Families, Common Names
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Species names are linked to individual pages. For a summary of plant family traits, click here.

FERNS and ALLIES

    ​​Adder's tongue

​    Beech fern

     Bracken fern

    Bulblet fern

    Christmas fern

    ​Cinnamon fern

    Cliff fern

    Club moss 

    Fragile fern

    Glade fern

    Grape fern

    Hairy lip fern

    Lady fern

    Maidenhair fern

    ​​Mariana maiden fern

    Netted chain fern

    Purple cliffbrake

    Rattlesnake fern

    Resurrection fern

    Rockcap fern

    Royal fern

    ​Sensitive fern

    Shining Firmoss 

    Silvery glade fern

    Southern maidenhair fern

    ​Spleenwort, black-stemmed

    Spleenwort, ebony

    Walking fern

    Wood fern, leather

    Wood fern, marginal

 Equisetaceae

   Scouring rush

GYMNOSPERMS

 Cupressaceae

   Eastern red cedar

 Pinaceae

   Eastern Hemlock

   Loblolly pine

   Short-leaf pine

    Virginia pine

    White pine

Taxodiaceae

    Bald cypress

ANGIOSPERMS

MONOCOTS

  Agavaceae

    False aloe

    Yucca

  Alismataceae

    ​Arrowhead, common

    Water-plantain, southern ​

  Alliaceae

    Field garlic

    Wild garlic

  Amaryllidaceae

    Daffodil

    Spider lily

  Araceae

    Green dragon

    Jack-in-the-pulpit

  Commelinaceae

    Dayflower, common

    Dayflower, creeping

    ​​Dayflower, erect

    ​​Dayflower, Virginia

    Early spiderwort

    Zigzag spiderwort

  Cyperaceae

    Flatsedge, globe 

    ​Flatsedge, straw-colored 

    Nutsedge, yellow

    Long-bristle beak rush

    Sedge (grayi)

    Sedge (plantaginea)

    ​Sedge, three-way

  Dioscoreaceae

   Chinese yam    

   Wild yam

  Hemerocallidaceae

    Day-lily

  Hyacinthaceae

    Star-of-Bethlehem     

    Wild hyacinth

  Hypoxidaceae

    Yellow stargrass

  Iridaceae

   Blackberry-lily

   ​Blue flag, southern

   ​Blue-eyed grass

   Dwarf crested-iris

   White blue-eyed grass   

  Juncaeae

   ​Soft rush 

   Wool-grass

  Liliaceae

   Tiger lily  

   Trout lily, white

    Trout lily, yellow

  Melanthiaceae

    Devil's bit

    False hellebore

  Orchidaceae

    Coralroot

    Crane-fly orchid

    ​​Crested coral-root

    Fall coral-root

    ​Ladies'-tresses, nodding

     ​Ladies'-tresses, oval

    Ladies'-tresses, slender 

    ​​Ladies'-tresses, spring

    Ladies'-tresses, little

    ​Lady-slipper, yellow

     Putty-root

    Rattlesnake plantain

    ​Showy orchis

    Twayblade, lily-leaved

    ​Twayblade, southern

  Poaceae

    Barnyard grass, rough  

    ​Bearded shorthusk

    ​Big bluestem

    ​Bottlebrush grass

    Canada brome

     Cane

    ​Deer-tongue grass

    ​Hairy joint grass

    Johnson grass

    ​Indian grass

    Plume grass (Saccharum)

    Plumegrass (Miscanthus)

    ​Purple top

    Stilt grass 

    Timothy ​

    Velvety panic grass ​

    Wood oats 

  Ruscaceae

   Solomon's plume 

   Solomon's seal

  Smilacaceae

    Carrion flower, erect

    Carrion flower, vining

    Catbrier

    Common greenbrier

    Hispid greenbrier

    Sawbrier

  Trilliaceae 

   Trillium, bent (nodding)

