Mt. Cuba Center
The Copeland family dedicated their Mt. Cuba estate to conserving the native plants that they cherished for future generations to enjoy in their natural setting. Today, the Center is passionately committed to preserving the rich flora of the Appalachian Piedmont Region through conservation, horticulture, and education & research.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
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Baptisia alba var. macrophylla | Largeleaf Wild Indigo White Wild Indigo | |
Baptisia arachnifera | Hairy Rattleweed Cobwebby Wild Indigo Hairy Wild Indigo Hairy False Indigo | |
Baptisia australis | Blue Wild Indigo Wild Blue Indigo Blue False Indigo | |
Baptisia australis var. aberrans | Blue Wild Indigo | |
Baptisia australis var. minor | Blue Wild Indigo | |
Baptisia bracteata | Longbract Wild Indigo | |
Baptisia cinerea | Grayhairy Wild Indigo | |
Baptisia lanceolata | Gopherweed Pineland Baptisia | |
Baptisia megacarpa | Apalachicola Wild Indigo | |
Baptisia simplicifolia | Scareweed | |
Baptisia sphaerocarpa | Yellow Wild Indigo Green Wild Indigo Bush Pea Yellow Wisteria | |
Baptisia tinctoria | Horseflyweed Yellow Wild Indigo | |
Berberis canadensis | American Barberry | |
Betula lenta | Sweet Birch Cherry Birch Black Birch Mahogany Birch | |
Betula nigra | River Birch Red Birch Black Birch Water Birch | |
Bignonia capreolata | Crossvine | |
Bigelowia nuttallii | Nuttall's Rayless Goldenrod | |
Bouteloua curtipendula | Sideoats Grama Banderilla Banderita Navajita | |
Botrychium virginianum | Rattlesnake Fern | |
Brunnichia ovata | American Buckwheat Vine | |
Carex albursina | White Bear Sedge | |
Carex albicans | Whitetinge Sedge | |
Callicarpa americana | American Beautyberry French Mulberry | |
Carex amphibola | Eastern Narrowleaf Sedge Creek Sedge | |
Carex appalachica | Appalachian Sedge | |
Carya aquatica | Water Hickory Bitter Water Hickory Bitter Hickory Swamp Hickory Water Pignut Hickory Water Pignut Bitter Pecan | |
Carex atlantica | Prickly Bog Sedge | |
Carex bromoides | Bromelike Sedge | |
Carpinus caroliniana | American Hornbeam Blue Beech Water Beech Musclewood Ironwood | |
Carex cherokeensis | Cherokee Sedge | |
Carya cordiformis | Bitternut Hickory Swamp Hickory Bitternut Pig Hickory Pignut Hickory Pignut White Hickory Red Hickory Bitter Walnut Bitter Pecan | |
Castilleja coccinea | Scarlet Paintbrush Scarlet Indian Paintbrush Painted Cup Indian Paintbrush | |
Cardamine concatenata | Cutleaf Toothwort Pepper Root | |
Carex communis var. communis | Fibrousroot Sedge | |
Carex crinita | Fringed Sedge | |
Cardamine diphylla | Crinkleroot Two-leaved Toothwort Two-leaf Toothwort | |
Campanula divaricata | Southern Harebell Appalachian Bellflower Small Bonny Bellflower | |
Carex digitalis | Slender Woodland Sedge | |
Carex eburnea | Bristleleaf Sedge | |
Calycanthus floridus | Eastern Sweetshrub Carolina Allspice Sweet Shrub | |
Carex flaccosperma | Thinfruit 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 grisea | Inflated Narrow-leaf Sedge | |
Callisia graminea | Grassleaf Roseling | |
Carex grayi | Gray's Sedge | |
Carex jamesii | James' Sedge | |
Cardamine maxima | Large Toothwort | |
Carya myristiciformis | Nutmeg Hickory Swamp Hickory Bitter Water Hickory Bitter Hickory | |
