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Native plants of Pawnee County

99 plant species are recorded as native to Oklahoma in Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS, and recorded in Pawnee County by USDA PLANTS. 45 of them have growing records you can filter by light, moisture, height and estimated cold hardiness.

County summary · USDA PLANTS and Kew WCVP

Pawnee County, Oklahoma

Native species
99 Typical Oklahoma county: 203 (median of 77 counties)
Garden-ready natives
45 Typical Oklahoma county: 80
Share by type (all 99 native species)
Percent of the 99 native species in each growth type
Tree 31% (31)
Shrub 2% (2)
Wildflower (forb) 54% (53)
Grass or grass-like 10% (10)
Vine 3% (3)

Wildflowers make up the largest share of the native list (54%), followed by trees (31%).

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 7a (2023 map).

The native plant list

Cold hardiness is estimated from each plant’s PLANTS minimum temperature. How we estimate it.

Garden-ready natives 45

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

Garden-ready native plants of Pawnee County, Oklahoma
PlantType HeightLight Water useHardy to
American elm Ulmus americana Tree 120 ft Sun–part shade High Zone 2b
American plum Prunus americana Tree 24 ft Sun Medium Zone 3b
American sycamore Platanus occidentalis Tree 100 ft Sun–part shade High Zone 4a
bitternut hickory Carya cordiformis Tree 75 ft Sun Medium Zone 2b
black oak Quercus velutina Tree 80 ft Sun–part shade Medium Zone 4a
black walnut Juglans nigra Tree 100 ft Sun High Zone 4b
blackhaw Viburnum prunifolium Tree 16 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 4a
blackjack oak Quercus marilandica Tree 25 ft Sun Low Zone 6a
blue grama Bouteloua gracilis Grass or grass-like 1 ft Sun Medium Zone 3a
boxelder Acer negundo Tree 60 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 2b
bur oak Quercus macrocarpa Tree 100 ft Sun–part shade Medium Zone 3b
butterfly milkweed Asclepias tuberosa Wildflower (forb) 2 ft Sun Low Zone 4a
Canada wildrye Elymus canadensis Grass or grass-like 3 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 3a
Canadian milkvetch Astragalus canadensis Wildflower (forb) 6 in Sun Medium Zone 3b
Chickasaw plum Prunus angustifolia Tree 12 ft Sun Medium Zone 4b
chinquapin oak Quercus muehlenbergii Tree 70 ft Sun Medium Zone 4a
common buttonbush Cephalanthus occidentalis Tree 15 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 4a
common hackberry Celtis occidentalis Tree 60 ft Shade-tolerant Low Zone 2b
common persimmon Diospyros virginiana Tree 55 ft Shade-tolerant Medium Zone 5a
composite dropseed Sporobolus compositus Grass or grass-like 3 ft Sun Low Zone 3b
ditch stonecrop Penthorum sedoides Wildflower (forb) 2.6 ft Sun–part shade Medium Zone 4b
eastern redbud Cercis canadensis Tree 30 ft Shade-tolerant Low Zone 4b
frost grape Vitis vulpina Vine 83 ft Sun–part shade Medium Zone 5a
giant goldenrod Solidago gigantea Wildflower (forb) 8.2 ft Sun–part shade Medium Zone 4a
golden currant Ribes aureum Shrub 10 ft Sun–part shade Low Zone 3b
gray goldenrod Solidago nemoralis Wildflower (forb) 2 ft Sun Medium Zone 4a
Indianhemp Apocynum cannabinum Wildflower (forb) 3.3 ft Sun–part shade High Zone 3a
Kentucky coffeetree Gymnocladus dioicus Tree 100 ft Sun Medium Zone 4a
mockernut hickory Carya tomentosa Tree 85 ft Sun–part shade Medium Zone 4a
northern red oak Quercus rubra Tree 81 ft Sun–part shade Medium Zone 3b
pecan Carya illinoinensis Tree 120 ft Sun High Zone 5a
pin oak Quercus palustris Tree 100 ft Sun High Zone 4a
post oak Quercus stellata Tree 60 ft Sun Medium Zone 4a
prairie crab apple Malus ioensis Tree 25 ft Sun Medium Zone 4b
purple locoweed Oxytropis lambertii Wildflower (forb) 1.4 ft Sun Low Zone 3b
roughleaf dogwood Cornus drummondii Tree 20 ft Sun–part shade Low Zone 4b
roundhead lespedeza Lespedeza capitata Wildflower (forb) 2.6 ft Sun Low Zone 4b
sharpwing monkeyflower Mimulus alatus Wildflower (forb) 2.3 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 5a
Shumard's oak Quercus shumardii Tree 100 ft Sun Medium Zone 5a
slender spikerush Eleocharis tenuis Grass or grass-like 2.9 ft Sun Low Zone 5a
slippery elm Ulmus rubra Tree 85 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 3a
smooth sumac Rhus glabra Tree 12 ft Sun Low Zone 4a
stiff goldenrod Oligoneuron rigidum Wildflower (forb) 3.6 ft Sun–part shade Medium Zone 3a
sugarberry Celtis laevigata Tree 80 ft Shade-tolerant High Zone 5a
switchgrass Panicum virgatum Grass or grass-like 5 ft Sun Medium Zone 3a

