How common are Palm Trees in Inland areas of the South Coastal Plains

[Iacób]

How common are palms and evergreen broadleaf trees in the Deep South, like if I went to say for example Ocilla, Georgia how many palm trees, and live oaks or magnolia trees there?

[kinzyjr]

1 hour ago, Iacób said:

How common are palms and evergreen broadleaf trees in the Deep South, like if I went to say for example Ocilla, Georgia how many palm trees, and live oaks or magnolia trees there?

Just do a search for the town and peruse the map with Google Street View.

[Iacób]

Thanks for replying!

I should have thought of that before posting this.

Though, I was just using the town as an example, I actually wanted to know how far south one would have to go before you start seeing palms commonly in places like parks and along the side of roads.

[FlaPalmLover]

This map shows where native palm species are found in the United States (not that they can't be grown outside of areas where they are native, but they'll certainly be more dense there):

 

 

A map of the ability to grow certain types of palms in certain areas:

 

Since a lot of people are not big fans of windmill palms, I would imagine you would need to be in southern Georgia to see very many palms, and that has been my experience when I've been there. 

[Iacób]

Thanks for replying! That second map is very interesting

 

Now, for anyone who sees this post. It appears to me, using Google Maps that only around the border between Georgia and Florida did I start finding palm trees on streetview.

 

 

[RainforestCafe]

Hey there,

My wife and I have lived and traveled all over the coastal southeast, exploring pretty much every coastal town in NC, SC, and Georgia.

What we've seen is that the palmettos, live oaks, Spanish moss, etc. all those plants that are symbolic of the "deep south" tend to hug the coastline and waterways.

Once you get away from the tidal creeks, rivers, inlets and ocean, that kind of foliage tends to give way to the more traditional stuff you'd see throughout the US like pines, deciduous oaks, etc.

If you look on the map, you'll generally only find that stuff close to the coast and along the tidal waterways that venture inland. In Georgia for instance, most of that kind of foliage is found east of I-95.

The exception is Florida where it is found across the entire state.

[Iacób]

Thanks for the reply!

I already did look up online where palms and subtropical evergreens where in the wild. My post was more about how common cultivated palms and evergreens where in the towns and cities of the parts of the south that where in zones 8b and 9a, though using Google Streetview I think I have answered my question in part.