Latin Name | Common Name

Adam's needle
alder, smooth
alumroot
anemone,

round-leaved
rue

arrow arum
arrowwood,

maple-leaved
southern

ash,

American mountain
green
white

aster,

flat-top white
golden
heart-leaved
heath
New England
New York
smooth blue
stiff-leaf
white wood

autumn bentgrass
azalea,

dwarf
flame
pinxterbloom
rose
swamp
sweet

basswood, American
bayberry,

northern
southern

beardtongue,

smooth

beautyberry, American
beebalm,

spotted

beech, American
beggar-ticks, nodding
bellflower, American
bellwort,

large-flowered
perfoliate

bergamot, wild
birch,

river
sweet
yellow

bittersweet, American
blackberry, Allegheny
black-eyed Susan
bladdernut, American
blazingstar,

eastern
grass-leaf
plains

bleeding heart, wild
bloodroot
bluebells, Virginia
blue cohosh
blue flag,

slender
Virginia

blue vervain
blueberry,

early lowbush
highbush
lowbush

bluestem,

big
bushy
little

bluet
boltonia, star
boneset, common
Bowman's root
bulrush,

black
great
woolgrass

bunchflower, Virginia
bur-reed, American
butterfly pea, Maryland
butterflyweed
buttonbush
cactus, prickly-pear, eastern
Canada mayflower
cardinal flower
cedar,

Atlantic white
eastern red
northern white

cherry,

black
choke
pin

chickweed, star
chinquapin
chokeberry,

black
red

climbing hempvine
clover, round-head bush
columbine, eastern
coneflower,

early
tall
three-lobed

cordgrass,

big
freshwater
salt marsh

coreopsis,

tall
threadleaf

cottonwood,

eastern
swamp

cow parsnip
crabapple, sweet
cranberry
creeper, Virginia
crossvine
Culver's root
cup plant
cutgrass, rice
cypress, bald
dangleberry
deerberry
deer-tongue
Devil's walking stick
dogwood,

alternate-leaf
flowering
red-panicled
silky

doll's eyes
duck potato
dunegrass
Dutchman's breeches
dwarf larkspur
elder,

box
marsh

elderberry,

common
red

elm,

American
slippery

false foxglove, purple
fern,

bracken
Christmas
cinnamon
crested wood
evergreen wood
hay-scented
interrupted
marginal shield
marsh
netted chain
New York
northern lady
northern maidenhair
rattlesnake
royal
sensitive
sweet
toothed
Virginia chain

fescue, red
fetterbush
field pussytoes
fire pink
fireweed
foamflower
fringetree, white
gentian, closed
geranium, wild
ginger, wild
goat's-beard
golden club
golden ragwort
golden-alexanders
goldenrod,

bluestem
broad leaf
Canada
early
gray
seaside
showy
sweet
tall
wrinkle-leaf

gooseberry, Appalachian
grass,

bitter or coastal panic
blue-eyed
bottlebrush
coastal blue-eyed
gama
poverty
salt

green-and-gold
gum,

black
sweet

hackberry, common
haw, black
hawthorn,

cockspur
green

hazelnut, American
hedge nettle
hellebore, green false
hemlock, eastern
hepatica,

round-lobed
sharp-lobed

heuchera, hairy
hickory,

bitternut
mockernut
pignut
shagbark

high-tide bush
holly,

American
inkberry
winterberry
winterberry, smooth

honeysuckle, trumpet
hornbeam,

American
eastern hop

huckleberry, black
hydrangea, wild
hyssop-leaved thoroughwort
Indian cucumber
Indiangrass
indigo,

wild blue
wild yellow

iris (see blue flag)
ironweed, New York
Jack-in-the-pulpit
Jacob's ladder
jewelweed
Joe-Pye weed,

green-stemmed
spotted
trumpet weed

ladies' tresses, nodding
laurel,

great
mountain
sheep

leather flower
lily,

Canada
fragrant water
straw
trout
Turk's cap
wood

lizard's tail
lobelia, great blue
lupine
lyre-leaf sage
magnolia,

cucumber
sweetbay

male-berry
mallow,

rose
seashore

maple,

mountain
red
silver
sugar

marigold, marsh
Mayapple
meadow-beauty, Virginia
meadow rue,

early
tall

meadow-sweet,

broad-leaved
narrow-leaved

milkweed,

common
swamp

mint,

hoary mountain
narrow-leaved mountain

mistflower
miterwort, twoleaf
monkeyflower
mulberry, red
needlerush, black
New Jersey tea
ninebark
oak,

bear
black
blackjack
chestnut
Chinquapin
northern red
pin
post
scarlet
southern red
swamp chestnut
swamp white
water
white
willow

oats, wild
obedient plant
onion, nodding
panicgrass, variable
partridge pea
partridgeberry
passionflower
paw-paw
persimmon, common
petunia, Carolina wild
phlox,

creeping
meadow
moss
summer
thick-leaved
woodland or wild blue

pickerelweed
pine,

loblolly
pitch
pond
shortleaf
Virginia
white

pipevine
plantain,

downy rattlesnake
robin's

plum,

American wild
beach

plumegrass, giant
poplar, tulip
primrose, common evening
raspberry, purple flowering
redbud, eastern
redtop
reedgrass, bluejoint
rice, wild
rose,

pasture
swamp

rose pink
rush,

Canada
soft

rye,

Canada wild
riverbank wild
Virginia wild

salt meadow hay
sarsaparilla, wild
sassafras
saxifrage,

early
eastern swamp

sea lavender
sedge,

blue wood
broom
fox
long hair
Pennsylvania
sallow
three-sided
tussock

senna, Maryland wild
serviceberry,

downy

shooting star
skullcap, rough
skunk cabbage
smooth carrion flower
snakeroot,

black
white

sneezeweed, yellow
Solomon's seal,

dwarf
false

spatterdock
spicebush
spiderwort, Virginia
spikenard
spleenwort, ebony
spring beauty
squirrel corn
St. John's wort, dense
stagger-bush
starry campion
steeplebush
stonecrop,

Allegheny
mountain

sumac,

fragrant
shining
staghorn
sweet

sundrops,

narrow-leaved

sunflower,

oxeye
swamp
ten-petaled
woodland

sweet cicely
sweet pepperbush
switchgrass
sycamore, American
tassel-white
thimbleweed
three-square, common
tick-trefoil, panicled
toadflax, blue
toadshade
toothwort
trillium,

painted
ppurple
white

trumpet vine
turtlehead, white
twinleaf
violet,

American dog
bird's foot
common blue
halberdleaf yellow
marsh blue
striped cream
yellow

virgin's bower
walnut, black
waterleaf, Virginia
wax myrtle
wild pink
willow,

American water
black
prairie
silky

wingstem, yellow ironweed
wintergreen,

striped

wisteria, Atlantic
witch hazel
witherod,

naked

wood sorrel, violet

Publication by USFWS BayScapes Conservation Landscaping Program
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Last updated: 1 October 2004