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Vermont

Vermont, United States of America: 3 ecoregions. Each with its climate now and toward 2050, and its conservation tier.

Landscape and climate

Three ecoregions cover Vermont and all three are in the Nature Imperiled tier. They are temperate broadleaf and mixed forests. The Northeastern Hardwoods hold the Green Mountains and most of the state, the Eastern Great Lakes lowland forests the Champlain valley in the northwest, and the Northeastern Coastal Forests reach the southeast corner. The Champlain valley is the notable exception to the general rule here: it is lower, warmer and has better soil than the mountains around it, which is why the state agriculture concentrates there. For a garden the choice is between a northern hardwood model, sugar maple and beech with a rich spring understory, and a milder valley planting with a meaningfully longer season.

Native plants of Vermont

Species in the catalog recorded as native to Vermont, each with its climate-fit grade and planting guidance.

Allegheny blackberry American arborvitae American basswood American elderberry American hazelnut American hophornbeam American plum American red raspberry American sycamore Arrowwood viburnum Balsam fir Big bluestem Black cherry Black chokeberry Black oak Black willow Black-eyed Susan Bloodroot Blue false indigo 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 Creeping juniper Cutleaf coneflower Eastern cottonwood Eastern red cedar Eastern white pine Flowering dogwood Foamflower Fox grape Foxglove beardtongue Golden alexanders Gray birch Gray dogwood Groundnut Highbush blueberry Honey locust Indian grass Jack pine Lady fern Lanceleaf coreopsis Largeflower tickseed Little bluestem Mapleleaf viburnum Marginal wood fern Mayapple Mountain laurel Nannyberry New England aster New Jersey tea Northern maidenhair fern Northern red oak Northern spicebush Ostrich fern Pagoda dogwood Paper birch Plains coreopsis Possumhaw viburnum Pussy willow Quaking aspen Ramps Red maple Red mulberry Red pine Red spruce Red-osier dogwood Sassafras Scarlet bee balm Shagbark hickory Short-toothed mountain mint Silky dogwood Silver maple Smooth blue aster Spotted Joe-Pye weed Sugar maple Sunchoke Swamp milkweed Swamp white oak Sweet Joe-Pye weed Switchgrass Trumpet honeysuckle Tulip tree (yellow poplar)White oak White wood aster Whorled milkweed Wild bergamot Wild geranium Wild lupine Wild senna Wild strawberry Woodland phlox Yellow birch

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Ecoregions here

Eastern Great Lakes lowland forests Northeastern Coastal Forests Northeastern Hardwoods