Carya ovata | Shagbark Hickory Carolina Hickory Scalybark Hickory Upland Hickory Shellbark Hickory | |
Caltha palustris | Yellow Marsh Marigold Cowslip | |
Carex pensylvanica | Pennsylvania Sedge | |
Carex plantaginea | Plantainleaf Sedge Plantain-leaf Sedge | |
Carex platyphylla | Broadleaf Sedge | |
Castanea pumila | Allegheny Chinquapin Allegheny Chinkapin Chinquapin Chinkapin | |
Camassia scilloides | Atlantic Camas Wild Hyacinth | |
Carex stricta | Upright Sedge Uptight Sedge Tussock Sedge | |
Carex swanii | Swan's 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 | |
Calopogon tuberosus | Tuberous Grasspink Grass Pink | |
Ceanothus americanus | New Jersey Tea Redroot | |
Cercis canadensis | Eastern Redbud Redbud | |
Celtis laevigata | Sugar Hackberry Texas Sugarberry Sugarberry Southern Hackberry Lowland Hackberry Hackberry Palo Blanco | |
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 | |
Celtis tenuifolia | Dwarf Hackberry Small Hackberry Small Sugar Hackberry Georgia Hackberry Upland Hackberry | |
Centrosema virginianum | Spurred Butterfly Pea Butterfly Pea | |
Chamaedaphne calyculata | Leatherleaf Cassandra | |
Chelone cuthbertii | Cuthbert's Turtlehead | |
Chelone glabra | White Turtlehead | |
Cheilanthes lanosa | Hairy Lipfern | |
Chasmanthium latifolium | Inland Sea Oats Indian Wood Oats Wild Oats River Oats Flathead Oats Upland Oats Upland Sea Oats | |
Chamaelirium luteum | Fairywand Blazing Star | |
Chelone lyonii | Pink Turtlehead | |
Chrysopsis mariana | Maryland Goldenaster Maryland Golden-aster | |
Chimaphila maculata | Striped Prince's Pine Spotted Wintergreen Pipsissewa Spotted Pipsissewa Ratsbane Rheumatism Root Striped Wintergreen | |
Chelone obliqua | Red Turtlehead | |
Chionanthus pygmaeus | Pygmy Fringetree | |
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 var. australe | Southern Green And Gold Green And Gold | |
Chrysogonum virginianum var. virginianum | Northern Green And Gold Green And Gold | |
Cirsium discolor | Field Thistle | |
Clethra acuminata | Mountain Pepperbush Mountain Sweet Pepperbush Cinnamon Clethra | |
Clematis addisonii | Addison's Leather Flower | |
Clethra alnifolia | Coastal Pepperbush Coastal Sweet Pepperbush Coastal Sweet Pepper Alderleaf Pepperbush Alderleaf Clethra Clethra Summer Sweet | |
Claytonia caroliniana | Carolina Springbeauty | |
Clinopodium coccineum | Scarlet Calamint Scarlet Wild Basil Red Savory Red Mint Shrub Scarlet Balm Southern Calamint Red Basil | |
Clematis crispa | Swamp Leatherflower Curly Clematis Blue-jasmine Curlflower Curly Virgin's Bower Marsh Clematis | |
Clinopodium georgianum | Georgia Calamint Georgia Basil Clinopodium | |
Clematis glaucophylla | Whiteleaf Leather-flower | |
Cladrastis kentukea | Kentucky Yellowwood Yellowwood Gopherwood Virgilia | |
Cliftonia monophylla | Buckwheat Tree Buckwheat Bush | |
Clematis morefieldii | Huntsville Vasevine Morefield's Leatherflower | |
Clematis ochroleuca | Curlyheads | |
Clematis reticulata | Netleaf Leather Flower | |
Clematis socialis | Alabama Leather Flower | |
Clematis texensis | Scarlet Clematis Scarlet Leatherflower Texas Clematis | |
Clintonia umbellulata | White Clintonia White Bluebead-lily Speckled Wood-lily | |
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