Plants of Chesapeake Bay
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 | Box Elder Box Elder Maple Ash-leaved Maple Ashleaf Maple Red River Maple 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 Soft Maple | |
Acer saccharinum | Silver Maple Soft Maple White Maple | |
Acer saccharum | Sugar Maple Northern Sugar Maple | |
Acer spicatum | Mountain Maple | |
Adiantum pedatum | Northern Maidenhair Fern Maidenhair Fern | |
Ageratina altissima var. altissima | White Snakeroot | |
Agrostis perennans | Upland Bentgrass Autumn Bentgrass | |
Agalinis purpurea | Purple False Foxglove Purple Gerardia Gerardia | |
Allium cernuum | Nodding Onion | |
Alnus serrulata | Smooth Alder Hazel Alder Brookside Alder Tag Alder Common Alder Black Alder | |
Amelanchier arborea | Common Serviceberry Downy Serviceberry Shadbush Juneberry Junebush Shadblow Sarvis | |
Ammophila breviligulata | American Beachgrass American Beach Grass | |
Amelanchier canadensis | Canadian Serviceberry Canadian Service-berry Shadblow Serviceberry Juneberry Shadbush Junebush | |
Anemone canadensis | Canadian Anemone Round-leaf Thimbleweed Canada Anemone Windflower Meadow Anemone | |
Andropogon gerardii | Big Bluestem Tall Bluestem Turkeyfoot | |
Andropogon glomeratus | Bushy Bluestem Brushy Bluestem | |
Antennaria neglecta | Field Pussytoes Prairie Everlasting | |
Andropogon virginicus | Broomsedge Broomsedge Bluestem Yellowsedge Bluestem Whiskey Grass Popotillo Pajon | |
Anemone virginiana | Tall Thimbleweed Thimbleweed Tall Anemone | |
Aquilegia canadensis | Eastern Red Columbine Wild Red Columbine | |
Aronia arbutifolia | Red Chokeberry Red Chokecherry | |
Aruncus dioicus | Bride's Feathers Goat's Beard | |
Aristolochia macrophylla | Pipevine Dutchman's Pipe | |
Aronia melanocarpa | Black Chokeberry | |
Aralia nudicaulis | Wild Sarsaparilla | |
Aronia ×prunifolia | Purple Chokeberry Red Chokeberry | |
Aralia racemosa | American Spikenard | |
Aralia spinosa | Devil's Walking Stick Hercules Club Angelica Tree Pigeon Tree Shotbush Prickly Elder Prickly Ash | |
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 Pawpaw Custard Apple Indian Banana Wild Banana | |
Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly Weed Butterfly Milkweed Orange Milkweed Pleurisy Root Chigger Flower Chiggerweed | |
Athyrium filix-femina | Common Lady Fern Subarctic Lady Fern Lady Fern Ladyfern | |
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 Black Birch Water 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 | |
Campanulastrum americanum | American Bellflower Tall Bellflower | |
Callicarpa americana | American Beautyberry French Mulberry | |
Carpinus caroliniana | American Hornbeam Blue Beech Water Beech Musclewood Ironwood | |
Calamagrostis canadensis | Bluejoint | |
Carya cordiformis | Bitternut Hickory Swamp Hickory Bitternut Pig Hickory Pignut Hickory Pignut White Hickory Red Hickory Bitter Walnut Bitter Pecan | |
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 Sweet Pignut Hickory Coast Pignut Hickory Pignut Sweet Pignut Smoothbark Hickory Broom Hickory Red Hickory Swamp Hickory Switch Hickory Switchbud Hickory | |
Carex lurida | Shallow Sedge Sallow Sedge Lurid Sedge | |
Carya ovata | Shagbark Hickory Carolina Hickory Scalybark Hickory Upland Hickory Shellbark Hickory | |
Caltha palustris | Yellow Marsh Marigold Cowslip | |
Carex pensylvanica | Pennsylvania Sedge | |
Castanea pumila | Allegheny Chinquapin Allegheny Chinkapin Chinquapin Chinkapin | |
Campsis radicans | Trumpet Creeper Trumpet Vine Common Trumpet Creeper Cow Vine Foxglove Vine Hellvine Devil's Shoestring | |
Carex stricta | Upright Sedge Uptight Sedge Tussock Sedge | |
