Special Collections
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 |
| 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 | |
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