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Native plants of Wilkinson County

39 plant species are recorded as native to Georgia in Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS, and recorded in Wilkinson 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

Wilkinson 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
39 Typical Georgia county: 129 (median of 159 counties)
Garden-ready natives
21 Typical Georgia county: 58
Share by type (all 39 native species)
Percent of the 39 native species in each growth type
Tree 38% (15)
Shrub 3% (1)
Wildflower (forb) 23% (9)
Grass or grass-like 15% (6)
Vine 10% (4)
Fern 10% (4)

Trees make up the largest share of the native list (38%), followed by wildflowers (23%).

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 Wilkinson County, Georgia
PlantType HeightLight Water useHardy to
blackgum Nyssa sylvatica Tree 95 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 5b
blackhaw Viburnum prunifolium Tree 16 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 4a
blackjack oak Quercus marilandica Tree 25 ft Sun Low Zone 6a
butterfly milkweed Asclepias tuberosa Wildflower (forb) 2 ft Sun Low Zone 4a
Carolina ash Fraxinus caroliniana Tree 39 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 7b
Carolina buckthorn Frangula caroliniana Tree 20 ft Shade-tolerant — Zone 4b
cinnamon fern Osmunda cinnamomea Fern 4.9 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 4a
dwarf palmetto Sabal minor Tree 9 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 8a
eastern cottonwood Populus deltoides Tree 190 ft Sun High Zone 3a
greater bladder sedge Carex intumescens Grass or grass-like 3 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 4a
laurel oak Quercus laurifolia Tree 70 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 7a
lesser creeping rush Juncus repens Grass or grass-like 6.8 ft Sun High Zone 8b
pawpaw Asimina triloba Tree 25 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 4b
swamp loosestrife Decodon verticillatus Shrub 8 ft Sun–part shade High Zone 5a
turkey oak Quercus laevis Tree 40 ft Sun Medium Zone 7a
variable panicgrass Dichanthelium commutatum Grass or grass-like 4.9 ft Sun–part shade Low Zone 4b
Virginia iris Iris virginica Wildflower (forb) 3.3 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 8b
water oak Quercus nigra Tree 90 ft Sun High Zone 5a
water tupelo Nyssa aquatica Tree 100 ft Sun High Zone 5a
willow oak Quercus phellos Tree 100 ft Sun High Zone 5a
winter bentgrass Agrostis hyemalis Grass or grass-like 3.5 ft Sun–part shade High Zone 4a

Other native species recorded here 18

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.

  • Alabama supplejack Berchemia scandens
  • Atlantic pigeonwings Clitoria mariana
  • chinquapin Castanea pumila
  • crossvine Bignonia capreolata
  • cutleaf evening primrose Oenothera laciniata
  • downy pagoda-plant Blephilia ciliata
  • eastern milkpea Galactia regularis
  • green fringed orchid Platanthera lacera
  • lizard's tail Saururus cernuus
  • marsh mermaidweed Proserpinaca palustris
  • netted chainfern Woodwardia areolata
  • purple sandgrass Triplasis purpurea
  • rusty blackhaw Viburnum rufidulum
  • sensitive fern Onoclea sensibilis
  • sidebeak pencilflower Stylosanthes biflora
  • thin paspalum Paspalum setaceum
  • Virginia chainfern Woodwardia virginica
  • Virginia tephrosia Tephrosia virginiana

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, Wilkinson County and Georgia
MeasureWilkinson CountyTypical countyStatewide
Native species 39 129 1,750
Garden-ready natives 21 58 608
Tree 15 — 202
Shrub 1 — 91
Wildflower (forb) 9 — 908
Grass or grass-like 6 — 403
Vine 4 — 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
Wilkinson County (county FIPS 13319), Georgia. 39 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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