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This category contains the native flora of Iowa as defined by the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions. Taxa of the lowest rank are always included; taxa of higher ranks (e.g. genus) are only included if monotypic or endemic. Include taxa here that are endemic or have restricted distributions (e.g. only a few countries).
Callicarpa americana, commonly called the American beautyberry, is an open-habitat, native shrub of the Southern United States which is often grown as an ornamental in gardens and yards. American beautyberries produce large clusters of purple berries, which birds and deer eat, thus distributing the seeds.
When complete, the list below will include all food plants native to the Americas (genera marked with a dagger † are endemic), regardless of when or where they were first used as a food source. For a list of food plants and other crops which were only introduced to Old World cultures as a result of the Columbian Exchange touched off by the ...
Chokeberry. A cultivar of another native shrub that is grown for its berries is Iroquois Black Beauty Black Chokeberry ‘Morton' (Aronia melanocarpa). Gardeners use it as a landscape plant as well.
Native plants in the U.S. are under threat from habitat loss, construction, overgrazing, wildfires, invasive species, bioprospecting — the search for plant and animal species from which ...
Green’s mountain ash (S. scopulina) is native to the mountains from Alaska to California, and east to the Rocky Mountains and Northern Great Plains. It grows as a multi-stemmed shrub that is ...
Native to most of Europe except for the far south, and northern Asia: Berries (August to November), bitter, but can be cooked to form a jelly, or used as a flavouring [31] Wild service-tree: Sorbus torminalis: Native to Europe, south to northwest Africa, and southeast to southwest Asia: Berries (from September), edible raw, but hard and bitter ...
State berry: Cranberry: 1994 [59] [62] State dessert: Boston cream pie: 1996 [59] [63] State cookie: Chocolate chip cookie: 1997 [59] [64] State doughnut: Boston cream doughnut: 2003 [59] [65] Michigan: State native grain: Manoomin: 2023 [66] [67] Minnesota State berry Blueberry Minnesota State pop (soda) Orange Minnesota State tree Red pine ...