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Native plants of Dodge County

98 plant species are recorded as native to Georgia in Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS, and recorded in Dodge County by USDA PLANTS. 49 of them have growing records you can filter by light, moisture, height and estimated cold hardiness.

County summary · USDA PLANTS and Kew WCVP

Dodge County, Georgia

Native species
98 Typical Georgia county: 129 (median of 159 counties)
Garden-ready natives
49 Typical Georgia county: 58
Share by type (all 98 native species)
Percent of the 98 native species in each growth type
Tree 26% (25)
Shrub 14% (14)
Wildflower (forb) 41% (40)
Grass or grass-like 8% (8)
Vine 5% (5)
Fern 6% (6)

Wildflowers make up the largest share of the native list (41%), followed by trees (26%).

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 49

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

Garden-ready native plants of Dodge County, Georgia
PlantType HeightLight Water useHardy to
American snowbell Styrax americanus Tree 10 ft Sun–part shade — Zone 5b
American wisteria Wisteria frutescens Vine 50 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 7a
bald cypress Taxodium distichum Tree 130 ft Sun–part shade High 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
blackgum Nyssa sylvatica Tree 95 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 5b
blackhaw Viburnum prunifolium Tree 16 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 4a
blackjack oak Quercus marilandica Tree 25 ft Sun Low Zone 6a
bluntleaf bedstraw Galium obtusum Wildflower (forb) 1.5 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 4a
butterweed Packera glabella Wildflower (forb) 3.2 ft Sun High Zone 10b
Carolina ash Fraxinus caroliniana Tree 39 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 7b
Chickasaw plum Prunus angustifolia Tree 12 ft Sun Medium Zone 4b
cinnamon fern Osmunda cinnamomea Fern 4.9 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 4a
common rush Juncus effusus Grass or grass-like 6.6 ft Sun Medium Zone 3b
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
gray goldenrod Solidago nemoralis Wildflower (forb) 2 ft Sun Medium Zone 4a
graybark grape Vitis cinerea Vine 50 ft Sun–part shade Medium Zone 6b
highbush blueberry Vaccinium corymbosum Shrub 12 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 4a
inkberry Ilex glabra Shrub 8 ft Sun High Zone 6a
Jack in the pulpit Arisaema triphyllum Wildflower (forb) 1.5 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 5b
laurel oak Quercus laurifolia Tree 70 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 7a
maleberry Lyonia ligustrina Shrub 9 ft Shade-tolerant — Zone 5a
needleleaf rosette grass Dichanthelium aciculare Grass or grass-like 1.6 ft Sun–part shade Low Zone 7b
New Jersey tea Ceanothus americanus Shrub 3 ft Shade-tolerant Low Zone 4b
orangegrass Hypericum gentianoides Wildflower (forb) 2 ft Sun–part shade Low Zone 12a
pond cypress Taxodium ascendens Tree 100 ft Sun–part shade High Zone 8a
possumhaw Ilex decidua Tree 33 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 5b
post oak Quercus stellata Tree 60 ft Sun Medium Zone 4a
prairie fleabane Erigeron strigosus Wildflower (forb) 3 ft Sun Medium Zone 4b
red chokeberry Aronia arbutifolia Shrub 5 ft Sun High Zone 5b
redbay Persea borbonia Tree 70 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 8a
sawtooth blackberry Rubus argutus Shrub 8.2 ft Sun Medium Zone 6a
small-leaf arrowwood Viburnum obovatum Tree 12 ft Sun–part shade — Zone 7b
southern bayberry Morella caroliniensis Tree 7 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 6a
spruce pine Pinus glabra Tree 90 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 7a
stiff dogwood Cornus foemina Tree 16 ft Sun–part shade Medium Zone 7a
sugarberry Celtis laevigata Tree 80 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 5a
swamp azalea Rhododendron viscosum Shrub 16 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 5b
swamp doghobble Eubotrys racemosus Shrub 13 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 4a
swamp titi Cyrilla racemiflora Tree 30 ft Shade-tolerant — Zone 6b
tuliptree Liriodendron tulipifera Tree 120 ft Sun Medium Zone 5b
turkey oak Quercus laevis Tree 40 ft Sun Medium Zone 7a
two-wing silverbell Halesia diptera Tree 15 ft Sun–part shade — Zone 8a
Virginia sweetspire Itea virginica Shrub 10 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 5a
water oak Quercus nigra Tree 90 ft Sun High Zone 5a
water tupelo Nyssa aquatica Tree 100 ft Sun High Zone 5a
winged elm Ulmus alata Tree 65 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 5b

Other native species recorded here 49

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
  • annual ragweed Ambrosia artemisiifolia
  • button eryngo Eryngium yuccifolium
  • coastal false asphodel Triantha racemosa
  • common cinquefoil Potentilla simplex
  • crossvine Bignonia capreolata
  • fairywand Chamaelirium luteum
  • field pansy Viola bicolor
  • Florida paspalum Paspalum floridanum
  • giant sedge Carex gigantea
  • grassy arrowhead Sagittaria graminea
  • greenvein lady's tresses Spiranthes praecox
  • hairy bedstraw Galium pilosum
  • hairy fimbry Fimbristylis puberula
  • hairyfruit chervil Chaerophyllum tainturieri
  • helmet flower Scutellaria integrifolia
  • juniper leaf Polypremum procumbens
  • largebracted plantain Plantago aristata
  • marsh rose gentian Sabatia dodecandra
  • netted chainfern Woodwardia areolata
  • Nuttall's milkwort Polygala nuttallii
  • piedmont staggerbush Lyonia mariana
  • pink bogbutton Sclerolepis uniflora
  • plains snakecotton Froelichia floridana
  • poorjoe Diodia teres
  • procession flower Polygala incarnata
  • queen's-delight Stillingia sylvatica
  • queendevil Hieracium gronovii
  • rabbit-tobacco Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium
  • roundseed panicgrass Dichanthelium sphaerocarpon
  • seaside threeawn Aristida tuberculosa
  • sensitive fern Onoclea sensibilis
  • sleepy silene Silene antirrhina
  • slender yellow woodsorrel Oxalis dillenii
  • Small's ragwort Packera anonyma
  • sparselobe grapefern Botrychium biternatum
  • spindleroot Ludwigia hirtella
  • spoonleaf purple everlasting Gamochaeta purpurea
  • swamp leather flower Clematis crispa
  • thin paspalum Paspalum setaceum
  • Virginia chainfern Woodwardia virginica
  • Virginia dwarfdandelion Krigia virginica
  • Virginia plantain Plantago virginica
  • Virginia tephrosia Tephrosia virginiana
  • white blue-eyed grass Sisyrinchium albidum
  • white colicroot Aletris farinosa
  • white wild indigo Baptisia alba
  • woolly lipfern Cheilanthes tomentosa
  • yellow thistle Cirsium horridulum

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, Dodge County and Georgia
MeasureDodge CountyTypical countyStatewide
Native species 98 129 1,750
Garden-ready natives 49 58 608
Tree 25 — 202
Shrub 14 — 91
Wildflower (forb) 40 — 908
Grass or grass-like 8 — 403
Vine 5 — 78
Fern 6 — 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
Dodge County (county FIPS 13091), Georgia. 98 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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