Your region
The app covers real places, one at a time.
Last updated August 2026
Plants don’t follow state lines — they follow climate, soil and rainfall. So Indigene is built region by region: a stretch of country where the same plants belong, from the Pacific Northwest to the Mediterranean coast of France. Each region has its own roster and its own map, so you can see whether it includes you.
How you use it
- Open Regions to see the places the app covers so far.
- Pick the one you live in, or the nearest — the map shows its edges.
- Browse its plants, or jump straight to finding plants for a spot inside it.
Don’t see your region yet? The app grows one at a time, and what’s here is chosen for depth over breadth — a region is added when its plants and their wildlife can be named properly, not just listed.
Learn more
- Find your growing zone from your address — USDA (Plant Hardiness Zone Map)
- What an ecoregion is, and why plants follow them — U.S. EPA
How this grew
Every change to this part of the app, newest first — the same plain notes that go out with each update.
Version 0.28
August 30, 2026- A share card for every region. Share a link to a region and the preview now shows its own map — with a few cities to place you on it — beside how many native plants, keystones and animals it lists. Browse regions
Version 0.27
August 28, 2026- Six more Northwest natives. The Pacific Northwest roster gains thimbleberry, dwarf Oregon grape, goat's beard, Pacific bleeding heart, meadow checkermallow and tufted hairgrass — filling out its moist-shade, dry-shade and wet-prairie corners. See the region
- Northern Michigan is on the map. Indigene now covers the tip of Michigan's Lower Peninsula around Petoskey and Little Traverse Bay — 46 native plants for its cool, lime-rich northern-hardwood and white-pine country. See the region
- A region's page now names the wildlife too. Under the plants, every region lists the butterflies, moths, bees, birds and mammals they're documented to feed — tap a group for the names, and the number beside each one is how many plants here it can use. Regions
Version 0.25
August 8, 2026- Four regions now name a creature for every plant they ship — Continental France, Mediterranean France, the Alps, and, but for two ferns, the Mid-Atlantic.
- Thirteen more Pacific Northwest natives, including the shrub the list most needed. Redstem ceanothus feeds more caterpillars than almost anything else out there and had been missing entirely. With it: red huckleberry, cascara, western trillium, fireweed, licorice fern and eight more. Seventy-one plants now.
- Something is in flower in October now. The region had exactly one plant open that month. Puget Sound gumweed flowers from July until the rain returns, so the last bees of the year have somewhere to go.
- Region names are shorter, with the qualifier on the line below. "Florida (south & the Keys)" is now South Florida; "Pacific Northwest (west of the Cascades)" is Pacific Northwest. The brackets had been pushing a name onto three lines on a phone.
- On a laptop the region map is a sensible size now. It used to stretch the whole width of the page, which pushed the plant list off the bottom of the screen. On a phone, nothing changes.
- The list of ecoregion names under each map is gone. It read like a geology exam — "Ridge and Valley, Western Allegheny Plateau" — and the link underneath already says whose map the lines come from.
- Each region map is one shape now, and its coastline is smoother. The lines dividing it into a dozen pieces answered no question anyone asks, and the jagged edges were an artefact of keeping the file small.
Version 0.24
August 7, 2026- Southern California is covered — 60 natives for the coast and the foothills. Coast live oak, the sages, toyon, manzanita, matilija poppy, and the wildlife each one feeds. The care notes are written for a dry summer: which plants must never be watered in July. See the list.
- Every region page now has a map of the region. The Pacific Northwest, for one, now shows how far it reaches: the area shaded, the state lines around it, and a caption naming the landmarks at its edges. The maps work offline.
- The Mid-Atlantic now follows real ecoregion edges, not a rectangle drawn on a map — see the shape on its page. A few places just outside it, like the Adirondacks and north-western Ohio, are now told we have no list yet, rather than handed the wrong one.
- Plants that grow in two regions now say the right thing in each. Hornbeam is a garden hedge in the west of France and a great forest tree in the east. The French follows that split, as the English always did.
Version 0.22
August 4, 2026- A lot more to plant in the Pacific Northwest. The list grew from 44 plants to 58, and deliberately not with more trees: sedges and a rush for wet ground, two more ferns, stonecrop and buckwheat for a dry sunny edge, trailing blackberry, Indian plum.
- Early blue violet, and why it matters. Also new to the Northwest, and the only thing a fritillary caterpillar will eat — but it hatches in late summer and doesn't feed until April, so the patch has to still be there next spring.
