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Native Plants for Georgia
This collection, by the University of Georgia Department of Horticulture, presents close to six dozen native trees, shrubs, and woody vines that are available in the nursery trade and are especially suitable for landscape use.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 rubrum | Red maple Scarlet maple | |
| Acer saccharum | Sugar maple Northern sugar maple | |
| Aesculus pavia | Scarlet Buckeye Red buckeye Firecracker plant | |
| Aesculus parviflora | Bottlebrush buckeye | |
| 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 | |
| Cercis canadensis | Eastern redbud Redbud | |
| Cephalanthus occidentalis | Common buttonbush Buttonbush Button willow | |
| Chionanthus virginicus | White fringetree Fringe tree Grancy Graybeard | |
| Clethra alnifolia | Coastal sweet pepperbush Clethra Summer sweet | |
| Cladrastis kentukea | Kentucky yellowwood Yellowwood Gopherwood Virgilia | |
| Cornus florida | Flowering dogwood Virginia dogwood | |
| Cyrilla racemiflora | Swamp titi Titi Leatherwood Swamp cyrilla Palo colorado | |
| Euonymus americanus | American strawberry-bush Strawberry bush Brook euonymus Hearts-a-burstin Bursting-heart Wahoo | |
| Fothergilla gardenii | Dwarf witchalder Dwarf witch-alder Dwarf fothergilla | |
| Gelsemium sempervirens | Carolina jessamine Yellow jessamine Evening trumpetflower Poor man's rope | |
| Halesia tetraptera | Mountain silverbell Carolina silverbell Silverbell tree | |
| Hydrangea quercifolia | Oakleaf hydrangea Oak-leaf hydrangea | |
| Ilex decidua | Possumhaw Possumhaw Holly Deciduous Holly Winterberry Deciduous yaupon | |
| Illicium floridanum | Florida anisetree Florida anise Anise tree Stinkbush | |
| Ilex glabra | Inkberry Gallberry | |
| Ilex opaca | American holly Christmas holly | |
| Illicium parviflorum | Yellow anisetree Small anisetree Star anise | |
| Ilex verticillata | Common winterberry Michigan holly Black alder | |
| Ilex vomitoria | Yaupon Yaupon holly Cassina | |
| Itea virginica | Virginia sweetspire Tassel-white | |
| Juglans nigra | Black walnut Eastern black walnut | |
| Juniperus virginiana | Eastern red cedar Eastern redcedar Virginia juniper | |
| Liriodendron tulipifera | Tulip tree Tulip poplar Yellow poplar | |
| Lonicera sempervirens | Coral honeysuckle Trumpet honeysuckle Woodbine | |
| Magnolia grandiflora | Southern magnolia Evergreen magnolia Bull bay | |
| Magnolia macrophylla | Bigleaf magnolia | |
| Morella cerifera | Wax myrtle Southern bayberry Candleberry | |
| Ostrya virginiana | Eastern hop-hornbeam Hophornbeam Ironwood | |
| Oxydendrum arboreum | Sourwood Sorrel tree | |
| Parthenocissus quinquefolia | Virginia creeper | |
| Pinckneya bracteata | Fevertree Pinckneya Feverbark Poinsettia tree Georgia bark | |
| Pinus taeda | Loblolly pine Old field pine Bull pine Rosemary pine | |
| Pinus virginiana | Virginia pine Jersey pine Scrub pine | |
| Platanus occidentalis | American sycamore Buttonwood Plane-tree Sycamore | |
| Quercus alba | White oak Northern white oak Stave Oak Ridge White Oak Forked-leaf White Oak | |
| Quercus coccinea | Scarlet oak Red oak | |
| Quercus falcata | Southern red oak Spanish oak | |
| Quercus nigra | Water oak | |
| Quercus phellos | Willow oak | |
| Quercus shumardii | Shumard oak Shumard's oak Shumard red oak Southern red oak | |
| Quercus virginiana | Coastal live oak Southern live oak Live oak | |
| Rhapidophyllum hystrix | Needle palm Blue palmetto | |
| Sassafras albidum | Sassafras | |
| Sabal minor | Dwarf palmetto Palmetto Bush palmetto | |
| Sabal palmetto | Cabbage palmetto Cabbage palm | |
| Styrax americanus | American snowbell American snowbells American silverbells Big-leaf snowbell Storax | |
| Taxodium distichum | Bald cypress Baldcypress Common bald cypress Southern bald cypress Deciduous cypress | |
| Tsuga canadensis | Eastern hemlock | |
| Vaccinium arboreum | Farkleberry Tree sparkleberry Sparkleberry | |
| Viburnum acerifolium | Mapleleaf viburnum Maple-leaf viburnum Arrow-wood Maple-leaf arrow-wood | |
| Wisteria frutescens | American wisteria Texas wisteria Kentucky wisteria | |
| Xanthorhiza simplicissima | Shrub yellowroot Yellowroot | |
| Yucca filamentosa | Adam's needle | |
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
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