   Trillium, sessile

  Typhaceae

    Common cattail

    Narrow-leaved cattail

  Uvulariaceae

    Bellwort, large-flowered

    Bellwort, small-flowered

    Yellow mandarin
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DICOTS

  Acanthaceae

    American water willow

    Glade Ruellia 

    Hairy Ruellia

    Smooth ruellia

    Guide to local Ruellia species

  Aceraceae

    Black maple

    Box elder

     Red maple

    Silver maple

     Sugar maple  

  Amaranthaceae

    Pigweed, spiny

  Anacardiaceae    

    Poison ivy

    Smooth sumac

    Winged sumac

  Annonaceae

    Papaw

  Apiaceae (formerly Umbelliferae)

   Beaked sanicle

   Clustered snakeroot (aka sanicle)

   Golden alexander

   Hairy angelica

   Hairy sweet cicely

   Harbinger of spring

   Hedge-parsley

   Honewort

   ​Meadow-parsnip, bearded 

   Meadow-parsnip, Chapman's

   ​Meadow-parsnip, smooth

   Nondo

   Poison hemlock

   Queen Anne's lace

   Rattlesnake master

   Southern chervil  

   Stiff Cowbane

   Sweet cicely

   ​Water hemlock

   Yellow pimpernel 

  Apocynaceae

    Indian hemp

    Periwinkle

  Aquifoliaceae

    American holly

  Araliaceae

     Devil's walkingstick

    Ginseng

    Spikenard

  Aristolochiaceae

    Dutchman's pipe

    Wild ginger

  Asclepiadaceae

    Anglepod

    Butterfly weed

    Milkvine, climbing 

    Milkweed, clasping

     Milkweed, common

    Milkweed, four-leaved 

    Milkweed, green 

    ​​Milkweed, poke

    Milkweed, purple    

    ​Milkweed, swamp

    Milkweed, unknown - possible hybrid?

    Milkweed, white

    Milkweed, whorled

    Sandvine

  Asteraceae (composites)

