State or province

Virginia

Virginia, United States of America: 6 ecoregions. Each with its climate now and toward 2050, and its conservation tier.

Landscape and climate

Six ecoregions reach Virginia, running the full width of the state. The Mid-Atlantic US coastal savannas and Northeastern Coastal Forests cover tidewater, the Southeast US conifer savannas reach the southeast, the Piedmont holds the middle, and the west rises through the Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests into the Appalachian mixed mesophytic forests. Four are in the Nature Imperiled tier. Virginia covers coastal marsh to high Appalachian ridge in roughly three hundred miles, which is why local advice varies so much across it. Tidewater gardens contend with salt and a high water table; Piedmont gardens with red clay; mountain gardens with a shorter season and the richest native understory in the state.

Native plants of Virginia

Species in the catalog recorded as native to Virginia, 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 Balsam fir 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 flag iris Blue vervain Boneset Boxelder Bur oak Butterfly weed Canada anemone 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 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 Nannyberry New England aster New Jersey tea New York ironweed Northern maidenhair fern Northern red oak Northern spicebush Orange coneflower Ostrich fern Pagoda dogwood Pale purple coneflower Paper birch Pawpaw Pecan Pinxter azalea Plains coreopsis Possumhaw Possumhaw viburnum Post oak Prairie dropseed Pussy willow Quaking aspen Ramps Red maple Red mulberry 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 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 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 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 mixed mesophytic forests Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests Mid-Atlantic US coastal savannas Northeastern Coastal Forests Piedmont Southeast US conifer savannas