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Tennessee

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

Landscape and climate

Five ecoregions reach Tennessee and the state crosses all of them west to east. The Mississippi lowland forests hold the western bottomland, the Southeast US conifer savannas reach the southwest, the Interior Plateau US Hardwood Forests cover the middle, and the east rises through the Appalachian mixed mesophytic forests into the Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests. Three are in the Nature Imperiled tier. Tennessee is long and narrow in exactly the direction that maximizes variety, so the state spans river bottomland and high southern Appalachian forest within one border. The eastern end carries the richer flora, including the mixed mesophytic forest where no single canopy species dominates and the understory is correspondingly deep.

Native plants of Tennessee

Species in the catalog recorded as native to Tennessee, 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 Bur oak Butterfly weed California poppy Canada anemone Canada goldenrod 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 milkweed Common ninebark Common sunflower Common witch hazel Common yarrow Cutleaf coneflower Dense blazing star Dwarf crested iris Eastern cottonwood Eastern prickly pear Eastern red cedar Eastern redbud Eastern white pine Flowering dogwood Foamflower Fox grape Foxglove beardtongue Garden phlox Golden alexanders Green hawthorn Groundnut Hairy alumroot Hardy hibiscus Highbush blueberry Honey locust Indian grass Indian pink 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 Ohio buckeye Orange coneflower Pagoda dogwood Pale purple coneflower Pawpaw Pecan Pinxter azalea Plains coreopsis Possumhaw Possumhaw viburnum Post oak Purple coneflower Ramps Red maple Red mulberry Red spruce 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 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)Virginia iris Virginia sweetspire White oak White wood aster Whorled milkweed Wild bergamot Wild geranium Wild ginger Wild senna Wild strawberry Willow oak Winterberry Woodland phlox Yellow birch Yellow buckeye

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Ecoregions here

Appalachian mixed mesophytic forests Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests Interior Plateau US Hardwood Forests Mississippi lowland forests Southeast US conifer savannas