Other native species recorded here 54

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.

  • annual buckwheat Eriogonum annuum
  • Aunt Lucy Ellisia nyctelea
  • Baldwin's ironweed Vernonia baldwinii
  • blackseed plantain Plantago rugelii
  • blue wild indigo Baptisia australis
  • buffalobur nightshade Solanum rostratum
  • Carolina draba Draba reptans
  • Carolina horsenettle Solanum carolinense
  • carpenter's square Scrophularia marilandica
  • climbing false buckwheat Polygonum scandens
  • compassplant Silphium laciniatum
  • cutleaf groundcherry Physalis angulata
  • densetuft hairsedge Bulbostylis capillaris
  • dwarf chinquapin oak Quercus prinoides
  • fire on the mountain Euphorbia cyathophora
  • Florida paspalum Paspalum floridanum
  • fluxweed Trichostema brachiatum
  • fragrant sumac Rhus aromatica
  • green comet milkweed Asclepias viridiflora
  • groundplum milkvetch Astragalus crassicarpus
  • lace grass Eragrostis capillaris
  • lanceleaf blanketflower Gaillardia aestivalis
  • lanceleaf fogfruit Phyla lanceolata
  • matted sandmat Chamaesyce serpens
  • meadow garlic Allium canadense
  • Mexican plum Prunus mexicana
  • Missouri violet Viola missouriensis
  • narrowleaf mountainmint Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
  • narrowleaf purple coneflower Echinacea angustifolia
  • Nuttall's sensitive-briar Mimosa nuttallii
  • pale Indian plantain Arnoglossum atriplicifolium
  • prairie groundsel Packera plattensis
  • prairie tea Croton monanthogynus
  • rusty blackhaw Viburnum rufidulum
  • sensitive partridge pea Chamaecrista nictitans
  • shortpod draba Draba brachycarpa
  • shortstalk chickweed Cerastium brachypodum
  • sixweeks fescue Vulpia octoflora
  • slender lespedeza Lespedeza virginica
  • slimleaf milkweed Asclepias stenophylla
  • small skullcap Scutellaria parvula
  • sneezeweed Helenium amarum
  • soft agrimony Agrimonia pubescens
  • southeastern wildrye Elymus glabriflorus
  • Spanish needles Bidens bipinnata
  • spreading sandmat Chamaesyce humistrata
  • spring lady's tresses Spiranthes vernalis
  • Texas goldentop Euthamia gymnospermoides
  • Virginia springbeauty Claytonia virginica
  • Virginia tephrosia Tephrosia virginiana
  • wedgeleaf draba Draba cuneifolia
  • white snakeroot Ageratina altissima
  • whorled mountainmint Pycnanthemum verticillatum
  • woolly dutchman's pipe Aristolochia tomentosa

Compared with Oklahoma

The typical county is the median of the 77 Oklahoma 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, Pawnee County and Oklahoma
MeasurePawnee CountyTypical countyStatewide
Native species 99 203 1,513
Garden-ready natives 45 80 535
Tree 31 — 130
Shrub 2 — 63
Wildflower (forb) 53 — 849
Grass or grass-like 10 — 341
Vine 3 — 85
Fern 0 — 45

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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
Pawnee County (county FIPS 40117), Oklahoma. 99 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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