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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| Callicarpa americana | American Beautyberry French Mulberry | |
| Carpinus caroliniana | American Hornbeam Blue Beech Water Beech Musclewood Ironwood | |
| Calamagrostis canadensis | Bluejoint | |
| Carya cordiformis | Bitternut Hickory Swamp Hickory Bitternut Pig Hickory Pignut Hickory Pignut White Hickory Red Hickory Bitter Walnut Bitter Pecan | |
| Cardamine concatenata | Cutleaf Toothwort Pepper Root | |
| Carex crinita var. crinita | Fringed Sedge Long Hair Sedge | |
| Carex glaucodea | Blue Sedge Blue Wood Sedge | |
| Carya glabra | Pignut Hickory Sweet Pignut Hickory Coast Pignut Hickory Pignut Sweet Pignut Smoothbark Hickory Broom Hickory Red Hickory Swamp Hickory Switch Hickory Switchbud Hickory | |
| Carex lurida | Shallow Sedge Sallow Sedge Lurid Sedge | |
| Carya ovata | Shagbark Hickory Carolina Hickory Scalybark Hickory Upland Hickory Shellbark Hickory | |
| Caltha palustris | Yellow Marsh Marigold Cowslip | |
| Carex pensylvanica | Pennsylvania Sedge | |
| Castanea pumila | Allegheny Chinquapin Allegheny Chinkapin Chinquapin Chinkapin | |
| Campsis radicans | Trumpet Creeper Trumpet Vine Common Trumpet Creeper Cow Vine Foxglove Vine Hellvine Devil's Shoestring | |
| Carex stricta | Upright Sedge Uptight Sedge Tussock Sedge | |
| Caulophyllum thalictroides | Blue Cohosh Squaw-root Papoose-root Caulophylle Faux-pigamon | |
| Carya tomentosa | Mockernut Hickory Mockernut Hickory Big Bud Hickory Mockernut White Hickory Whiteheart Hickory Fragrant Hickory Bigbud Hickory Hardbark Hickory Hognut Bullnut | |
| Carex vulpinoidea | Fox Sedge Brown Fox Sedge | |
| Ceanothus americanus | New Jersey Tea Redroot | |
| Cercis canadensis | Eastern Redbud Redbud | |
| Celtis occidentalis | Common Hackberry Northern Hackberry American Hackberry Nettle Tree Beaverwood False Elm | |
| Cephalanthus occidentalis | Common Buttonbush Buttonbush Button Willow Honey Bells Honeybells Honey Balls Honeyballs Button-bush | |
| Celastrus scandens | American Bittersweet | |
| Chamerion angustifolium ssp. angustifolium | Fireweed Narrow-leaf Fireweed Willow Herb | |
| Chamaecrista fasciculata | Partridge Pea Sleepingplant Sensitive Plant | |
| Chelone glabra | White Turtlehead | |
| Chasmanthium latifolium | Inland Sea Oats Indian Wood Oats Wild Oats River Oats Flathead Oats Upland Oats Upland Sea Oats | |
| Chrysopsis mariana | Maryland Goldenaster Maryland Golden-aster | |
| Chimaphila maculata | Striped Prince's Pine Spotted Wintergreen Pipsissewa Spotted Pipsissewa Ratsbane Rheumatism Root Striped Wintergreen | |
| Chamaecyparis thyoides | Atlantic White Cedar | |
| Chionanthus virginicus | White Fringetree Fringe Tree Snowflower Tree Flowering Ash Old Man's Beard Grandfather Graybeard Grancy Graybeard | |
| Chrysogonum virginianum | Green And Gold Green-and-gold | |
| Clethra alnifolia | Coastal Pepperbush Coastal Sweet Pepperbush Coastal Sweet Pepper Alderleaf Pepperbush Alderleaf Clethra Clethra Summer Sweet | |
| Clitoria mariana | Atlantic Pigeonwings Butterfly Pea | |
| Claytonia virginica | Virginia Springbeauty Springbeauty | |
| Clematis viorna | Vasevine Leatherflower | |
| Clematis virginiana | Devil's Darning Needles Virgin's Bower Old Man's Beard | |
| Cornus alternifolia | Alternateleaf Dogwood Alternate-leaf Dogwood Pagoda Dogwood | |
| Cornus amomum | Silky Dogwood Red Willow Silky Cornel | |
| Corylus americana | American Hazelnut American Filbert | |
| Conoclinium coelestinum | Blue Mistflower Wild Ageratum Blue Boneset | |
| Cornus florida | Flowering Dogwood Virginia Dogwood Florida Dogwood White Cornel Arrowwood American Boxwood False Box St. Peter's Crown Corona De San Pedro | |
| Comptonia peregrina | Sweet-fern Sweetfern | |
| Cornus racemosa | Gray Dogwood | |
| Coreopsis tripteris | Tall Tickseed Tall Coreopsis | |
| Coreopsis verticillata | Threadleaf Coreopsis Whorled Tickseed Whorled Coreopsis | |
| Crataegus crus-galli | Cockspur Hawthorn Cockspur Thorn Newcastle Hawthorn Newcastle Thorn Hog Apple | |
| Crataegus viridis | Green Hawthorn Southern Hawthorn | |
| Danthonia spicata | Poverty Oatgrass Poverty Wild Oat Grass Curly Grass | |
| Desmodium paniculatum | Panicledleaf Ticktrefoil Panicled Tick Trefoil Velcro Vine | |
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