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Toadshade Wildflower Farm
Toadshade Wildflower Farm specializes in nursery grown and propagated perennial plants native to Northeastern America. Our mission is to 1) provide native, perennial, propagated wildflower plants, 2) identify the plants clearly by common and scientific name, 3) clearly summarize the native range of the plants, and 4) to encourage increased plantings of native plant species within their native range.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Acorus calamus | Calamus Single-vein sweetflag Sweet flag | |
| Acer saccharum | Sugar maple Northern sugar maple | |
| Aconitum uncinatum | Southern blue monkshood Monkshood | |
| Ageratina altissima | White snakeroot | |
| Agastache nepetoides | Yellow giant hyssop | |
| Agastache scrophulariifolia | Purple giant hyssop Purple giant-hyssop | |
| Agrimonia striata | Roadside agrimony | |
| Allium cernuum | Nodding onion | |
| Alnus viridis ssp. crispa | Green alder Mountain alder Sitka alder | |
| Amsonia tabernaemontana | Eastern bluestar Blue dogbane Willow amsonia Woodland bluestar | |
| Anemone canadensis | Canadian anemone Round-leaf thimbleweed Canada anemone Windflower Meadow anemone | |
| Andropogon gerardii | Big bluestem Turkeyfoot | |
| Antennaria plantaginifolia | Plantain-leaf Pussytoes Woman's tobacco Ladies' tobacco Everlasting Mouse ear | |
| Andropogon virginicus | Broomsedge bluestem Broom-sedge | |
| Anemone virginiana | Tall thimbleweed Thimbleweed Tall anemone | |
| Apocynum cannabinum | Indian hemp Prairie dogbane Dogbane Hemp dogbane | |
| Aquilegia canadensis | Eastern red columbine Wild red columbine | |
| Arisaema dracontium | Green dragon Dragonroot Greendragon | |
| 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 syriaca | Common milkweed | |
| Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly milkweed Orange milkweed Pleurisy root | |
| Baptisia australis | Blue wild indigo Wild blue indigo Blue false indigo | |
| Betula lenta | Sweet birch Cherry birch Black birch Mahogany birch | |
| Betula populifolia | Gray birch White birch Aspen-leaved birch | |
| Boltonia asteroides | Boltonia White doll's daisy | |
| Carex aquatilis | Leafy tussock sedge Water sedge | |
| Carex grayi | Gray's sedge | |
| Carex gynandra | Nodding sedge | |
| Carex lurida | Lurid sedge Sallow sedge Shallow sedge | |
| Carya ovata | Shagbark hickory | |
| Campsis radicans | Trumpet creeper Trumpet vine Common trumpet creeper Cow vine | |
| Cercis canadensis | Eastern redbud Redbud | |
| Celtis occidentalis | Common hackberry Nettle tree | |
| Chasmanthium latifolium | Inland sea oats Indian wood oats Wild oats River oats Flathead oats Upland Oats Upland Sea Oats | |
| Clematis virginiana | Devil's darning needles Virgin's Bower Old Man's Beard | |
| Cornus amomum | Silky dogwood Red willow Silky cornel | |
| Corylus americana | American hazelnut American filbert | |
| Conoclinium coelestinum | Blue mistflower | |
| Cornus florida | Flowering dogwood Virginia dogwood | |
| Cornus racemosa | Gray dogwood | |
| Coreopsis tripteris | Tall tickseed Tall coreopsis | |
| Deschampsia cespitosa | Tufted hairgrass Tufted hair grass | |
| Dichanthelium clandestinum | Deer-tongue Deertongue | |
| Dioscorea villosa | Wild yam | |
| Dodecatheon meadia | Pride-of-Ohio Roosterheads Shootingstar Pride of Ohio Eastern shooting star | |
| Echinacea purpurea | Eastern purple coneflower Purple coneflower | |
