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| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Actaea pachypoda | White baneberry Dolls eyes | |
| 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 | |
| Aesculus glabra | Ohio buckeye Texas buckeye Fetid buckeye Horse chestnut | |
| Allium canadense | Meadow garlic Wild garlic Wild onion | |
| Alnus incana | Gray alder Speckled alder | |
| Allium stellatum | Autumn onion Prairie onion | |
| Amelanchier arborea | Common serviceberry Downy serviceberry Shadbush Juneberry | |
| Amorpha canescens | Leadplant Leadplant amorpha Prairie shoestring | |
| Amorpha fruticosa | Indigo bush False indigo bush False indigo Desert false indigo | |
| Anemone canadensis | Canadian anemone Round-leaf thimbleweed Canada anemone Windflower Meadow anemone | |
| Anemone cylindrica | Candle anemone Long-head thimbleweed Thimbleweed | |
| Andropogon gerardii | Big bluestem Turkeyfoot | |
| Andropogon hallii | Sand bluestem | |
| Aquilegia canadensis | Eastern red columbine Wild red columbine | |
| Arisaema triphyllum | Jack in the pulpit Indian jack in the pulpit Jack-in-the-pulpit | |
| Asarum canadense | Canadian wild ginger Wild ginger | |
| Asclepias incarnata | Swamp milkweed Pink Milkweed | |
| Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly milkweed Orange milkweed Pleurisy root | |
| Asclepias verticillata | Whorled milkweed Eastern whorled milkweed | |
| Athyrium filix-femina | Common ladyfern Lady fern Ladyfern Subarctic lady fern | |
| Baptisia alba | White wild indigo | |
| Baptisia bracteata var. leucophaea | Longbract wild indigo Cream false indigo Plains wild indigo Cream wild indigo Large-bracted wild indigo | |
| Betula nigra | River birch Red birch | |
| Betula papyrifera | Paper birch Canoe birch White birch | |
| Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats grama | |
| Bouteloua gracilis | Blue grama | |
| Bromus kalmii | Arctic brome Prairie brome Wild chess | |
| Campanulastrum americanum | American bellflower American-bellflower Tall bellflower | |
| Carpinus caroliniana | American hornbeam Blue beech Musclewood Ironwood | |
| Calamagrostis canadensis | Bluejoint | |
| Callirhoe involucrata | Winecup Purple poppy mallow | |
| Carya ovata | Shagbark hickory | |
| Caltha palustris | Yellow marsh marigold Yellow marsh-marigold Cowslip | |
| Carex pensylvanica | Pennsylvania sedge | |
| Campanula rotundifolia | Bluebell bellflower Bluebell-of-Scotland Harebell | |
| Carex stipata | Owlfruit sedge Stalk-grain sedge Awl-fruited sedge | |
| Ceanothus americanus | New Jersey tea Redroot | |
| Cercis canadensis | Eastern redbud Redbud | |
| Celtis occidentalis | Common hackberry Nettle tree | |
| Cephalanthus occidentalis | Common buttonbush Buttonbush Button willow | |
| Celastrus scandens | American bittersweet | |
| Chamerion angustifolium ssp. angustifolium | Fireweed Narrow-leaf fireweed Willow herb | |
| Chamaecrista fasciculata | Partridge pea Sleepingplant Sensitive plant | |
| Chelone glabra | White turtlehead | |
| Cornus alternifolia | Alternateleaf dogwood Alternate-leaf dogwood Pagoda dogwood | |
| Corylus americana | American hazelnut American filbert | |
| Cornus obliqua | Silky dogwood Pale dogwood Swamp dogwood Kinnikinnik | |
| Coreopsis palmata | Stiff tickseed Stiff coreopsis Finger coreopsis | |
| Cornus racemosa | Gray dogwood | |
