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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
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| Acer negundo | Box Elder Box Elder Maple Ash-leaved Maple Ashleaf Maple Red River Maple Fresno De Guajuco | |
| Actaea pachypoda | White Baneberry Dolls Eyes | |
| Actaea racemosa var. racemosa | Black Cohosh Black Bugbane Bugbane Black Snakeroot Fairy Candles | |
| Acer rubrum | Red Maple Scarlet Maple Soft Maple | |
| Acer saccharinum | Silver Maple Soft Maple White Maple | |
| Acer saccharum | Sugar Maple Northern Sugar Maple | |
| Acer spicatum | Mountain Maple | |
| Adiantum pedatum | Northern Maidenhair Fern Maidenhair Fern | |
| Ageratina altissima var. altissima | White Snakeroot | |
| Agrostis perennans | Upland Bentgrass Autumn Bentgrass | |
| Agalinis purpurea | Purple False Foxglove Purple Gerardia Gerardia | |
| Allium cernuum | Nodding Onion | |
| Alnus serrulata | Smooth Alder Hazel Alder Brookside Alder Tag Alder Common Alder Black Alder | |
| Amelanchier arborea | Common Serviceberry Downy Serviceberry Shadbush Juneberry Junebush Shadblow Sarvis | |
| Ammophila breviligulata | American Beachgrass American Beach Grass | |
| Amelanchier canadensis | Canadian Serviceberry Canadian Service-berry Shadblow Serviceberry Juneberry Shadbush Junebush | |
| Anemone canadensis | Canadian Anemone Round-leaf Thimbleweed Canada Anemone Windflower Meadow Anemone | |
| Andropogon gerardii | Big Bluestem Tall Bluestem Turkeyfoot | |
| Andropogon glomeratus | Bushy Bluestem Brushy Bluestem | |
| Antennaria neglecta | Field Pussytoes Prairie Everlasting | |
| Andropogon virginicus | Broomsedge Broomsedge Bluestem Yellowsedge Bluestem Whiskey Grass Popotillo Pajon | |
| Anemone virginiana | Tall Thimbleweed Thimbleweed Tall Anemone | |
| Aquilegia canadensis | Eastern Red Columbine Wild Red Columbine | |
| Aronia arbutifolia | Red Chokeberry Red Chokecherry | |
| Aruncus dioicus | Bride's Feathers Goat's Beard | |
| Aristolochia macrophylla | Pipevine Dutchman's Pipe | |
| Aronia melanocarpa | Black Chokeberry | |
| Aralia nudicaulis | Wild Sarsaparilla | |
| Aronia ×prunifolia | Purple Chokeberry Red Chokeberry | |
| Aralia racemosa | American Spikenard | |
| Aralia spinosa | Devil's Walking Stick Hercules Club Angelica Tree Pigeon Tree Shotbush Prickly Elder Prickly Ash | |
| Arisaema triphyllum | Jack In The Pulpit Indian Jack In The Pulpit Jack-in-the-pulpit | |
| Asarum canadense | Canadian Wild Ginger Wild Ginger | |
| Asclepias incarnata | Swamp Milkweed Pink Milkweed | |
| Asplenium platyneuron | Ebony Spleenwort | |
| Asclepias syriaca | Common Milkweed | |
| Asimina triloba | Pawpaw Common Pawpaw Custard Apple Indian Banana Wild Banana | |
| Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly Weed Butterfly Milkweed Orange Milkweed Pleurisy Root Chigger Flower Chiggerweed | |
| Athyrium filix-femina | Common Lady Fern Subarctic Lady Fern Lady Fern Ladyfern | |
| Baptisia australis | Blue Wild Indigo Wild Blue Indigo Blue False Indigo | |
| Baccharis halimifolia | Groundseltree Sea-myrtle Consumptionweed Eastern Baccharis Groundsel Groundsel Bush Salt Marsh-elder Salt Bush Florida Groundsel Bush | |
| Baptisia tinctoria | Horseflyweed Yellow Wild Indigo | |
| Betula alleghaniensis | Yellow Birch | |
| Betula lenta | Sweet Birch Cherry Birch Black Birch Mahogany Birch | |
| Betula nigra | River Birch Red Birch Black Birch Water Birch | |
| Bignonia capreolata | Crossvine | |
| Bidens cernua | Nodding Beggartick Bur Marigold Nodding Beggarticks Nodding Bur Marigold Nodding Burmarigold Nodding Burr-marigold Sticktight | |
| Boltonia asteroides | Boltonia White Doll's Daisy | |
| Botrychium virginianum | Rattlesnake Fern | |
| Campanulastrum americanum | American Bellflower Tall Bellflower | |
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