Caulophyllum thalictroides | Blue Cohosh Squaw-root Papoose-root Caulophylle Faux-pigamon | |
Carya tomentosa | Mockernut Hickory Mockernut Hickory Big Bud Hickory Mockernut White Hickory Whiteheart Hickory Fragrant Hickory Bigbud Hickory Hardbark Hickory Hognut Bullnut | |
Carex vulpinoidea | Fox Sedge Brown Fox Sedge | |
Ceanothus americanus | New Jersey Tea Redroot | |
Cercis canadensis | Eastern Redbud Redbud | |
Celtis occidentalis | Common Hackberry Northern Hackberry American Hackberry Nettle Tree Beaverwood False Elm | |
Cephalanthus occidentalis | Common Buttonbush Buttonbush Button Willow Honey Bells Honeybells Honey Balls Honeyballs Button-bush | |
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 Pipsissewa Spotted Pipsissewa Ratsbane Rheumatism Root Striped Wintergreen | |
Chamaecyparis thyoides | Atlantic White Cedar | |
Chionanthus virginicus | White Fringetree Fringe Tree Snowflower Tree Flowering Ash Old Man's Beard Grandfather Graybeard Grancy Graybeard | |
Chrysogonum virginianum | Green And Gold Green-and-gold | |
Clethra alnifolia | Coastal Pepperbush Coastal Sweet Pepperbush Coastal Sweet Pepper Alderleaf Pepperbush Alderleaf Clethra 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 Wild Ageratum Blue Boneset | |
Cornus florida | Flowering Dogwood Virginia Dogwood Florida Dogwood White Cornel Arrowwood American Boxwood False Box St. Peter's Crown Corona De San Pedro | |
Comptonia peregrina | Sweet-fern Sweetfern | |
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 Hog Apple | |
Crataegus viridis | Green Hawthorn Southern Hawthorn | |
Danthonia spicata | Poverty Oatgrass Poverty Wild Oat Grass Curly Grass | |
Desmodium paniculatum | Panicledleaf Ticktrefoil Panicled Tick Trefoil Velcro Vine | |
Dennstaedtia punctilobula | Eastern Hay-scented Fern | |
Delphinium tricorne | Dwarf Larkspur Spring Larkspur | |
Dicentra canadensis | Squirrel Corn | |
Dichanthelium clandestinum | Deertongue Deer-tongue | |
Dichanthelium commutatum | Variable Panicgrass | |
Dicentra cucullaria | Dutchman's Breeches | |
Dicentra eximia | Turkey Corn Fringed Bleedinghearts Wild Bleedingheart | |
Distichlis spicata | Saltgrass Coastal Salt Grass Inland Salt-grass | |
Diospyros virginiana | Common Persimmon Eastern Persimmon Possumwood Date Plum Winter Plum Jove's Fruit | |
Dodecatheon meadia | Eastern Shooting Star Shooting Star Pride Of Ohio Roosterheads Prairie Pointers | |
Doellingeria umbellata | Parasol Whitetop Flat-topped White Aster | |
Doellingeria umbellata var. umbellata | Parasol Whitetop Flat-top Aster | |
Dryopteris carthusiana | Spinulose Woodfern Spinulose Wood Fern Shield Fern Toothed Wood Fern | |
Dryopteris cristata | Crested Woodfern Crested Wood Fern Buckler Fern | |
Dryopteris intermedia | Intermediate Woodfern Evergreen Wood-fern Fancy Wood Fern | |
Dryopteris marginalis | Marginal Woodfern Marginal Fern Marginal Shieldfern | |
Dulichium arundinaceum | Threeway Sedge Three-sided Sedge | |
Elymus canadensis | Canada Wild Rye Canadian Wildrye Prairie Wildrye Nodding Wildrye | |
Elymus hystrix | Eastern Bottlebrush Grass Bottlebrush Grass | |
Elymus riparius | Riverbank Wildrye Riverbank Wild-rye | |
Elymus virginicus | Virginia Wild Rye Virginia Wildrye | |
Erythronium americanum | Yellow Trout-lily American Trout-lily Eastern Trout-lily Yellow Dogtooth Violet Adder's Tongue | |
Erigeron pulchellus | Robin's Plantain Poor Robin's Plantain Rose Petty Robert's Plantain Blue Spring-daisy | |
Eurybia divaricata | White Wood Aster | |
Eutrochium fistulosum | Joe-pye Weed Trumpetweed Queen Of The Meadow Hollow Joe-pye Weed | |
