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Native plants of Crawford County

46 plant species are recorded as native to Georgia in Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS, and recorded in Crawford County by USDA PLANTS. 22 of them have growing records you can filter by light, moisture, height and estimated cold hardiness.

County summary · USDA PLANTS and Kew WCVP

Crawford County, Georgia

PLANTS records only 22 garden-ready natives here (under 30). County records are thin in some places; the Georgia list is a useful second check.

Native species
46 Typical Georgia county: 129 (median of 159 counties)
Garden-ready natives
22 Typical Georgia county: 58
Share by type (all 46 native species)
Percent of the 46 native species in each growth type
Tree 30% (14)
Shrub 9% (4)
Wildflower (forb) 30% (14)
Grass or grass-like 11% (5)
Vine 9% (4)
Fern 11% (5)

Trees make up the largest share of the native list (30%), followed by wildflowers (30%).

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

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

Garden-ready natives 22

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

Garden-ready native plants of Crawford County, Georgia
PlantType HeightLight Water useHardy to
bitternut hickory Carya cordiformis Tree 75 ft Sun Medium Zone 2b
blackjack oak Quercus marilandica Tree 25 ft Sun Low Zone 6a
blunt broom sedge Carex tribuloides Grass or grass-like 3 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 4b
cherrybark oak Quercus pagoda Tree 120 ft Sun Medium Zone 6b
cinnamon fern Osmunda cinnamomea Fern 4.9 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 4a
common persimmon Diospyros virginiana Tree 55 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 5a
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
green ash Fraxinus pennsylvanica Tree 80 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 2b
hairy white oldfield aster Symphyotrichum pilosum Wildflower (forb) 3 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 4a
pignut hickory Carya glabra Tree 80 ft Sun–part shade Medium Zone 4a
red buckeye Aesculus pavia Tree 25 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 5a
roundleaf greenbrier Smilax rotundifolia Vine 1 ft Sun Medium Zone 4a
saw greenbrier Smilax bona-nox Vine 4 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 5b
shagbark hickory Carya ovata Tree 75 ft Sun–part shade Medium Zone 3a
Shumard's oak Quercus shumardii Tree 100 ft Sun Medium Zone 5a
slender woodoats Chasmanthium laxum Grass or grass-like 3.3 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 4a
sugarberry Celtis laevigata Tree 80 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 5a
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
willow oak Quercus phellos Tree 100 ft Sun High Zone 5a

Other native species recorded here 24

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
  • Alabama supplejack Berchemia scandens
  • awl-leaf arrowhead Sagittaria subulata
  • birdfoot violet Viola pedata
  • bloodroot Sanguinaria canadensis
  • bluntlobe cliff fern Woodsia obtusa
  • cankerweed Prenanthes serpentaria
  • Carolina puccoon Lithospermum caroliniense
  • cedarglade St. Johnswort Hypericum frondosum
  • Christmas fern Polystichum acrostichoides
  • cutleaf evening primrose Oenothera laciniata
  • diamond-flowers Stenaria nigricans
  • ebony spleenwort Asplenium platyneuron
  • Florida paspalum Paspalum floridanum
  • largebracted plantain Plantago aristata
  • netted chainfern Woodwardia areolata
  • sharpscale sedge Carex oxylepis
  • sidebeak pencilflower Stylosanthes biflora
  • slender woodland sedge Carex digitalis
  • St. Andrew's cross Hypericum hypericoides
  • starry rosinweed Silphium asteriscus
  • twoleaf watermilfoil Myriophyllum heterophyllum
  • Virginia plantain Plantago virginica
  • Wright's plantain Plantago wrightiana

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, Crawford County and Georgia
MeasureCrawford CountyTypical countyStatewide
Native species 46 129 1,750
Garden-ready natives 22 58 608
Tree 14 — 202
Shrub 4 — 91
Wildflower (forb) 14 — 908
Grass or grass-like 5 — 403
Vine 4 — 78
Fern 5 — 68

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Counties that share a ZIP code with Crawford County.

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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
Crawford County (county FIPS 13079), Georgia. 46 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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