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Actaea pachypoda
White Baneberry, Dolls Eyes

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Shade, Part-shade
Water: Wet, Moist

Actaea racemosa var. racemosa
Black Cohosh, Black Bugbane, Bugbane, Black Snakeroot, Fairy Candles

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Shade, Part-shade
Water: Moist

Actaea rubifolia
Appalachian Bugbane

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light:
Water:

Adiantum pedatum
Northern Maidenhair Fern, Maidenhair Fern

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Fern
Light: Shade, Part-shade
Water: Moist

Agastache foeniculum
Blue Giant Hyssop, Blue Giant-hyssop, Fragrant Giant Hyssop, Lavender Hyssop, Anise Hyssop

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Sun, Shade, Part-shade
Water: Moist

Allium cernuum
Nodding Onion

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Sun
Water: Moist

Allium tricoccum
Wild Leek, Ramp

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Shade
Water: Moist

Amsonia tabernaemontana
Eastern Bluestar, Blue Dogbane, Willow Amsonia, Woodland Bluestar

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Part-shade
Water: Wet

Andropogon gerardii
Big Bluestem, Tall Bluestem, Turkeyfoot

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Grass/Grass-like
Light: Sun, Part-shade
Water: Moist

Anemone canadensis
Canadian Anemone, Round-leaf Thimbleweed, Canada Anemone, Windflower, Meadow Anemone

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Shade, Part-shade
Water: Moist

Anemone virginiana
Tall Thimbleweed, Thimbleweed, Tall Anemone

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Sun, Part-shade
Water: Moist, Dry

Aquilegia canadensis
Eastern Red Columbine, Wild Red Columbine

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Shade, Part-shade
Water: Moist, Dry

Arisaema dracontium
Green Dragon, Dragonroot, Greendragon

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Sun, Shade
Water: Moist

Arisaema triphyllum
Jack In The Pulpit, Indian Jack In The Pulpit, Jack-in-the-pulpit

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Sun, Shade
Water: Wet, Moist

Asarum canadense
Canadian Wild Ginger, Wild Ginger

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Shade, Part-shade
Water: Moist

Asclepias incarnata
Swamp Milkweed, Pink Milkweed

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Sun, Part-shade
Water: Wet, Moist

Asclepias tuberosa
Butterflyweed, Butterfly Weed, Butterfly Milkweed, Orange Milkweed, Pleurisy Root, Chigger Flower, Chiggerweed

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Sun
Water: Moist, Dry

Athyrium filix-femina
Common Lady Fern, Subarctic Lady Fern, Lady Fern, Ladyfern

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb, Fern
Light: Shade, Part-shade
Water: Wet, Moist

Caltha palustris
Yellow Marsh Marigold, Cowslip

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Shade, Part-shade
Water: Wet, Moist

Cardamine diphylla
Crinkleroot, Two-leaved Toothwort, Two-leaf Toothwort

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Shade, Part-shade
Water: Moist

Chasmanthium latifolium
Inland Sea Oats, Indian Wood Oats, Wild Oats, River Oats, Flathead Oats, Upland Oats, Upland Sea Oats

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Grass/Grass-like
Light: Shade, Part-shade
Water: Moist

Chelone glabra
White Turtlehead

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Sun, Shade, Part-shade
Water: Wet, Moist

Chelone lyonii
Pink Turtlehead

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Part-shade
Water:

Chrysogonum virginianum
Green And Gold, Green-and-gold

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Part-shade
Water: Moist

Dicentra canadensis
Squirrel Corn

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Part-shade
Water: Moist

Dicentra cucullaria
Dutchman's Breeches

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Sun, Shade, Part-shade
Water: Moist

Dicentra eximia
Turkey Corn, Fringed Bleedinghearts, Wild Bleedingheart

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Shade, Part-shade
Water: Moist

Dodecatheon meadia
Eastern Shooting Star, Shooting Star, Pride Of Ohio, Roosterheads, Prairie Pointers

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Part-shade
Water: Moist

Echinacea purpurea
Eastern Purple Coneflower, Purple Coneflower

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Sun, Part-shade
Water: Dry

Elymus hystrix var. hystrix
Eastern Bottlebrush Grass, Bottle-brush Grass

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Grass/Grass-like
Light: Part-shade
Water: Dry