Eupatorium hyssopifolium | Hyssopleaf Thoroughwort Hyssop-leaf Boneset | |
Eutrochium maculatum var. maculatum | Spotted Trumpetweed Spotted Joe-pye-weed | |
Eupatorium perfoliatum | Common Boneset | |
Eutrochium purpureum | Purple Joepyeweed Sweet-scented Joepyeweed Sweet Joepyeweed | |
Fagus grandifolia | American Beech White Beech Red Beech Ridge Beech Beechnut Tree | |
Festuca rubra | Red Fescue | |
Fraxinus americana | White Ash American Ash Cane Ash Smallseed White Ash Biltmore White Ash Biltmore Ash | |
Fraxinus pennsylvanica | Green Ash Red Ash Swamp Ash River Ash Water Ash Darlington Ash | |
Gaylussacia baccata | Black Huckleberry | |
Gaylussacia frondosa | Blue Huckleberry Dangleberry | |
Gaultheria procumbens | Eastern Teaberry Wintergreen Checkerberry | |
Gentiana clausa | Bottle Gentian Blind Gentian | |
Geranium maculatum | Spotted Geranium Wild Geranium Cranesbill | |
Gillenia trifoliata | Bowman's Root Indian Physic | |
Goodyera pubescens | Downy Rattlesnake Plantain | |
Hamamelis virginiana | Witch-hazel American Witch-hazel Common Witch-hazel Winterbloom Snapping Hazelnut Striped Alder Spotted Alder Tobacco-wood Water-witch | |
Heuchera americana | American Alumroot Alumroot | |
Helianthus angustifolius | Swamp Sunflower Narrowleaf Sunflower Narrow-leaved Sunflower | |
Helenium autumnale | Common Sneezeweed Fall Sneezeweed Autumn Sneezeweed | |
Helianthus decapetalus | Thinleaf Sunflower Ten-petaled Sunflower Thin-leaved Sunflower Pale Sunflower | |
Helianthus divaricatus | Woodland Sunflower Rough Sunflower | |
Heliopsis helianthoides | Smooth Oxeye Oxeye Sunflower False Sunflower | |
Heracleum maximum | Common Cowparsnip Cow Parsnip | |
Hepatica nobilis var. acuta | Sharplobe Hepatica Sharp-lobed Hepatica Mountain Hepatica | |
Hepatica nobilis var. obtusa | Roundlobe Hepatica Round-lobed Hepatica Liverleaf | |
Heuchera villosa | Hairy Alumroot | |
Hibiscus moscheutos | Crimson-eyed Rose-mallow Marshmallow Hibiscus | |
Houstonia caerulea | Azure Bluet Quaker Ladies Bluets | |
Hydrangea arborescens | Smooth Hydrangea Wild Hydrangea Sevenbark | |
Hypericum densiflorum | Bushy St. John's-wort | |
Hylotelephium telephioides | Allegheny Stonecrop | |
Hydrophyllum virginianum | Virginia Waterleaf Eastern Waterleaf Shawnee Salad | |
Ilex glabra | Inkberry Gallberry | |
Ilex laevigata | Smooth Winterberry | |
Ilex opaca | American Holly White Holly Prickly Holly Evergreen Holly Christmas Holly Yule Holly | |
Ilex verticillata | Common Winterberry Winterberry Michigan Holly Black Alder | |
Impatiens capensis | Jewelweed Orange Jewelweed Spotted Touch-me-not | |
Ionactis linariifolius | Flaxleaf Whitetop Aster Stiff Aster Flaxleaf Aster | |
Iris prismatica | Slender Blue Iris Slender Blue Flag Coastal Iris | |
Iris versicolor | Harlequin Blueflag Northern Blue Flag Large Blue Iris | |
Iris virginica | Virginia Iris Great Blue Flag Southern Blue Flag | |
Itea virginica | Virginia Sweetspire Tassel-white Virginia Willow | |
Iva frutescens | Jesuit's Bark High-tide Bush High-water Shrub Marsh Elder Bigleaf Marsh Elder | |
Jeffersonia diphylla | Twinleaf | |
Justicia americana | American Water-willow Water-willow | |
Juncus canadensis | Canadian Rush Canada Rush | |
Juncus effusus | Common Rush Soft Rush | |
Juglans nigra | Black Walnut Eastern Black Walnut American Black Walnut | |
Juncus roemerianus | Needlegrass Rush Black Needlerush | |
Juniperus virginiana | Eastern Red Cedar Eastern Redcedar Virginia Juniper Red Juniper Pencil Cedar Carolina Cedar Red Savin | |
Kalmia angustifolia | Sheep Laurel Lambkill Kalmia Lambkill | |
Kalmia latifolia | Mountain Laurel Calico Bush Kalmia Mountain-laurel | |
