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Native plants of Telfair County

82 plant species are recorded as native to Georgia in Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS, and recorded in Telfair County by USDA PLANTS. 50 of them have growing records you can filter by light, moisture, height and estimated cold hardiness.

County summary · USDA PLANTS and Kew WCVP

Telfair County, Georgia

Native species
82 Typical Georgia county: 129 (median of 159 counties)
Garden-ready natives
50 Typical Georgia county: 58
Share by type (all 82 native species)
Percent of the 82 native species in each growth type
Tree 34% (28)
Shrub 21% (17)
Wildflower (forb) 30% (25)
Grass or grass-like 5% (4)
Vine 4% (3)
Fern 6% (5)

Trees make up the largest share of the native list (34%), followed by wildflowers (30%).

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 50

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

Garden-ready native plants of Telfair County, Georgia
PlantType HeightLight Water useHardy to
American snowbell Styrax americanus Tree 10 ft Sun–part shade — Zone 5b
American witchhazel Hamamelis virginiana Tree 20 ft Sun–part shade Medium Zone 4b
blackgum Nyssa sylvatica Tree 95 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 5b
blackjack oak Quercus marilandica Tree 25 ft Sun Low Zone 6a
brownseed paspalum Paspalum plicatulum Grass or grass-like 3.3 ft Sun–part shade Low Zone 8a
Carolina redroot Lachnanthes caroliana Wildflower (forb) 3 ft Sun Medium Zone 8b
cinnamon fern Osmunda cinnamomea Fern 4.9 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 4a
coastal sweetpepperbush Clethra alnifolia Shrub 16 ft Sun–part shade High Zone 5a
common serviceberry Amelanchier arborea Tree 36 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 2b
common sweetleaf Symplocos tinctoria Tree 20 ft Shade-tolerant — Zone 5a
dwarf azalea Rhododendron atlanticum Shrub 2.3 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 8a
dwarf huckleberry Gaylussacia dumosa Shrub 1.4 ft Shade-tolerant Low Zone 5a
dwarf palmetto Sabal minor Tree 9 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 8a
eastern swampprivet Forestiera acuminata Tree 33 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 5b
farkleberry Vaccinium arboreum Tree 28 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 6a
fetterbush lyonia Lyonia lucida Shrub 6.6 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 7b
graybark grape Vitis cinerea Vine 50 ft Sun–part shade Medium Zone 6b
Gulf Sebastian-bush Ditrysinia fruticosa Shrub 12 ft Shade-tolerant Low Zone 5b
hairy white oldfield aster Symphyotrichum pilosum Wildflower (forb) 3 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 4a
hazel alder Alnus serrulata Tree 30 ft Sun High Zone 5a
highbush blueberry Vaccinium corymbosum Shrub 12 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 4a
horseflyweed Baptisia tinctoria Wildflower (forb) 2.5 ft Sun Low Zone 7b
inkberry Ilex glabra Shrub 8 ft Sun High Zone 6a
large gallberry Ilex coriacea Tree 12 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 8a
laurel oak Quercus laurifolia Tree 70 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 7a
maleberry Lyonia ligustrina Shrub 9 ft Shade-tolerant — Zone 5a
mountain azalea Rhododendron canescens Shrub 14 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 6a
New Jersey tea Ceanothus americanus Shrub 3 ft Shade-tolerant Low Zone 4b
Ogeechee tupelo Nyssa ogeche Tree 50 ft Sun High Zone 6b
pickerelweed Pontederia cordata Wildflower (forb) 3.2 ft Sun High Zone 5a
pink azalea Rhododendron periclymenoides Shrub 10 ft Shade-tolerant Low Zone 5b
possumhaw Viburnum nudum Tree 15 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 4a
red buckeye Aesculus pavia Tree 25 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 5a
red chokeberry Aronia arbutifolia Shrub 5 ft Sun High Zone 5b
red maple Acer rubrum Tree 68 ft Sun–part shade High Zone 2b
running oak Quercus pumila Shrub 3 ft Sun Low Zone 8b
sarvis holly Ilex amelanchier Tree 16 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 8b
southern bayberry Morella caroliniensis Tree 7 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 6a
St. Peterswort Hypericum crux-andreae Shrub 2 ft Sun–part shade Medium Zone 6b
swamp chestnut oak Quercus michauxii Tree 80 ft Sun Medium Zone 5a
swamp doghobble Eubotrys racemosus Shrub 13 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 4a
sweetbay Magnolia virginiana Tree 60 ft Sun–part shade High Zone 9a
three-way sedge Dulichium arundinaceum Grass or grass-like 2.6 ft Sun–part shade High Zone 3b
tuliptree Liriodendron tulipifera Tree 120 ft Sun Medium Zone 5b
turkey oak Quercus laevis Tree 40 ft Sun Medium Zone 7a
Virginia iris Iris virginica Wildflower (forb) 3.3 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 8b
water hickory Carya aquatica Tree 85 ft Sun–part shade Medium Zone 5b
water oak Quercus nigra Tree 90 ft Sun High Zone 5a
wax myrtle Morella cerifera Tree 10 ft Sun High Zone 7a
willow oak Quercus phellos Tree 100 ft Sun High Zone 5a

Other native species recorded here 32

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.

  • bog yelloweyed grass Xyris difformis
  • buffalo clover Trifolium reflexum
  • chinquapin Castanea pumila
  • crossvine Bignonia capreolata
  • Curtiss' milkwort Polygala curtissii
  • cutleaf watermilfoil Myriophyllum pinnatum
  • dwarf sundew Drosera brevifolia
  • ebony spleenwort Asplenium platyneuron
  • false flowering spurge Euphorbia pubentissima
  • foxtail clubmoss Lycopodiella alopecuroides
  • gum bully Sideroxylon lanuginosum
  • marsh rose gentian Sabatia dodecandra
  • netted chainfern Woodwardia areolata
  • piedmont staggerbush Lyonia mariana
  • pink bogbutton Sclerolepis uniflora
  • queen's-delight Stillingia sylvatica
  • rattlesnakeweed Hieracium venosum
  • shiny coneflower Rudbeckia nitida
  • snakemouth orchid Pogonia ophioglossoides
  • spindleroot Ludwigia hirtella
  • spurred butterfly pea Centrosema virginianum
  • St. Andrew's cross Hypericum hypericoides
  • sundial lupine Lupinus perennis
  • thin paspalum Paspalum setaceum
  • tuberous grasspink Calopogon tuberosus
  • Virginia chainfern Woodwardia virginica
  • Virginia marsh St. Johnswort Triadenum virginicum
  • Virginia tephrosia Tephrosia virginiana
  • white colicroot Aletris farinosa
  • white wild indigo Baptisia alba
  • Wright's rosette grass Dichanthelium wrightianum
  • zigzag bladderwort Utricularia subulata

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, Telfair County and Georgia
MeasureTelfair CountyTypical countyStatewide
Native species 82 129 1,750
Garden-ready natives 50 58 608
Tree 28 — 202
Shrub 17 — 91
Wildflower (forb) 25 — 908
Grass or grass-like 4 — 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
Telfair County (county FIPS 13271), Georgia. 82 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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