Native plants · Georgia

Native plants of Bleckley County

25 plant species are recorded as native to Georgia in Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS, and recorded in Bleckley County by USDA PLANTS. 12 of them have growing records you can filter by light, moisture, height and estimated cold hardiness.

County summary · USDA PLANTS and Kew WCVP

Bleckley County, Georgia

PLANTS records only 12 garden-ready natives here (under 30). County records are thin in some places; the Georgia list is a useful second check.

Native species: 25 Typical Georgia county: 129 (median of 159 counties)
Garden-ready natives: 12 Typical Georgia county: 58
Share by type (all 25 native species): Percent of the 25 native species in each growth type

Tree 28% (7)
Shrub 8% (2)
Wildflower (forb) 52% (13)
Grass or grass-like 8% (2)
Fern 4% (1)

Wildflowers make up the largest share of the native list (52%), followed by trees (28%).

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 8b (2023 map).

The native plant list

Garden-ready natives 12

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

Garden-ready native plants of Bleckley County, Georgia
Plant	Type	Height	Light	Water use	Hardy to
black willow Salix nigra	Tree	100 ft	Sun	High	Zone 1b
brownseed paspalum Paspalum plicatulum	Grass or grass-like	3.3 ft	Sun–part shade	Low	Zone 8a
common evening primrose Oenothera biennis	Wildflower (forb)	5 ft	Sun	Medium	Zone 4b
common persimmon Diospyros virginiana	Tree	55 ft	Shade-tolerant	Medium	Zone 5a
deerberry Vaccinium stamineum	Shrub	16 ft	Shade-tolerant	Low	Zone 5a
laurel oak Quercus laurifolia	Tree	70 ft	Shade-tolerant	Medium	Zone 7a
longleaf pine Pinus palustris	Tree	120 ft	Sun	Medium	Zone 7a
narrowleaf evening primrose Oenothera fruticosa	Wildflower (forb)	3.3 ft	Shade-tolerant	High	Zone 4a
prairie fleabane Erigeron strigosus	Wildflower (forb)	3 ft	Sun	Medium	Zone 4b
swamp chestnut oak Quercus michauxii	Tree	80 ft	Sun	Medium	Zone 5a
water oak Quercus nigra	Tree	90 ft	Sun	High	Zone 5a
willow oak Quercus phellos	Tree	100 ft	Sun	High	Zone 5a

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.

Adam's needle Yucca filamentosa
beaked panicgrass Panicum anceps
crowpoison Nothoscordum bivalve
cutleaf evening primrose Oenothera laciniata
giant ironweed Vernonia gigantea
largebracted plantain Plantago aristata
procession flower Polygala incarnata
queen's-delight Stillingia sylvatica
queendevil Hieracium gronovii
sensitive fern Onoclea sensibilis
sidebeak pencilflower Stylosanthes biflora
Virginia tephrosia Tephrosia virginiana
white wild indigo Baptisia alba

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, Bleckley County and Georgia
Measure	Bleckley County	Typical county	Statewide
Native species	25	129	1,750
Garden-ready natives	12	58	608
Tree	7	—	202
Shrub	2	—	91
Wildflower (forb)	13	—	908
Grass or grass-like	2	—	403
Vine	0	—	78
Fern	1	—	68

Neighboring counties

Counties that share a ZIP code with Bleckley County.

Dodge County, GA 49 garden-ready
Laurens County, GA 46 garden-ready
Pulaski County, GA 20 garden-ready
Twiggs County, GA 15 garden-ready
Wilkinson County, GA 21 garden-ready

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: Bleckley County (county FIPS 13023), Georgia. 25 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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