Kosteletzkya virginica | Virginia Saltmarsh Mallow Virginia Fen-rose Saltmarsh Mallow Seashore Mallow | |
Lespedeza capitata | Roundhead Lespedeza Roundhead Bush-clover Round-headed Lespedeza Round-headed Bush-clover | |
Leersia oryzoides | Rice Cutgrass Rice Cut Grass | |
Lindera benzoin | Northern Spicebush Spicebush Wild Allspice | |
Limonium carolinianum | Carolina Sealavender Sea Lavender | |
Lilium canadense | Canada Lily Canadian Lily Wild Yellow Lily | |
Lilium philadelphicum | Wood Lily | |
Liatris scariosa | Devil's Bite Large Blazing Star Large Gayfeather Large Liatris Savanna Blazing Star Savanna Gayfeather Savanna Liatris | |
Liatris spicata | Dense Blazing Star Dense Gayfeather Dense Liatris Marsh Blazing Star Marsh Gayfeather Marsh Liatris | |
Liatris squarrosa | Scaly Blazing Star Scaly Gayfeather Scaly Liatris | |
Liquidambar styraciflua | Sweetgum American Sweetgum Red Gum White Gum Star-leaved Gum Starleaf Gum Alligator Tree Satin Walnut Bilsted Liquidambar | |
Lilium superbum | Turk's-cap Lily | |
Liriodendron tulipifera | Tulip Tree Tulip Poplar Yellow Poplar | |
Lobelia cardinalis | Cardinal Flower | |
Lonicera sempervirens | Coral Honeysuckle Trumpet Honeysuckle Woodbine | |
Lobelia siphilitica | Great Blue Lobelia | |
Lupinus perennis | Sundial Lupine Wild Lupine | |
Lyonia ligustrina | Maleberry He-huckleberry | |
Lyonia mariana | Piedmont Staggerbush Staggerbush | |
Magnolia acuminata | Cucumbertree Cucumber Tree Mountain Magnolia | |
Maianthemum canadense | Canada Mayflower False Lily-of-the-valley | |
Malus coronaria | Sweet Crabapple American Crab | |
Maianthemum racemosum ssp. racemosum | Feathery False Lily Of The Valley False Spikenard False Solomon's Seal Solomon's Plume Smilacina | |
Magnolia virginiana | Sweetbay Sweetbay Magnolia Southern Sweetbay Swampbay Swamp Magnolia Sweet Magnolia Small Magnolia Laurel Magnolia White Bay White Laurel Swamp Laurel Beaver Tree | |
Medeola virginiana | Indian Cucumber Indian Cucumber-root | |
Mertensia virginica | Virginia Bluebells | |
Mitella diphylla | Twoleaf Miterwort Miterwort | |
Mitchella repens | Partridgeberry Twinberry Running Box Pigeon Plum | |
Mimulus ringens | Allegheny Monkeyflower Square-stemmed Monkeyflower Square-stem Monkeyflower | |
Mikania scandens | Climbing Hempvine Climbing Hempweed | |
Monarda bradburiana | Eastern Beebalm Wild Bergamot Horsemint | |
Morella caroliniensis | Southern Bayberry Swamp Bayberry Swamp Candleberry | |
Morella cerifera | Wax Myrtle Southern Wax Myrtle Southern Bayberry Eastern Bayberry Bayberry Candleberry Tallow Shrub | |
Monarda didyma | Scarlet Beebalm Oswego Tea Red Bergamot | |
Monarda fistulosa | Wild Bergamot Beebalm | |
Morella pensylvanica | Northern Bayberry Candleberry | |
Monarda punctata | Spotted Beebalm Spotted Horsemint Horsemint | |
Morus rubra | Red Mulberry Moral | |
Nuttallanthus canadensis | Canada Toadflax Blue Toadflax Old-field Toadflax | |
Nuphar lutea | Yellow Pond Lily Yellow Cow Lily Cow Lily Spatter Dock Wakas | |
Nymphaea odorata | American White Water-lily Fragrant White Water-lily Fragrant Water-lily White Water-lily Sweet-scented White Water-lily Sweet-scented Water-lily Beaver Root | |
Nyssa sylvatica | Tupelo Blackgum Black Tupelo Sourgum Pepperidge Tupelo Gum Beetlebung | |
Oenothera biennis | Common Evening-primrose King's Cure-all Common Evening Primrose | |
Oenothera fruticosa | Narrowleaf Evening-primrose Narrow-leaf Evening-primrose Sundrops Narrowleaf Evening Primrose | |
Oenothera perennis | Little Evening-primrose Sundrops | |
Onoclea sensibilis | Sensitive Fern Bead Fern Sympathy Fern | |
