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Native plants of Taliaferro County

44 plant species are recorded as native to Georgia in Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS, and recorded in Taliaferro County by USDA PLANTS. 20 of them have growing records you can filter by light, moisture, height and estimated cold hardiness.

County summary · USDA PLANTS and Kew WCVP

Taliaferro County, Georgia

PLANTS records only 20 garden-ready natives here (under 30). County records are thin in some places; the Georgia list is a useful second check.

Native species
44 Typical Georgia county: 129 (median of 159 counties)
Garden-ready natives
20 Typical Georgia county: 58
Share by type (all 44 native species)
Percent of the 44 native species in each growth type
Tree 25% (11)
Shrub 2% (1)
Wildflower (forb) 36% (16)
Grass or grass-like 18% (8)
Vine 7% (3)
Fern 11% (5)

Wildflowers make up the largest share of the native list (36%), followed by trees (25%).

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 20

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

Garden-ready native plants of Taliaferro County, Georgia
PlantType HeightLight Water useHardy to
American chestnut Castanea dentata Tree 115 ft Sun Medium Zone 4a
blackjack oak Quercus marilandica Tree 25 ft Sun Low Zone 6a
Carolina buckthorn Frangula caroliniana Tree 20 ft Shade-tolerant — Zone 4b
cinnamon fern Osmunda cinnamomea Fern 4.9 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 4a
common buttonbush Cephalanthus occidentalis Tree 15 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 4a
crimsoneyed rosemallow Hibiscus moscheutos Wildflower (forb) 6.6 ft Sun High Zone 6a
cucumber tree Magnolia acuminata Tree 100 ft Sun–part shade High Zone 5b
eastern gamagrass Tripsacum dactyloides Grass or grass-like 5 ft Sun High Zone 5a
Frank's sedge Carex frankii Grass or grass-like 2 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 5a
graybark grape Vitis cinerea Vine 50 ft Sun–part shade Medium Zone 6b
green ash Fraxinus pennsylvanica Tree 80 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 2b
pawpaw Asimina triloba Tree 25 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 4b
prairie wedgescale Sphenopholis obtusata Grass or grass-like 3.2 ft Sun–part shade Medium Zone 3a
silky dogwood Cornus amomum Shrub 10 ft Sun–part shade High Zone 3b
slippery elm Ulmus rubra Tree 85 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 3a
two-wing silverbell Halesia diptera Tree 15 ft Sun–part shade — Zone 8a
Virginia wildrye Elymus virginicus Grass or grass-like 2.5 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 4b
water oak Quercus nigra Tree 90 ft Sun High Zone 5a
whitegrass Leersia virginica Grass or grass-like 3.9 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 3a
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.

  • beaked panicgrass Panicum anceps
  • Bosc's panicgrass Dichanthelium boscii
  • button eryngo Eryngium yuccifolium
  • cutleaf grapefern Botrychium dissectum
  • downy yellow false foxglove Aureolaria virginica
  • eastern bluestar Amsonia tabernaemontana
  • eastern milkpea Galactia regularis
  • fan clubmoss Lycopodium digitatum
  • gaping grass Steinchisma hians
  • hairy angelica Angelica venenosa
  • hairy bedstraw Galium pilosum
  • nakedflower ticktrefoil Desmodium nudiflorum
  • netted chainfern Woodwardia areolata
  • procession flower Polygala incarnata
  • rosepink Sabatia angularis
  • roundleaf thoroughwort Eupatorium rotundifolium
  • sensitive fern Onoclea sensibilis
  • sidebeak pencilflower Stylosanthes biflora
  • spotted water hemlock Cicuta maculata
  • spurred butterfly pea Centrosema virginianum
  • twining snoutbean Rhynchosia tomentosa
  • Virginia buttonweed Diodia virginiana
  • white vervain Verbena urticifolia
  • white wild indigo Baptisia alba

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, Taliaferro County and Georgia
MeasureTaliaferro CountyTypical countyStatewide
Native species 44 129 1,750
Garden-ready natives 20 58 608
Tree 11 — 202
Shrub 1 — 91
Wildflower (forb) 16 — 908
Grass or grass-like 8 — 403
Vine 3 — 78
Fern 5 — 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
Taliaferro County (county FIPS 13265), Georgia. 44 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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