Ohio is blessed with a wide range of industrial plant . The Our Ohio website recommends Ohioans using more native plants in their landscapes . Many of the state ’s plant can do well even under difficult conditions . They ’re able to fly high in dry or wet , shade or Lord’s Day , low or high fertility and even stiff - like or acidulous soils . When Ohio ’s aboriginal plants are in good order used , they can better adjust to local climatic condition , need less upkeep and give four - season interest .

Plants and Flowers

Baptisia is a secure , attractive hybrid industrial plant with blue and white flowers . This plant live long and does well in well - drained , intermediate soil , note the Ohio University Extension website . The purple beautyberry is a round , graceful - looking woody plant that grow about 3 to 6 feet tall . Although this industrial plant has small pinkish flowers , its lavender - pink yield is more obtrusive . The state wild flower , the wake-robin , is a uncouth blossom . Other popular wildflowers found growing in Ohio include wild geraniums , mayapples , bloodroots , squirrel corn and Solomon ’s seal . aster and goldenrods are common spring wild flower , tell Our Ohio .

Vegetable Plants and Trees

There are more than 40 miscellany of vegetables that can grow in Ohio . Ohio State University Extension suggest using succession planting so garden space can be used more effectively . This involves replanting with a dissimilar craw like a shot after one crop is reap . Ohio has at least 14 oak tree species . Other common Ohio trees let in poplar , ash , elm , hickory , beech , eastern black walnut , pitch-black locust tree , godforsaken mulberry fig and wild black cherry red varieties .

Geography

Ohio enjoy a four - season clime , which ensures the state has much rainfall throughout most of the year , note the Touring Ohio website . The land pick up roughly 39 in of rainfall per year , which is somewhat more than even Seattle . Northwest Ohio has somewhat less rain than Southwest Ohio . Most of the DoS fall within Hardiness Zones 5 and 6 . Zone 5A has minimum wintertime temperatures as low as subtraction 10 to minus15 degrees F , while Zone 6B , the warm realm , has minimum temperature of 0 to minus 5 degrees F.

Misconception

Although easy - to - grow plants , such as Joe Pye weed , butterflyweed , milkweed and ironweed contain the Good Book " dope " in their name , this should n’t have a negative meaning . In fact , plants including milkweed and butterfly stroke weed attract butterfly , take down Our Ohio . These plant just need to be implant in the correct soils to do well .

Warning

plant non - native plants can result in them taking over and forcing out aboriginal plants . There are several non - native plants in Ohio that are known for invading the State Department ’s forest . Two of the most invasive plants include the Japanese Banksia integrifolia and the Japanese knotweed , note the Ohio Department of Natural Resources . Other incursive industrial plant are the autumn Olea europaea , ribgrass , empurpled loosestrife , coarse reed instrument , reed sneak gage , garlic Indian mustard , multiflora jump and bush honeysuckle .

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