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Plants listed alphabetically by scientific name.
Thumbnail Common name,
link to Portrait		 Scientific name Native / Alien (1)
image Yarrow, Milfoil Achillea millefolium

Alien

image Trailing Wolfsbane, White Monkshood, White Aconite Aconitum reclinatum

Native

image Southern Blue Monkshood, Eastern Blue Monkshood, Appalachian Blue Monkshood Aconitum uncinatum

Native

image White Baneberry, Doll Eyes Actaea pachypoda

Native

image Black Cohosh Actaea racemosa (=Cimicifuga racemosa)

Native

image Northern Maidenhair Adiantum pedatum

Native

image Red Buckeye Aesculus pavia

Native

image painted buckeye Aesculus sylvatica

Native

image Scaleleaf False Foxglove Agalinis aphylla

Native

SR: Significantly Rare
image White Snakeroot Ageratina altissima (=Eupatorium rugosum)

Native

image Mimosa, Silk Tree Albizia julibrissin

Alien

INVASIVE
image Colicroot, Stargrass Aletris farinosa

Native

image Ramps Allium tricoccum

Native

image Tag Alder, Hazel Alder, Common Alder, Smooth Alder Alnus serrulata

Native

image Allegheny Serviceberry, Juneberry, Shadbush Amelanchier laevis

Native

image Fly Poison Amianthium muscaetoxicum

Native

image Bluestar, Blue Dogbane, Willow Amsonia Amsonia tabernaemontana

Native

image Wood Anemone Anemone quinquefolia

Native

image Thimbleweed; Tall anemone Anemone virginiana

Native

image Hairy Angelica Angelica venenosa

Native

image pussy toes Antennaria plantaginifolia

Native

image Mayweed, Stinking Chamomile Anthemis cotula

Native

image Puttyroot, Adam & Eve Aplectrum hyemale

Native

S4: Apparently Secure
image Wild columbine Aquilegia canadensis

Native

image smooth rockcress Arabis laevigata

Native

image Devil's Walkingstick, Hercules' Club, Prickly Ash Aralia spinosa

Native

image Bog Rose Arethusa bulbosa

Native

E: Endangered
image Green Dragon Arisaema dracontium

Native

image Jack-in-the-Pulpit Arisaema triphyllum

Native

image Virginia snakeroot Aristolochia serpentaria

Native

image Wild Ginger Asarum canadense

Native

image poke milkweed Asclepias exaltata

Native

image fourleaf milkweed Asclepias quadrifolia

Native

image Common Milkweed Asclepias syriaca

Native

image Butterfly Weed Asclepias tuberosa

Native

image St. Andrew's Cross Ascyrum hypericoides (=Hypericum hypericoides ssp. hypericoides)

Native

image dwarf pawpaw Asimina parviflora

Native

image pawpaw Asimina triloba

Native

image Walking Fern Asplenium rhizophyllum

Native

S3: Vulnerable
image false goat's beard Astilbe biternata

Native

image False Foxglove Aureolaria laevigata

Native

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