Oklahoma

Plants for Oklahoma

40 plants, from native lists held for Oklahoma.

Native is a claim about a range, and ranges have edges.

Plants named by lists held for Oklahoma

  • American elm Ulmus americana

    tree

    • Native Oklahoma Recommended

    Zones not recorded

  • bald cypress Taxodium distichum

    tree

    • Native Oklahoma Recommended

    Zones not recorded

  • Big bluestem in a prairie planting: tall stems with branched turkey-foot seed heads
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    big bluestem Andropogon gerardii

    grass

    • Native Oklahoma Recommended

    Zones not recorded

  • Black-eyed Susan: a loose plant with a few large yellow flowers with dark centres and bristly stems
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    black-eyed Susan Rudbeckia hirta

    perennial

    • Native Native: native to great plains or rocky mountain region (the page's own key for “– native”)
    • Native Oklahoma Recommended

    Zones not recorded

  • Blue false indigo in bloom: upright spikes of indigo pea flowers over blue-green leaves
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    blue false indigo Baptisia australis

    perennial

    • Native Native Range: Eastern United States
    • Native Oklahoma Recommended

    Zones 3 to 9

  • Blue grama grass: a low tuft with curved eyelash-shaped seed heads held out sideways
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    blue grama Bouteloua gracilis

    grass

    • Native Oklahoma Recommended

    Zones not recorded

  • A broad bur oak in an open lawn, with acorns in shaggy fringed caps on a near branch
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    bur oak Quercus macrocarpa

    tree

    • Native Native Range: Northern and central United States, southeastern Canada
    • Native Oklahoma Recommended

    Zones 3 to 8

  • Butterfly weed in bloom: flat clusters of bright orange flowers over narrow leaves
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    butterfly weed Asclepias tuberosa

    perennial

    • Native Native Range: Eastern and southern United States
    • Native Oklahoma Recommended

    Zones 3 to 9

  • buttonbush Cephalanthus occidentalis

    shrub

    • Native Oklahoma Recommended

    Zones not recorded

  • chinkapin oak Quercus muehlenbergii

    tree

    • Native Oklahoma Recommended

    Zones not recorded

  • compass plant Silphium laciniatum

    perennial

    • Native Oklahoma Recommended

    Zones not recorded

  • dotted gayfeather Liatris punctata

    perennial

    • Native Native: native to great plains or rocky mountain region (the page's own key for “– native”)
    • Native Plants with Altitude: regionally native forbs recommended for Wyoming gardens (Plants with Altitude)
    • Native Oklahoma Recommended

    Zones not recorded

  • downy serviceberry Amelanchier arborea

    tree

    • Native Oklahoma Recommended

    Zones not recorded

  • An eastern redbud in early spring, its bare branches covered in magenta-pink flowers
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    eastern redbud Cercis canadensis

    tree

    • Native Native Range: Eastern North America
    • Native Oklahoma Recommended

    Zones 4 to 8

  • An eastern redcedar at a field edge: a narrow evergreen with shredding red-brown bark and blue berries
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    eastern redcedar Juniperus virginiana

    tree

    • Native Oklahoma Recommended

    Zones not recorded

  • green ash Fraxinus pennsylvanica

    tree

    • Native Native Range: North America
    • Native Oklahoma Recommended

    Zones 3 to 9

  • A honeylocust in a front yard in autumn, its fine pinnate leaves yellow and long brown pods hanging
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    honeylocust Gleditsia triacanthos

    tree

    • Native Native Range: Central and eastern North America
    • Native Oklahoma Recommended

    Zones 3 to 8

  • Indian grass in a prairie planting: an upright blue-green clump under narrow golden plumes
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    Indian grass Sorghastrum nutans

    grass

    • Native Oklahoma Recommended

    Zones not recorded

  • A Kentucky coffeetree after leaf drop, hung with thick dark brown seed pods
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    Kentucky coffeetree Gymnocladus dioicus

    tree

    • Native Native Range: Central and eastern United States to Ontario and Quebec, Canada
    • Native Oklahoma Recommended

