North Carolina is bless with a wide range of plants . Coastal North Carolina has typical beach plants such as cordgrass and saltmeadows found in marshes . Farther inland are wax myrtles , live oak and red cedar Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree . Deciduous forests on the lower slope are filled with Carolina California fern , lily-livered buckeyes , sugar maple and yellow birch tree tree . The mount of western North Carolina are abundant with uncouth plant such as lady slippers , dogwoods and rhododendron .
Size
North Carolina is home to roughly 645 unlike bush , trees and woody vine species , according to the Duke University website . About 487 specie are native , while 158 species have been introduced to the state . Roughly 3,000 florescence plant specie are see in the state , according to the City Data website .
Shrubs
The Indian Hawthorn is a slow - grow evergreen plant shrub with pinkish or white flush . This plant has a medium to coarse texture and is an excellent coastal landscape painting plant . It grows 3 to 4 foot high with a spread of 3 to 5 feet , according to North Carolina State University .
The beautyberry has arch branches that pass 3 to 4 feet . It has violet - pink berries .
Mountain laurels are medium shrubs take fond shade . They ’re thick plants native to many region of North Carolina . The shrub ’s efflorescence farm snowy to pink natural spring flowers .
Junipers are intermediate in size of it and need full Lord’s Day . These bush , which have a okay texture , arise rapidly and turn over a height of up to 10 feet at maturity .
Trees
The Norway maple tree diagram has a temperate development rule . It has thick , broad - spreading branches and can reach heights of 50 to 70 groundwork tall , according to North Carolina State University . It ’s also live as " Crimson King " because of its red - purple leaves
The Southern catalpa needs full sun picture . This tumid , fast - growing tree lives long but can appear untidy . It has a common texture and compact trunk with crooked branches .
The Southern magnolia grows in sun to fond tone and has a symmetrical figure . This tree , which has a growth rate that can cast from moderate to speedy , should be planted where its scummy branches can spring up to the basis .
Geography
There ’s a considerable difference in weather between North Carolina area , so plants that thrive in one region of the state may not do well in another surface area . North Carolina ’s hardiness growing zone line up more from east to west , rather than north to south . North Carolina go down into hardiness geographical zone 6 through 8 . Zone 8 , which is the warmest zone in the state , is in eastern North Carolina , while the cold areas are in Zone 6 , found in the western quite a little neighborhood . Zone 7 lie in the middle of the state and makes up the largest area .
Warning
Non - aboriginal or exotic plants that do n’t originate in North Carolina or even North America can become invading . They can cause significant problems for native plants , as well as beast . A few of these alien or invasive plants have been in North Carolina for a recollective meter , so they ’re not even recognized as non - native industrial plant , monish North Carolina State University . Some of these plants let in Nipponese honeysuckle , Taiwanese privet , Callery " Bradford " pear and Queen Anne ’s lacing .
