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Native plants of Peach County

49 plant species are recorded as native to Georgia in Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS, and recorded in Peach County by USDA PLANTS. 27 of them have growing records you can filter by light, moisture, height and estimated cold hardiness.

County summary · USDA PLANTS and Kew WCVP

Peach County, Georgia

PLANTS records only 27 garden-ready natives here (under 30). County records are thin in some places; the Georgia list is a useful second check.

Native species
49 Typical Georgia county: 129 (median of 159 counties)
Garden-ready natives
27 Typical Georgia county: 58
Share by type (all 49 native species)
Percent of the 49 native species in each growth type
Tree 20% (10)
Shrub 10% (5)
Wildflower (forb) 20% (10)
Grass or grass-like 24% (12)
Vine 14% (7)
Fern 10% (5)

Grasses and grass-like plants make up the largest share of the native list (24%), followed by trees (20%).

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 27

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

Garden-ready native plants of Peach County, Georgia
PlantType HeightLight Water useHardy to
blackjack oak Quercus marilandica Tree 25 ft Sun Low Zone 6a
Canadian horseweed Conyza canadensis Wildflower (forb) 5 ft Sun Medium Zone 12b
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
coral greenbrier Smilax walteri Vine 1 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 6b
deerberry Vaccinium stamineum Shrub 16 ft Shade-tolerant Low Zone 5a
eggleaf rosette grass Dichanthelium ovale Grass or grass-like 1.7 ft Shade-tolerant Low Zone 6a
fringed sedge Carex crinita Grass or grass-like 5.2 ft Sun–part shade Medium Zone 4a
greenwhite sedge Carex albolutescens Grass or grass-like 3.9 ft Sun–part shade Medium Zone 3b
hairy white oldfield aster Symphyotrichum pilosum Wildflower (forb) 3 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 4a
highbush blueberry Vaccinium corymbosum Shrub 12 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 4a
knotgrass Paspalum distichum Grass or grass-like 11 in Sun High Zone 6a
laurel oak Quercus laurifolia Tree 70 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 7a
muscadine Vitis rotundifolia Vine 30 ft Sun–part shade Medium Zone 5b
needleleaf rosette grass Dichanthelium aciculare Grass or grass-like 1.6 ft Sun–part shade Low Zone 7b
northern maidenhair Adiantum pedatum Fern 1.3 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 3b
roundleaf greenbrier Smilax rotundifolia Vine 1 ft Sun Medium 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
slender woodoats Chasmanthium laxum Grass or grass-like 3.3 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 4a
southern catalpa Catalpa bignonioides Tree 66 ft Sun–part shade Low Zone 5b
southern red oak Quercus falcata Tree 75 ft Sun–part shade Medium Zone 6a
sugarberry Celtis laevigata Tree 80 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 5a
swamp titi Cyrilla racemiflora Tree 30 ft Shade-tolerant — Zone 6b
turkey oak Quercus laevis Tree 40 ft Sun Medium Zone 7a
water oak Quercus nigra Tree 90 ft Sun High Zone 5a
winged sumac Rhus copallinum Tree 8 ft Sun Low Zone 4b

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
  • Atlantic poison oak Toxicodendron pubescens
  • beach false foxglove Agalinis fasciculata
  • broad beechfern Phegopteris hexagonoptera
  • camphorweed Heterotheca subaxillaris
  • downy danthonia Danthonia sericea
  • dwarf hawthorn Crataegus uniflora
  • eastern poison ivy Toxicodendron radicans
  • eastern sweetshrub Calycanthus floridus
  • ebony spleenwort Asplenium platyneuron
  • Florida paspalum Paspalum floridanum
  • Heller's rosette grass Dichanthelium oligosanthes
  • lesser snakeroot Ageratina aromatica
  • northern long sedge Carex folliculata
  • racemed milkwort Polygala polygama
  • rough Mexican clover Richardia scabra
  • roughfruit scaleseed Spermolepis divaricata
  • sneezeweed Helenium amarum
  • southern jointweed Polygonella americana
  • spurred butterfly pea Centrosema virginianum
  • thin paspalum Paspalum setaceum
  • yankeeweed Eupatorium compositifolium

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, Peach County and Georgia
MeasurePeach CountyTypical countyStatewide
Native species 49 129 1,750
Garden-ready natives 27 58 608
Tree 10 — 202
Shrub 5 — 91
Wildflower (forb) 10 — 908
Grass or grass-like 12 — 403
Vine 7 — 78
Fern 5 — 68

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Counties that share a ZIP code with Peach 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
Peach County (county FIPS 13225), Georgia. 49 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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