North Carolina Native Plants Society - Native Plants Gallery - Scientific Names Starting with Letter a

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Plants listed alphabetically by scientific name.
Common name, link to Portrait	Scientific name	Native / Alien ⁽¹⁾
Red Maple	Acer rubrum	Native
Yarrow, Milfoil	Achillea millefolium	Alien
Trailing Wolfsbane, White Monkshood, White Aconite	Aconitum reclinatum	Native
Southern Blue Monkshood, Eastern Blue Monkshood, Appalachian Blue Monkshood	Aconitum uncinatum	Native
White Baneberry, Doll Eyes	Actaea pachypoda	Native
Black Cohosh	Actaea racemosa (=Cimicifuga racemosa)	Native
Northern Maidenhair	Adiantum pedatum	Native
Yellow Buckeye	Aesculus flava	Native
Red Buckeye	Aesculus pavia	Native
painted buckeye	Aesculus sylvatica	Native
Scaleleaf False Foxglove	Agalinis aphylla	Native SR: 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
Tag Alder, Hazel Alder, Common Alder, Smooth Alder	Alnus serrulata	Native
Allegheny Serviceberry, Juneberry, Shadbush	Amelanchier laevis	Native
Coastal Plain Serviceberry	Amelanchier obovalis	Native
Fly Poison	Amianthium muscaetoxicum	Native
Dwarf Indigo Bush, Clusterspike False Indigo	Amorpha herbacea	Native
Bluestar, Blue Dogbane, Willow Amsonia	Amsonia tabernaemontana	Native
Sharp-lobed Liverleaf	Anemone acutiloba (=Hepatica acutiloba)	Native
Round-lobed Liverleaf	Anemone americana (=Hepatica americana)	Native
Wood Anemone	Anemone quinquefolia	Native
Thimbleweed; Tall anemone	Anemone virginiana	Native
pussy toes	Antennaria plantaginifolia	Native
Mayweed, Stinking Chamomile	Anthemis cotula	Native
Puttyroot, Adam & Eve	Aplectrum hyemale	Native S4: Apparently Secure
Wild columbine	Aquilegia canadensis	Native
smooth rockcress	Arabis laevigata	Native
Devil's Walkingstick, Hercules' Club, Prickly Ash	Aralia spinosa	Native
Bog Rose	Arethusa bulbosa	Native E: Endangered
Green Dragon	Arisaema dracontium	Native
Jack-in-the-Pulpit	Arisaema triphyllum	Native
Wild Ginger	Asarum canadense	Native
Clasping Milkweed	Asclepias amplexicaulis	Native
poke milkweed	Asclepias exaltata	Native
fourleaf milkweed	Asclepias quadrifolia	Native
Common Milkweed	Asclepias syriaca	Native
Butterfly Weed	Asclepias tuberosa	Native
redring milkweed	Asclepias variegata	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 S3: Vulnerable
false goat's beard	Astilbe biternata	Native
False Foxglove	Aureolaria laevigata	Native