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Native plants of Appling County

63 plant species are recorded as native to Georgia in Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS, and recorded in Appling County by USDA PLANTS. 36 of them have growing records you can filter by light, moisture, height and estimated cold hardiness.

County summary · USDA PLANTS and Kew WCVP

Appling County, Georgia

Native species
63 Typical Georgia county: 129 (median of 159 counties)
Garden-ready natives
36 Typical Georgia county: 58
Share by type (all 63 native species)
Percent of the 63 native species in each growth type
Tree 32% (20)
Shrub 17% (11)
Wildflower (forb) 35% (22)
Grass or grass-like 8% (5)
Vine 2% (1)
Fern 6% (4)

Wildflowers make up the largest share of the native list (35%), followed by trees (32%).

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 8b to 9a (2023 map).

The native plant list

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

Garden-ready natives 36

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

Garden-ready native plants of Appling County, Georgia
PlantType HeightLight Water useHardy to
American witchhazel Hamamelis virginiana Tree 20 ft Sun–part shade Medium Zone 4b
bedstraw St. Johnswort Hypericum galioides Shrub 2.5 ft Sun High Zone 7a
blackjack oak Quercus marilandica Tree 25 ft Sun Low Zone 6a
bursting-heart Euonymus americanus Wildflower (forb) 6 ft Sun–part shade High Zone 5a
Carolina redroot Lachnanthes caroliana Wildflower (forb) 3 ft Sun Medium Zone 8b
coastal plain willow Salix caroliniana Tree 33 ft Sun–part shade High Zone 7b
coastal sweetpepperbush Clethra alnifolia Shrub 16 ft Sun–part shade High Zone 5a
common hoptree Ptelea trifoliata Tree 25 ft Sun–part shade High Zone 4a
common sweetleaf Symplocos tinctoria Tree 20 ft Shade-tolerant — Zone 5a
deerberry Vaccinium stamineum Shrub 16 ft Shade-tolerant Low Zone 5a
dwarf huckleberry Gaylussacia dumosa Shrub 1.4 ft Shade-tolerant Low Zone 5a
fetterbush lyonia Lyonia lucida Shrub 6.6 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 7b
lanceleaf tickseed Coreopsis lanceolata Wildflower (forb) 2 ft Sun Medium Zone 6b
large gallberry Ilex coriacea Tree 12 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 8a
laurel oak Quercus laurifolia Tree 70 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 7a
lesser creeping rush Juncus repens Grass or grass-like 6.8 ft Sun High Zone 8b
loblolly bay Gordonia lasianthus Tree 65 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 7a
narrowleaf evening primrose Oenothera fruticosa Wildflower (forb) 3.3 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 4a
New Jersey tea Ceanothus americanus Shrub 3 ft Shade-tolerant Low Zone 4b
northern spiderlily Hymenocallis occidentalis Wildflower (forb) 2 ft Sun–part shade High Zone 7a
Ogeechee tupelo Nyssa ogeche Tree 50 ft Sun High Zone 6b
peelbark St. Johnswort Hypericum fasciculatum Shrub 5 ft Sun — Zone 7b
red buckeye Aesculus pavia Tree 25 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 5a
red chokeberry Aronia arbutifolia Shrub 5 ft Sun High Zone 5b
red maple Acer rubrum Tree 68 ft Sun–part shade High Zone 2b
redbay Persea borbonia Tree 70 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 8a
running oak Quercus pumila Shrub 3 ft Sun Low Zone 8b
saw palmetto Serenoa repens Tree 7 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 8a
small-leaf arrowwood Viburnum obovatum Tree 12 ft Sun–part shade — Zone 7b
sugarberry Celtis laevigata Tree 80 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 5a
swamp azalea Rhododendron viscosum Shrub 16 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 5b
swamp titi Cyrilla racemiflora Tree 30 ft Shade-tolerant — Zone 6b
turkey oak Quercus laevis Tree 40 ft Sun Medium Zone 7a
two-wing silverbell Halesia diptera Tree 15 ft Sun–part shade — Zone 8a
water oak Quercus nigra Tree 90 ft Sun High Zone 5a
waterthread pondweed Potamogeton diversifolius Wildflower (forb) 3.2 ft Sun High Zone 3b

Other native species recorded here 27

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.

  • American cancer-root Conopholis americana
  • bloodroot Sanguinaria canadensis
  • bog yelloweyed grass Xyris difformis
  • button eryngo Eryngium yuccifolium
  • Christmas fern Polystichum acrostichoides
  • combleaf mermaidweed Proserpinaca pectinata
  • downy yellow false foxglove Aureolaria virginica
  • eastern milkpea Galactia regularis
  • ebony spleenwort Asplenium platyneuron
  • fire pink Silene virginica
  • foxtail clubmoss Lycopodiella alopecuroides
  • gum bully Sideroxylon lanuginosum
  • handsome Harry Rhexia virginica
  • horned bladderwort Utricularia cornuta
  • little floating bladderwort Utricularia radiata
  • piedmont staggerbush Lyonia mariana
  • shiny wedgescale Sphenopholis nitida
  • silvery everlasting Gamochaeta argyrinea
  • sundial lupine Lupinus perennis
  • thin paspalum Paspalum setaceum
  • twoflower melicgrass Melica mutica
  • twoleaf watermilfoil Myriophyllum heterophyllum
  • Virginia bunchflower Veratrum virginicum
  • Virginia chainfern Woodwardia virginica
  • Virginia pepperweed Lepidium virginicum
  • waxyleaf meadow-rue Thalictrum revolutum
  • whip nutrush Scleria triglomerata

Compared with Georgia

The typical county is the median of the 159 Georgia 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, Appling County and Georgia
MeasureAppling CountyTypical countyStatewide
Native species 63 129 1,750
Garden-ready natives 36 58 608
Tree 20 — 202
Shrub 11 — 91
Wildflower (forb) 22 — 908
Grass or grass-like 5 — 403
Vine 1 — 78
Fern 4 — 68

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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
Appling County (county FIPS 13001), Georgia. 63 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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