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Native plants of Stewart County

37 plant species are recorded as native to Georgia in Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS, and recorded in Stewart County by USDA PLANTS. 21 of them have growing records you can filter by light, moisture, height and estimated cold hardiness.

County summary · USDA PLANTS and Kew WCVP

Stewart County, Georgia

PLANTS records only 21 garden-ready natives here (under 30). County records are thin in some places; the Georgia list is a useful second check.

Native species
37 Typical Georgia county: 129 (median of 159 counties)
Garden-ready natives
21 Typical Georgia county: 58
Share by type (all 37 native species)
Percent of the 37 native species in each growth type
Tree 24% (9)
Wildflower (forb) 22% (8)
Grass or grass-like 8% (3)
Vine 30% (11)
Fern 16% (6)

Vines make up the largest share of the native list (30%), followed by trees (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 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 21

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

Garden-ready native plants of Stewart County, Georgia
PlantType HeightLight Water useHardy to
blackjack oak Quercus marilandica Tree 25 ft Sun Low Zone 6a
chestnut oak Quercus montana Tree 73 ft Sun–part shade Medium Zone 4a
cinnamon fern Osmunda cinnamomea Fern 4.9 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 4a
common goldstar Hypoxis hirsuta Wildflower (forb) 10 in Sun–part shade Medium Zone 4a
coral greenbrier Smilax walteri Vine 1 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 6b
farkleberry Vaccinium arboreum Tree 28 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 6a
frost grape Vitis vulpina Vine 83 ft Sun–part shade Medium Zone 5a
hairy white oldfield aster Symphyotrichum pilosum Wildflower (forb) 3 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 4a
heartleaf peppervine Ampelopsis cordata Vine 2 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 6b
Indian woodoats Chasmanthium latifolium Grass or grass-like 4.6 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 4a
lanceleaf greenbrier Smilax smallii Vine 1 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 6b
longleaf pine Pinus palustris Tree 120 ft Sun Medium Zone 7a
longleaf woodoats Chasmanthium sessiliflorum Grass or grass-like 5 ft Sun Medium Zone 7a
muscadine Vitis rotundifolia Vine 30 ft Sun–part shade Medium Zone 5b
peppervine Nekemias arborea Vine 1 in Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 6a
spruce pine Pinus glabra Tree 90 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 7a
trumpet creeper Campsis radicans Vine 2 ft Sun Low Zone 6a
turkey oak Quercus laevis Tree 40 ft Sun Medium Zone 7a
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 16

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
  • azure blue sage Salvia azurea
  • Carolina coralbead Cocculus carolinus
  • Christmas fern Polystichum acrostichoides
  • downy lobelia Lobelia puberula
  • eastern poison ivy Toxicodendron radicans
  • ebony spleenwort Asplenium platyneuron
  • giant ironweed Vernonia gigantea
  • netted chainfern Woodwardia areolata
  • reflexed sedge Carex retroflexa
  • roundleaf thoroughwort Eupatorium rotundifolium
  • rusty blackhaw Viburnum rufidulum
  • sensitive fern Onoclea sensibilis
  • Small's yelloweyed grass Xyris smalliana
  • sorrelvine Cissus trifoliata
  • 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, Stewart County and Georgia
MeasureStewart CountyTypical countyStatewide
Native species 37 129 1,750
Garden-ready natives 21 58 608
Tree 9 — 202
Shrub 0 — 91
Wildflower (forb) 8 — 908
Grass or grass-like 3 — 403
Vine 11 — 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
Stewart County (county FIPS 13259), Georgia. 37 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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