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 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