| Cornus sericea | Redosier dogwood Redosier Red-twig dogwood Red-osier dogwood | |
| Crataegus crus-galli | Cockspur hawthorn Cockspur thorn Newcastle hawthorn Newcastle thorn | |
| Crataegus mollis | Downy hawthorn White thorn Whitethorn Scarlet hawthorn Scarlet haw | |
| Desmodium canadense | Showy tick trefoil | |
| Dicentra cucullaria | Dutchman's breeches | |
| Diervilla lonicera | Northern bush honeysuckle Northern bush-honeysuckle Diervilla | |
| Dirca palustris | Eastern leatherwood Western leatherwood Ropebark | |
| Dodecatheon meadia | Pride-of-Ohio Roosterheads Shootingstar Pride of Ohio Eastern shooting star | |
| Dryopteris cristata | Crested woodfern Crested wood fern Buckler fern | |
| Echinacea angustifolia | Black Sampson Black Samson echinacea Narrow-leaf Coneflower | |
| Echinacea purpurea | Eastern purple coneflower Purple coneflower | |
| Elymus canadensis | Canada wild rye Canadian wildrye Prairie wildrye Nodding wildrye | |
| Euphorbia corollata | Flowering spurge | |
| Euthamia graminifolia | Flat-top goldentop Grass-leaved goldenrod | |
| Eupatorium perfoliatum | Common boneset | |
| Eutrochium purpureum | Purple joepyeweed Sweet-scented joepyeweed Sweet joepyeweed | |
| Fraxinus americana | White ash | |
| Fraxinus pennsylvanica | Green ash Red ash | |
| Fragaria virginiana | Virginia strawberry Wild strawberry | |
| Gentiana alba | Plain gentian Yellow gentian Cream gentian | |
| Gentiana andrewsii | Closed bottle gentian Closed gentian Bottle gentian | |
| Geranium maculatum | Spotted geranium Wild geranium Cranesbill | |
| Geum triflorum | Old man's whiskers Prairie smoke Purple avens | |
| Gymnocladus dioicus | Kentucky coffeetree Stump tree | |
| Hamamelis virginiana | Witch hazel American witch hazel | |
| Helenium autumnale | Common sneezeweed Fall sneezeweed Autumn sneezeweed | |
| Heliopsis helianthoides | Smooth oxeye Oxeye sunflower False sunflower | |
| Heuchera richardsonii | Richardson's alumroot Prairie alumroot | |
| Helianthus strumosus | Paleleaf woodland sunflower Paleleaf sunflower Woodland sunflower | |
| Hypericum prolificum | Shrubby St. Johnswort | |
| Hydrophyllum virginianum | Eastern waterleaf Shawnee salad Virginia waterleaf | |
| Iris virginica var. shrevei | Shreve's iris Virginia iris Southern blue flag Blue flag | |
| Juniperus communis var. depressa | Common juniper Old field juniper Prostrate juniper | |
| Juglans nigra | Black walnut Eastern black walnut | |
| Juniperus virginiana | Eastern red cedar Eastern redcedar Virginia juniper | |
| Koeleria macrantha | Prairie Junegrass Junegrass Prairie Koeler's grass | |
| Lespedeza capitata | Roundhead lespedeza Roundhead bush-clover | |
| Liatris aspera | Tall blazing star Tall gayfeather Rough blazing star Button snakeroot | |
| Liatris cylindracea | Ontario blazing star Ontario gayfeather Dwarf blazing star | |
| Lilium michiganense | Michigan lily Turk's cap lily | |
| Lilium philadelphicum | Wood lily | |
| Liatris pycnostachya | Prairie Blazing Star Kansas Gayfeather Cat-tail Gayfeather Hairy Button-snakeroot | |
| Lobelia cardinalis | Cardinal flower | |
| Lobelia siphilitica | Great blue lobelia | |
| Malus ioensis | Prairie crabapple Iowa crabapple | |
| Maianthemum racemosum ssp. racemosum | Feathery false lily of the valley False spikenard False Solomon's seal Solomon's plume Smilacina | |
| Mertensia virginica | Virginia bluebells | |
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