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
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| Pinus strobus | Eastern White Pine Weymouth Pine | |
| Pinus taeda | Loblolly Pine Oldfield Pine Bull Pine Rosemary Pine | |
| Pinus virginiana | Virginia Pine Jersey Pine Scrub Pine | |
| Platanus occidentalis | American Sycamore Eastern Sycamore American Plane Tree Plane Tree Buttonwood Buttonball Tree | |
| Polystichum acrostichoides | Christmas Fern | |
| Polygonatum biflorum | Smooth Solomon's Seal Great Solomon's-seal Sealwort | |
| Pontederia cordata | Pickerelweed Pickerel Rush | |
| Populus deltoides | Eastern Cottonwood Carolina Poplar Necklace Poplar Alamo | |
| Populus heterophylla | Swamp Cottonwood Swamp Poplar Black Cottonwood Downy Poplar | |
| Podophyllum peltatum | Mayapple Indian Apple Wild Mandrake Pomme De Mai Podophylle Pelt | |
| Polygonatum pubescens | Hairy Solomon's Seal | |
| Polemonium reptans | Greek Valerian Jacob's Ladder | |
| Prunus americana | American Plum Wild Plum | |
| Prunus maritima | Beach Plum | |
| Prunus pensylvanica | Pin Cherry Fire Cherry Wild Red Cherry Bird Cherry Pigeon Cherry | |
| Prunus serotina | Black Cherry Wild Black Cherry Rum Cherry | |
| Prunus virginiana | Chokecherry Common Chokecherry Choke Cherry | |
| Pteridium aquilinum | Western Bracken Fern Bracken Fern Western Bracken Bracken | |
| Pycnanthemum incanum | Hoary Mountain Mint Silverleaf Mountain Mint | |
| Pycnanthemum tenuifolium | Narrowleaf Mountain Mint Slender Mountain Mint Common Horsemint | |
| 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 coccinea | Scarlet Oak Red Oak | |
| Quercus falcata | Southern Red Oak Bottomland Red Oak Three-lobed Red Oak Spanish Oak | |
| Quercus ilicifolia | Bear Oak Scrub Oak | |
| Quercus marilandica | Blackjack Oak Barren Oak Black Oak Jack Oak | |
| Quercus michauxii | Swamp Chestnut Oak Basket Oak Cow Oak Swamp Oak | |
| Quercus montana | Chestnut Oak Rock Chestnut Oak Mountain Chestnut Oak Rock Oak Tanbark Oak | |
| Quercus muehlenbergii | Chinkapin Oak Chinquapin Oak Chestnut Oak Yellow Chestnut Oak Rock Chestnut Oak Yellow Oak Rock Oak | |
| Quercus nigra | Water Oak Possum Oak Duck Oak Punk Oak Spotted Oak | |
| Quercus palustris | Pin Oak Swamp Spanish Oak | |
| Quercus phellos | Willow Oak Swamp Willow Oak Pin Oak Peach Oak | |
| Quercus rubra | Northern Red Oak | |
| Quercus stellata | Post Oak Iron Oak Cross Oak | |
| Quercus velutina | Black Oak Quercitron Oak Yellow Oak Smoothbark Oak Yellowbark Oak | |
| Rhus aromatica | Fragrant Sumac Aromatic Sumac Lemon Sumac Polecat Bush | |
| Rhododendron atlanticum | Dwarf Azalea Coastal Azalea | |
| Rhododendron calendulaceum | Flame Azalea | |
| Rhododendron canescens | Mountain Azalea Wild Azalea Honeysuckle Azalea Piedmont Azalea Sweet Azalea Hoary Azalea Southern Pinxterflower | |
| Rhus copallinum | Winged Sumac Shining Sumac Flameleaf Sumac Mountain Sumac Dwarf Sumac Wing-rib Sumac Black Sumac Upland Sumac | |
| Rhus glabra | Smooth Sumac | |
| Rhododendron maximum | Great Laurel Wild Rhododendron Rosebay Rhododendron White Laurel Rosebay | |
| Rhododendron periclymenoides | Pink Azalea Pinxterbloom Azalea Pinxterflower | |
| Rhododendron prinophyllum | Early Azalea Roseshell Azalea Woolly Azalea | |
| Rhus typhina | Staghorn Sumac Velvet Sumac | |
| Rhexia virginica | Handsome-harry Virginia Meadow Beauty Meadow-beauty | |
| Rhododendron viscosum | Swamp Azalea Clammy Azalea Cory Azalea Hammock Sweet Azalea | |
| Ribes rotundifolium | Appalachian Gooseberry Wild Gooseberry Round-leaf Currant | |
| Rosa carolina | Carolina Rose Pasture Rose | |
| Rosa palustris | Swamp Rose | |
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