to South Carolina, 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 sweetgum American sycamore Annabelle hydrangea 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 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 Golden alexanders 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 Pawpaw Pecan Pinxter azalea Plains coreopsis Possumhaw Possumhaw viburnum Post oak 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 Southern live oak Southern magnolia Southern red oak Stiff goldenrod Sugar maple Summersweet (sweet pepperbush)Sunchoke Swamp milkweed Swamp sunflower Swamp white oak 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 Willow oak Winterberry Woodland phlox Yaupon Yellow birch Yellow buckeye

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Ecoregions here

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