    Asters - guide page to local species

    ​​Aster, bushy

    Aster, calico        

    ​Aster, Appalachian flat-topped white ​

    ​​Aster, tall flat-topped white

    Aster, frostweed

     Aster, heart-leaved

    Aster, late purple

    Aster, Lowrie's

    Aster, New England

    ​Aster, Ontario

    ​Aster, panicled

    Aster, Short's

    ​Aster, silky

    Aster, small white ​

    ​Aster, wavy-leaved

    Aster, narrow-leaved white-topped

    ​​Bachelor's button

    Bear's foot   

    ​Beggars-ticks, few-bracted

    Black-eyed susan

    Blazing-star, dense

    ​​Blazing star, rough

    Blazing-star, scaly

    Blazing-star, southern

    Boneset

    ​​Boneset, false

    Boneset, upland

     Brown-eyed susan

    Burdock

    Butterweed

    Camphorweed ​

    Chicory

    Cocklebur, common

     ​Compass plant 

    Coneflower, gray-headed

    Coneflower, orange  

    Coneflower, wavyleaf purple

    Coneflower, purple

    ​Coneflower, sweet 

    Coneflower, tall

    Coneflower, woodland

    ​Crownbeard - helianthoides 

    Crownbeard - occidentalis

    ​Cudweed, purple

    Cup plant

    Daisy, ​Ox-eye

    Daisy, western

    Dandelion

    Dwarf dandelion

    ​Dwarf dandelion, Virginia ​

    Elephant's foot

    Fleabane, daisy

     Fleabane, Philadelphia

    ​Fleabane, rough

    Galinsoga

    Goat's beard, fistulose

    Goat's beard, showy 

    Golden-aster, Maryland ​

    ​​Goldaster, soft 

    Goldenrods - GUIDE to local species

    Goldenrod, blue-stemmed

    Goldenrod, Canada 

    Goldenrod, early

    ​Goldenrod, elm-leaved

    Goldenrod, erect 

    Goldenrod, false

    ​​​Goldenrod, forest

    Goldenrod, gray

    Goldenrod, flat-topped

    Goldenrod, riverbank

    Goldenrod, smooth

    ​Goldenrod, rough

    ​​Goldenrod, rough-leaved

    Goldenrod, showy

    Goldenrod, stiff

    ​​Goldenrod, sweet 

    Golderod, zigzag

    Hawkweed, hairy

    Hawkweed, panicled

    Hawkweed, sticky

    Horseweed

    Indian plantain, great    

    ​​Indian plantain, pale

    ​​Indigo, wild

    Ironweed

    Jerusalem artichoke

    Joe-pye weed, sweet 

    Joe-pye weed, hollow

    Knapweed, spotted

    Leafcup

    Lettuce, wild

    ​Lettuce, willowleaf

    ​​Marsh-fleabane

     Mistflower

    Pilewort  

    Prairie dock

    Pussytoes, plantain-leaved

    Pussytoes, solitary ​

    Ragweed, common

    Ragweed, giant

    ​Ragwort, balsam 

    Ragwort, golden

    Ragwort, round-leaved

    Rattlesnake root

    Robin-plantain

    Rosinweed, whorled

    Rough marsh elder

    Sneezeweed, autumn 

    Sneezeweed, narrow-leaved 

    Sneezeweed, purple-headed

    Sow-thistle, common

    Sow-thistle, field

    Spanish needles

    Sticktight

    ​​Sunflower, annual

    Sunflower, ashy

    Sunflower, Eggert's

    Sunflower, forest

    Sunflower, hairy

    Sunflower, Maximilian's

    Sunflower,  Ox-eye

    Sunflower, rough-leaved

    Sunflower, small-headed

    ​​Sunflower, sawtooth

    Sunflower, western

    Sunflower, woodland

    ​Sweet everlasting

    Thistle, bull

    Thistle, Canada

    Thistle, field

    ​Thistle, nodding

    Thistle, tall

    Thoroughwort, hyssop-leaved

    Thoroughwort, late

​    Thoroughwort, pink

    Thoroughwort, round-leaved 

    Thoroughwort, tall

    ​Thoroughwort, white

    Tickseed, eared

    ​Tickseed, lance-leaved

    Tickseed, forest

    Tickseed, tall 

    Tickseed-sunflower

    Tickseed-sunflower, Ozark

     White snakeroot

     White wingstem

    Wild quinine 

    Yarrow

    Yellow wingstem

    Yerba-de-tajo

  Balsaminaceae

    Orange jewelweed

    Pale jewelweed  

  Berberidaceae

    Blue cohosh

    Mayapple

     Twinleaf

  Betulaceae

    American hazelnut

    Hop hornbeam

    Hornbeam    