- Atlantic France doubled, from 23 plants to 46. Heather, broom, bramble, bird's-foot trefoil, red clover, hop, aspen, bilberry, wych elm, wild pear, beech and more. Several flower in August, September and October — which is when the old list ran out of flowers.
Version 0.18
July 31, 2026- Reading about a plant that grows in more than one region? You can switch. Those plants now have a row of buttons under their name — Figures for: Mid-Atlantic · North & Central Florida — so you can see how the same plant behaves somewhere else.
- The little plant drawings are clearer. The green shapes that stand in for a photograph were a mismatched bunch — some solid blobs, some faint outlines, all sizes. They're one family now, each drawn to say what it is at a glance. See them on any region's page.
- *The Figures for buttons line up with the rest of the page.* On a plant that grows in more than one region, the row of region buttons under the name was sitting a little further left than everything around it.
- A plant that grows in two regions was telling some readers the wrong thing. Butterfly weed survives to zone 3 in the Mid-Atlantic but only zone 8 in Florida — and the page showed whichever region came first in our list. It now shows yours. Seventeen plants affected.
Version 0.16
July 30, 2026- A heading that leads somewhere now looks like it. The headings that group a region's plants each end in a small green arrow, with the count beside them as a quiet round badge instead of "(14)". The plain underline used to run under the picture and the bracket.
Version 0.15
July 30, 2026- The menu at the top of every page now says what each page holds. "Explore" is now Regions and "Search" is now Plants. In French the three read Régions, Plantes and Faune.
- When you filter a region's plant list — say you type "oak" on Florida — the part you typed is now underlined in green, exactly as it already was on the plants page.
Version 0.13
July 29, 2026- All of France is covered now, not just the rainy west. Three more lists, each a genuinely different set of plants: the Mediterranean south, the continental east and the Alps. The Pyrenees are deliberately left out — we'd rather say "not yet" than guess.
- A lot more to plant in the Pacific Northwest. The west-of-the-Cascades list grows from 24 plants to 44 — red alder, vine maple, western hemlock, salmonberry, evergreen huckleberry — and, for the first time here, a milkweed, the only thing a monarch caterpillar can eat.
- Indigene now reaches its first place outside the United States: the mild, rainy Atlantic west of France. Stand there and you'll get native French plants — oak and hawthorn, blackthorn and hazel, bluebells and foxgloves — ranked for your spot. (The app itself still speaks English.)
- The app now understands Europe's natural regions, not only North America's. Online, it checks the official European map of biogeographical regions to tell whether a French spot is in the Atlantic zone this first list is for, and says so plainly when it isn't.
Version 0.12
July 28, 2026- Every region's page now opens with the same number tiles a plant's page has: how many natives are on the list, how many caterpillars its best plant feeds, how much wildlife we can name, how many keystone plants. Tap a tile for what it means.
- A filter box on region pages: start typing a name — common or scientific — and the plant list narrows as you type, no more hunting through 40 rows or bouncing out to the search page.
- The category buttons on region pages (Trees, Shrubs, Ferns…) now each carry their little plant silhouette, matching the drawings on the plant rows below.
- Region pages now lead with just the region's name — "Mid-Atlantic / Northeast Piedmont" instead of "Every native we know for Mid-Atlantic / Northeast Piedmont" — and say the rest in one short line underneath.
- The fine print about what "native" means on a region's page is shorter and plainer: native here means native to this region specifically — outside it, treat the picks as untested.
Version 0.10
July 27, 2026- A Browse page of its own: the regions we cover and "start from a plant" now live one tap from the home page — for anyone who'd rather look around without sharing their location.
Version 0.3
July 16, 2026- Full plant lists for each region at shareable addresses, with a switcher to hop between regions.
Version 0.2
July 15, 2026- Three new regional plant lists: the Pacific Northwest west of the Cascades, north & central Florida, and south Florida & the Keys — and the app picks the right list from where you're standing.
- Regions now follow real ecological boundaries (EPA ecoregions), not straight lines on a map — so a spot just east of the Cascade crest no longer gets the west-side list, and Florida splits where the subtropics truly begin. The confirm screen names the actual ecoregion you're standing in.
Version 0.1
July 12, 2026- A starting list of 40 Mid-Atlantic / Northeast Piedmont natives with real size-over-time and ecosystem numbers.