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Native plants of Dooly County

75 plant species are recorded as native to Georgia in Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS, and recorded in Dooly County by USDA PLANTS. 39 of them have growing records you can filter by light, moisture, height and estimated cold hardiness.

County summary · USDA PLANTS and Kew WCVP

Dooly County, Georgia

Native species
75 Typical Georgia county: 129 (median of 159 counties)
Garden-ready natives
39 Typical Georgia county: 58
Share by type (all 75 native species)
Percent of the 75 native species in each growth type
Tree 17% (13)
Shrub 4% (3)
Wildflower (forb) 52% (39)
Grass or grass-like 17% (13)
Vine 8% (6)
Fern 1% (1)

Wildflowers make up the largest share of the native list (52%), followed by trees (17%).

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 39

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

Garden-ready native plants of Dooly County, Georgia
PlantType HeightLight Water useHardy to
American basswood Tilia americana Tree 100 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 2b
American pokeweed Phytolacca americana Wildflower (forb) 7.3 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 4a
bigleaf snowbell Styrax grandifolius Tree 10 ft Sun–part shade — Zone 4b
brownseed paspalum Paspalum plicatulum Grass or grass-like 3.3 ft Sun–part shade Low Zone 8a
buckthorn bully Sideroxylon lycioides Tree 9.8 ft Shade-tolerant Low Zone 4b
calico aster Symphyotrichum lateriflorum Wildflower (forb) 4 ft Sun Medium Zone 4a
Canadian horseweed Conyza canadensis Wildflower (forb) 5 ft Sun Medium Zone 12b
Carolina rose Rosa carolina Shrub 5 ft Sun–part shade Low Zone 3a
cat greenbrier Smilax glauca Vine 1 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 6a
comfortroot Hibiscus aculeatus Wildflower (forb) 3 ft Sun Medium Zone 8b
common evening primrose Oenothera biennis Wildflower (forb) 5 ft Sun Medium Zone 4b
common sneezeweed Helenium autumnale Wildflower (forb) 4.9 ft Sun Medium Zone 3a
farkleberry Vaccinium arboreum Tree 28 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 6a
giant goldenrod Solidago gigantea Wildflower (forb) 8.2 ft Sun–part shade Medium Zone 4a
golden crownbeard Verbesina encelioides Wildflower (forb) 2 ft Sun Medium Zone 5a
groundnut Apios americana Vine 1 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 5a
hairawn muhly Muhlenbergia capillaris Grass or grass-like 3 ft Sun High Zone 8a
halberdleaf rosemallow Hibiscus laevis Wildflower (forb) 8 ft Sun–part shade High Zone 6a
lanceleaf greenbrier Smilax smallii Vine 1 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 6b
laurel oak Quercus laurifolia Tree 70 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 7a
little bluestem Schizachyrium scoparium Grass or grass-like 3 ft Sun Low Zone 3b
mockernut hickory Carya tomentosa Tree 85 ft Sun–part shade Medium Zone 4a
orangegrass Hypericum gentianoides Wildflower (forb) 2 ft Sun–part shade Low Zone 12a
pignut hickory Carya glabra Tree 80 ft Sun–part shade Medium Zone 4a
possumhaw Ilex decidua Tree 33 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 5b
prairie fleabane Erigeron strigosus Wildflower (forb) 3 ft Sun Medium Zone 4b
redtop panicgrass Panicum rigidulum Grass or grass-like 3.3 ft Sun High Zone 4a
river birch Betula nigra Tree 70 ft Sun High Zone 4a
saw greenbrier Smilax bona-nox Vine 4 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 5b
shallow sedge Carex lurida Grass or grass-like 3.2 ft Sun–part shade Medium Zone 4a
small beggarticks Bidens discoidea Wildflower (forb) 5.2 ft Sun–part shade High Zone 12b
small-leaf arrowwood Viburnum obovatum Tree 12 ft Sun–part shade — Zone 7b
southern sugar maple Acer floridanum Tree 50 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 5b
southern waxy sedge Carex glaucescens Grass or grass-like 4.9 ft Sun–part shade High Zone 6a
stiff dogwood Cornus foemina Tree 16 ft Sun–part shade Medium Zone 7a
swamp sunflower Helianthus angustifolius Wildflower (forb) 5.6 ft Sun–part shade Medium Zone 4b
teal lovegrass Eragrostis hypnoides Grass or grass-like 4 in Sun High Zone 3b
white fringetree Chionanthus virginicus Tree 25 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 4a
wrinkled jointtail grass Coelorachis rugosa Grass or grass-like 2 ft Sun–part shade Medium Zone 6b

Other native species recorded here 36

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.

  • American white waterlily Nymphaea odorata
  • beach false foxglove Agalinis fasciculata
  • bog yelloweyed grass Xyris difformis
  • Carolina puccoon Lithospermum caroliniense
  • coastal false asphodel Triantha racemosa
  • combleaf mermaidweed Proserpinaca pectinata
  • common carpetgrass Axonopus fissifolius
  • eastern blue-eyed grass Sisyrinchium atlanticum
  • erect centella Centella erecta
  • false flowering spurge Euphorbia pubentissima
  • fewflower milkweed Asclepias lanceolata
  • Florida paspalum Paspalum floridanum
  • fragrant sumac Rhus aromatica
  • gaping grass Steinchisma hians
  • globefruit primrose-willow Ludwigia sphaerocarpa
  • hairy clustervine Jacquemontia tamnifolia
  • handsome Harry Rhexia virginica
  • juniper leaf Polypremum procumbens
  • longleaf milkweed Asclepias longifolia
  • Michaux's croton Croton michauxii
  • narrowleaf lespedeza Lespedeza angustifolia
  • narrowleaf primrose-willow Ludwigia linearis
  • obedient plant Physostegia virginiana
  • pine barren flatsedge Cyperus retrorsus
  • rice button aster Symphyotrichum dumosum
  • sensitive fern Onoclea sensibilis
  • small woodland sunflower Helianthus microcephalus
  • Small's ragwort Packera anonyma
  • Spanish needles Bidens bipinnata
  • St. Andrew's cross Hypericum hypericoides
  • stinking camphorweed Pluchea foetida
  • swamp leather flower Clematis crispa
  • thin paspalum Paspalum setaceum
  • Virginia buttonweed Diodia virginiana
  • Virginia pepperweed Lepidium virginicum
  • Virginia tephrosia Tephrosia virginiana

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, Dooly County and Georgia
MeasureDooly CountyTypical countyStatewide
Native species 75 129 1,750
Garden-ready natives 39 58 608
Tree 13 — 202
Shrub 3 — 91
Wildflower (forb) 39 — 908
Grass or grass-like 13 — 403
Vine 6 — 78
Fern 1 — 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
Dooly County (county FIPS 13093), Georgia. 75 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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