Opuntia humifusa | Low Prickly Pear Smooth Prickly Pear Devil's Tongue | |
Orontium aquaticum | Goldenclub Neverwet | |
Osmunda cinnamomea | Cinnamon Fern | |
Osmunda claytoniana | Interrupted Fern | |
Osmorhiza longistylis | Longstyle Sweetroot Aniseroot Sweet-cicely Wild Licorice | |
Osmunda regalis | Royal Fern | |
Ostrya virginiana | Eastern Hop-hornbeam American Hop-hornbeam Woolly Hop-hornbean Eastern Ironwood Roughbark Ironwood Ironwood Deerwood Leverwood | |
Oxalis violacea | Violet Woodsorrel Violet Wood-sorrel | |
Panicum amarum | Bitter Panicgrass Beachgrass Coastal Panic Grass | |
Packera aurea | Golden Groundsel Golden Ragwort Butterweed | |
Passiflora incarnata | Maypop Purple Passionflower Purple Passion Vine Apricot Vine | |
Parthenocissus quinquefolia | Virginia Creeper | |
Panicum virgatum | Switchgrass Wand Panic Grass | |
Penstemon digitalis | Mississippi Penstemon Mississippi Beardtongue Smooth White Penstemon Smooth White Beardtongue Talus Slope Penstemon Talus Slope Beardtongue Foxglove Penstemon Foxglove Beardtongue | |
Penstemon laevigatus | Eastern Smooth Penstemon Eastern Smooth Beardtongue Smooth Penstemon Smooth Beardtongue Eastern Penstemon Eastern Beardtongue Hairy Penstemon Hairy Beardtongue | |
Peltandra virginica | Tuckahoe Green Arrow Arum Arrow Arum Green Arum | |
Phlox carolina | Carolina Phlox Summer Phlox Thickleaf Phlox | |
Phlox divaricata | Wild Blue Phlox Louisiana Phlox Blue Woodland Phlox Sweet William Wild Sweet William | |
Phlox maculata | Wild Sweetwilliam Phlox Meadow Phlox Wild Sweet William | |
Physocarpus opulifolius | Common Ninebark Atlantic Ninebark | |
Phlox paniculata | Fall Phlox Perennial Phlox | |
Phlox stolonifera | Creeping Phlox | |
Phlox subulata | Creeping Phlox Moss Phlox Moss Pink Rock Pink | |
Physostegia virginiana | Fall Obedient Plant False Dragonhead Virginia Lions-heart | |
Pinus echinata | Shortleaf Pine Shortleaf Yellow Pine Southern Yellow Pine Yellow Pine Shortstraw Pine Arkansas Pine Longtag Pine Spruce Pine Oldfield Pine Arkansas Soft Pine | |
Pinus rigida | Pitch Pine Torch Pine | |
Pinus serotina | Pond Pine Pocosin Pine Marsh Pine | |
Pinus strobus | Eastern White Pine Weymouth Pine | |
Pinus taeda | Loblolly Pine Oldfield Pine Bull Pine Rosemary Pine | |
Pinus virginiana | Virginia Pine Jersey Pine Scrub Pine | |
Platanus occidentalis | American Sycamore Eastern Sycamore American Plane Tree Plane Tree Buttonwood Buttonball Tree | |
Polystichum acrostichoides | Christmas Fern | |
Polygonatum biflorum | Smooth Solomon's Seal Great Solomon's-seal Sealwort | |
Pontederia cordata | Pickerelweed Pickerel Rush | |
Populus deltoides | Eastern Cottonwood Carolina Poplar Necklace Poplar Alamo | |
Populus heterophylla | Swamp Cottonwood Swamp Poplar Black Cottonwood Downy Poplar | |
Podophyllum peltatum | Mayapple Indian Apple Wild Mandrake Pomme De Mai Podophylle Pelt | |
Polygonatum pubescens | Hairy Solomon's Seal | |
Polemonium reptans | Greek Valerian Jacob's Ladder | |
Prunus americana | American Plum Wild Plum | |
Prunus maritima | Beach Plum | |
Prunus pensylvanica | Pin Cherry Fire Cherry Wild Red Cherry Bird Cherry Pigeon Cherry | |
Prunus serotina | Black Cherry Wild Black Cherry Rum Cherry | |
Prunus virginiana | Chokecherry Common Chokecherry Choke Cherry | |
Pteridium aquilinum | Western Bracken Fern Bracken Fern Western Bracken Bracken | |
Pycnanthemum incanum | Hoary Mountain Mint Silverleaf Mountain Mint | |
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium | Narrowleaf Mountain Mint Slender Mountain Mint Common Horsemint | |
