Special Collections
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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| Elymus hystrix | Eastern Bottlebrush Grass Bottlebrush Grass | |
| Elliottia racemosa | Georgiaplume Elliottia | |
| Enemion biternatum | Eastern False Rue Anemone Isopyrum | |
| Epigaea repens | Trailing Arbutus Mayflower Plymouth Mayflower | |
| Eriogonum allenii | Shale Barren Buckwheat | |
| Erythronium albidum | White Troutlily White Dogtooth-violet White Fawnlily Adder's-tongue | |
| Erythronium americanum | Yellow Trout-lily American Trout-lily Eastern Trout-lily Yellow Dogtooth Violet Adder's Tongue | |
| Eryngium aquaticum | Rattlesnakemaster Rattlesnake-master Snakeroot | |
| Eriocaulon compressum | Flattened Pipewort Hat Pins | |
| Erythrina herbacea | Coralbean Cherokee Bean Red Cardinal | |
| Erigeron philadelphicus | Philadelphia Fleabane Fleabane Daisy | |
| Erigeron pulchellus | Robin's Plantain Poor Robin's Plantain Rose Petty Robert's Plantain Blue Spring-daisy | |
| Erigeron pulchellus var. pulchellus | Robin's Plantain | |
| Erythronium rostratum | Yellow Troutlily Dog-tooth Violet Yellow Fawnlily Beaked Troutlily | |
| Eragrostis spectabilis | Purple Lovegrass Purple Love Grass Purple Plains Lovegrass Tumblegrass Petticoat Climber | |
| Euonymus americanus | American Strawberry Bush Strawberry Bush Brook Euonymus Hearts-a-burstin Bursting Heart Wahoo | |
| Euonymus atropurpureus var. atropurpureus | Eastern Wahoo | |
| Eurybia avita | Alexander's Rock Aster | |
| Euthamia caroliniana | Slender Goldentop Slender Fragrant Goldenrod | |
| Eurybia divaricata | White Wood Aster | |
| Eutrochium fistulosum | Joe-pye Weed Trumpetweed Queen Of The Meadow Hollow Joe-pye Weed | |
| Eurybia hemispherica | Southern Prairie Aster | |
| Eurybia ×herveyi | Hervey's Aster | |
| Eurybia macrophylla | Bigleaf Aster Large-leaf Wood-aster | |
| Eupatorium perfoliatum | Common Boneset | |
| Eubotrys racemosus | Swamp Sweetbells Swamp Doghobble Sweetbells Leucothoe Sweetbells Deciduous Swamp Fetterbush Coastal Fetterbush Swamp Leucothoe | |
| Eubotrys recurvus | Mountain Fetterbush Redtwig Doghobble Recurved Doghobble | |
| Eupatorium rotundifolium var. ovatum | Roundleaf Thoroughwort | |
| Eurybia schreberi | Schreber's Aster | |
| Eupatorium serotinum | White Boneset Lateflowering Thoroughwort Late Boneset Late-flowering Boneset | |
| Eurybia spectabilis | Eastern Showy Aster Showy Aster | |
| Eupatorium ×truncatum | Upland Boneset | |
| Fagus grandifolia | American Beech White Beech Red Beech Ridge Beech Beechnut Tree | |
| Forestiera acuminata | Eastern Swamp Privet Swamp Privet Texas Privet | |
| Fothergilla gardenii | Dwarf Witchalder Dwarf Witch-alder Dwarf Fothergilla | |
| Fothergilla major | Mountain Witchalder Mountain Witch-alder Large Fothergilla | |
| Franklinia alatamaha | Franklin Tree Franklintree Franklinia | |
| Fraxinus americana | White Ash American Ash Cane Ash Smallseed White Ash Biltmore White Ash Biltmore Ash | |
| Frangula caroliniana | Carolina Buckthorn Carolina False Buckthorn Yellow Buckthorn Indian Cherry Yellowwood | |
| Fraxinus pennsylvanica | Green Ash Red Ash Swamp Ash River Ash Water Ash Darlington Ash | |
| Fragaria virginiana | Virginia Strawberry Wild Strawberry | |
| Gaylussacia baccata | Black Huckleberry | |
| Gaylussacia brachycera | Box Huckleberry | |
| Gaylussacia frondosa | Blue Huckleberry Dangleberry | |
| Gaultheria procumbens | Eastern Teaberry Wintergreen Checkerberry | |
| Galearis spectabilis | Showy Orchid Purple-hooded Orchid Gay Orchid | |
| Galax urceolata | Beetleweed Galax Coltsfoot Wand Flower | |
| Gentiana andrewsii | Closed Bottle Gentian Closed Gentian Bottle Gentian | |
| Gentiana austromontana | Appalachian Gentian Blue Ridge Gentian | |
| Gentiana autumnalis | Pine Barren Gentian | |
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