Best Native Plants for USDA Zone 10

Native plants you can actually buy that suit USDA hardiness zone 10 — ordered by how closely each one is matched to this zone rather than alphabetically.

40 plants, every one native to North America, routinely available from nurseries, and photographed. Ranked by cold limit, so the plants nearest the top are the ones zone 10 lets you grow and colder gardens do not. Traits are quoted from USDA PLANTS, never estimated — how we source this. The Plant Finder searches the full catalogue, including plants that miss this bar.

1. 
   annual wildrice Zizania aquaticaZone 10+ · full sun · 9.8 ft · native
2. 
   beach naupaka Scaevola sericeaZone 10+ · part shade · 10 ft · native
3. 
   Bigelow's tansyaster Machaeranthera bigeloviiZone 10+ · full sun · 4 ft · native
4. 
   cabbagebark tree Andira inermisZone 10+ · full sun · 90 ft · native
5. 
   clasping coneflower Dracopis amplexicaulisZone 10+ · full sun · 2 ft · native
6. 
   dotted smartweed Polygonum punctatumZone 10+ · full sun · 3.2 ft · native
7. 
   gregorywood Bucida bucerasZone 10+ · shade · 50 ft · native
8. 
   Indian blanket Gaillardia pulchellaZone 10+ · full sun · 2 ft · native
9. 
   jewelweed Impatiens capensisZone 10+ · shade · 4.9 ft · native
10. 
    koa Acacia koaZone 10+ · full sun · 110 ft · native
11. 
    pale touch-me-not Impatiens pallidaZone 10+ · shade · 8.2 ft · native
12. 
    Pennsylvania smartweed Polygonum pensylvanicumZone 10+ · full sun · 3.9 ft · native
13. 
    Puerto Rico palmetto Sabal causiarumZone 9+ · full sun · 50 ft · native
14. 
    'ohi'a lehua Metrosideros polymorphaZone 9+ · full sun · 65 ft · native
15. 
    bitter panicgrass Panicum amarumZone 9+ · full sun · 5 ft · native
16. 
    California wax myrtle Morella californicaZone 9+ · full sun · 33 ft · native
17. 
    deergrass Muhlenbergia rigensZone 9+ · part shade · 4.5 ft · native
18. 
    mamani Sophora chrysophyllaZone 9+ · part shade · 40 ft · native
19. 
    Monterey pine Pinus radiataZone 9+ · part shade · 120 ft · native
20. 
    purple bushbean Macroptilium atropurpureumZone 9+ · part shade · 4 ft · native
21. 
    shiny coneflower Rudbeckia nitidaZone 9+ · part shade · 5 ft · native
22. 
    yerba mansa Anemopsis californicaZone 9+ · full sun · 1.5 ft · native
23. 
    bayhops Ipomoea pes-capraeZone 8+ · part shade · 1 ft · native
24. 
    bushy seaside tansy Borrichia frutescensZone 8+ · full sun · 2.6 ft · native
25. 
    California bulrush Schoenoplectus californicusZone 8+ · full sun · 6.6 ft · native
26. 
    California oatgrass Danthonia californicaZone 8+ · full sun · 2 ft · native
27. 
    Carolina desert-thorn Lycium carolinianumZone 8+ · full sun · 9 ft · native
28. 
    Florida hopbush Dodonaea viscosaZone 8+ · part shade · 15 ft · native
29. 
    gulf cordgrass Spartina spartinaeZone 8+ · full sun · 6.6 ft · native
30. 
    needlegrass rush Juncus roemerianusZone 8+ · full sun · 4.9 ft · native
31. 
    sand cordgrass Spartina bakeriZone 8+ · full sun · 6.6 ft · native
32. 
    scentless bayberry Morella inodoraZone 8+ · shade · 23 ft · native
33. 
    seagrape Coccoloba uviferaZone 8+ · part shade · 25 ft · native
34. 
    seashore dropseed Sporobolus virginicusZone 8+ · part shade · 2 ft · native
35. 
    seashore paspalum Paspalum vaginatumZone 8+ · full sun · 0.8 ft · native
36. 
    sweetbay Magnolia virginianaZone 8+ · part shade · 60 ft · native
37. 
    turtleweed Batis maritimaZone 8+ · full sun · 0.1 ft · native
38. 
    wild tantan Desmanthus virgatusZone 8+ · shade · 2 ft · native
39. 
    yellow trumpetbush Tecoma stansZone 8+ · full sun · 20 ft · native
40. 
    big galleta Pleuraphis rigidaZone 8+ · full sun · 3 ft · native

Every plant here is drawn from the USDA PLANTS database; the traits behind this list are quoted from it, not estimated. See data & sources.

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