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Commercially available native plant species suitable for planned landscapes in Georgia. Visit our Suppliers Directory to locate businesses that sell native plants or seeds or provide professional landscape or consulting services in this state. Visit the Organizations Directory to locate native plant societies, conservation groups, governmental agencies, botanical gardens, arboreta, and other plant-related organizations in this state.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Acer barbatum | Southern sugar maple Florida maple Caddo maple Rock maple | |
| Acer leucoderme | Chalk maple | |
| Acer rubrum | Red maple Scarlet maple | |
| Actaea rubra | Red baneberry | |
| Acer saccharum | Sugar maple Northern sugar maple | |
| Adiantum pedatum | Northern maidenhair Maidenhair Fern | |
| Aesculus flava | Sweet buckeye Yellow buckeye | |
| Aesculus pavia | Scarlet Buckeye Red buckeye Firecracker plant | |
| Aesculus parviflora | Bottlebrush buckeye | |
| Aesculus sylvatica | Painted buckeye | |
| Ageratina altissima var. altissima | White snakeroot | |
| Agarista populifolia | Florida hobblebush Tall fetterbush Florida leucothoe Agarista | |
| Amelanchier arborea | Common serviceberry Downy serviceberry Shadbush Juneberry | |
| Amorpha fruticosa | Indigo bush False indigo bush False indigo Desert false indigo | |
| Amelanchier stolonifera | Running serviceberry | |
| Amsonia tabernaemontana | Eastern bluestar Blue dogbane Willow amsonia Woodland bluestar | |
| Anemone virginiana | Tall thimbleweed Thimbleweed Tall anemone | |
| Aquilegia canadensis | Eastern red columbine Wild red columbine | |
| Aralia spinosa | Devil's walkingstick Devil’s walking-stick Prickly Ash Hercules club Angelica tree | |
| Arisaema triphyllum | Jack in the pulpit Indian jack in the pulpit Jack-in-the-pulpit | |
| Asplenium resiliens | Blackstem spleenwort | |
| Asplenium trichomanes | Maidenhair spleenwort | |
| Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly milkweed Orange milkweed Pleurisy root | |
| Athyrium filix-femina ssp. asplenioides | Southern lady fern | |
| Azolla caroliniana | Carolina mosquitofern | |
| Baptisia alba var. macrophylla | Largeleaf wild indigo White wild indigo | |
| Baptisia australis | Blue wild indigo Wild blue indigo Blue false indigo | |
| Baptisia bracteata var. leucophaea | Longbract wild indigo Cream false indigo Plains wild indigo Cream wild indigo Large-bracted wild indigo | |
| Baccharis halimifolia | Groundseltree Sea-myrtle Consumptionweed Eastern baccharis Groundsel Groundsel bush Salt marsh-elder Salt bush Florida groundsel bush | |
| Betula nigra | River birch Red birch | |
| Bignonia capreolata | Crossvine | |
| Callicarpa americana | American beautyberry French mulberry | |
| Carpinus caroliniana | American hornbeam Blue beech Musclewood Ironwood | |
| Calycanthus floridus | Eastern sweetshrub Carolina allspice Sweet shrub | |
| Carya glabra | Pignut hickory | |
| Carya ovata | Shagbark hickory | |
| Campsis radicans | Trumpet creeper Trumpet vine Common trumpet creeper Cow vine | |
| Ceanothus americanus | New Jersey tea Redroot | |
| Cercis canadensis | Eastern redbud Redbud | |
| Celtis laevigata | Sugar hackberry Hackberry Sugarberry Texas sugarberry Palo blanco | |
| Celtis occidentalis | Common hackberry Nettle tree | |
| Cephalanthus occidentalis | Common buttonbush Buttonbush Button willow | |
| Celastrus scandens | American bittersweet | |
| Chamaecrista fasciculata var. fasciculata | Partridge pea Showy Partridge-pea Beeflower | |
| Chionanthus virginicus | White fringetree Fringe tree Grancy Graybeard | |
| Chrysogonum virginianum | Green and gold Green-and-gold | |
| Clethra alnifolia | Coastal sweet pepperbush Clethra Summer sweet | |
| Cladrastis kentukea | Kentucky yellowwood Yellowwood Gopherwood Virgilia | |