| Elephantopus carolinianus | Carolina elephantsfoot | |
| Elymus hystrix | Eastern bottlebrush grass Bottlebrush Grass | |
| Equisetum hyemale var. affine | Scouringrush horsetail | |
| Eryngium yuccifolium | Button eryngo Button snakeroot Rattlesnake master Beargrass Bear's grass | |
| Euonymus americanus | American strawberry-bush Strawberry bush Brook euonymus Hearts-a-burstin Bursting-heart Wahoo | |
| Euphorbia corollata | Flowering spurge | |
| Eurybia divaricata | White wood aster | |
| Eupatoriadelphus fistulosus | Trumpetweed Queen of the meadow Hollow Joe-pye weed Joe-pye weed | |
| Euthamia graminifolia | Flat-top goldentop Grass-leaved goldenrod | |
| Eupatorium hyssopifolium | Hyssop-leaf Boneset Hyssopleaf thoroughwort | |
| Eupatoriadelphus maculatus var. maculatus | Spotted trumpetweed Spotted joe-pye-weed | |
| Eupatorium serotinum | Lateflowering thoroughwort White boneset Late boneset Late-flowering boneset | |
| Fraxinus americana | White ash | |
| Gaura biennis | Biennial beeblossom Biennial gaura | |
| Geum aleppicum | Yellow avens | |
| Geum canadense | White avens | |
| Gentiana clausa | Bottle gentian Blind gentian | |
| Helianthus decapetalus | Thinleaf sunflower Ten-petaled sunflower Thin-leaved sunflower Pale sunflower | |
| Heliopsis helianthoides | Smooth oxeye Oxeye sunflower False sunflower | |
| Helianthus mollis | Ashy sunflower Downy sunflower | |
| Hieracium kalmii | Kalm's hawkweed | |
| Hibiscus laevis | Halberdleaf rosemallow Halberdleaf hibiscus Scarlet rose mallow | |
| Hibiscus moscheutos | Crimsoneyed rosemallow Crimson-eyed rose-mallow Marshmallow hibiscus | |
| Hydrangea arborescens | Wild hydrangea Sevenbark | |
| Hypericum ascyron | Great St. Johnswort | |
| Hypericum punctatum | Spotted St. Johnswort | |
| Iris prismatica | Coastal iris Slender blue flag Slender blue iris | |
| Liatris spicata | Dense blazing star Dense gayfeather Marsh blazing star | |
| Liriodendron tulipifera | Tulip tree Tulip poplar Yellow poplar | |
| Lobelia cardinalis | Cardinal flower | |
| Lobelia siphilitica | Great blue lobelia | |
| Ludwigia alternifolia | Seedbox | |
| Lythrum alatum | Winged lythrum | |
| Lycopus uniflorus | Northern bugleweed | |
| Matteuccia struthiopteris | Ostrich fern | |
| Maianthemum stellatum | Starry false lily of the valley Starry false Solomon's seal Star-flowered Solomon's seal | |
| Menispermum canadense | Common moonseed | |
| Mimulus alatus | Sharpwing monkeyflower | |
| Mitella diphylla | Twoleaf miterwort Miterwort | |
| Mimulus ringens | Allegheny monkeyflower Square-stemmed Monkeyflower | |
| Monarda fistulosa | Wild bergamot Beebalm | |
| Oligoneuron riddellii | Riddell's goldenrod | |
| Onoclea sensibilis | Sensitive fern Bead fern Sympathy fern | |
| Opuntia humifusa | Devil's-tongue Low prickly pear Smooth prickly pear Prickly pear | |
| Oxalis violacea | Violet woodsorrel Violet wood-sorrel | |
| Packera aurea | Golden ragwort Golden groundsel Butterweed | |
| Packera obovata | Golden groundsel Roundleaf groundsel Roundleaf ragwort Squawweed | |
| Parthenocissus quinquefolia | Virginia creeper | |
| Panicum virgatum | Switchgrass Wand panic grass | |
| Penstemon calycosus | Longsepal beardtongue | |
| Penstemon digitalis | Mississippi penstemon Smooth white beardtongue Talus slope penstemon Foxglove beardtongue | |
| Penstemon hirsutus | Hairy beardtongue | |
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
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