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Native plants of Kings County

34 plant species are recorded as native to California in Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS, and recorded in Kings County by USDA PLANTS. 21 of them have growing records you can filter by light, moisture, height and estimated cold hardiness.

County summary · USDA PLANTS and Kew WCVP

Kings County, California

PLANTS records only 21 garden-ready natives here (under 30). County records are thin in some places; the California list is a useful second check.

Native species
34 Typical California county: 333 (median of 58 counties)
Garden-ready natives
21 Typical California county: 239
Share by type (all 34 native species)
Percent of the 34 native species in each growth type
Tree 15% (5)
Shrub 12% (4)
Wildflower (forb) 41% (14)
Grass or grass-like 24% (8)
Vine 3% (1)
Fern 6% (2)

Wildflowers make up the largest share of the native list (41%), followed by grasses and grass-like plants (24%).

Recorded native ranges can include long-established populations that spread from gardens; check your state’s native plant society list for local guidance. How native status is decided.

ZIP codes mainly in this county fall in USDA hardiness zones 9a to 9b (2023 map).

The native plant list

Cold hardiness is estimated from each plant’s PLANTS minimum temperature. How we estimate it.

Garden-ready natives 21

Native species with PLANTS growing records (height, light, moisture, minimum temperature). “—” means PLANTS has no value.

Garden-ready native plants of Kings County, California
PlantType HeightLight Water useHardy to
annual hairgrass Deschampsia danthonioides Grass or grass-like 1.5 ft Sun–part shade Medium Zone 12b
bastardsage Eriogonum wrightii Shrub 2 ft Sun–part shade Low Zone 6a
blue oak Quercus douglasii Tree 60 ft Sun Low Zone 8a
California brome Bromus carinatus Grass or grass-like 4 ft Sun Low Zone 9a
California poppy Eschscholzia californica Wildflower (forb) 1.2 ft Sun–part shade Low Zone 8a
cattle saltbush Atriplex polycarpa Shrub 6 ft Sun Medium Zone 8a
Eastern Mojave buckwheat Eriogonum fasciculatum Shrub 3 ft Sun Low Zone 8a
false daisy Eclipta prostrata Wildflower (forb) 3.2 ft Sun–part shade Medium Zone 10b
freckled milkvetch Astragalus lentiginosus Shrub 1.4 ft Sun Low Zone 4b
Fremont cottonwood Populus fremontii Tree 90 ft Sun High Zone 6a
lacy phacelia Phacelia tanacetifolia Wildflower (forb) 4 ft Sun Medium Zone 12b
marsh seedbox Ludwigia palustris Wildflower (forb) 2 in Sun High Zone 4a
redroot flatsedge Cyperus erythrorhizos Grass or grass-like 2.5 ft Sun Medium Zone 11a
Sandberg bluegrass Poa secunda Grass or grass-like 1.4 ft Sun–part shade Low Zone 3b
sanddune wallflower Erysimum capitatum Wildflower (forb) 2.5 ft Sun Medium Zone 4b
smooth horsetail Equisetum laevigatum Fern 5 ft Sun Low Zone 3b
teal lovegrass Eragrostis hypnoides Grass or grass-like 4 in Sun High Zone 3b
threepetal bedstraw Galium trifidum Vine 10 in Sun–part shade High Zone 3b
valley oak Quercus lobata Tree 100 ft Sun Medium Zone 8a
valley redstem Ammannia coccinea Wildflower (forb) 1.6 ft Sun Medium Zone 3b
western juniper Juniperus occidentalis Tree 33 ft Sun Low Zone 4a

Other native species recorded here 13

PLANTS has no growing records for these, so light, moisture, height and zone filters cannot include them. Many are wild species seldom sold by nurseries.

  • arroyo willow Salix lasiolepis
  • bearded flatsedge Cyperus squarrosus
  • hairy waterclover Marsilea vestita
  • marsh bristlegrass Setaria parviflora
  • Maximilian sunflower Helianthus maximiliani
  • Menzies' fiddleneck Amsinckia menziesii
  • prairie plantain Plantago elongata
  • silverleaf nightshade Solanum elaeagnifolium
  • silverscale saltbush Atriplex argentea
  • slender phlox Microsteris gracilis
  • Vahl's fimbry Fimbristylis vahlii
  • whorled marshpennywort Hydrocotyle verticillata
  • yellowseed false pimpernel Lindernia dubia

Compared with California

The typical county is the median of the 58 California counties with PLANTS county records; the statewide figure counts every species native anywhere in the state. More species is not better or worse: counties differ in size, habitat and how thoroughly they have been surveyed.

Native species counts, Kings County and California
MeasureKings CountyTypical countyStatewide
Native species 34 333 1,108
Garden-ready natives 21 239 720
Tree 5 — 111
Shrub 4 — 140
Wildflower (forb) 14 — 559
Grass or grass-like 8 — 253
Vine 1 — 16
Fern 2 — 29

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Source & data date

Source
USDA NRCS PLANTS Database: county distribution records, native status and plant characteristics. CC0 (public domain dedication, per the data.gov catalog record).
Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP): native or introduced status by state. CC BY 3.0.
USGS US-RIIS (ver. 2.0): species listed as introduced are excluded. CC0.
Citation
USDA, NRCS. 2026. The PLANTS Database (https://plants.usda.gov, 11/04/2026). National Plant Data Team, Greensboro, NC USA.
Govaerts R. (ed.) (2026). WCVP: World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Data file dated 2026-06-04, http://sftp.kew.org/pub/data-repositories/WCVP/ (retrieved 2026-11-04). Paper: Govaerts R. et al. (2021) The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. Scientific Data 8, 215.
Data date
Retrieved from PLANTS on November 4, 2026; WCVP data file dated June 4, 2026.
Zones
USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map (2023) ZIP table: PRISM Group, Oregon State University, https://prism.oregonstate.edu, accessed November 3, 2026. Plant zones on this site are our estimate, not the official map.
Scope
Kings County (county FIPS 06031), California. 34 native species from PLANTS county distribution records; garden-ready = species with a PLANTS characteristics record.
Method
A species is listed when it is recorded as native to the state in Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS, and recorded in the county by USDA PLANTS. Species PLANTS labels both native and introduced are listed separately. Full method · All sources

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