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Plants listed alphabetically by scientific name.
Thumbnail Common name,
link to Portrait
Scientific name Native / Alien (1)
image Bearded Grass Pink Calopogon barbatus

Native

Rare
image Many Flower Grass Pink Calopogon multiflorus

Native

Endangered
image Pale Grass Pink Calopogon pallidus

Native

Rare
image Grass Pink Calopogon tuberosus

Native

image Sweet shrub; Sweet Betsy, Carolina allspice Calycanthus floridus

Native

image Southern Harebell Campanula divaricata

Native

image Trumpet creeper; Trumpet vine, Cow Itch Campsis radicans

Native

image Crinkleroot, Toothwort Cardamine diphylla (Dentaria diphylla)

Native

image Thread Leafed Toothwort Cardamine dissecta (=Dentaria dissecta )

Native

image Plantain-leaved Sedge, Seersucker Sedge Carex plantaginea

Native

image Chaffhead Carphephorus bellidifolius

Native

image Indian Paintbrush, Scarlet Painted Cup Castilleja coccinea

Native

image Catawba Tree, Monkey Cigar Tree Catalpa speciosa

Native

image Blue Cohosh, Papooseroot Caulophyllum thalictroides

Native

image New Jersey Tea Ceanothus americanus

Native

image Oriental Bittersweet Celastrus orbiculatus

Alien

INVASIVE
image Atlantic white cedar, juniper Chamaecyparis thyoides

Native

image Fairy Wand, Devil's Bit Chamaelirium luteum

Native

image Hairy Lipped Fern Cheilanthes lanosa

Native

image Wooly Lipped Fern Cheilanthes tomentosa

Native

image Turtlehead Chelone lyonii

Native

image Spotted Wintergreen, Striped Pipsissawa Chimaphila maculata

Native

image Fringe tree, Old man's beard Chionanthus virginicus

Native

image Feverfew Chrysanthemum parthenium (=Tanacetum parthenium)

Alien

image Green and Gold Chrysogonum virginianum

Native

image Cottony Golden Aster Chrysopsis gossypina

Native

image Chicory Cichorium intybus

Alien

INVASIVE
image Virginia Thistle Cirsium virginianum

Native

image Powder-puff lichen, Oak toes lichen Cladonia evansii

Native

Watch List
image Spring Beauty Claytonia virginica

Native

image Small Spreading Pogonia Cleistes bifaria

Native

Watch List
image Spreading Pogonia Cleistes divaricata

Native

Rare
image Swamp Leather Flower Clematis crispa

Native

image Curly heads Clematis ochroleuca

Native

image Leather Flower Clematis viorna

Native

image Autumn Clematis, Virgin's Bower Clematis virginiana

Native

image speckled wood lily Clintonia umbellulata

Native

image Long Bract Frog Orchid Coeloglossum viride var. virescens (=Dactylorhiza viridis)

Native

Candidate
image Canada Horsebalm, Richweed, Hardhack, Heal-All, Horseweed, Ox-Balm and Stone root. Collinsonia canadensis

Native

image squaw root, cancer root Conopholis americana

Native

image Spotted Coral Root Corallorhiza maculata

Native

image Autumn Coral Root Corallorhiza odontorhiza

Native

image Spring Coral Root Corallorhiza wisteriana

Native

Watch List
image Fraser's Sedge Cymophyllus fraseri

Native

image Pink Lady's Slipper, Stemless Lady's Slipper Cypripedium acaule

Native

image Small Yellow Lady's Slipper Orchid Cypripedium parviflorum var parviflorum

Native

Rare
image Large Yellow Lady's Slipper Orchid Cypripedium parviflorum var pubescens

Native

Rare
image Showy Lady's Slipper Cypripedium reginae

Native

Watch List

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