North Carolina Native Plants Society - Native Plants Gallery

Plants listed alphabetically by scientific name.
Common name, link to Portrait	Scientific name	Native / Alien ⁽¹⁾
Yarrow, Milfoil	Achillea millefolium	Alien
White Baneberry, Doll Eyes	Actaea pachypoda	Native
Black Cohosh	Actaea racemosa (=Cimicifuga racemosa)	Native
Northern Maidenhair	Adiantum pedatum	Native
Red Buckeye	Aesculus pavia	Native
painted buckeye	Aesculus sylvatica	Native
Scaleleaf False Foxglove	Agalinis aphylla	Native Significantly Rare
White Snakeroot	Ageratina altissima (=Eupatorium rugosum)	Native
Mimosa, Silk Tree	Albizia julibrissin	Alien INVASIVE
Colicroot, Stargrass	Aletris farinosa	Native
Ramps	Allium tricoccum	Native
Allegheny Serviceberry, Juneberry, Shadbush	Amelanchier laevis	Native
Fly Poison	Amianthium muscaetoxicum	Native
Bluestar, Blue Dogbane, Willow Amsonia	Amsonia tabernaemontana	Native
Wood Anemone	Anemone quinquefolia	Native
Thimbleweed; Tall anemone	Anemone virginiana	Native
Hairy Angelica	Angelica venenosa	Native
pussy toes	Antennaria plantaginifolia	Native
Mayweed, Stinking Chamomile	Anthemis cotula	Native
Puttyroot, Adam & Eve	Aplectrum hyemale	Native
Wild columbine	Aquilegia canadensis	Native
Bog Rose	Arethusa bulbosa	Native Endangered
Green Dragon	Arisaema dracontium	Native
Jack-in-the-Pulpit	Arisaema triphyllum	Native
Virginia snakeroot	Aristolochia serpentaria	Native
Wild Ginger	Asarum canadense	Native
poke milkweed	Asclepias exaltata	Native
fourleaf milkweed	Asclepias quadrifolia	Native
Common Milkweed	Asclepias syriaca	Native
Butterfly Weed	Asclepias tuberosa	Native
St. Andrew's Cross	Ascyrum hypericoides (=Hypericum hypericoides ssp. hypericoides)	Native
dwarf pawpaw	Asimina parviflora	Native
pawpaw	Asimina triloba	Native
Walking Fern	Asplenium rhizophyllum	Native Rare
false goat's beard	Astilbe biternata	Native
False Foxglove	Aureolaria laevigata	Native
crossvine	Bignonia capreolata	Native
Sea Ox-eye, Bushy Seaside Tansy	Borrichia frutescens	Native
Grape Fern	Botrychium dissectum	Native
Bearded Grass Pink	Calopogon barbatus	Native Rare
Many Flower Grass Pink	Calopogon multiflorus	Native Endangered
Pale Grass Pink	Calopogon pallidus	Native Rare
Grass Pink	Calopogon tuberosus	Native
Sweet shrub; Sweet Betsy, Carolina allspice	Calycanthus floridus	Native
Southern Harebell	Campanula divaricata	Native
Trumpet creeper; Trumpet vine, Cow Itch	Campsis radicans	Native
Crinkleroot, Toothwort	Cardamine diphylla (Dentaria diphylla)	Native
Thread Leafed Toothwort	Cardamine dissecta (=Dentaria dissecta )	Native
Plantain-leaved Sedge, Seersucker Sedge	Carex plantaginea	Native
Chaffhead	Carphephorus bellidifolius	Native
Indian Paintbrush, Scarlet Painted Cup	Castilleja coccinea	Native
Catawba Tree, Monkey Cigar Tree	Catalpa speciosa	Native
Blue Cohosh, Papooseroot	Caulophyllum thalictroides	Native
New Jersey Tea	Ceanothus americanus	Native
Oriental Bittersweet	Celastrus orbiculatus	Alien INVASIVE
Atlantic white cedar, juniper	Chamaecyparis thyoides	Native
Fairy Wand, Devil's Bit	Chamaelirium luteum	Native
Hairy Lipped Fern	Cheilanthes lanosa	Native
Wooly Lipped Fern	Cheilanthes tomentosa	Native
Turtlehead	Chelone lyonii	Native
Spotted Wintergreen, Striped Pipsissawa	Chimaphila maculata	Native
Fringe tree, Old man's beard	Chionanthus virginicus	Native
Feverfew	Chrysanthemum parthenium (=Tanacetum parthenium)	Alien
Green and Gold	Chrysogonum virginianum	Native
Cottony Golden Aster	Chrysopsis gossypina	Native
