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Bayscapes - From the US Fish and Wildlife Service Chesapeake Bay Field Office. This 83 page guide contains color photos of over 400 plant species native to the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, including all states with drainage to the the Bay: Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and New York.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Acer negundo | Ash-leaf maple Ash-leaved maple Box elder Boxelder Fresno de guajuco | |
| 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 | |
| Acer saccharinum | Silver maple Soft maple White maple | |
| Acer saccharum | Sugar maple Northern sugar maple | |
| Acer spicatum | Mountain maple | |
| Adiantum pedatum | Northern maidenhair Maidenhair Fern | |
| Ageratina altissima var. altissima | White snakeroot | |
| Agrostis perennans | Autumn bentgrass Upland bentgrass | |
| Agalinis purpurea | Purple false foxglove Purple gerardia Gerardia | |
| Allium cernuum | Nodding onion | |
| Alnus serrulata | Hazel alder Brookside alder Tag alder Common alder | |
| Amelanchier arborea | Common serviceberry Downy serviceberry Shadbush Juneberry | |
| Ammophila breviligulata | American Beach Grass American beachgrass | |
| 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 | |
| Andropogon glomeratus | Bushy bluestem Brushy bluestem | |
| Antennaria neglecta | Field pussytoes Prairie everlasting | |
| Andropogon virginicus | Broomsedge bluestem Broom-sedge | |
| Anemone virginiana | Tall thimbleweed Thimbleweed Tall anemone | |
| Aquilegia canadensis | Eastern red columbine Wild red columbine | |
| Aruncus dioicus | Bride's feathers Goat's beard | |
| Aristolochia macrophylla | Pipevine | |
| Aralia nudicaulis | Wild sarsaparilla | |
| Aralia racemosa | American spikenard | |
| Aralia spinosa | Devil's walkingstick Devil’s walking-stick Prickly Ash Hercules club Angelica tree | |
| 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 | |
| Asplenium platyneuron | Ebony spleenwort | |
| Asclepias syriaca | Common milkweed | |
| Asimina triloba | Pawpaw Common paw paw Indian banana | |
| Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly milkweed Orange milkweed Pleurisy root | |
| Athyrium filix-femina | Common ladyfern Lady fern Ladyfern Subarctic lady fern | |
| Baptisia australis | Blue wild indigo Wild blue indigo Blue false indigo | |
| Baccharis halimifolia | Groundseltree Sea-myrtle Consumptionweed Eastern baccharis Groundsel Groundsel bush Salt marsh-elder Salt bush Florida groundsel bush | |
| Baptisia tinctoria | Horseflyweed Yellow Wild Indigo | |
| Betula alleghaniensis | Yellow birch | |
| Betula lenta | Sweet birch Cherry birch Black birch Mahogany birch | |
| Betula nigra | River birch Red birch | |
| Bignonia capreolata | Crossvine | |
| Bidens cernua | Nodding beggartick Bur marigold Nodding beggarticks Nodding bur marigold Nodding burmarigold Nodding burr-marigold Sticktight | |
| Boltonia asteroides | Boltonia White doll's daisy | |
| Botrychium virginianum | Rattlesnake fern | |
| Carya alba | Mockernut hickory Big bud hickory | |
| Campanulastrum americanum | American bellflower American-bellflower Tall bellflower | |
| Callicarpa americana | American beautyberry French mulberry | |
| Carpinus caroliniana | American hornbeam Blue beech Musclewood Ironwood | |
| Calamagrostis canadensis | Bluejoint | |
| Carya cordiformis | Bitternut hickory Swamp hickory | |
| Cardamine concatenata | Cutleaf toothwort Pepper root | |
| Carex crinita var. crinita | Fringed sedge Long hair sedge | |
| Carex glaucodea | Blue sedge Blue wood sedge | |
| Carya glabra | Pignut hickory | |
| Carex lurida | Lurid sedge Sallow sedge Shallow sedge | |
| Carya ovata | Shagbark hickory | |
| Caltha palustris | Yellow marsh marigold Yellow marsh-marigold Cowslip | |
| Carex pensylvanica | Pennsylvania sedge | |
| Castanea pumila | Chinkapin Allegheny chinquapin Allegheny-chinkapin Chinquapin | |
| Campsis radicans | Trumpet creeper Trumpet vine Common trumpet creeper Cow vine | |
| Carex stricta | Upright sedge Uptight sedge Tussock sedge | |
| Caulophyllum thalictroides | Blue cohosh Squaw-root Papoose-root Caulophylle faux-pigamon | |
| Carex vulpinoidea | Fox sedge Brown fox 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 | |
| Chasmanthium latifolium | Inland sea oats Indian wood oats Wild oats River oats Flathead oats Upland Oats Upland Sea Oats | |
| Chrysopsis mariana | Maryland goldenaster Maryland golden-aster | |
| Chimaphila maculata | Striped prince's pine Spotted Wintergreen | |
| Chamaecyparis thyoides | Atlantic white cedar Atlantic white-cedar | |
| Chionanthus virginicus | White fringetree Fringe tree Grancy Graybeard | |
| Chrysogonum virginianum | Green and gold Green-and-gold | |
| Clethra alnifolia | Coastal sweet pepperbush Clethra Summer sweet | |
| Clitoria mariana | Atlantic pigeonwings Butterfly Pea | |
| Claytonia virginica | Virginia springbeauty Springbeauty | |
| Clematis viorna | Vasevine Leatherflower | |
| Clematis virginiana | Devil's darning needles Virgin's Bower Old Man's Beard | |
| Cornus alternifolia | Alternateleaf dogwood Alternate-leaf dogwood Pagoda dogwood | |
| Cornus amomum | Silky dogwood Red willow Silky cornel | |
| Corylus americana | American hazelnut American filbert | |
| Conoclinium coelestinum | Blue mistflower | |
| Cornus florida | Flowering dogwood Virginia dogwood | |
| Comptonia peregrina | Sweet fern Sweet-fern | |
| Cornus racemosa | Gray dogwood | |
| Coreopsis tripteris | Tall tickseed Tall coreopsis | |
| Coreopsis verticillata | Threadleaf coreopsis Whorled tickseed Whorled coreopsis | |
| Crataegus crus-galli | Cockspur hawthorn Cockspur thorn Newcastle hawthorn Newcastle thorn | |
| Crataegus viridis | Green hawthorn Southern thorn | |
| Danthonia spicata | Poverty oatgrass Poverty wild oat grass | |
| Desmodium paniculatum | Panicledleaf ticktrefoil Panicled Tick Trefoil | |
| Dennstaedtia punctilobula | Eastern hay-scented fern Eastern hayscented fern | |
| Delphinium tricorne | Dwarf larkspur Spring larkspur | |
| Dicentra canadensis | Squirrel corn | |
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
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