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Native plants of Connecticut

1,511 species covered by this site are recorded as native to Connecticut in Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS. PLANTS has no county records for Connecticut in this build, so this is a statewide list and the ZIP lookup cannot narrow it to a county.

State summary · USDA PLANTS and Kew WCVP

Connecticut at a glance

Native species statewide
1,511 Of 1,749 species Kew’s World Checklist records as native to Connecticut (before this site’s scope)
Garden-ready natives
542 With PLANTS growing records
Share by type (all 1,511 native species)
Percent of the 1,511 native species in each growth type
Tree 9% (138)
Shrub 6% (96)
Wildflower (forb) 52% (786)
Grass or grass-like 24% (362)
Vine 3% (43)
Fern 6% (86)

Wildflowers: 786 · grasses and grass-like: 362 · trees: 138 · shrubs: 96 · vines: 43 · ferns: 86.

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.

Garden-ready natives of Connecticut

Statewide list. A species native somewhere in Connecticut may not be native in your county: use the county records of neighboring states with care to narrow it.

Tree 111

Shrub 61

Wildflower (forb) 177

Grass or grass-like 166

Vine 16

Fern 11

Also listed as native and introduced here 12

PLANTS labels these species both native and introduced in at least one state; it has no county records for Connecticut in this build, so we keep them out of the main list. Some forms of each are native and others were brought in from elsewhere, and most gardeners should choose plants from the main list.

  • American red raspberryRubus idaeus
  • annual ragweedAmbrosia artemisiifolia
  • claspleaf twistedstalkStreptopus amplexifolius
  • climbing false buckwheatPolygonum scandens
  • common pepperweedLepidium densiflorum
  • common reedPhragmites australis
  • hedge false bindweedCalystegia sepium
  • Kentucky bluegrassPoa pratensis
  • Robert geraniumGeranium robertianum
  • shortstalk false bindweedCalystegia silvatica
  • white sagebrushArtemisia ludoviciana
  • wood bluegrassPoa nemoralis

Look up a Connecticut ZIP

Matches your ZIP to the county it mostly lies in, then lists the plants recorded as native to your state (Kew’s World Checklist and USDA PLANTS) and recorded in that county by USDA PLANTS.

Territories: Puerto Rico · U.S. Virgin Islands

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.
Scope
Connecticut: 1,511 native species in this site’s scope; county lists for 0 counties.
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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