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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Abies balsamea | Balsam Fir Blister Pine Northern Balsam | |
Abies fraseri | Fraser Fir She-balsam | |
Acer floridanum | Southern Sugar Maple Florida Maple Caddo Maple Rock Maple | |
Acer leucoderme | Chalk Maple Whitebark Maple | |
Acer nigrum | Black Maple | |
Actaea pachypoda | White Baneberry Dolls Eyes | |
Acer pensylvanicum | Striped Maple Moosewood | |
Actaea podocarpa | Mountain Bugbane | |
Actaea racemosa | Black Baneberry | |
Actaea racemosa var. racemosa | Black Cohosh Black Bugbane Bugbane Black Snakeroot Fairy Candles | |
Acer rubrum | Red Maple Scarlet Maple Soft Maple | |
Actaea rubifolia | Appalachian Bugbane | |
Actaea rubra | Red Baneberry | |
Acer rubrum var. drummondii | Drummond's Maple Drummond Red Maple Swamp Maple | |
Acer saccharinum | Silver Maple Soft Maple White Maple | |
Acer saccharum | Sugar Maple Northern Sugar Maple | |
Acer spicatum | Mountain Maple | |
Aconitum uncinatum | Southern Blue Monkshood Monkshood | |
Adiantum capillus-veneris | Southern Maidenhair Fern Common Maidenhair Fern Maidenhair Fern Venus Hair Fern | |
Adlumia fungosa | Climbing Fumatory Allegheny Vine Mountain Fringe | |
Adiantum pedatum | Northern Maidenhair Fern Maidenhair Fern | |
Aesculus flava | Yellow Buckeye Sweet Buckeye | |
Aesculus glabra | Ohio Buckeye Texas Buckeye Fetid Buckeye Horse Chestnut | |
Aesculus pavia | Red Buckeye Scarlet Buckeye Firecracker Plant | |
Aesculus parviflora | Bottlebrush Buckeye | |
Aesculus sylvatica | Painted Buckeye | |
Ageratina altissima var. altissima | White Snakeroot | |
Agarista populifolia | Florida Hobblebush Tall Fetterbush Florida Leucothoe Agarista | |
Agalinis purpurea | Purple False Foxglove Purple Gerardia Gerardia | |
Allium allegheniense | Allegheny Onion | |
Allium cernuum | Nodding Onion | |
Alnus maritima | Seaside Alder | |
Allium speculae | Flatrock Onion Little River Canyon Onion Ownbey's Onion | |
Allium tricoccum | Wild Leek Ramp | |
Alnus viridis ssp. crispa | Mountain Alder Green Alder Sitka Alder | |
Amelanchier arborea | Common Serviceberry Downy Serviceberry Shadbush Juneberry Junebush Shadblow Sarvis | |
Ampelaster carolinianus | Climbing Aster Climbing-aster | |
Amelanchier canadensis | Canadian Serviceberry Canadian Service-berry Shadblow Serviceberry Juneberry Shadbush Junebush | |
Amsonia ciliata | Fringed Bluestar Bluestar Texas Bluestar | |
Amsonia ciliata var. ciliata | Fringed Bluestar | |
Amsonia ciliata var. tenuifolia | Fringed Bluestar | |
Ampelopsis cordata | Heartleaf Peppervine Heart-leaf Ampelopsis | |
Amsonia hubrichtii | Hubricht's Bluestar | |
Amsonia illustris | Ozark Bluestar Showy Blue-star Missouri Blue Star Swamp Bluestar | |
Amelanchier ×intermedia | Intermediate Serviceberry Intermediate Shadbush | |
Amelanchier laevis | Allegheny Serviceberry Allegheny Service-berry Serviceberry | |
Amianthium muscitoxicum | Fly Poison Crow Poison | |
Amelanchier obovalis | Coastal Serviceberry Coastal Service-berry Shadbush Coastal Juneberry | |
Amaranthus pumilus | Seaside Amaranth | |
Amsonia rigida | Stiff Bluestar Marsh Bluestar | |