    River birch

  Bignoniaceae

     Crossvine

    Northern catalpa

     Trumpet-vine

  Boraginaceae

    American gromwell

    Forget-me-not

    Hoary puccoon    

    Stickseed

    Virginia bluebells

    Wild comfrey

  Brassicaceae

    Bitter-cress, hoary ​  

    Cress, mouse-ear

    ​​Cress, spring

    Dame's rocket

    Garlic mustard

    Hedge-mustard

    Hedge-mustard, tall

    ​Pennsylvania bitter-cress 

    Peppergrass ​

    Purple rocket

    Shepherd's purse

    Sicklepod

    Smooth rock cress 

    Toothwort, cut-leaved

    Toothwort, fineleaf 

    Toothwort, slender

    Toothwort, two-leaved

    ​Whitlow-grass, short-fruited

    Whitlow-grass, vernal

    Wild mustard

   ​ Winter cress

  Buxaceae

    Allegheny spurge

  Cabombaceae 

    Water-shield 

  Cactaceae

    Prickly pear 

  Campanulaceae

    Cardinal flower

     Downy lobelia

    Great blue lobelia

    Indian tobacco

    Pale spiked lobelia

    Tall bellflower

    Venus looking-glass

  Caprifoliaceae

    Amur honeysuckle

    ​Arrow-wood

    Black-haw ​

    Coralberry

    Elderberry

    Horse-gentian, orange-flowered

    ​​Horse-gentian, yellow

    Japanese honeysuckle

    Southern Black-haw

    Tatarian honeysuckle

    Trumpet honeysuckle

  Caryophyllaceae

    Campion, starry   

    Catchfly, blue ridge

    ​​Catchfly, royal

    Common chickweed

    Deptford pink

    Fire pink

    Mouse-eared chickweed

    Star chickweed

    ​​Stichwort, pitcher's

  Celastraceae

    Bittersweet American 

    Bittersweet, Asian ​

    Burning bush

    Climbing euonymus

    Strawberry bush

    Wahoo

   Chenopodiaceae

    Lamb's quarters

   Clusiaceae, (Hypericaceae, Guttiferae) 

    St. Andrew's Cross   

    St. John's wort, common

    St. John's wort, coppery

    St. John's wort, dwarf

    St. John's wort, shrubby

    St. John's wort, spotted

    St. John's wort, straggling

  Convolvulaceae

    Bindweed, field 

    Bindweed, hedge

    Dodder

    ​Morning-glory, common 

    Morning-glory, ivy-leaved

    Morning-glory, small white 

    Wild potato vine

  Cornaceae

    Alternate-leaved dogwood 

    Flowering dogwood

    Red dogwood 

    Roughleaf dogwood

  Crassulaceae

    Stonecrop

    Widow's cross

  Cucurbitaceae

    Bur cucumber

  Dipsacaceae

    ​Teasel

  Ebenaceae

    Persimmon

  Elaeagnaceae

    Autumn-olive 

  Ericaceae

    Deerberry      

    Indian pipe

    Mountain laurel

    Pinesap

    Sourwood      

  Euphorbiaceae

    Croton, tooth-leaved

    Eyebane

    Prairie tea

    Sandmat ​

    Spurge, flowering 

    Spurge, toothed

    Three-seeded mercury

  Fabaceae (Legumes)

    Alfalfa

    Black locust

    Bush-clover, hairy

    ​Bush-clover, slender

    Bush-clover, trailing ​

    ​Bush-clover, wandlike

    Everlasting pea    

    Groundnut     

    Hog peanut

     Honey locust

    Hop clover

    Illinois bundleflower

    ​Indigo, wild

    Kentucky coffeetree

    ​​Korean-clover

    Kudzu

    Lespedeza, Chinese

    Milk-pea, hairy 

    Mimosa

    Partridge-pea

    ​Partridge pea, sensitive

    Pencil-flower

    Red clover

    Redbud

    Rose acacia

    Sampson's snakeroot

    Sweet clover, white

    Sweet clover, yellow

    Tick-trefoil, hoary

    Tick-trefoil, large-bracted

    Tick-trefoil, naked-flowered

    Tick-trefoil, panicled

    Tick-trefoil, pointed-leaf

    Tick-trefoil, round-leaf

    Tick-trefoil, sessile-leaved

    Tick-trefoil, small-leaved

    Tick-trefoil, smooth

    Tick-trefoil, velvety 

    Tick-trefoil, white     

    ​Vetch, crown

    Vetch, hairy

    Vetch, spring

    Vetchling

    Virginia goat-rue ​

    Wild bean (Phaseolus)

    Wild bean, pink (Strophostyles)

    Wild bean, trailing (Strophostyles)

