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Georgia Recommended
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 floridanum | Southern Sugar Maple Florida Maple Caddo Maple Rock Maple | |
| Acer leucoderme | Chalk Maple Whitebark Maple | |
| Acer rubrum | Red Maple Scarlet Maple Soft Maple | |
| Actaea rubra | Red Baneberry | |
| Acer saccharum | Sugar Maple Northern Sugar Maple | |
| Adiantum pedatum | Northern Maidenhair Fern Maidenhair Fern | |
| Aesculus flava | Yellow Buckeye Sweet Buckeye | |
| Aesculus pavia | Red Buckeye Scarlet 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 Junebush Shadblow Sarvis | |
| 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 | |
| Aronia arbutifolia | Red Chokeberry Red Chokecherry | |
| Aralia spinosa | Devil's Walking Stick Hercules Club Angelica Tree Pigeon Tree Shotbush Prickly Elder Prickly Ash | |
| 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 Weed Butterfly Milkweed Orange Milkweed Pleurisy Root Chigger Flower Chiggerweed | |
| 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 Black Birch Water Birch | |
| Bignonia capreolata | Crossvine | |
| Callicarpa americana | American Beautyberry French Mulberry | |
| Carpinus caroliniana | American Hornbeam Blue Beech Water Beech Musclewood Ironwood | |
| Calycanthus floridus | Eastern Sweetshrub Carolina Allspice Sweet Shrub | |
| Carya glabra | Pignut Hickory Sweet Pignut Hickory Coast Pignut Hickory Pignut Sweet Pignut Smoothbark Hickory Broom Hickory Red Hickory Swamp Hickory Switch Hickory Switchbud Hickory | |
| Carya ovata | Shagbark Hickory Carolina Hickory Scalybark Hickory Upland Hickory Shellbark Hickory | |
| Campsis radicans | Trumpet Creeper Trumpet Vine Common Trumpet Creeper Cow Vine Foxglove Vine Hellvine Devil's Shoestring | |
| Ceanothus americanus | New Jersey Tea Redroot | |
| Cercis canadensis | Eastern Redbud Redbud | |
| Celtis laevigata | Sugar Hackberry Texas Sugarberry Sugarberry Southern Hackberry Lowland Hackberry Hackberry Palo Blanco | |
| Celtis occidentalis | Common Hackberry Northern Hackberry American Hackberry Nettle Tree Beaverwood False Elm | |
| Cephalanthus occidentalis | Common Buttonbush Buttonbush Button Willow Honey Bells Honeybells Honey Balls Honeyballs Button-bush | |
| Celastrus scandens | American Bittersweet | |
| Chamaecrista fasciculata var. fasciculata | Partridge Pea Showy Partridge-pea Beeflower | |
| Chionanthus virginicus | White Fringetree Fringe Tree Snowflower Tree Flowering Ash Old Man's Beard Grandfather Graybeard Grancy Graybeard | |
| Chrysogonum virginianum | Green And Gold Green-and-gold | |
| Clethra alnifolia | Coastal Pepperbush Coastal Sweet Pepperbush Coastal Sweet Pepper Alderleaf Pepperbush Alderleaf Clethra 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 Wild Ageratum Blue Boneset | |
| Commelina erecta | Dayflower Widow's Tears White-mouth Dayflower Whitemouth Dayflower | |
| Cornus florida | Flowering Dogwood Virginia Dogwood Florida Dogwood White Cornel Arrowwood American Boxwood False Box St. Peter's Crown Corona De San Pedro | |
| Coreopsis lanceolata | Lanceleaf Coreopsis Lance-leaved Coreopsis Lanceleaf Tickseed Sand Coreopsis | |
| Coreopsis nudata | Georgia Tickseed Swamp Coreopsis | |
| Cotinus obovatus | American Smoke Tree Texas Smoke Tree Wild Smoke Tree Smoke Tree Smokebush Chittamwood | |
| Coreopsis tinctoria | Plains Coreopsis Golden Tickseed Goldenwave Calliopsis | |
| Crataegus marshallii | Parsley Hawthorn Parsleyleaf Hawthorn | |
| Crataegus phaenopyrum | Washington Hawthorn Washington-thorn | |
| Crataegus spathulata | Littlehip Hawthorn Pasture Hawthorn Smallfruit Hawthorn | |
| Cystopteris bulbifera | Bulblet Bladder Fern | |
| Cyrilla racemiflora | Titi Swamp Titi Black Titi White Titi Red Titi Leatherwood Swamp Cyrilla American Cyrilla Burnwood Bark Palo Colorado | |
| Decumaria barbara | Decumaria Climbing Hydrangea Woodvamp | |
| Dennstaedtia punctilobula | Eastern Hay-scented Fern | |
| Diervilla sessilifolia | Southern Bush Honeysuckle Southern Bush-honeysuckle | |
| Diospyros virginiana | Common Persimmon Eastern Persimmon Possumwood Date Plum Winter Plum Jove's Fruit | |
| 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 | |
| Eutrochium fistulosum | Joe-pye Weed Trumpetweed Queen Of The Meadow Hollow Joe-pye Weed | |
| Fagus grandifolia | American Beech White Beech Red Beech Ridge Beech Beechnut Tree | |
| Fothergilla gardenii | Dwarf Witchalder Dwarf Witch-alder Dwarf Fothergilla | |
| Fothergilla major | Mountain Witchalder Mountain Witch-alder Large Fothergilla | |
| Franklinia alatamaha | Franklin Tree Franklintree Franklinia | |
| Fraxinus americana | White Ash American Ash Cane Ash Smallseed White Ash Biltmore White Ash Biltmore Ash | |
| Frangula caroliniana | Carolina Buckthorn Carolina False Buckthorn Yellow Buckthorn Indian Cherry Yellowwood | |
| Fraxinus pennsylvanica | Green Ash Red Ash Swamp Ash River Ash Water Ash Darlington Ash | |
| Gaillardia pulchella | Indian Blanket Firewheel Girasol Rojo | |
| 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 Two-winged Silverbell Silverbell American Snowdrop Tree Snowdrop Tree Snowbell Cowlicks | |
| Halesia tetraptera | Mountain Silverbell Carolina Silverbell Four-wing Silverbell Silverbell Tree | |
| Hamamelis virginiana | Witch-hazel American Witch-hazel Common Witch-hazel Winterbloom Snapping Hazelnut Striped Alder Spotted Alder Tobacco-wood Water-witch | |
| Heuchera americana | American Alumroot Alumroot | |
| Helianthus angustifolius | Swamp Sunflower Narrowleaf Sunflower Narrow-leaved Sunflower | |
| Hepatica nobilis | Hepatica | |
| Hibiscus moscheutos | Crimson-eyed Rose-mallow Marshmallow Hibiscus | |
| Houstonia caerulea | Azure Bluet Quaker Ladies Bluets | |
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