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Native plants of Coweta County

55 plant species are recorded as native to Georgia in Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS, and recorded in Coweta County by USDA PLANTS. 17 of them have growing records you can filter by light, moisture, height and estimated cold hardiness.

County summary · USDA PLANTS and Kew WCVP

Coweta County, Georgia

PLANTS records only 17 garden-ready natives here (under 30). County records are thin in some places; the Georgia list is a useful second check.

Native species
55 Typical Georgia county: 129 (median of 159 counties)
Garden-ready natives
17 Typical Georgia county: 58
Share by type (all 55 native species)
Percent of the 55 native species in each growth type
Tree 11% (6)
Shrub 4% (2)
Wildflower (forb) 40% (22)
Grass or grass-like 5% (3)
Vine 16% (9)
Fern 24% (13)

Wildflowers make up the largest share of the native list (40%), followed by ferns (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 zone 8a (2023 map).

The native plant list

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

Garden-ready natives 17

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

Garden-ready native plants of Coweta County, Georgia
PlantType HeightLight Water useHardy to
blackjack oak Quercus marilandica Tree 25 ft Sun Low Zone 6a
cat greenbrier Smilax glauca Vine 1 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 6a
cinnamon fern Osmunda cinnamomea Fern 4.9 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 4a
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
graybark grape Vitis cinerea Vine 50 ft Sun–part shade Medium Zone 6b
Jack in the pulpit Arisaema triphyllum Wildflower (forb) 1.5 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 5b
muscadine Vitis rotundifolia Vine 30 ft Sun–part shade Medium Zone 5b
narrowleaf evening primrose Oenothera fruticosa Wildflower (forb) 3.3 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 4a
New York fern Thelypteris noveboracensis Fern 1.5 ft Shade-tolerant Low Zone 4b
nodding lady's tresses Spiranthes cernua Wildflower (forb) 1.5 ft Sun High Zone 3b
red buckeye Aesculus pavia Tree 25 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 5a
roundleaf greenbrier Smilax rotundifolia Vine 1 ft Sun Medium Zone 4a
trumpet creeper Campsis radicans Vine 2 ft Sun Low Zone 6a
Virginia creeper Parthenocissus quinquefolia Vine 1 ft Sun–part shade Low Zone 4b
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 38

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 quillwort Isoetes engelmannii
  • Appalachian stitchwort Minuartia glabra
  • Atlantic poison oak Toxicodendron pubescens
  • blisterwort Ranunculus recurvatus
  • bluntlobe cliff fern Woodsia obtusa
  • buffalo clover Trifolium reflexum
  • Christmas fern Polystichum acrostichoides
  • Curtiss' milkwort Polygala curtissii
  • cutleaf grapefern Botrychium dissectum
  • eastern featherbells Stenanthium gramineum
  • eastern milkpea Galactia regularis
  • ebony spleenwort Asplenium platyneuron
  • Elliott's bentgrass Agrostis elliottiana
  • fan clubmoss Lycopodium digitatum
  • fox grape Vitis labrusca
  • Maryland goldenaster Chrysopsis mariana
  • meadow spikemoss Selaginella apoda
  • Michaux's croton Croton michauxii
  • netted chainfern Woodwardia areolata
  • northern selaginella Selaginella rupestris
  • prostrate blue violet Viola walteri
  • rabbit-tobacco Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium
  • racemed milkwort Polygala polygama
  • rusty blackhaw Viburnum rufidulum
  • sensitive fern Onoclea sensibilis
  • silver plumegrass Saccharum alopecuroides
  • silvery everlasting Gamochaeta argyrinea
  • smallflower phacelia Phacelia dubia
  • southern woodland violet Viola hirsutula
  • spotted water hemlock Cicuta maculata
  • spurred butterfly pea Centrosema virginianum
  • St. Andrew's cross Hypericum hypericoides
  • thin paspalum Paspalum setaceum
  • Virginia strawberry Fragaria virginiana
  • walking fern Asplenium rhizophyllum
  • white colicroot Aletris farinosa
  • whorled marshpennywort Hydrocotyle verticillata
  • woolly ragwort Packera tomentosa

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, Coweta County and Georgia
MeasureCoweta CountyTypical countyStatewide
Native species 55 129 1,750
Garden-ready natives 17 58 608
Tree 6 — 202
Shrub 2 — 91
Wildflower (forb) 22 — 908
Grass or grass-like 3 — 403
Vine 9 — 78
Fern 13 — 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
Coweta County (county FIPS 13077), Georgia. 55 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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