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

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Plants listed alphabetically by scientific name.
Common name, link to Portrait	Scientific name	Native / Alien ⁽¹⁾
Dwarf Palmetto, Blue Stem Palmetto	Sabal minor	Native
Duck Potato, Bulltongue Arrowhead	Sagittaria lancifolia	Native
Lyre-leaf Sage	Salvia lyrata	Native
Elderberry	Sambucus canadensis	Native
Bloodroot	Sanguinaria canadensis	Native
None	Sarracenia × catesbaei (S. flava × S. purpurea)	Native
yellow pitcher plant	Sarracenia flava	Native
mountain sweet pitcherplant	Sarracenia jonesii	Native E: Endangered
hooded pitcher plant	Sarracenia minor var minor	Native
Green pitcher plant	Sarracenia oreophila	Native
Appalachian purple pitcher plant	Sarracenia purpurea var montana	Native
Northern purple pitcherplant	Sarracenia purpurea var purpurea	Native
Purple Pitcher Plant, Common Pitcher Plant	Sarracenia purpurea var venosa	Native
Sweet Pitcher Plant	Sarracenia rubra	Native
Sassafras	Sassafras albidum	Native
Helmet Skullcap, Helmet Flower	Scutellaria integrifolia	Native
Stonecrop	Sedum ternatum	Native
Golden Ragwort, Groundsel	Senecio aureus (=Packera aurea)	Native
Schweinitz's Ragwort, Schweinitz's Groundsel	Senecio schweinitzianus (=Packera schweinitziana)	Native S2: Imperiled
Shortia, Oconee Bells	Shortia galacifolia	Native SC: Special Concern
Fire Pink	Silene virginica	Native
Compass Plant	Silphium laciniatum	Native
Prairie Rosinweed	Silphium terebinthinaceum	Native SR: Significantly Rare
Blue-eyed grass	Sisyrinchium angustifolium	Native
Bearsfoot, Leafcup	Smallanthus uvedalius	Native
Solomon's Plume, False Solomon's Seal	Smilacina racemosa (=Maianthemum racemosum ssp. racemosum)	Native
Greenbriar	Smilax walteri	Native
Blue Stem Goldenrod	Solidago caesia	Native
Goldenrod	Solidago gracillima	Native
plumed goldenrod, Yadkin River goldenrod	Solidago plumosa	Native T: Threatened
Slender Fragrant Goldenrod	Solidago tenuifolia (=Euthamia caroliniana)	Native
Indian Pink	Spigelia marilandica	Native E: Endangered
Texas Ladies' Tresses	Spiranthes brevilabris	Undetermined E: Endangered
Nodding Ladies' Tresses	Spiranthes cernua	Native SR: Significantly Rare
Eaton's Ladies' Tresses	Spiranthes eatonii	Undetermined
Florida Ladies' Tresses	Spiranthes floridana	Native
Southern Slender Ladies' Tresses	Spiranthes lacera var. gracilis	Native S4: Apparently Secure
Northern Slender Ladies' Tresses	Spiranthes lacera var. laceras	Native SR: Significantly Rare
Lace Lip Ladies' Tresses	Spiranthes laciniata	Undetermined S1: Critically Imperiled
Giant Spiral Orchid	Spiranthes longilabris	Native T: Threatened
Shining Ladies' Tresses	Spiranthes lucida	Native Candidate
Yellow Ladies' Tresses	Spiranthes ochroleuca	Undetermined Candidate
Sweet Scent Ladies' Tresses	Spiranthes odorata	Native SR: Significantly Rare
Lesser Ladies' Tresses	Spiranthes ovalis var. erostellata	Native S2: Imperiled
Grassleaf Ladies' Tresses	Spiranthes praecox	Native
Woodland Ladies' Tresses	Spiranthes sylvatica	Undetermined
Little Ladies' Tresses	Spiranthes tuberosa	Undetermined S3: Vulnerable
Twisted Ladies' Tresses	Spiranthes vernalis	Native S3: Vulnerable
Star Chickweed, Great Chickweed	Stellaria pubera	Native
Featherbells	Stenanthium gramineum	Native
silky camellia	Stewartia malacodendron	Native
Pineland scalypink, Wire-plant	Stipulicida setacea	Native
Rosy Twisted-stalk, Rose mandarin	Streptopus roseus (=S. lanceolatus var. roseus)	Native
Climbing Aster	Symphyotrichum carolinianum (=aster carolinianus)	Native
Eastern Silvery Aster	Symphyotrichum concolor (=Aster concolor)	Native
Blue Wood Aster	Symphyotrichum cordifolium (= Aster cordifolium)	Native
Wild Blue Aster, Large Flowered Aster	Symphyotrichum grandiflorum(=Aster grandiflorus)	Native
late purple aster	Symphyotrichum patens (= Aster patens)	Native
hairy white oldfield aster, frost	Symphyotrichum pilosum var. pilosum (= Aster pilosus var. pilosus)	Native
rigid whitetop aster	Symphyotrichum retroflexum (= Aster curtisii)	Native
Skunk Cabbage	Symplocarpus foetidus	Native
Horse Sugar, Sweet leaf	Symplocos tinctoria	Native