    Wild senna

    Wisteria, Chinese

    Woods vetch

  Fagaceae

    American beech

    American chestnut

    Oak, black

    Oak, black jack

    Oak, chestnut

    Oak, chinkapin

    Oak, pin

    Oak, post

    Oak, shingle

    Oak, Shumard

    Oak, southern red

     Oak, white

    Oak, willow 

  Fumariaceae

    Dutchman's breeches

    Squirrel corn

    Yellow corydalis

  Gentianaceae

    American columbo

    Gentian, striped ​

    Pennywort

    Rose pink

  Geraniaceae

    Carolina crane's bill

    ​Cutleaf crane's-bill

    Geranium, wild

    ​Redstem filaree ​

  Grossulariaceae

    Gooseberry, Missouri

  Hamamelidaceae

    Sweet gum

     Witch hazel

  Hippocastanaceae

    Ohio buckeye

  Hydrangeaceae

    Wild hydrangea

  Hydrophyllaceae

    Broadleaf waterleaf

    Hairy waterleaf

     Lavender waterleaf

    ​Miami mist

    Purple phacelia

  Juglandaceae

    Bitternut hickory

     Black walnut

    Butternut

    Mockernut hickory

     Pecan

     Pignut hickory

     Shagbark hickory

     Shellbark hickory

  Lamiaceae

    Basil bee balm

    Bergamot

    Bergamot, eastern

    Bergamot, white

    Dittany

    False dragonhead

    Germander

    Giant hyssop

    Ground-ivy

    Heal-all

    Henbit

    Horse balm    

    Japanese mint

    Lyre-leaved sage

     ​Mountain-mint, hairy

    Mountain mint​, hoary

    Mountain mint, slender

    Pyrella mint

    Red dead-nettle

    Skullcap, downy

    Skullcap, hairy

    Skullcap, little

    Synandra

    Water horehound, American

    Water-horehound, stalked 

    ​​Wild basil

    Wood-mint, downy 

  Lauraceae

    Sassafras

   Spicebush

  Lentibulariaceae

   Creeping bladderwort

  Linaceae

    Common yellow flax

   ​ Ridgestem yellow flax 

  Loranthaceae

    Mistletoe       

  Lythraceae 

    ​Waxweed, blue

  Magnoliaceae

    Umbrella magnolia

    Tulip poplar

  Malvaceae

    Rose mallow

    ​Rose-mallow, smooth

    ​Sida

  Melastomataceae

    Maryland meadow-beauty

    Virginia meadow-beauty

  Menispermaceae

    Carolina snailseed 

    Moonseed

  Molluginaceae

    Carpetweed ​

  Monotropaceae

    Indian pipe

  Moraceae

    Crabweed

    Osage orange

    Paper mulberry

    Red mulberry

  Nelumbonaceae

    American lotus

  Nyctaginaceae

    ​Four-o'clock, heartleaf

  Nymphaceae

    Water-shield

  Nyssaceae

    Black gum

  Oleaceae

    Blue ash

    Privet

    White ash

  Onagraceae

    Creeping primrose-willow 

    Enchanter's nightshade

    Evening primrose

    ​Gaura, slender

    Rattlebox (seedbox)

