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

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Plants listed alphabetically by scientific name.
Common name, link to Portrait	Scientific name	Native / Alien ⁽¹⁾
Bearded Grass Pink	Calopogon barbatus	Native S3: Vulnerable
Many Flower Grass Pink	Calopogon multiflorus	Native E: Endangered
Pale Grass Pink	Calopogon pallidus	Native S3: Vulnerable
Grass Pink	Calopogon tuberosus	Native
Sweet shrub; Sweet Betsy, Carolina allspice	Calycanthus floridus	Native
wild hyacinth	Camassia scilloides	Native T: Threatened
Southern Harebell	Campanula divaricata	Native
Trumpet creeper; Trumpet vine, Cow Itch	Campsis radicans	Native
cutleaf toothwort	Cardamine concatenata (= Dentaria laciniata)	Native
Crinkleroot, Toothwort	Cardamine diphylla (=Dentaria diphylla)	Native
Thread Leafed Toothwort	Cardamine dissecta (=Dentaria dissecta )	Native SC: Special Concern
Plantain-leaved Sedge, Seersucker Sedge	Carex plantaginea	Native
Chaffhead	Carphephorus bellidifolius	Native
Water Hickory, Bitter Pecan	Carya aquatica	Native
Pecan	Carya illinoinensis	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
Spurred Butterfly Pea	Centrosema virginianum	Native
Buttonbush	Cephalanthus occidentalis	Native
Sensitive partridge pea, Common Sensitive Plant	Chamaecrista nictitans	Native
Atlantic white cedar, juniper	Chamaecyparis thyoides	Native
Fairy Wand, Devil's Bit	Chamaelirium luteum	Native
Woolly Sunbonnets, Pineland Daisy, Night-nodding Bog-dandelion	Chaptalia tomentosa	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
Maryland Golden Aster	Chrysopsis mariana (=Heterotheca mariana)	Native
Chicory	Cichorium intybus	Alien INVASIVE
Virginia Thistle	Cirsium virginianum	Native
Powder-puff lichen, Oak toes lichen	Cladonia evansii	Native W: Watch List
Spring Beauty	Claytonia virginica	Native
Small Spreading Pogonia	Cleistes bifaria	Native W: Watch List
Spreading Pogonia	Cleistes divaricata	Native S3: Vulnerable
Swamp Leather Flower	Clematis crispa	Native
Curly heads	Clematis ochroleuca	Native
Leather Flower	Clematis viorna	Native
Autumn Clematis, Virgin's Bower	Clematis virginiana	Native
Clinton's Lily, Yellow Clintonia, Bluebead Lily	Clintonia borealis	Native
speckled wood lily	Clintonia umbellulata	Native
Tread Softly, Spurge Nettle	Cnidoscolus stimulosus	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
Appalachian Lily-of-the-Valley	Convallaria majuscula	Native
Spotted Coral Root	Corallorhiza maculata	Native
Autumn Coral Root	Corallorhiza odontorhiza	Native S4: Apparently Secure
Spring Coral Root	Corallorhiza wisteriana	Native W: Watch List
Southern Swamp Dogwood, Stiff Dogwood	Cornus stricta	Native
Southern Corydalis	Corydalis halei	Native
American Hazelnut	Corylus americana	Native
Fanleaf Hawthorn, Bigfruit Hawthorn	Crataegus macrosperma	Native
Dotted Hawthorn	Crataegus punctata	Native
Hoary Frostweed, Plains Frostweed, Plains Sunrose, Bicknell's Hoary Rockrose	Crocanthemum bicknellii	Native SC: Special Concern
Fraser's Sedge	Cymophyllus fraseri	Native
Pink Lady's Slipper, Stemless Lady's Slipper	Cypripedium acaule	Native S5: Secure
Small Yellow Lady's Slipper Orchid	Cypripedium parviflorum var parviflorum	Native S3: Vulnerable
Large Yellow Lady's Slipper Orchid	Cypripedium parviflorum var pubescens	Native S3: Vulnerable
Showy Lady's Slipper	Cypripedium reginae	Native W: Watch List