Eurybia divaricata
White Wood Aster

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Shade, Part-shade
Water: Dry

Eutrochium purpureum
Purple Joepyeweed, Sweet-scented Joepyeweed, Sweet Joepyeweed

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Sun, Shade, Part-shade
Water: Moist

Geranium maculatum
Spotted Geranium, Wild Geranium, Cranesbill

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Shade, Part-shade
Water: Moist

Hepatica nobilis var. acuta
Sharplobe Hepatica, Sharp-lobed Hepatica, Mountain Hepatica

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Shade
Water: Moist

Hydrastis canadensis
Goldenseal

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Shade, Part-shade
Water: Moist

Hydrophyllum canadense
Broad-leaved Waterleaf, Broadleaf Waterleaf, Bluntleaf Waterleaf, Blunt-leaved Waterleaf, Maple-leaf Waterleaf, Maple-leaved Waterleaf, Canadian Waterleaf, Canada Waterleaf, Fool's Seal

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light:
Water:

Hydrophyllum virginianum
Virginia Waterleaf, Eastern Waterleaf, Shawnee Salad

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Shade, Part-shade
Water: Moist

Iris cristata
Dwarf Crested Iris

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Shade, Part-shade
Water: Moist

Iris versicolor
Harlequin Blueflag, Northern Blue Flag, Large Blue Iris

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Sun, Part-shade
Water: Wet, Moist

Jeffersonia diphylla
Twinleaf

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Part-shade
Water: Moist

Lilium superbum
Turk's-cap Lily

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Sun
Water: Moist

Lobelia cardinalis
Cardinal Flower

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Sun, Shade, Part-shade
Water: Wet, Moist

Lobelia siphilitica
Great Blue Lobelia

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Sun, Shade, Part-shade
Water: Wet, Moist

Maianthemum racemosum
Feathery False Lily Of The Valley, False Solomon's Seal, Feathery False Solomon's Seal, False Spikenard, Solomon's Plume, Smilacina

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light:
Water:

Maianthemum stellatum
Starry False Lily Of The Valley, Starry False Solomon's Seal, Star-flowered Solomon's Seal

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Shade, Part-shade
Water: Moist, Dry

Mertensia virginica
Virginia Bluebells

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Shade, Part-shade
Water: Moist

Monarda didyma
Scarlet Beebalm, Oswego Tea, Red Bergamot

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Sun, Part-shade
Water: Wet, Moist

Monarda fistulosa
Wild Bergamot, Beebalm

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Sun, Part-shade
Water: Moist, Dry

Oligoneuron rigidum
Stiff Goldenrod, Hard-leaf Goldenrod

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Sun
Water: Wet, Moist, Dry

Osmunda claytoniana
Interrupted Fern

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb, Fern
Light: Shade
Water: Moist

Osmunda regalis
Royal Fern

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb, Fern
Light: Shade, Part-shade
Water: Wet, Moist

Pachysandra procumbens
Allegheny Spurge, Mountain Spurge

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Shade, Part-shade
Water: Moist

Parnassia glauca
Fen Grass Of Parnassus, Grass-of-parnassus

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Part-shade
Water: Wet

Phegopteris connectilis
Long Beechfern

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb, Fern
Light:
Water: Wet, Moist

Phlox divaricata
Wild Blue Phlox, Louisiana Phlox, Blue Woodland Phlox, Sweet William, Wild Sweet William

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Shade, Part-shade
Water: Moist

Phlox paniculata
Fall Phlox, Perennial Phlox

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Sun
Water: Moist

Phlox stolonifera
Creeping Phlox

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Sun, Shade, Part-shade
Water: Moist

Podophyllum peltatum
Mayapple, Indian Apple, Wild Mandrake, Pomme De Mai, Podophylle Pelt

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Shade, Part-shade
Water: Moist

Polygonatum pubescens
Hairy Solomon's Seal

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Sun, Shade, Part-shade
Water: Moist

Polystichum acrostichoides
Christmas Fern

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Fern
Light: Shade, Part-shade
Water: Moist

