Native Plants for GeorgiaThis 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. |
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Acer floridanum Southern Sugar Maple, Florida Maple, Caddo Maple, Rock Maple |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Tree Light: Part-shade Water: Dry |
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Acer rubrum Red Maple, Scarlet Maple, Soft Maple |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Tree Light: Sun, Part-shade Water: Moist |
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Acer saccharum Sugar Maple, Northern Sugar Maple |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Tree Light: Sun, Shade, Part-shade Water: Moist, Dry |
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Aesculus parviflora Bottlebrush Buckeye |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Shrub Light: Part-shade Water: |
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Aesculus pavia Red Buckeye, Scarlet Buckeye , Firecracker Plant |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Shrub, Tree Light: Part-shade Water: Moist |
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Betula nigra River Birch, Red Birch, Black Birch, Water Birch |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Tree Light: Part-shade Water: Moist |
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Bignonia capreolata Crossvine |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Vine Light: Sun, Part-shade Water: Moist, Dry |
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Callicarpa americana American Beautyberry , French Mulberry |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Shrub Light: Part-shade Water: Moist |
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Calycanthus floridus Eastern Sweetshrub, Carolina Allspice, Sweet Shrub |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Shrub Light: Part-shade Water: Moist |
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Carpinus caroliniana American Hornbeam, Blue Beech, Water Beech, Musclewood, Ironwood |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Tree Light: Shade, Part-shade Water: Moist |
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Cephalanthus occidentalis Common Buttonbush, Buttonbush, Button Willow, Honey Bells, Honeybells, Honey Balls, Honeyballs, Button-bush |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Shrub Light: Shade, Part-shade Water: Wet, Moist |
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Cercis canadensis Eastern Redbud, Redbud |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Tree Light: Shade, Part-shade Water: Moist |
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Chionanthus virginicus White Fringetree, Fringe Tree, Snowflower Tree, Flowering Ash, Old Man's Beard, Grandfather Graybeard, Grancy Graybeard |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Tree Light: Part-shade Water: Moist |
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Cladrastis kentukea Kentucky Yellowwood, Yellowwood, Gopherwood, Virgilia |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Tree Light: Part-shade Water: |
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Clethra alnifolia Coastal Pepperbush, Coastal Sweet Pepperbush, Coastal Sweet Pepper, Alderleaf Pepperbush, Alderleaf Clethra, Clethra, Summer Sweet |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Shrub Light: Sun, Shade, Part-shade Water: Wet, Moist |
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Cornus florida Flowering Dogwood, Virginia Dogwood, Florida Dogwood, White Cornel, Arrowwood, American Boxwood, False Box, St. Peter's Crown, Corona De San Pedro |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Tree Light: Shade, Part-shade Water: Moist, Dry |
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Cyrilla racemiflora Titi, Swamp Titi, Black Titi, White Titi, Red Titi, Leatherwood, Swamp Cyrilla, American Cyrilla, Burnwood Bark, Palo Colorado |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Tree Light: Part-shade Water: Wet |
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Euonymus americanus American Strawberry Bush, Strawberry Bush, Brook Euonymus, Hearts-a-burstin, Bursting Heart, Wahoo |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Shrub Light: Part-shade Water: Moist |
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Fothergilla gardenii Dwarf Witchalder, Dwarf Witch-alder, Dwarf Fothergilla |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Shrub Light: Sun, Part-shade Water: |
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Gelsemium sempervirens Carolina Jessamine, Yellow Jessamine, Evening Trumpetflower, Poor Man's Rope |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Vine Light: Sun, Part-shade Water: Moist |
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Halesia tetraptera Mountain Silverbell, Carolina Silverbell, Four-wing Silverbell, Silverbell Tree |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Tree Light: Part-shade Water: |
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Hydrangea quercifolia Oakleaf Hydrangea, Oak-leaf Hydrangea |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Shrub Light: Shade Water: Moist |
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Ilex decidua Possumhaw, Possumhaw Holly, Deciduous Holly, Meadow Holly, Prairie Holly, Swamp Holly, Welk Holly, Deciduous Yaupon, Bearberry, Winterberry |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Shrub Light: Sun, Part-shade Water: Moist |
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Ilex glabra Inkberry, Gallberry |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Shrub Light: Part-shade Water: Wet, Moist |
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Ilex opaca American Holly, White Holly, Prickly Holly, Evergreen Holly, Christmas Holly, Yule Holly |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Tree Light: Sun, Shade, Part-shade Water: Wet, Dry |
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Ilex verticillata Common Winterberry, Winterberry, Michigan Holly, Black Alder |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Tree Light: Sun, Shade, Part-shade Water: Wet, Moist, Dry |
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Ilex vomitoria Yaupon, Yaupon Holly, Cassina |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Shrub, Tree Light: Sun, Shade, Part-shade Water: Moist, Dry |
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Illicium floridanum Florida Anisetree, Florida Anise, Anise Tree, Stinkbush |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Shrub Light: Part-shade Water: |
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Illicium parviflorum Yellow Anisetree, Small Anisetree, Star Anise |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Shrub Light: Part-shade Water: Moist |
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Itea virginica Virginia Sweetspire, Tassel-white, Virginia Willow |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Shrub Light: Part-shade Water: Moist |
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Juglans nigra Black Walnut, Eastern Black Walnut, American Black Walnut |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Tree Light: Sun, Part-shade Water: Moist |