Chicory	Cichorium intybus	Alien INVASIVE
Virginia Thistle	Cirsium virginianum	Native
Powder-puff lichen, Oak toes lichen	Cladonia evansii	Native Watch List
Spring Beauty	Claytonia virginica	Native
Small Spreading Pogonia	Cleistes bifaria	Native Watch List
Spreading Pogonia	Cleistes divaricata	Native Rare
Swamp Leather Flower	Clematis crispa	Native
Curly heads	Clematis ochroleuca	Native
Leather Flower	Clematis viorna	Native
Autumn Clematis, Virgin's Bower	Clematis virginiana	Native
speckled wood lily	Clintonia umbellulata	Native
Long Bract Frog Orchid	Coeloglossum viride var. virescens (=Dactylorhiza viridis)	Native Candidate
Canada Horsebalm, Richweed, Hardhack, Heal-All, Horseweed, Ox-Balm and Stone root.	Collinsonia canadensis	Native
squaw root, cancer root	Conopholis americana	Native
Spotted Coral Root	Corallorhiza maculata	Native
Autumn Coral Root	Corallorhiza odontorhiza	Native
Spring Coral Root	Corallorhiza wisteriana	Native Watch List
Fraser's Sedge	Cymophyllus fraseri	Native
Pink Lady's Slipper, Stemless Lady's Slipper	Cypripedium acaule	Native
Small Yellow Lady's Slipper Orchid	Cypripedium parviflorum var parviflorum	Native Rare
Large Yellow Lady's Slipper Orchid	Cypripedium parviflorum var pubescens	Native Rare
Showy Lady's Slipper	Cypripedium reginae	Native Watch List
Deptford Pink	Dianthus armeria	Alien
Squirrel Corn	Dicentra canadensis	Native
Dutchman's Breeches	Dicentra cucullaria	Native
Venus Fly Trap	Dionaea muscipula	Native Significantly Rare
Persimmon, Possum Apple	Diospyros virginiana	Native
running cedar, Southern ground pine	Diphasiastrum digitatum	Native
umbrella leaf	Diphylleia cymosa	Native
Leatherwood	Dirca palustris	Native
Shooting Star	Dodecatheon meadia	Native
Sundew	Drosera brevifolia	Native
Purple Coneflower	Echinacea purpurea	Native Significantly Rare
False Rue-anemone, Atlantic isopyrum	Enemion biternatum	Native
Green Fly Orchid	Epidendrum magnoliae (conopseum)	Native Significantly Rare
Beech Drops	Epifagus virginiana	Native
Trailing Arbutus	Epigaea repens	Native
Eastern Helleborine	Epipactis helleborine	Alien
Daisy Fleabane	Erigeron annuus	Native
Trout Lily, Dog-Tooth Violet	Erythronium umbilicatum	Native
Hearts-a-Bustin, Strawberry Bush	Eunoymus americanus	Native
Burning Bush	Euonymus alata	Alien INVASIVE
White Troroughwort	Eupatorium album	Native
Joe Pye Weed, Queen of the Meadow	Eupatorium fistulosum (=Eupatoriadelphus fistulosus)	Native
Mohr's Thoroughwort	Eupatorium mohrii	Native
Roundleafed Thoroughwort	Eupatorium rotundifolium	Native
Flowering Spurge	Euphorbia corollata	Native
Cypress Spurge	Euphorbia cyparissias	Alien
Wild Poinsettia, Painted Leaf, Fire on the Mountain	Euphorbia heterophylla	Native
White Wood Aster, Heart-Leaved	Eurybia divaricata	Native
Strawberry	Fragaria virginiana	Native
Franklin Tree	Franklinia alatamaha	Native
Showy Orchis	Galearis spectabilis (=Orchis spectabilis)	Native
Pinebarren Gentian	Gentiana autumnalis	Native
Striped Gentian	Gentiana villosa	Native
Fringed Gentian	Gentianopsis crinita	Native Endangered
Wild geranium	Geranium maculatum	Native
Gerardia, Smooth False Foxglove	Gerardia laevigata (=Aureolaria laevigata)	Native
Downy Rattlesnake Plantain	Goodyera pubescens	Native
lesser rattlesnake plaintain	Goodyera repens	Native
Water Spider Orchid	Habenaria repens	Native Watch List
Mountain Silverbell	Halesia carolina var. monticola (=H. tetraptera var. monticola)	Native
Common Witch Hazel	Hamamelis virginiana	Native
