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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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| 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 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 | |
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