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Native plants of Clinch County

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

County summary · USDA PLANTS and Kew WCVP

Clinch County, Georgia

Native species
56 Typical Georgia county: 129 (median of 159 counties)
Garden-ready natives
34 Typical Georgia county: 58
Share by type (all 56 native species)
Percent of the 56 native species in each growth type
Tree 25% (14)
Shrub 20% (11)
Wildflower (forb) 34% (19)
Grass or grass-like 7% (4)
Vine 2% (1)
Fern 13% (7)

Wildflowers make up the largest share of the native list (34%), followed by trees (25%).

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 34

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

Garden-ready native plants of Clinch County, Georgia
PlantType HeightLight Water useHardy to
American snowbell Styrax americanus Tree 10 ft Sun–part shade — Zone 5b
bedstraw St. Johnswort Hypericum galioides Shrub 2.5 ft Sun High Zone 7a
black willow Salix nigra Tree 100 ft Sun High Zone 1b
bushy bluestem Andropogon glomeratus Grass or grass-like 6.3 ft Sun High Zone 5a
cinnamon fern Osmunda cinnamomea Fern 4.9 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 4a
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 rush Juncus effusus Grass or grass-like 6.6 ft Sun Medium Zone 3b
crimsoneyed rosemallow Hibiscus moscheutos Wildflower (forb) 6.6 ft Sun High Zone 6a
dahoon Ilex cassine Tree 26 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 8b
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
giant cane Arundinaria gigantea Shrub 25 ft Sun Medium Zone 5a
large gallberry Ilex coriacea Tree 12 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 8a
laurel oak Quercus laurifolia Tree 70 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 7a
mockernut hickory Carya tomentosa Tree 85 ft Sun–part shade Medium Zone 4a
narrowleaf evening primrose Oenothera fruticosa Wildflower (forb) 3.3 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 4a
narrowleaf silkgrass Pityopsis graminifolia Wildflower (forb) 2.8 ft Sun–part shade Medium Zone 7a
Ogeechee tupelo Nyssa ogeche Tree 50 ft Sun High Zone 6b
peelbark St. Johnswort Hypericum fasciculatum Shrub 5 ft Sun — Zone 7b
Pennsylvania bittercress Cardamine pensylvanica Wildflower (forb) 1.5 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 4a
pickerelweed Pontederia cordata Wildflower (forb) 3.2 ft Sun High Zone 5a
planertree Planera aquatica Tree 50 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 7a
redbay Persea borbonia Tree 70 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 8a
river birch Betula nigra Tree 70 ft Sun High Zone 4a
roundleaf greenbrier Smilax rotundifolia Vine 1 ft Sun Medium Zone 4a
running oak Quercus pumila Shrub 3 ft Sun Low Zone 8b
silky dogwood Cornus amomum Shrub 10 ft Sun–part shade High Zone 3b
southern catalpa Catalpa bignonioides Tree 66 ft Sun–part shade Low Zone 5b
swamp azalea Rhododendron viscosum Shrub 16 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 5b
swamp rose Rosa palustris Shrub 8.2 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 4a
swamp titi Cyrilla racemiflora Tree 30 ft Shade-tolerant — Zone 6b
water oak Quercus nigra Tree 90 ft Sun High Zone 5a
waterpod Hydrolea quadrivalvis Wildflower (forb) 1.5 ft Sun High Zone 8b

Other native species recorded here 22

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.

  • Appalachian clubmoss Huperzia appalachiana
  • big carpetgrass Axonopus furcatus
  • bog yelloweyed grass Xyris difformis
  • Carolina clover Trifolium carolinianum
  • coastal false asphodel Triantha racemosa
  • Florida mudmidget Wolffiella gladiata
  • foxtail clubmoss Lycopodiella alopecuroides
  • fringed yelloweyed grass Xyris fimbriata
  • grassy arrowhead Sagittaria graminea
  • Maryland goldenaster Chrysopsis mariana
  • netted chainfern Woodwardia areolata
  • piedmont staggerbush Lyonia mariana
  • Richard's yelloweyed grass Xyris jupicai
  • slender clubmoss Lycopodiella caroliniana
  • Small's yelloweyed grass Xyris smalliana
  • snakemouth orchid Pogonia ophioglossoides
  • southern bladderwort Utricularia juncea
  • spoonleaf purple everlasting Gamochaeta purpurea
  • thin paspalum Paspalum setaceum
  • Virginia chainfern Woodwardia virginica
  • whisk fern Psilotum nudum
  • yellow screwstem Bartonia 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, Clinch County and Georgia
MeasureClinch CountyTypical countyStatewide
Native species 56 129 1,750
Garden-ready natives 34 58 608
Tree 14 — 202
Shrub 11 — 91
Wildflower (forb) 19 — 908
Grass or grass-like 4 — 403
Vine 1 — 78
Fern 7 — 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
Clinch County (county FIPS 13065), Georgia. 56 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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