What Plants & Trees Are Native to Georgia?

Medium and Large Trees

• Trees of medium and large sizes native to Georgia include the red maple, the sugar maple, the river birch, the American yellowwood, the American holly, the black walnut, the eastern red cedar, the tulip or yellow poplar, the southern magnolia, the loblolly pine, the Virginia pine, the sycamore, the shumard oak, the white oak, the scarlet oak, the southern red oak, the water oak, the willow oak, the live oak, the palmetto palm, the bald cypress and the eastern hemlock.

Small Trees

• Types of small trees considered native to Georgia include the Florida maple or southern maple, the American hornbeam also known as the ironwood or musclewood, the eastern redbud, the fringe tree or grancy-greybeard, the flowering dogwood, the Carolina silverbell, the possumhaw, the yaupon holly, the big-leaf magnolia, the American hophornbeam also known as an ironwood, the sourwood, the Georgia oak and the sassafras.

Shrubs

• Georgia is home to a large variety of native shrubs. Those shrubs are the bottlebrush buckeye, the red buckeye, the American beautyberry, the sweetshrub, the buttonbush, the summersweet cletha, the red titi or swamp cyrilla, the strawberry bush, the dwarf fothergilla, the oakleaf hydrangea, the gallberry, also known as the inkberry, the winterberry, the Florida anise-tree, the small anise-tree, the Virginia sweetspire, the southern wax myrtle, the pinckneya or feverbark, the needle palm, the deciduous azaleas, the evergreen rhododendrons, the dwarf palmetto or bluestem palmetto, the saw palmetto, the American snowbell, the sparkleberry, the rabbiteye blueberry, the mapleleaf viburnum, the yellowroot and the Adam's needle beargrass.

Woody Vines

• Woody vines are a particular type of plant that thrive in Georgia. Woody vines native to Georgia include the crossvine or Bignonia capreolata, the climbing hydrangea, the Carolina yellow jessamine or Gelsemium sempervirens, the trumpet honeysuckle, the Virginia creeper or Parthenocissus quinquefolia, the American wisteria or Wisteria frutescens, the American holly, the yellowwood, the flowering dogwood, the American hophombeam and the yaupon holly.