    Sundrops

  Orobanchaceae

    American cancer-root

    Beech drops

    Blueheart ​

  Oxalidaceae

    Large (yellow) wood sorrel

    Violet wood sorrel

    Yellow wood sorrel

  Paulowniaceae

     Paulownia

  Papaveraceae

    Bloodroot

    Celandine poppy

  Passifloraceae

    Passion-flower

    Yellow passionflower

  Phrymaceae

    Lopseed

    Monkeyflower, sharpwing ​

  Phytolaccaceae

     Pokeweed

  Plantaginaceae  

    American plantain

    English plantain         ​

    Hoary plantain

  Platanaceae

    Sycamore

  Polemoniaceae

    Blue phlox

    Fall phlox

    Jacob's ladder

  Polygalaceae

    Field milkwort

    Loose milkwort

  Polygonaceae

    Climbing false buckwheat

    ​Dock, bitter

    Dock, curly

    Dotted smartweed

    Japanese knotweed

    Lady's thumb

    Long-bristled smartweed

    Pale smartweed

    Pennsylvania smartweed

    Sheep sorrel

    ​Tearthumb, arrow-leaved

    Virginia knotweed

    ​​Waterpepper, false

  Portulacaceae

    Carolina spring beauty

    Purselane

    Spring beauty

  Primulaceae

    Loosestrife, fringed ​

    ​Loosestrife, hybrid

    Loosestrife, lance-leaved

    Loosestrife, whorled 

    Shooting star

    ​​Shooting star, French's

  Pyrolaceae

    Spotted wintergeen     

  Ranunculaceae

    ​Buttercup, bulbous

    Buttercup, hispid

    Buttercup, kidneyleaf

    Buttercup, small-flowered

    Clematis, yam-leaved

    Columbine

    Doll's eyes

    Goldenseal

    Hepatica, round-leaved

    Hepatica, sharp-lobed

    Hooked crowfoot

    Larkspur

    ​Leatherflower, pale

    Meadow rue, early 

    ​Meadow rue, purple ​

    ​Meadow rue, tall

    Meadow rue, waxy

    Rue-anemone

    Rue anemone, false

    Thimbleweed

    ​Vasevine

    Virgin's bower

  Rhamnaceae

    Carolina buckthorn

    New Jersey tea

  Rosaceae

    Agrimony, soft

    Agrimony, southern

    Agrimony, woodland

    Avens, spring

    Avens, white

    ​​Barren-strawberry

    Black raspberry

    Blackberry

    Cinquefoil, common

    Cinquefoil, sulfur

    ​Dewberry, northern

    Goatsbeard

    Hardhack ​

    Hawthorn

    ​Indian physic

    ​Pear, Bradford

    Rose, multiflora

    Rose, prairie

    Rose, swamp

    Rose, wild

    Serviceberry

    Strawberry, mock 

    Strawberry, wild

    Wild black cherry

  Rubiaceae

    Bedstraw

    Bedstraw, bluntleaf

    ​​Bedstraw, fragrant

    ​Bedstraw, hairy

    Bedstraw, shiny ​ 

    Bluet, Canadian

    Bluet, long-leaved

    Bluet, small

    Bluet, spring

    Button bush

    ​Buttonweed 

    Buttonweed, rough

    Buttonweed, Virginia

    Field-madder

    Large houstonia    

    Partridge berry

    Wild white licorice

  Salicaceae

    Black willow

    Cottonwood

  Santalaceae

    Bastard toadflax          

    Mistletoe

  Saururaceae

    ​​Lizard's tail

  Saxifragaceae

    Alum-root, American

    ​​Alum-root, maple-leaved

    Bishop's cap

    Early saxifrage

    Foam flower

  Scrophulariaceae

    Beardtongue, slender-flowered

    ​Beardtongue, foxglove 

    Blue-eyed Mary

​    Culver's root

    False foxglove, downy    

    False foxglove, yellow

    Figwort

    ​Gerardia, purple

    Gerardia, slender

    ​Hedge-hyssop, Short's

    Lousewort (wood betony)

    Moth mullein

    Mullein

    Mullein Foxglove

    Speedwell, birdseye

    ​Speedwell, field

    ​Speedwell, heath 

    Speedwell, ivy-leaved

    Toadflax, blue ​

  Simaroubaceae

    Tree-of-heaven

  Solanaceae

    ​Ground-cherry, clammy

    ​Ground-cherry, cutleaf

    Ground-cherry, longleaf ​

    Ground-cherry, Virginia

    Horse nettle            ​

    Jimsonweed 

    ​Nightshade, eastern black

    ​Nightshade, hairy

  Staphyleaceae

    Bladdernut

  Thymelaeaceae

    Leatherwood

  Ulmaceae

    Elm, American

    Elm, slippery

    Elm, winged

     Hackberry, northern

    Hackberry, southern

  Umbelliferae - see Apiaceae

  Urticaceae

    Clearweed

    ​Nettle, false

    ​Nettle, stinging

    Wood-nettle

  Valerianaceae

    Corn-salad, beaked

    Valerian

  Verbenaceae

    Fogfruit

    Narrow-leaved vervain

    White vervain            

  Violaceae

    American dog violet

    Arrow-leaved violet

    Bird's foot violet

    Common blue violet

    Cream violet

    Field pansy

    Green violet

    Lance-leaved violet 

    Long-spurred violet

    Marsh blue violet

    Smooth yellow violet

    Three-lobed violet

  Vitaceae

     Grape, catbird

      Grape, frost

     Grape, summer

    ​ Raccoon-grape

       Virginia creeper