English Ivy	Hedera helix L.	Alien INVASIVE
Bitter Weed, Yellowdicks	Helenium amarum	Native
Schweinitz's sunflower	Helianthus schweinitzii	Native Endangered
Orange Daylily	Hemerocallis fulva	Alien
Sharp-lobed Liverleaf	Hepatica acutiloba (=H. nobilis var. acuta)	Native
Round-lobed Liverleaf	Hepatica americana (=H. nobilis var. obtusa)	Native
Lion's Mane Mushroom	Hericium erinaceus	Native
Maryland Golden Aster	Heterotheca mariana (=Chrysopsis mariana)	Native
Camphor Weed	Heterotheca subaxilaris	Native
Alumroot	Heuchera spp.	Native
Crested Coral Root	Hexalectris spicata	Native Significantly Rare
Wild Ginger	Hexastylis arifolia var arifolia	Native
Wild Ginger	Hexastylis minor	Native
Wild Ginger	Hexastylis shuttleworthii var. shuttleworthii	Native
Wild Ginger	Hexastylis virginica	Native
Bluets	Houstonia spp.	Native
Sand Heather	Hudsonia tomentosa	Native Significantly Rare
Appalachian Club Moss	Huperzia appalachiana	Native Rare
Spiderlily	Hymenocallis crassifolia	Native
Yellow Star-Grass	Hypoxis hirsuta	Native
Inkberry	Ilex glabra	Native
youpon	Ilex vomitoria	Native
Dwarf Crested Iris	Iris Cristata	Native
Slender Blue Flag Iris	Iris prismatica	Native
Virginia Iris	Iris virginica	Native
Small Whorled Pogonia	Isotria medeoloides	Native Endangered
Large Whorled Pogonia	Isotria verticillata	Native Rare
Twinleaf	Jeffersonia diphylla	Native
Mountain Laurel	Kalmia latifolia	Native
Seashore Mallow	Kosteletzkya virginica	Native
Redroot	Lachnanthes caroliniana	Native
Everlasting Pea	Lathyrus latifolius	Alien
Southern Blazing Star	Liatris squarrulosa	Native
Lovage	Ligusticum canadense	Native
Gray's Lily, Bell Lily	Lilium grayi	Native
Michaux's Lily, Carolina Lily	Lilium michauxii	Native
Turk's Cap Lily	Lilium superbum	Native
Large Twayblade	Liparis liliifolia	Native Rare
Fen Orchid	Liparis loeselii	Native Candidate
Southern Twayblade	Listera australis	Native Watch List
Heart Leaved Twayblade	Listera cordata	Native Watch List
Kidney Leaf Twayblade	Listera smallii	Native
southern lobelia	Lobelia amoena	Native
Cardinal Flower	Lobelia cardinalis	Native
Indian Tobacco	Lobelia inflata	Native
Downy Lobelia	Lobelia puberula	Native
Great Blue Lobelia	Lobelia siphilitica	Native
Trumpet Honeysuckle, Coral Honeysuckle	Lonicera sempervirens	Native
Tree Club Moss	Lycopodium obscurum	Native
Whorled Loosestrife	Lysimachia quadrifolia	Native
Carolina Bogmint, Macbridea	Macbridea caroliniana	Native Threatened
Big Leaf Magnolia	Magnolia macrophylla	Native
Appalachian Adder's Mouth	Malaxis bayardii	Undetermined Significantly Rare
Florida Adder's Mouth	Malaxis spicata	Undetermined Significantly Rare
Green Adder's Mouth	Malaxis unifolia	Native
Musk Mallow	Malva moschata	Alien
Ostrich Fern	Matteuccia struthiopteris	Native
Meehan's mint, Creeping Mint	Meehania cordata	Native Rare
Cow-wheat	Melampyrum lineare	Native
Virginia Bluebells	Mertensia virginica	Native
Miterwort	Mitella diphylla	Native
White Bergamot	monarda clinopodia	Native
Indian Pipes	Monotropa uniflora	Native
Pennywort	Obolaria virginica	Native
Sundrops	Oenothera fruticosa	Native
Cancer-root, One-flowered Cancer-root	Orobanche uniflora	Native
Sweet Cicely, Anise-root, Sweet Chervil	Osmorhiza longistylis	Native
Sourwood Tree	Oxydendrum arboreum	Native
Allegheny Spurge	Pachysandra procumbens	Native
Ginseng, "Sang"	Panax quinquefolius	Native
Grass of Parnassus	Parnassia caroliniana	Native Endangered
Lousewort	Pedicularis canadensis	Native
Beardtongue	Penstemon canescens	Native