| Cliftonia monophylla | Buckwheat tree Buckwheat bush | |
| Cornus alternifolia | Alternateleaf dogwood Alternate-leaf dogwood Pagoda dogwood | |
| Cornus amomum | Silky dogwood Red willow Silky cornel | |
| Corylus americana | American hazelnut American filbert | |
| Coreopsis auriculata | Lobed tickseed Early coreopsis Eared coreopsis Dwarf tickseed | |
| Conoclinium coelestinum | Blue mistflower | |
| Commelina erecta | Whitemouth dayflower Widow's tears Day flower White-mouth dayflower | |
| Cornus florida | Flowering dogwood Virginia dogwood | |
| Coreopsis lanceolata | Lanceleaf coreopsis Lanceleaf tickseed Lance-leaved coreopsis Sand coreopsis | |
| Coreopsis nudata | Georgia tickseed Swamp coreopsis | |
| Cotinus obovatus | American smoke tree Smoke tree Texas smoke tree Chittamwood | |
| Coreopsis tinctoria | Plains coreopsis Golden tickseed Goldenwave Calliopsis | |
| Crataegus marshallii | Parsley hawthorn | |
| Crataegus phaenopyrum | Washington hawthorn Washington-thorn | |
| Crataegus spathulata | Littlehip hawthorn Pasture haw | |
| Cystopteris bulbifera | Bulblet bladder fern Bulblet bladderfern | |
| Cyrilla racemiflora | Swamp titi Titi Leatherwood Swamp cyrilla Palo colorado | |
| Decumaria barbara | Decumaria Climbing hydrangea Woodvamp | |
| Dennstaedtia punctilobula | Eastern hay-scented fern Eastern hayscented fern | |
| Diervilla sessilifolia | Southern bush honeysuckle Southern bush-honeysuckle | |
| Diospyros virginiana | Common persimmon Eastern persimmon | |
| Dracopis amplexicaulis | Clasping coneflower Clasping-leaf coneflower | |
| Dryopteris cristata | Crested woodfern Crested wood fern Buckler fern | |
| Dryopteris ludoviciana | Southern woodfern Florida shieldfern | |
| Dryopteris marginalis | Marginal woodfern Marginal fern Marginal shieldfern | |
| Echinacea purpurea | Eastern purple coneflower Purple coneflower | |
| Erythrina herbacea | Coralbean Cherokee bean Red cardinal | |
| Erigeron pulchellus | Robin's plantain Poor Robin's plantain Rose petty Robert's plantain Blue spring-daisy | |
| Euonymus americanus | American strawberry-bush Strawberry bush Brook euonymus Hearts-a-burstin Bursting-heart Wahoo | |
| Eupatoriadelphus fistulosus | Trumpetweed Queen of the meadow Hollow Joe-pye weed Joe-pye weed | |
| Eubotrys racemosa | Fetter-bush Leucothoe Swamp doghobble Sweet-bells Leucothe Sweetbells | |
| Fagus grandifolia | American beech | |
| Fothergilla gardenii | Dwarf witchalder Dwarf witch-alder Dwarf fothergilla | |
| Fothergilla major | Mountain witchalder Mountain witch-alder Large fothergilla | |
| Franklinia alatamaha | Franklin tree Franklinia Franklintree | |
| Fraxinus americana | White ash | |
| Frangula caroliniana | Carolina buckthorn Carolina false buckthorn Indian cherry | |
| Fraxinus pennsylvanica | Green ash Red ash | |
| Gaillardia pulchella | Firewheel Indian Blanket | |
| Geranium maculatum | Spotted geranium Wild geranium Cranesbill | |
| Gelsemium sempervirens | Carolina jessamine Yellow jessamine Evening trumpetflower Poor man's rope | |
| Glandularia bipinnatifida var. bipinnatifida | Prairie verbena Purple prairie verbena Dakota mock vervain Dakota vervain | |
| Gordonia lasianthus | Gordonia Loblolly bay | |
| Halesia carolina | Carolina silverbell | |
| Halesia diptera | Two-wing silverbell Silver bell Two-winged silverbell Snowdrop tree American snowdrop tree | |
| Halesia tetraptera | Mountain silverbell Carolina silverbell Silverbell tree | |
| Hamamelis virginiana | Witch hazel American witch hazel | |
| Heuchera americana | American alumroot | |
| Helianthus angustifolius | Swamp sunflower | |
| Hepatica nobilis | Hepatica | |
| Hibiscus moscheutos | Crimsoneyed rosemallow Crimson-eyed rose-mallow Marshmallow hibiscus | |
| Houstonia caerulea | Azure bluet Quaker-ladies Bluets | |
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