Quercus alba | White Oak Northern White Oak Eastern White Oak Stave Oak Ridge White Oak Forked-leaf White Oak | |
Quercus bicolor | Swamp White Oak | |
Quercus coccinea | Scarlet Oak Red Oak | |
Quercus falcata | Southern Red Oak Bottomland Red Oak Three-lobed Red Oak Spanish Oak | |
Quercus ilicifolia | Bear Oak Scrub Oak | |
Quercus marilandica | Blackjack Oak Barren Oak Black Oak Jack Oak | |
Quercus michauxii | Swamp Chestnut Oak Basket Oak Cow Oak Swamp Oak | |
Quercus montana | Chestnut Oak Rock Chestnut Oak Mountain Chestnut Oak Rock Oak Tanbark Oak | |
Quercus muehlenbergii | Chinkapin Oak Chinquapin Oak Chestnut Oak Yellow Chestnut Oak Rock Chestnut Oak Yellow Oak Rock Oak | |
Quercus nigra | Water Oak Possum Oak Duck Oak Punk Oak Spotted Oak | |
Quercus palustris | Pin Oak Swamp Spanish Oak | |
Quercus phellos | Willow Oak Swamp Willow Oak Pin Oak Peach Oak | |
Quercus rubra | Northern Red Oak | |
Quercus stellata | Post Oak Iron Oak Cross Oak | |
Quercus velutina | Black Oak Quercitron Oak Yellow Oak Smoothbark Oak Yellowbark Oak | |
Rhus aromatica | Fragrant Sumac Aromatic Sumac Lemon Sumac Polecat Bush | |
Rhododendron atlanticum | Dwarf Azalea Coastal Azalea | |
Rhododendron calendulaceum | Flame Azalea | |
Rhododendron canescens | Mountain Azalea Wild Azalea Honeysuckle Azalea Piedmont Azalea Sweet Azalea Hoary Azalea Southern Pinxterflower | |
Rhus copallinum | Winged Sumac Shining Sumac Flameleaf Sumac Mountain Sumac Dwarf Sumac Wing-rib Sumac Black Sumac Upland Sumac | |
Rhus glabra | Smooth Sumac | |
Rhododendron maximum | Great Laurel Wild Rhododendron Rosebay Rhododendron White Laurel Rosebay | |
Rhododendron periclymenoides | Pink Azalea Pinxterbloom Azalea Pinxterflower | |
Rhododendron prinophyllum | Early Azalea Roseshell Azalea Woolly Azalea | |
Rhus typhina | Staghorn Sumac Velvet Sumac | |
Rhexia virginica | Handsome-harry Virginia Meadow Beauty Meadow-beauty | |
Rhododendron viscosum | Swamp Azalea Clammy Azalea Cory Azalea Hammock Sweet Azalea | |
Ribes rotundifolium | Appalachian Gooseberry Wild Gooseberry Round-leaf Currant | |
Rosa carolina | Carolina Rose Pasture Rose | |
Rosa palustris | Swamp Rose | |
Rubus allegheniensis | Allegheny Blackberry | |
Ruellia caroliniensis | Carolina Wild Petunia | |
Rudbeckia fulgida | Orange Coneflower Orange Rudbeckia Perennial Black-eyed Susan Goldstrum | |
Rudbeckia hirta | Black-eyed Susan Common Black-eyed Susan Brown-eyed Susan Blackeyed Susan | |
Rudbeckia laciniata | Green-headed Coneflower Greenhead Coneflower Cutleaf Coneflower Wild Goldenglow Sochan | |
Rubus odoratus | Purple-flowering Raspberry Thimbleberry | |
Rudbeckia triloba | Browneyed Susan Brown-eyed-susan Thin-leaved Coneflower Three-lobed Rudbeckia | |
Sassafras albidum | Sassafras White Sassafras Ague Tree Cinnamon Wood Mitten Tree Saloop Smelling Stick | |
Sabatia angularis | Rosepink Rose-pink | |
Sanguinaria canadensis | Bloodroot | |
Saururus cernuus | Lizard's Tail Lizard Tail Breastweed Water Dragon | |
Saccharum giganteum | Sugarcane Plumegrass Giant Plumegrass | |
Salix humilis | Prairie Willow | |
Sagittaria latifolia | Broadleaf Arrowhead Arrowhead Duckroot Duck-potato Wapato | |
Salvia lyrata | Lyreleaf Sage Cancer Weed | |
Salix nigra | Black Willow Gulf Black Willow Swamp Willow Sauz | |
Sambucus nigra ssp. canadensis | Common Elderberry Black Elder Mexican Elderberry Common Elder Elderberry Tapiro Sauco | |
Saxifraga pensylvanica | Eastern Swamp Saxifrage | |
Sambucus racemosa var. racemosa | Red Elderberry Scarlet Elder Red-berried Elder | |
Salix sericea | Silky Willow | |
Saxifraga virginiensis | Early Saxifrage | |
Scirpus atrovirens | Green Bulrush Dark Green Bulrush | |
