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
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Phlox pilosa ssp. ozarkana | Ozark Phlox | |
| Phlox pulchra | Alabama Phlox | |
| Phacelia purshii | Miami Mist | |
| Phlox stolonifera | Creeping Phlox | |
| Phlox subulata | Creeping Phlox Moss Phlox Moss Pink Rock Pink | |
| Physostegia virginiana | Fall Obedient Plant False Dragonhead Virginia Lions-heart | |
| Pinckneya bracteata | Fevertree Pinckneya Feverbark Poinsettia Tree Georgia Bark | |
| Pieris floribunda | Mountain Fetterbush Mountain Andromeda | |
| Pityopsis graminifolia var. graminifolia | Narrowleaf Silkgrass Grass-leaved Golden-aster | |
| Pieris phillyreifolia | Climbing Fetterbush | |
| Pinguicula primuliflora | Southern Butterwort | |
| Pinus pungens | Table Mountain Pine Hickory Pine Prickly Pine | |
| Picea rubens | Red Spruce Yellow Spruce West Virginia Spruce Eastern Spruce He-balsam | |
| Pinus serotina | Pond Pine Pocosin Pine Marsh Pine | |
| Pinus strobus | Eastern White Pine Weymouth Pine | |
| Pinus virginiana | Virginia Pine Jersey Pine Scrub Pine | |
| Platanthera blephariglottis | White Fringed Orchid | |
| Platanthera ciliaris | Orange Fringed Orchid Yellow Fringed Orchid Orange Plume Bobwhite's-mocassin Owl's-head | |
| Platanthera integrilabia | White Fringeless Orchid Monkeyface | |
| Platanus occidentalis | American Sycamore Eastern Sycamore American Plane Tree Plane Tree Buttonwood Buttonball Tree | |
| Platanthera peramoena | Purple Fringeless Orchid | |
| Polystichum acrostichoides | Christmas Fern | |
| Polygonella americana | Southern Jointweed | |
| Polygonatum biflorum | Smooth Solomon's Seal Great Solomon's-seal Sealwort | |
| Polygonatum biflorum var. commutatum | Great Solomon's Seal Giant Solomon's Seal | |
| Polymnia canadensis | Whiteflower Leafcup | |
| Polygala cymosa | Tall Pinebarren Milkwort | |
| Polygala lutea | Orange Milkwort Candy Weed | |
| Potentilla neumanniana | Spring Cinquefoil | |
| Pogonia ophioglossoides | Rose Pogonia Snake-mouth Orchid Beard Flower | |
| Polygala paucifolia | Gaywings Fringed Polygala Flowering Wintergreen | |
| Podophyllum peltatum | Mayapple Indian Apple Wild Mandrake Pomme De Mai Podophylle Pelt | |
| Polygala ramosa | Low Pinebarren Milkwort Yellow Savanna Milkwort | |
| Polemonium reptans | Greek Valerian Jacob's Ladder | |
| Polemonium reptans var. villosum | Greek Valerian | |
| Polemonium vanbruntiae | Vanbrunt's Polemonium | |
| Polypodium virginianum | Rock Polypody | |
| Prosartes lanuginosa | Yellow Fairybells Yellow Mandarin | |
| Prosartes maculata | Nodding Mandarin Spotted Mandarin | |
| Prunus serotina | Black Cherry Wild Black Cherry Rum Cherry | |
| Pteridium aquilinum | Western Bracken Fern Bracken Fern Western Bracken Bracken | |
| Ptelea trifoliata | Wafer Ash Common Hoptree Hop Tree | |
| Pycnanthemum flexuosum | Appalachian Mountainmint | |
| Pycnanthemum incanum | Hoary Mountain Mint Silverleaf Mountain Mint | |
| Pyrularia pubera | Buffalo Nut | |
| 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 boyntonii | Boynton Sand Post Oak Boynton Oak | |
| Quercus coccinea | Scarlet Oak Red Oak | |
| Quercus ×comptoniae | Compton Oak | |
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