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Native plants of Bacon County

29 plant species are recorded as native to Georgia in Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS, and recorded in Bacon County by USDA PLANTS. 18 of them have growing records you can filter by light, moisture, height and estimated cold hardiness.

County summary · USDA PLANTS and Kew WCVP

Bacon County, Georgia

PLANTS records only 18 garden-ready natives here (under 30). County records are thin in some places; the Georgia list is a useful second check.

Native species
29 Typical Georgia county: 129 (median of 159 counties)
Garden-ready natives
18 Typical Georgia county: 58
Share by type (all 29 native species)
Percent of the 29 native species in each growth type
Tree 31% (9)
Shrub 10% (3)
Wildflower (forb) 34% (10)
Grass or grass-like 3% (1)
Vine 14% (4)
Fern 7% (2)

Wildflowers make up the largest share of the native list (34%), followed by trees (31%).

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 zone 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 18

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

Garden-ready native plants of Bacon County, Georgia
PlantType HeightLight Water useHardy to
blackgum Nyssa sylvatica Tree 95 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 5b
blackjack oak Quercus marilandica Tree 25 ft Sun Low Zone 6a
butterfly milkweed Asclepias tuberosa Wildflower (forb) 2 ft Sun Low Zone 4a
Carolina ash Fraxinus caroliniana Tree 39 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 7b
Chickasaw plum Prunus angustifolia Tree 12 ft Sun Medium Zone 4b
coral greenbrier Smilax walteri Vine 1 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 6b
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
laurel greenbrier Smilax laurifolia Vine 1 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 6b
laurel oak Quercus laurifolia Tree 70 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 7a
muscadine Vitis rotundifolia Vine 30 ft Sun–part shade Medium Zone 5b
needleleaf rosette grass Dichanthelium aciculare Grass or grass-like 1.6 ft Sun–part shade Low Zone 7b
redbay Persea borbonia Tree 70 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 8a
southern bayberry Morella caroliniensis Tree 7 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 6a
swamp azalea Rhododendron viscosum Shrub 16 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 5b
tenangle pipewort Eriocaulon decangulare Wildflower (forb) 2.6 ft Sun Medium Zone 6b
turkey oak Quercus laevis Tree 40 ft Sun Medium Zone 7a
wax myrtle Morella cerifera Tree 10 ft Sun High Zone 7a

Other native species recorded here 11

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.

  • bog yelloweyed grass Xyris difformis
  • crossvine Bignonia capreolata
  • cutleaf evening primrose Oenothera laciniata
  • foxtail clubmoss Lycopodiella alopecuroides
  • fringed yelloweyed grass Xyris fimbriata
  • juniper leaf Polypremum procumbens
  • queen's-delight Stillingia sylvatica
  • Richard's yelloweyed grass Xyris jupicai
  • silvery everlasting Gamochaeta argyrinea
  • spindleroot Ludwigia hirtella
  • Virginia chainfern Woodwardia virginica

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, Bacon County and Georgia
MeasureBacon CountyTypical countyStatewide
Native species 29 129 1,750
Garden-ready natives 18 58 608
Tree 9 — 202
Shrub 3 — 91
Wildflower (forb) 10 — 908
Grass or grass-like 1 — 403
Vine 4 — 78
Fern 2 — 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
Bacon County (county FIPS 13005), Georgia. 29 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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