Scirpus cyperinus | Woolgrass Cottongrass Bulrush Marsh Bulrush Teddybear Paws | |
Scutellaria integrifolia | Helmet-flower Rough Skullcap Common Large Skullcap Tall Skullcap | |
Schoenoplectus pungens var. pungens | Common Threesquare Common Three-square | |
Schizachyrium scoparium | Little Bluestem Popotillo Azul | |
Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani | Softstem Bulrush Soft-stem Club-rush Great Bulrush | |
Senna marilandica | Maryland Senna Maryland Wild Senna Southern Wild Senna Wild Senna | |
Sedum ternatum | Woodland Stonecrop Wild Stonecrop | |
Sisyrinchium angustifolium | Narrowleaf Blue-eyed Grass Narrow-leaf Blue-eyed-grass Bermuda Blue-eyed Grass Blue-eyed Grass | |
Sisyrinchium atlanticum | Eastern Blue-eyed Grass | |
Silene caroliniana | Sticky Catchfly Wild Pink | |
Silphium perfoliatum | Cup Plant Indian Cup | |
Silene stellata | Widow's Frill Starry Campion | |
Silene virginica | Fire Pink Scarlet Catchfly | |
Smilax herbacea | Smooth Carrionflower Carrionflower | |
Solidago altissima | Tall Goldenrod Late Goldenrod Canadian Goldenrod Canada Goldenrod | |
Sorbus americana | American Mountain Ash American Mountain-ash | |
Solidago caesia | Wreath Goldenrod Blue-stemmed Goldenrod Bluestem Goldenrod | |
Solidago canadensis | Canada Goldenrod Canadian Goldenrod Tall Goldenrod Giant Goldenrod | |
Solidago flexicaulis | Zigzag Goldenrod Broadleaf Goldenrod | |
Solidago juncea | Early Goldenrod Plume Goldenrod | |
Solidago nemoralis | Gray Goldenrod Prairie Goldenrod Oldfield Goldenrod Grayleaf Goldenrod Gray-leaved Goldenrod Dyersweed Goldenrod Dwarf Goldenrod Field Goldenrod | |
Sorghastrum nutans | Indiangrass Yellow Indiangrass Indian Grass | |
Solidago odora | Anisescented Goldenrod Anise-scented Goldenrod Sweet Goldenrod | |
Solidago rugosa | Wrinkleleaf Goldenrod Wrinkle-leaf Goldenrod Rough-leaved Goldenrod Roughleaf Goldenrod Rough-stemmed Goldenrod Roughstem Goldenrod | |
Solidago sempervirens | Seaside Goldenrod | |
Solidago speciosa | Showy Goldenrod Noble Goldenrod | |
Spartina alterniflora | Saltmarsh Cordgrass Saltwater Cordgrass Salt Cordgrass Smooth Cordgrass | |
Spiraea alba | White Meadowsweet | |
Spiraea alba var. latifolia | White Meadowsweet Meadowsweet | |
Sparganium americanum | American Bur-reed | |
Spiranthes cernua | Nodding Ladies'-tresses Ladies'-tresses Nodding Lady's Tresses | |
Spartina cynosuroides | Big Cordgrass | |
Spartina patens | Saltmeadow Cordgrass Salt-meadow Cordgrass Marsh-hay Cordgrass | |
Spartina pectinata | Prairie Cordgrass Freshwater Cordgrass Sloughgrass | |
Spiraea tomentosa | Steeplebush | |
Stellaria pubera | Star Chickweed | |
Stachys tenuifolia | Smooth Hedgenettle Slender Betony | |
Staphylea trifolia | American Bladdernut | |
Symphyotrichum cordifolium | Broad-leaved Aster Common Blue Wood Aster Heartleaf Aster | |
Symphyotrichum ericoides | White Heath Aster Heath Aster | |
Symphyotrichum ericoides var. ericoides | White Heath Aster Heath Aster White Aster White Prairie Aster | |
Symplocarpus foetidus | Skunk Cabbage Skunk-cabbage | |
Symphyotrichum laeve | Smooth Blue Aster | |
Symphyotrichum laeve var. laeve | Smooth Blue Aster Smooth Aster | |
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae | New England Aster New England American-aster | |
Symphyotrichum novi-belgii | New York Aster | |
Symphyotrichum novi-belgii var. novi-belgii | New York Aster | |
Taxodium distichum | Bald Cypress Baldcypress Common Bald Cypress Southern Bald Cypress Deciduous Cypress Southern Cypress Swamp Cypress Red Cypress White Cypress Yellow Cypress Gulf Cypress Tidewater Red Cypress | |
