Special Collections
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
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| 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 | |
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
