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Native plants of Wheeler County

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

County summary · USDA PLANTS and Kew WCVP

Wheeler County, Georgia

Native species
62 Typical Georgia county: 129 (median of 159 counties)
Garden-ready natives
37 Typical Georgia county: 58
Share by type (all 62 native species)
Percent of the 62 native species in each growth type
Tree 35% (22)
Shrub 11% (7)
Wildflower (forb) 32% (20)
Grass or grass-like 13% (8)
Vine 2% (1)
Fern 6% (4)

Trees make up the largest share of the native list (35%), followed by wildflowers (32%).

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 37

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

Garden-ready native plants of Wheeler County, Georgia
PlantType HeightLight Water useHardy to
American witchhazel Hamamelis virginiana Tree 20 ft Sun–part shade Medium Zone 4b
bedstraw St. Johnswort Hypericum galioides Shrub 2.5 ft Sun High Zone 7a
black willow Salix nigra Tree 100 ft Sun High Zone 1b
blackjack oak Quercus marilandica Tree 25 ft Sun Low Zone 6a
butterfly milkweed Asclepias tuberosa Wildflower (forb) 2 ft Sun Low Zone 4a
cinnamon fern Osmunda cinnamomea Fern 4.9 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 4a
comfortroot Hibiscus aculeatus Wildflower (forb) 3 ft Sun Medium Zone 8b
eggleaf rosette grass Dichanthelium ovale Grass or grass-like 1.7 ft Shade-tolerant Low Zone 6a
farkleberry Vaccinium arboreum Tree 28 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 6a
inkberry Ilex glabra Shrub 8 ft Sun High Zone 6a
loblolly bay Gordonia lasianthus Tree 65 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 7a
loblolly pine Pinus taeda Tree 100 ft Sun High Zone 6b
longleaf pine Pinus palustris Tree 120 ft Sun Medium Zone 7a
mockernut hickory Carya tomentosa Tree 85 ft Sun–part shade Medium Zone 4a
parsley hawthorn Crataegus marshallii Tree 25 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 7a
partridge pea Chamaecrista fasciculata Wildflower (forb) 2.4 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 7a
red buckeye Aesculus pavia Tree 25 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 5a
red maple Acer rubrum Tree 68 ft Sun–part shade High Zone 2b
redbay Persea borbonia Tree 70 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 8a
saw palmetto Serenoa repens Tree 7 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 8a
sawtooth blackberry Rubus argutus Shrub 8.2 ft Sun Medium Zone 6a
slender little bluestem Schizachyrium tenerum Grass or grass-like 3 ft Sun Medium Zone 8b
southern magnolia Magnolia grandiflora Tree 100 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 8a
southern waxy sedge Carex glaucescens Grass or grass-like 4.9 ft Sun–part shade High Zone 6a
spruce pine Pinus glabra Tree 90 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 7a
swamp azalea Rhododendron viscosum Shrub 16 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 5b
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
tenangle pipewort Eriocaulon decangulare Wildflower (forb) 2.6 ft Sun Medium Zone 6b
trumpet honeysuckle Lonicera sempervirens Vine 16 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 4a
turkey oak Quercus laevis Tree 40 ft Sun Medium Zone 7a
velvet panicum Dichanthelium scoparium Grass or grass-like 4.3 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 3b
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
woolly rosette grass Dichanthelium scabriusculum Grass or grass-like 2.5 ft Sun–part shade Medium Zone 7a

Other native species recorded here 25

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
  • blood panicgrass Dichanthelium consanguineum
  • Carolina geranium Geranium carolinianum
  • coastal plain blue-eyed grass Sisyrinchium fuscatum
  • combleaf yellow false foxglove Aureolaria pectinata
  • cypress panicgrass Dichanthelium dichotomum
  • drumheads Polygala cruciata
  • foxtail clubmoss Lycopodiella alopecuroides
  • fringed yelloweyed grass Xyris fimbriata
  • gum bully Sideroxylon lanuginosum
  • hairyfruit chervil Chaerophyllum tainturieri
  • humped bladderwort Utricularia gibba
  • piedmont staggerbush Lyonia mariana
  • pink sundew Drosera capillaris
  • queen's-delight Stillingia sylvatica
  • Richard's yelloweyed grass Xyris jupicai
  • roundleaf thoroughwort Eupatorium rotundifolium
  • shiny coneflower Rudbeckia nitida
  • slender clubmoss Lycopodiella caroliniana
  • slender rose gentian Sabatia campanulata
  • St. Andrew's cross Hypericum hypericoides
  • sundial lupine Lupinus perennis
  • thin paspalum Paspalum setaceum
  • Virginia tephrosia Tephrosia virginiana
  • Wright's plantain Plantago wrightiana

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, Wheeler County and Georgia
MeasureWheeler CountyTypical countyStatewide
Native species 62 129 1,750
Garden-ready natives 37 58 608
Tree 22 — 202
Shrub 7 — 91
Wildflower (forb) 20 — 908
Grass or grass-like 8 — 403
Vine 1 — 78
Fern 4 — 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
Wheeler County (county FIPS 13309), Georgia. 62 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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