Buttercup phacelia or Eastern buttercup phacelia	Phacelia covillei	Native Significantly Rare
Red Chokeberry	Photinia pyrifolia (=Aronia arbutifolia)	Native
Large White Fringed Orchid	Platanthera blephariglottis var. conspicua	Native Rare
Yellow Fringed Orchid	Platanthera ciliaris	Native
Small Green Woodland Orchid	Platanthera clavellata	Native
Yellow Crested Orchis	Platanthera cristata	Native
Southern Rein Orchid	Platanthera flava var. flava	Native Rare
Northern Green Orchid	Platanthera flava var. herbiola	Native Significantly Rare
Large Purple Fringed Orchid	Platanthera grandiflora	Native Significantly Rare
Yellow Fringeless Orchid	Platanthera integra	Native Threatened
White Fringeless Orchid	Platanthera integrilabia	Native Endangered
Green Fringe Orchid	Platanthera lacera	Native Rare
Snowy Orchid	Platanthera nivea	Native Threatened
Large Round Leaved Orchid	Platanthera orbiculata	Native Rare
Purple Fringeless Orchid	Platanthera peramoena	Native Candidate
Small Purple Fringe Orchid	Platanthera psycodes	Native Rare
Bicolor Bog Orchid	Platanthera x bicolor (P. blephariglottis x P.ciliaris)	Native
Mayapple, Mandrake	Podophyllum peltatum	Native
Rose Pogonia	Pogonia ophioglossoides	Native Rare
Solomon's Seal	Polygonatum biflorum	Native
Shadow Witch	Ponthieva racemosa	Native Significantly Rare
American ipecac	Porteranthus stipulatus = (Gillenia stipulata)	Native
Bowman's Root	Porteranthus trifoliatus = (Gillenia trifoliata)	Native
Dwarf Cinquefoil	Potentilla canadensis	Native
Rattlesnake Root	Prenanthes sp.	Native
Heal-all, Selfheal	Prunella vulgaris	Alien
Chokecherry	Prunus virginiana	Native
Bracken, Bracken Fern	Pteridium aquilinum	Native
Spiked Medusa	Pteroglossaspis ecristata (+Eulophia e.)	Native Critically Rare
hoary mountainmint	Pycnanthemum incanum	Native
Pixie Moss	Pyxidanthera brevifolia	Native Endangered
Flame Azalea	Rhododendron calendulaceum	Native
Great Rhododendron, Rosebay Rhododendron	Rhododendron maximum	Native
Pinxter Flower, Wild Honeysuckle, Swamp Honeysuckle	Rhododendron nudiflorum	Native
Winged Sumac, Shining Sumac	Rhus copallina	Native
Michaux's Sumac	Rhus michauxii	Native
Poison Oak	Rhus toxicodendron	Native
Poison Sumac	Rhus vernix	Native
Short-beaked Baldrush	Rhynchospora nitens	Native Watch List
Multiflora Rose	Rosa multiflora	Alien INVASIVE
Carolina wild petunia , Hairy wild petunia	Ruellia caroliniensis	Native
Lyre-leaf Sage	Salvia lyrata	Native
Elderberry	Sambucus canadensis	Native
Bloodroot	Sanguinaria canadensis	Native
Purple Pitcher Plant, Common Pitcher Plant	Sarracenia purpurea	Native
Sweet Pitcher Plant	Sarracenia rubra	Native
Early Saxifrage	Saxifraga virginiensis	Native
Stonecrop	Sedum ternatum	Native
Golden Ragwort, Groundsel	Senecio aureus (=Packera aurea)	Native
Schweinitz's Ragwort, Schweinitz's Groundsel	Senecio schweinitzianus (=Packera schweinitziana)	Native Rare
Shortia, Oconee Bells	Shortia galacifolia	Native Special Concern
Fire Pink	Silene virginica	Native
Compass Plant	Silphium laciniatum	Native
Prairie Rosinweed	Silphium terebinthinaceum	Native Significantly Rare
Blue-eyed grass	Sisyrinchium angustifolium	Native
Solomon's Plume, False Solomon's Seal	Smilacina racemosa (=Maianthemum racemosum ssp. racemosum)	Native
Greenbriar	Smilax walteri	Native
Blue Stem Goldenrod	Solidago caesia	Native
Goldenrod	Solidago gracillima	Native
Slender Fragrant Goldenrod	Solidago tenuifolia (=Euthamia caroliniana)	Native
Indian Pink	Spigelia marilandica	Native Endangered