    Zones 3 to 8

  • lance-leaved coreopsis Coreopsis lanceolata

    perennial

    • Native Oklahoma Recommended

    Zones not recorded

  • Little bluestem in autumn: an upright clump of copper-orange grass with silvery seed tufts
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    little bluestem Schizachyrium scoparium

    grass

    • Native Native Range: Eastern North America
    • Native Oklahoma Recommended

    Zones 3 to 9

  • Mexican hat Ratibida columnifera

    perennial

    • Native Native: native to great plains or rocky mountain region (the page's own key for “– native”)
    • Native Plants with Altitude: regionally native forbs recommended for Wyoming gardens (Plants with Altitude)
    • Native Oklahoma Recommended

    Zones not recorded

  • Mexican plum Prunus mexicana

    tree

    • Native Oklahoma Recommended

    Zones not recorded

  • narrow-leaf purple coneflower Echinacea angustifolia

    perennial

    • Native Native: native to great plains or rocky mountain region (the page's own key for “– native”)
    • Native Plants with Altitude: regionally native forbs recommended for Wyoming gardens (Plants with Altitude)
    • Native Oklahoma Recommended

    Zones not recorded

  • Ohio buckeye Aesculus glabra

    tree

    • Native Oklahoma Recommended

    Zones not recorded

  • Orange coneflower: a dense mound covered in small golden-orange flowers with dark brown centres
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    orange coneflower Rudbeckia fulgida

    perennial

    • Native Native Range: Southeastern United States
    • Native Oklahoma Recommended

    Zones 3 to 9

  • A pinyon pine on a dry rocky slope: a small, bushy, rounded pine
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    pinyon pine Pinus edulis

    tree

    • Native Oklahoma Recommended

    Zones not recorded

  • possumhaw Ilex decidua

    shrub

    • Native Oklahoma Recommended

    Zones not recorded

  • prairie blazing star Liatris pycnostachya

    perennial

    • Native Oklahoma Recommended

    Zones not recorded

  • Purple coneflower in bloom: pink-purple drooping petals around spiky orange-brown cones
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    purple coneflower Echinacea purpurea

    perennial

    • Native Native Range: Eastern and central North America
    • Native narrowleaf coneflower entry: SDSU (2025): narrowleaf coneflower is the only coneflower native to South Dakota — purple coneflower is not
    • Native Oklahoma Recommended

    Zones 3 to 8

  • purple poppy mallow Callirhoe involucrata

    perennial

    • Native Oklahoma Recommended

    Zones not recorded

  • A river birch with several trunks covered in peeling salmon and cinnamon bark
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    river birch Betula nigra

    tree

    • Native Native Range: Eastern United States
    • Native Oklahoma Recommended

    Zones 4 to 9

  • roughleaf dogwood Cornus drummondii

    shrub

    • Native Oklahoma Recommended

    Zones not recorded

  • rusty blackhaw viburnum Viburnum rufidulum

    shrub

    • Native Oklahoma Recommended

    Zones not recorded

  • silver maple Acer saccharinum

    tree

    • Native Oklahoma Recommended

    Zones not recorded

  • smooth sumac Rhus glabra

    shrub

    • Native Oklahoma Recommended

    Zones not recorded

  • A sugar maple in autumn: a rounded crown blazing orange and gold over a front lawn
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    sugar maple Acer saccharum

    tree

    • Native Native Range: Eastern North America
    • Native Oklahoma Recommended

    Zones 3 to 8

  • Switchgrass in a border: an upright clump of blue-green blades under airy pink-tan seed heads
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    switch grass Panicum virgatum

    grass

    • Native Native Range: North America
    • Native Oklahoma Recommended

    Zones 5 to 9

  • Wild columbine in a woodland garden: nodding red and yellow flowers with long red spurs
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    wild columbine Aquilegia canadensis

    perennial

    • Native Oklahoma Recommended

    Zones not recorded

  • Common yarrow: flat clusters of tiny white flowers over feathery, fern-like leaves
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    yarrow Achillea millefolium

    perennial

    • Native Native Range: Western Asia, North America, Europe
    • Native Oklahoma Recommended

    Zones 3 to 9

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