A

Plants listed alphabetically by scientific name.
Thumbnail Common name,
link to Portrait
Scientific name Native / Alien (1)
Yarrow Yarrow Achillea millefolium Alien
Northern Maidenhair fern Northern Maidenhair fern Adiantum pedatum Native
Mimosa bloom Mimosa Albizia julibrissin Alien
INVASIVE
Allegheny Serviceberry Allegheny Serviceberry, Shadbush, Juneberry Amelanchier laevis Native
Flypoison bloom Fly Poison Amianthium muscaetoxicum Native
Bluestar Bluestar, Blue dogbane, Willow amsonia Amsonia tabernaemontana Native
wood anemone Wood anemone Anemone quinquefolia Native
Thimbleweed bloom Thimbleweed Anemone virginiana Native
Puttyroot Puttyroot Aplectrum hyemale Native
Wild Columbine Wild Columbine Aquilegia canadensis Native
Bog Rose Bog Rose Arethusa bulbosa Native
Rare
Green Dragon leaf Green Dragon Arisaema dracontium Native
Jack in the pulpit bloom Jack-in-the-Pulpit Arisaema triphyllum Native
Wild Ginger Wild Evergreen Ginger Asarum minor (=Hexastylis minor) Native
Ginger Shuttleworth's Ginger Asarum shuttleworthii (=Hexastylis shuttleworthii var. shuttleworthii) Native
milkweed bloom Common Milkweed Asclepias syriaca Native
Butterfly Weed Butterfly Weed Asclepias tuberosa Native
St. Andrew's Cross bloom St. Andrew's Cross Ascyrum hypericoides (=Hypericum hypericoides ssp. hypericoides) Native
Walking Fern Walking Fern Asplenium rhizophyllum Native
Rare
Aster bloom Eastern Silvery Aster Aster concolor (=Symphyotrichum concolor) Native
Aster flower Wild Blue Aster, Large Flowered Aster Aster grandiflorus (=Symphyotrichum grandiflorum) Native

Do you have pictures you'd like to share?

Help others recognize and appreciate your favorites.

We'd like to add more portraits of different NC plants.

Send your photos of buds, blooms, leaves, and seedpods to:

tom @ ncwildflower.org

back to top