Pycnanthemum verticillatum var. pilosum
Whorled Mountainmint

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light:
Water:

Pycnanthemum virginianum
Virginia Mountain Mint

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Part-shade
Water: Moist

Rubus odoratus
Purple-flowering Raspberry, Thimbleberry

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Subshrub
Light: Sun, Shade, Part-shade
Water: Moist

Rudbeckia fulgida
Orange Coneflower, Orange Rudbeckia, Perennial Black-eyed Susan, Goldstrum

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Sun
Water: Moist

Rudbeckia laciniata
Green-headed Coneflower, Greenhead Coneflower, Cutleaf Coneflower, Wild Goldenglow, Sochan

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Sun, Shade, Part-shade
Water: Moist

Saxifraga pensylvanica
Eastern Swamp Saxifrage

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Part-shade
Water: Wet

Schizachyrium scoparium
Little Bluestem, Popotillo Azul

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Grass/Grass-like
Light: Sun, Part-shade
Water: Dry

Sedum ternatum
Woodland Stonecrop, Wild Stonecrop

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Part-shade
Water: Moist

Solidago caesia
Wreath Goldenrod, Blue-stemmed Goldenrod, Bluestem Goldenrod

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Sun, Part-shade
Water: Dry

Solidago rugosa
Wrinkleleaf Goldenrod, Wrinkle-leaf Goldenrod, Rough-leaved Goldenrod, Roughleaf Goldenrod, Rough-stemmed Goldenrod, Roughstem Goldenrod

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Sun
Water: Wet

Solidago speciosa
Showy Goldenrod, Noble Goldenrod

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Part-shade
Water: Moist

Stylophorum diphyllum
Celandine Poppy, Yellow Wood Poppy

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Shade, Part-shade
Water: Moist

Symphyotrichum cordifolium
Broad-leaved Aster, Common Blue Wood Aster, Heartleaf Aster

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Sun
Water: Moist

Symphyotrichum laeve
Smooth Blue Aster

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Sun
Water: Dry

Symphyotrichum novae-angliae
New England Aster, New England American-aster

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Part-shade
Water: Moist

Symphyotrichum novi-belgii
New York Aster

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light:
Water:

Thalictrum dioicum
Early Meadow-rue

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Part-shade
Water: Moist

Thalictrum pubescens
King Of The Meadow, King-of-the-meadow, Tall Meadow Rue

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Part-shade
Water: Moist

Tiarella cordifolia
Heartleaf Foamflower, Heart-leaf Foamflower

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Shade
Water: Moist

Trillium erectum
Red Trillium, Red Wakerobin, Stinking Benjamin, Wet Dog Trillium, Wet Dog Wakerobin, Purple Trillium, Purple Wakerobin

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Part-shade
Water: Moist

Trillium grandiflorum
White Wake-robin, White Trillium, Large-flower Wake-robin, Large-flower Trillium, Large-flowered Wake-robin, Large-flowered Trillium

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Sun, Shade, Part-shade
Water: Moist

Uvularia grandiflora
Largeflower Bellwort, Large-flower Bellwort, Merrybells

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Shade
Water: Moist

Uvularia perfoliata
Perfoliate Bellwort, Mealy Bellwort, Merrybells

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Sun
Water: Moist

Uvularia sessilifolia
Spreading Bellwort, Straw Lily, Wild Oats, Merrybells, Sessile-leaf Bellwort, Sessile Bellwort

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Sun, Shade, Part-shade
Water: Moist

Verbena hastata var. hastata
Swamp Verbena, Blue Vervain

Duration: Biennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Sun, Part-shade
Water: Moist

Vernonia noveboracensis
New York Ironweed

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Sun
Water: Moist

Viola labradorica
Alpine Violet, American Dog Violet

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Sun
Water: Moist

Zizia aptera
Heart-leaved Meadow Parsnip, Heartleaf Meadow Parsnip, Meadow Parsnip, Heartleaf Alexanders, Meadow Zizia, Zizia

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Sun, Shade, Part-shade
Water: Moist

Zizia aurea
Golden Zizia, Golden Alexanders

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Light: Sun, Part-shade
Water: Moist