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| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Achillea millefolium | Common yarrow Yarrow Milfoil Western yarrow | |
| Actaea pachypoda | White baneberry Dolls eyes | |
| Actaea racemosa var. racemosa | Black cohosh Black bugbane Bugbane Black snakeroot Fairy candles | |
| Acer rubrum | Red maple Scarlet maple | |
| Actaea rubra | Red baneberry | |
| Acer saccharinum | Silver maple Soft maple White maple | |
| Acer saccharum | Sugar maple Northern sugar maple | |
| Adiantum pedatum | Northern maidenhair Maidenhair Fern | |
| Agastache scrophulariifolia | Purple giant hyssop Purple giant-hyssop | |
| Alnus incana ssp. rugosa | Speckled alder | |
| Alnus serrulata | Hazel alder Brookside alder Tag alder Common alder | |
| Amelanchier canadensis | Canadian serviceberry Canadian service-berry Shadblow serviceberry Juneberry | |
| Anemone canadensis | Canadian anemone Round-leaf thimbleweed Canada anemone Windflower Meadow anemone | |
| Andropogon gerardii | Big bluestem Turkeyfoot | |
| Anaphalis margaritacea | Western pearly everlasting Pearly-everlasting | |
| Antennaria plantaginifolia | Plantain-leaf Pussytoes Woman's tobacco Ladies' tobacco Everlasting Mouse ear | |
| Anemone quinquefolia | Wood anemone Nightcaps | |
| Aquilegia canadensis | Eastern red columbine Wild red columbine | |
| Arisaema dracontium | Green dragon Dragonroot Greendragon | |
| Aralia nudicaulis | Wild sarsaparilla | |
| Arisaema triphyllum | Jack in the pulpit Indian jack in the pulpit Jack-in-the-pulpit | |
| Asarum canadense | Canadian wild ginger Wild ginger | |
| Asarum caudatum | British Columbia wild ginger Long-tail wild ginger | |
| Asclepias purpurascens | Purple milkweed | |
| Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly milkweed Orange milkweed Pleurisy root | |
| Betula lenta | Sweet birch Cherry birch Black birch Mahogany birch | |
| Betula populifolia | Gray birch White birch Aspen-leaved birch | |
| Blephilia ciliata | Downy pagoda plant Sunny woodmint Ohio horsemint | |
| Carya alba | Mockernut hickory Big bud hickory | |
| Campanulastrum americanum | American bellflower American-bellflower Tall bellflower | |
| Carpinus caroliniana | American hornbeam Blue beech Musclewood Ironwood | |
| Carya glabra | Pignut hickory | |
| Carya ovata | Shagbark hickory | |
| Caltha palustris | Yellow marsh marigold Yellow marsh-marigold Cowslip | |
| Campsis radicans | Trumpet creeper Trumpet vine Common trumpet creeper Cow vine | |
| Campanula rotundifolia | Bluebell bellflower Bluebell-of-Scotland Harebell | |
| Ceanothus americanus | New Jersey tea Redroot | |
| Celastrus scandens | American bittersweet | |
| Chamerion angustifolium ssp. angustifolium | Fireweed Narrow-leaf fireweed Willow herb | |
| Chamaelirium luteum | Blazing star Fairywand | |
| Chrysopsis mariana | Maryland goldenaster Maryland golden-aster | |
| Chamaecyparis thyoides | Atlantic white cedar Atlantic white-cedar | |
| Clintonia borealis | Bluebead Yellow bluebead-lily Clintonia Blue-bead lily | |
| Claytonia caroliniana | Carolina springbeauty | |
| Claytonia virginica | Virginia springbeauty Springbeauty | |
| Cornus alternifolia | Alternateleaf dogwood Alternate-leaf dogwood Pagoda dogwood | |
| Conoclinium coelestinum | Blue mistflower | |
| Cornus florida | Flowering dogwood Virginia dogwood | |
| Coreopsis lanceolata | Lanceleaf coreopsis Lanceleaf tickseed Lance-leaved coreopsis Sand coreopsis | |
