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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 |
| Dichanthelium clandestinum | Deer-tongue Deertongue | |
| 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 | |
| Dodecatheon meadia | Pride-of-Ohio Roosterheads Shootingstar Pride of Ohio Eastern shooting star | |
| Doellingeria umbellata | Parasol whitetop Flat-topped White Aster | |
| Doellingeria umbellata var. umbellata | Flat-top aster Parasol whitetop | |
| Dryopteris carthusiana | Shield fern Spinulose wood fern Spinulose woodfern 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 wild-rye Riverbank wildrye | |
| Elymus virginicus | Virginia wildrye Virginia wild rye | |
| Erythronium americanum | Yellow trout-lily American trout-lily Dogtooth violet Eastern trout-lily | |
| Erigeron pulchellus | Robin's plantain Poor Robin's plantain Rose petty Robert's plantain Blue spring-daisy | |
| Eurybia divaricata | White wood aster | |
| Eupatoriadelphus dubius | Coastal plain joepyeweed Joe-Pye weed | |
| Eupatoriadelphus fistulosus | Trumpetweed Queen of the meadow Hollow Joe-pye weed Joe-pye weed | |
| Eupatorium hyssopifolium | Hyssop-leaf Boneset Hyssopleaf thoroughwort | |
| Eupatoriadelphus maculatus var. maculatus | Spotted trumpetweed Spotted joe-pye-weed | |
| Eupatorium perfoliatum | Common boneset | |
| Eutrochium purpureum | Purple joepyeweed Sweet-scented joepyeweed Sweet joepyeweed | |
| Eubotrys racemosa | Fetter-bush Leucothoe Swamp doghobble Sweet-bells Leucothe Sweetbells | |
| Fagus grandifolia | American beech | |
| Festuca rubra | Red fescue | |
| Fraxinus americana | White ash | |
| Fraxinus pennsylvanica | Green ash Red 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 | |
| Heuchera americana | American alumroot | |
| Helianthus angustifolius | Swamp 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 | Crimsoneyed rosemallow Crimson-eyed rose-mallow Marshmallow hibiscus | |
| Houstonia caerulea | Azure bluet Quaker-ladies Bluets | |
| Hydrangea arborescens | Wild hydrangea Sevenbark | |
| Hypericum densiflorum | Bushy St. Johnswort | |
| Hylotelephium telephioides | Allegheny stonecrop | |
| Hydrophyllum virginianum | Eastern waterleaf Shawnee salad Virginia waterleaf | |
| Ilex glabra | Inkberry Gallberry | |
| Ilex laevigata | Smooth winterberry | |
| Ilex opaca | American holly Christmas holly | |
| Ilex verticillata | Common 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 | Coastal iris Slender blue flag Slender blue iris | |
| Iris versicolor | Harlequin blueflag Northern blue flag | |
| Iris virginica | Virginia iris Great Blue Flag | |
| Itea virginica | Virginia sweetspire Tassel-white | |
| Iva frutescens | High-tide bush High-water shrub Jesuit's bark 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 | |
| Juncus roemerianus | Black needlerush Needlegrass rush | |
| Juniperus virginiana | Eastern red cedar Eastern redcedar Virginia juniper | |
| Kalmia angustifolia | Sheep laurel Lambkill kalmia Lambkill | |
| Kalmia latifolia | Mountain laurel Calico bush Kalmia | |
| Kosteletzkya virginica | Virginia saltmarsh mallow Virginia fen-rose Seashore mallow Salt Marsh-mallow | |
| Lespedeza capitata | Roundhead lespedeza Roundhead bush-clover | |
| Leersia oryzoides | Rice cut grass Rice cutgrass | |
| Lindera benzoin | Northern spicebush Spicebush | |
| Limonium carolinianum | Carolina sealavender Sea lavender | |
| Lilium canadense | Canada lily Canadian lily Wild yellow lily | |
| Lilium philadelphicum | Wood lily | |
| Liatris pilosa var. pilosa | Shaggy blazing star Grass-leaf blazingstar | |
| Liatris scariosa | Devil's bite Large blazing star Savanna blazing star | |
| Liatris spicata | Dense blazing star Dense gayfeather Marsh blazing star | |
| Liatris squarrosa | Blazing star Scaly blazing star Scaly gayfeather | |
| Liquidambar styraciflua | Sweetgum American sweetgum | |
| 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 | |
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
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