Amelanchier sanguinea | Roundleaf Serviceberry Red-twig Serviceberry | |
Amelanchier stolonifera | Running Serviceberry | |
Amsonia tabernaemontana | Eastern Bluestar Blue Dogbane Willow Amsonia Woodland Bluestar | |
Amsonia tabernaemontana var. salicifolia | Eastern Bluestar | |
Anemone canadensis | Canadian Anemone Round-leaf Thimbleweed Canada Anemone Windflower Meadow Anemone | |
Anemone caroliniana | Carolina Anemone Carolina Thimbleweed Southern Thimbleweed | |
Andropogon glomeratus | Bushy Bluestem Brushy Bluestem | |
Andropogon gyrans | Elliott's Bluestem | |
Anemone quinquefolia | Wood Anemone Nightcaps Windflower | |
Andropogon ternarius | Splitbeard Bluestem Split Bluestem | |
Angelica triquinata | Filmy Angelica | |
Angelica venenosa | Hairy Angelica | |
Andropogon virginicus | Broomsedge Broomsedge Bluestem Yellowsedge Bluestem Whiskey Grass Popotillo Pajon | |
Anemone virginiana | Tall Thimbleweed Thimbleweed Tall Anemone | |
Apios americana | Groundnut Wild Potato Indian Potato | |
Aplectrum hyemale | Adam And Eve | |
Apios priceana | Price's Groundnut Traveler's Delight | |
Aquilegia canadensis | Eastern Red Columbine Wild Red Columbine | |
Aronia arbutifolia | Red Chokeberry Red Chokecherry | |
Aruncus dioicus | Bride's Feathers Goat's Beard | |
Arisaema dracontium | Green Dragon Dragonroot Greendragon | |
Aristida lanosa | Woollysheath Threeawn Woolly Three-awn | |
Aristolochia macrophylla | Pipevine Dutchman's Pipe | |
Aronia melanocarpa | Black Chokeberry | |
Aralia nudicaulis | Wild Sarsaparilla | |
Aralia racemosa | American Spikenard | |
Aristolochia serpentaria | Virginia Snakeroot Virginia Dutchmanspipe | |
Aristolochia tomentosa | Woolly Dutchman's Pipe Common Dutchman's Pipe | |
Arisaema triphyllum | Jack In The Pulpit Indian Jack In The Pulpit Jack-in-the-pulpit | |
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi | Kinnikinnick Red Bearberry Kinnikinnik | |
Astilbe biternata | Appalachian False Goat's Beard False Goatsbeard | |
Asplenium bradleyi | Bradley's Spleenwort | |
Asarum canadense | Canadian Wild Ginger Wild Ginger | |
Asplenium ×ebenoides | Scott's Spleenwort Dragontail Fern | |
Asclepias exaltata | Poke Milkweed | |
Asclepias incarnata | Swamp Milkweed Pink Milkweed | |
Asclepias incarnata ssp. pulchra | Swamp Milkweed | |
Asimina parviflora | Smallflower Pawpaw Small-flower Pawpaw Dwarf Pawpaw | |
Asplenium pinnatifidum | Lobed Spleenwort | |
Asplenium platyneuron | Ebony Spleenwort | |
Asclepias purpurascens | Purple Milkweed | |
Asimina triloba | Pawpaw Common Pawpaw Custard Apple Indian Banana Wild Banana | |
Asplenium trichomanes | Maidenhair Spleenwort | |
Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly Weed Butterfly Milkweed Orange Milkweed Pleurisy Root Chigger Flower Chiggerweed | |
Asclepias variegata | Redring Milkweed White-flowered Milkweed | |
Asclepias verticillata | Whorled Milkweed Eastern Whorled Milkweed | |
Athyrium filix-femina | Common Lady Fern Subarctic Lady Fern Lady Fern Ladyfern | |
Aureolaria flava var. flava | Smooth Yellow False Foxglove | |
Baptisia alba | White Wild Indigo White Baptisia | |
Baptisia albescens | Spiked Wild Indigo | |
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