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Juniperus virginiana Eastern Red Cedar, Eastern Redcedar, Virginia Juniper, Red Juniper, Pencil Cedar, Carolina Cedar, Red Savin |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Tree Light: Sun, Shade, Part-shade Water: Dry |
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Liriodendron tulipifera Tulip Tree, Tulip Poplar, Yellow Poplar |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Tree Light: Sun, Shade, Part-shade Water: Moist |
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Lonicera sempervirens Coral Honeysuckle, Trumpet Honeysuckle, Woodbine |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Vine Light: Sun, Part-shade Water: Moist |
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Magnolia grandiflora Southern Magnolia, Evergreen Magnolia, Loblolly Magnolia, Great Laurel Magnolia, Big Laurel, Bull Bay |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Tree Light: Sun, Part-shade Water: Moist, Dry |
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Magnolia macrophylla Bigleaf Magnolia |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Tree Light: Part-shade Water: |
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Morella cerifera Wax Myrtle , Southern Wax Myrtle, Southern Bayberry, Eastern Bayberry, Bayberry, Candleberry, Tallow Shrub |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Shrub Light: Sun, Part-shade Water: Wet, Moist |
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Ostrya virginiana Eastern Hop-hornbeam, American Hop-hornbeam, Woolly Hop-hornbean, Eastern Ironwood, Roughbark Ironwood, Ironwood, Deerwood, Leverwood |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Tree Light: Sun, Shade, Part-shade Water: Moist, Dry |
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Oxydendrum arboreum Sourwood, Sorrel Tree |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Tree Light: Part-shade Water: |
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Parthenocissus quinquefolia Virginia Creeper |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Vine Light: Sun, Shade, Part-shade Water: Moist |
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Pinckneya bracteata Fevertree, Pinckneya, Feverbark, Poinsettia Tree, Georgia Bark |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Shrub Light: Part-shade Water: |
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Pinus taeda Loblolly Pine, Oldfield Pine, Bull Pine, Rosemary Pine |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Tree Light: Part-shade Water: Dry |
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Pinus virginiana Virginia Pine, Jersey Pine, Scrub Pine |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Tree Light: Sun Water: Moist |
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Platanus occidentalis American Sycamore, Eastern Sycamore, American Plane Tree, Plane Tree, Buttonwood, Buttonball Tree |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Tree Light: Sun, Shade, Part-shade Water: Moist |
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Quercus alba White Oak, Northern White Oak, Eastern White Oak, Stave Oak, Ridge White Oak, Forked-leaf White Oak |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Tree Light: Sun, Shade, Part-shade Water: Moist, Dry |
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Quercus coccinea Scarlet Oak, Red Oak |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Tree Light: Sun Water: Moist |
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Quercus falcata Southern Red Oak, Bottomland Red Oak, Three-lobed Red Oak, Spanish Oak |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Tree Light: Part-shade Water: Dry |
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Quercus nigra Water Oak, Possum Oak, Duck Oak, Punk Oak, Spotted Oak |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Tree Light: Part-shade Water: Wet |
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Quercus phellos Willow Oak, Swamp Willow Oak, Pin Oak, Peach Oak |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Tree Light: Part-shade Water: Moist |
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Quercus shumardii Shumard Oak, Shumard's Oak, Shumard Red Oak, Southern Red Oak, Swamp Red Oak, Spotted Oak |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Tree Light: Sun, Part-shade Water: Moist, Dry |
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Quercus virginiana Coastal Live Oak, Southern Live Oak, Virginia Live Oak, Live Oak, Encino |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Tree Light: Sun, Part-shade Water: Moist |
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Rhapidophyllum hystrix Needle Palm, Blue Palmetto |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Shrub Light: Part-shade Water: |
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Sabal minor Dwarf Palmetto, Bush Palmetto, Palmetto |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Shrub Light: Sun, Shade, Part-shade Water: Moist, Dry |
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Sabal palmetto Cabbage Palmetto, Cabbage Palm |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Tree Light: Part-shade Water: |
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Sassafras albidum Sassafras, White Sassafras, Ague Tree, Cinnamon Wood, Mitten Tree, Saloop, Smelling Stick |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Tree Light: Sun, Shade, Part-shade Water: Moist |
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Styrax americanus American Snowbell, American Snowbells, American Silverbells, Big-leaf Snowbell, Storax |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Tree Light: Part-shade Water: Wet |
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Taxodium distichum Bald Cypress, Baldcypress, Common Bald Cypress, Southern Bald Cypress, Deciduous Cypress, Southern Cypress, Swamp Cypress, Red Cypress, White Cypress, Yellow Cypress, Gulf Cypress, Tidewater Red Cypress |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Tree Light: Sun, Part-shade Water: Moist |
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Tsuga canadensis Eastern Hemlock |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Tree Light: Shade, Part-shade Water: Moist |
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Vaccinium arboreum Farkleberry, Tree Sparkleberry, Sparkleberry, Winter Huckleberry, Huckleberry |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Tree Light: Part-shade Water: Dry |
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Viburnum acerifolium Mapleleaf Viburnum, Maple-leaf Viburnum, Maple-leaf Arrowwood, Arrowwood |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Shrub Light: Sun, Shade, Part-shade Water: Moist, Dry |
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Wisteria frutescens American Wisteria, Texas Wisteria, Kentucky Wisteria |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Vine Light: Sun, Shade, Part-shade Water: Moist |
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Xanthorhiza simplicissima Yellowroot, Shrub Yellowroot |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Shrub Light: Shade Water: |
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Yucca filamentosa Adam's Needle |
Duration: Perennial Habit: Cactus/Succulent Light: Sun Water: Dry |