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Plants listed alphabetically by scientific name.
Thumbnail Common name,
link to Portrait		 Scientific name Native / Alien (1)
image Lyre-leaf Sage Salvia lyrata

Native

image Elderberry Sambucus canadensis

Native

image Bloodroot Sanguinaria canadensis

Native

image Purple Pitcher Plant, Common Pitcher Plant Sarracenia purpurea

Native

image Sweet Pitcher Plant Sarracenia rubra

Native

image Early Saxifrage Saxifraga virginiensis

Native

image Stonecrop Sedum ternatum

Native

image Golden Ragwort, Groundsel Senecio aureus (=Packera aurea)

Native

image Schweinitz's Ragwort, Schweinitz's Groundsel Senecio schweinitzianus (=Packera schweinitziana)

Native

Rare
image Shortia, Oconee Bells Shortia galacifolia

Native

Special Concern
image Fire Pink Silene virginica

Native

image Compass Plant Silphium laciniatum

Native

image Prairie Rosinweed Silphium terebinthinaceum

Native

Significantly Rare
image Blue-eyed grass Sisyrinchium angustifolium

Native

image Solomon's Plume, False Solomon's Seal Smilacina racemosa (=Maianthemum racemosum ssp. racemosum)

Native

image Greenbriar Smilax walteri

Native

image Blue Stem Goldenrod Solidago caesia

Native

image Goldenrod Solidago gracillima

Native

image Slender Fragrant Goldenrod Solidago tenuifolia (=Euthamia caroliniana)

Native

image Indian Pink Spigelia marilandica

Native

Endangered
Texas Ladies' Tresses Spiranthes brevilabris

Undetermined

Endangered
image Nodding Ladies' Tresses Spiranthes cernua

Native

Significantly Rare
Eaton's Ladies' Tresses Spiranthes eatonii

Undetermined

Florida Ladies' Tresses Spiranthes floridana

Native

image Southern Slender Ladies' Tresses Spiranthes lacera var. gracilis

Native

Northern Slender Ladies' Tresses Spiranthes lacera var. laceras

Undetermined

Lace Lip Ladies' Tresses Spiranthes laciniata

Undetermined

Critically Rare
image Giant Spiral Orchid Spiranthes longilabris

Native

Candidate
image Shining Ladies' Tresses Spiranthes lucida

Native

Candidate
Yellow Ladies' Tresses Spiranthes ochroleuca

Undetermined

Candidate
image Sweet Scent Ladies' Tresses Spiranthes odorata

Native

Significantly Rare
image Lesser Ladies' Tresses Spiranthes ovalis var. erostellata

Native

Rare
image Grassleaf Ladies' Tresses Spiranthes praecox

Native

Rare
Woodland Ladies' Tresses Spiranthes sylvatica

Undetermined

Little Ladies' Tresses Spiranthes tuberosa

Undetermined

Rare
image Twisted Ladies' Tresses Spiranthes vernalis

Native

Rare
image Star Chickweed, Great Chickweed Stellaria pubera

Native

image Featherbells Stenanthium gramineum

Native

image Rosy Twisted-stalk, Rose mandarin Streptopus roseus (=S. lanceolatus var. roseus)

Native

image Climbing Aster Symphyotrichum carolinianum (=aster carolinianus)

Native

image Eastern Silvery Aster Symphyotrichum concolor (=Aster concolor)

Native

image Blue Wood Aster Symphyotrichum cordifolium (= Aster cordifolium)

Native

image Wild Blue Aster, Large Flowered Aster Symphyotrichum grandiflorum(=Aster grandiflorus)

Native

image late purple aster Symphyotrichum patens (= Aster patens)

Native

image hairy white oldfield aster, frost Symphyotrichum pilosum var. pilosum (= Aster pilosus var. pilosus)

Native

image rigid whitetop aster Symphyotrichum retroflexum (= Aster curtisii)

Native

image Horse Sugar, Sweet leaf Symplocos tinctoria

Native

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