| Comptonia peregrina | Sweet fern Sweet-fern | |
| Cornus sericea ssp. sericea | Redosier dogwood Red Osier Dogwood | |
| Coptis trifolia | Threeleaf goldthread Three-leaf goldthread Canker root | |
| Desmodium canadense | Showy tick trefoil | |
| Dicentra canadensis | Squirrel corn | |
| Dicentra cucullaria | Dutchman's breeches | |
| Dryopteris marginalis | Marginal woodfern Marginal fern Marginal shieldfern | |
| Erigeron philadelphicus | Philadelphia fleabane Fleabane daisy | |
| Erigeron pulchellus | Robin's plantain Poor Robin's plantain Rose petty Robert's plantain Blue spring-daisy | |
| Eurybia divaricata | White wood aster | |
| Eutrochium purpureum | Purple joepyeweed Sweet-scented joepyeweed Sweet joepyeweed | |
| Fagus grandifolia | American beech | |
| Fothergilla gardenii | Dwarf witchalder Dwarf witch-alder Dwarf fothergilla | |
| Fothergilla major | Mountain witchalder Mountain witch-alder Large fothergilla | |
| Fraxinus americana | White ash | |
| Fraxinus nigra | Black ash | |
| Gaylussacia baccata | Black huckleberry | |
| Gaultheria procumbens | Eastern teaberry Wintergreen Checkerberry | |
| Gentiana andrewsii | Closed bottle gentian Closed gentian Bottle gentian | |
| Gentiana clausa | Bottle gentian Blind gentian | |
| Geranium maculatum | Spotted geranium Wild geranium Cranesbill | |
| Hamamelis virginiana | Witch hazel American witch hazel | |
| Helenium autumnale | Common sneezeweed Fall sneezeweed Autumn sneezeweed | |
| Helianthus decapetalus | Thinleaf sunflower Ten-petaled sunflower Thin-leaved sunflower Pale sunflower | |
| Helianthus strumosus | Paleleaf woodland sunflower Paleleaf sunflower Woodland sunflower | |
| Helianthus tuberosus | Jerusalem artichoke Sunchoke | |
| Hibiscus moscheutos | Crimsoneyed rosemallow Crimson-eyed rose-mallow Marshmallow hibiscus | |
| Houstonia caerulea | Azure bluet Quaker-ladies Bluets | |
| Houstonia longifolia | Longleaf summer bluet Long-leaf summer bluet Pale bluets Longleaf Summer Bluet | |
| Hypoxis hirsuta | Common goldstar Yellow star-grass Eastern yellow star-grass | |
| Ilex glabra | Inkberry Gallberry | |
| Ilex opaca | American holly Christmas holly | |
| Ilex verticillata | Common winterberry Michigan holly Black alder | |
| Iris prismatica | Coastal iris Slender blue flag Slender blue iris | |
| Iris versicolor | Harlequin blueflag Northern blue flag | |
| Juglans nigra | Black walnut Eastern black walnut | |
| Juniperus virginiana | Eastern red cedar Eastern redcedar Virginia juniper | |
| Kalmia latifolia | Mountain laurel Calico bush Kalmia | |
| Lindera benzoin | Northern spicebush Spicebush | |
| Linnaea borealis | Twinflower American twinflower | |
| Lilium philadelphicum | Wood lily | |
| Liatris scariosa | Devil's bite Large blazing star Savanna blazing star | |
| Liatris spicata | Dense blazing star Dense gayfeather Marsh blazing star | |
| Liquidambar styraciflua | Sweetgum American sweetgum | |
| Lilium superbum | Turk's-cap lily | |
| Liriodendron tulipifera | Tulip tree Tulip poplar Yellow poplar | |
| Lobelia cardinalis | Cardinal flower | |
| Lobelia siphilitica | Great blue lobelia | |
| Lupinus perennis | Sundial lupine Wild lupine | |
| Lysimachia ciliata | Fringed loosestrife Fringed yellow loosestrife | |
| Maianthemum canadense | Canada mayflower False lily-of-the-valley | |
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