Thalictrum dioicum | Early Meadow-rue | |
Thelypteris noveboracensis | New York Fern Tapering Fern | |
Thuja occidentalis | Arborvitae Eastern Arborvitae Northern White Cedar | |
Thelypteris palustris | Eastern Marsh Fern Marsh Fern | |
Thalictrum pubescens | King Of The Meadow King-of-the-meadow Tall Meadow Rue | |
Thalictrum thalictroides | Rue Anemone Rue-anemone | |
Tilia americana | American Basswood American Linden Lime Tree Bee Tree | |
Tiarella cordifolia | Heartleaf Foamflower Heart-leaf Foamflower | |
Tripsacum dactyloides | Eastern Gamagrass Fakahatchee Grass | |
Trillium erectum | Red Trillium Red Wakerobin Stinking Benjamin Wet Dog Trillium Wet Dog Wakerobin Purple Trillium Purple Wakerobin | |
Tridens flavus | Purpletop Tridens Redtop Tridens Tall Redtop Tridens Purpletop Redtop Tall Redtop | |
Trillium grandiflorum | White Wake-robin White Trillium Large-flower Wake-robin Large-flower Trillium Large-flowered Wake-robin Large-flowered Trillium | |
Trillium sessile | Toadshade Red Trillium Red Wake-robin Sessile Trillium Sessile Wake-robin Yellow Trillium Yellow Wake-robin | |
Trillium undulatum | Painted Trillium Painted Wakerobin | |
Tradescantia virginiana | Virginia Spiderwort Spider Lily | |
Tsuga canadensis | Eastern Hemlock | |
Ulmus americana | American Elm White Elm Soft Elm Water Elm Common Elm | |
Ulmus rubra | Slippery Elm Red Elm Gray Elm Soft Elm | |
Uvularia grandiflora | Largeflower Bellwort Large-flower Bellwort Merrybells | |
Uvularia perfoliata | Perfoliate Bellwort Mealy Bellwort Merrybells | |
Uvularia sessilifolia | Spreading Bellwort Straw Lily Wild Oats Merrybells Sessile-leaf Bellwort Sessile Bellwort | |
Vaccinium angustifolium | Lowbush Blueberry Late Lowbush Blueberry | |
Vaccinium corymbosum | Highbush Blueberry | |
Vaccinium macrocarpon | Cranberry Large Cranberry | |
Vaccinium pallidum | Blue Ridge Blueberry Early Lowbush Blueberry | |
Vaccinium stamineum | Deerberry | |
Verbesina alternifolia | Wingstem Yellow Ironweed | |
Verbena hastata | Swamp Verbena Blue Verbena Blue Vervain Simpler's Joy | |
Vernonia noveboracensis | New York Ironweed | |
Veratrum viride | Green False Hellebore Green Corn Lily | |
Veronicastrum virginicum | Culver's Root | |
Veratrum virginicum | Virginia Bunchflower | |
Viburnum acerifolium | Mapleleaf Viburnum Maple-leaf Viburnum Maple-leaf Arrowwood Arrowwood | |
Viola cucullata | Marsh Blue Violet Blue Marsh Violet Thin Leaf Wood Violet | |
Viburnum dentatum | Southern Arrowwood | |
Viola hastata | Halberd-leaf Yellow Violet | |
Viburnum nudum | Possumhaw Viburnum Possumhaw | |
Viburnum nudum var. cassinoides | Withe-rod Witherod Viburnum Possumhaw Wild Raisin | |
Viola pedata | Birdfoot Violet Bird's-foot Violet Bird-foot Violet | |
Viburnum prunifolium | Blackhaw Smooth Blackhaw Blackhaw Viburnum Smooth Blackhaw Viburnum Stagbush | |
Viola pubescens var. pubescens | Downy Yellow Violet Downy Violet Hairy Violet Yellow Violet Common Yellow Violet | |
Viola sororia | Missouri Violet Common Blue Violet Hooded Blue Violet Florida Violet Meadow Violet Confederate Violet Dooryard Violet Purple Violet Woolly Blue Violet Wood Violet Hooded Violet | |
Viola striata | Striped Cream Violet Striped Violet Common White Violet Pale Violet | |
Wisteria frutescens | American Wisteria Texas Wisteria Kentucky Wisteria | |
Woodwardia areolata | Netted Chainfern Chain Fern Netted Chain Fern | |
Woodwardia virginica | Virginia Chainfern Virginia Chain Fern | |
Yucca filamentosa | Adam's Needle | |
Zizania aquatica | Annual Wildrice Wild Rice | |
Zizia aurea | Golden Zizia Golden Alexanders | |
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