Texas Ladies' Tresses	Spiranthes brevilabris	Undetermined Endangered
Nodding Ladies' Tresses	Spiranthes cernua	Native Significantly Rare
Eaton's Ladies' Tresses	Spiranthes eatonii	Undetermined
Florida Ladies' Tresses	Spiranthes floridana	Native
Southern Slender Ladies' Tresses	Spiranthes lacera var. gracilis	Native
Northern Slender Ladies' Tresses	Spiranthes lacera var. laceras	Undetermined
Lace Lip Ladies' Tresses	Spiranthes laciniata	Undetermined Critically Rare
Giant Spiral Orchid	Spiranthes longilabris	Native Candidate
Shining Ladies' Tresses	Spiranthes lucida	Native Candidate
Yellow Ladies' Tresses	Spiranthes ochroleuca	Undetermined Candidate
Sweet Scent Ladies' Tresses	Spiranthes odorata	Native Significantly Rare
Lesser Ladies' Tresses	Spiranthes ovalis var. erostellata	Native Rare
Grassleaf Ladies' Tresses	Spiranthes praecox	Native Rare
Woodland Ladies' Tresses	Spiranthes sylvatica	Undetermined
Little Ladies' Tresses	Spiranthes tuberosa	Undetermined Rare
Twisted Ladies' Tresses	Spiranthes vernalis	Native Rare
Star Chickweed, Great Chickweed	Stellaria pubera	Native
Featherbells	Stenanthium gramineum	Native
Rosy Twisted-stalk, Rose mandarin	Streptopus roseus (=S. lanceolatus var. roseus)	Native
Climbing Aster	Symphyotrichum carolinianum (=aster carolinianus)	Native
Eastern Silvery Aster	Symphyotrichum concolor (=Aster concolor)	Native
Blue Wood Aster	Symphyotrichum cordifolium (= Aster cordifolium)	Native
Wild Blue Aster, Large Flowered Aster	Symphyotrichum grandiflorum(=Aster grandiflorus)	Native
late purple aster	Symphyotrichum patens (= Aster patens)	Native
hairy white oldfield aster, frost	Symphyotrichum pilosum var. pilosum (= Aster pilosus var. pilosus)	Native
rigid whitetop aster	Symphyotrichum retroflexum (= Aster curtisii)	Native
Horse Sugar, Sweet leaf	Symplocos tinctoria	Native
Meadow Rue, Tall Meadow Rue	Thalictrum polygamum (=T. pubescens)	Native
Rue Anemone, Wind Flower	Thalictrum thalictroides	Native
Foam Flower	Tiarella cordifolia	Native
Cranefly Orchid	Tipularia discolor	Native
False Asphodel	Tofieldia glabra	Native
Catesby's Trillium	Trillium catesbaei	Native
Toadshade	Trillium cuneatum	Native
Yellow Trillium, Mottled Trillium	Trillium discolor	Native Threatened
Wake Robin	Trillium erectum	Native
Large-flowered Trillium	Trillium grandiflorum	Native
Carolina Least Trillium	Trillium pusillum	Native Endangered
Nodding Trillium	Trillium rugelii	Native
Painted Trillium	Trillium undulatum	Native
Feverwort, Horse Gentian	Triosteum aurantiacum	Native
Three Birds Orchid	Triphora trianthophora	Native Watch List
narrow leafed cattail	Typha angustifolia	Native
common cat-tail, broad leafed cat-tail	Typha latifolia	Native
Bellwort	Uvularia sessilifolia	Native
High Bush Blueberry	vaccinium corymbosum	Native
Cranberry	Vaccinium macrocarpon	Native Significantly Rare
Narrow Leafed Bunchflower	Veratrum latifolium	Native
Moth Mullein	Verbascum blattaria	Alien
Common Mullein	Verbascum thapsus	Alien INVASIVE
New York Iron Weed	Vernonia noveboracensis	Native
Common Speedwell, Common Gypsyweed	Veronica officinalis	Alien in part
Culver's Root	Veronicastrum virginicum	Native
Downy Viburnum	Viburnum rafinesquianum	Native
Halberdleaf yellow violet	Viola hastata	Native
Long-spurred Violet	Viola rostrata	Native
Barren Strawberry	Waldsteinia fragarioides	Native
Shrub-Yellowroot	Xanthorhiza simplicissima	Native
Honeycup	Zenobia pulverulenta	Native
Atamasco Lily	Zephyranthes atamasco	Native
Golden Alexander	Zizia aurea	Native