Native Plants by County
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Note: This is not intended to be a complete list of native species for each County. It is an abbreviated list that includes the more common or commonly available species. For a more complete list of Virginia native plants, visit the Digital Atlas of the Virginia Flora
| Scientific Name | Common Name | Plant Form |
|---|---|---|
| Acer negundo var. negundo | Eastern boxelder | Medium Trees |
| Acer rubrum | Red maple | Large Trees |
| Acer saccharinum | Silver maple | Large Trees |
| Acer saccharum | Sugar maple | Large Trees |
| Achillea borealis | Common yarrow | Herbs |
| Aconitum uncinatum | Blue monkshood | Herbs |
| Actaea pachypoda | White baneberry, Dolls'-eyes | Herbs |
| Actaea racemosa | Common black cohosh, Bugbane | Herbs |
| Adiantum pedatum | Northern maidenhair fern | Fern & Fern Allies |
| Agalinis purpurea | Purple false foxglove | Herbs |
| Agastache nepetoides | Yellow giant hyssop | Herbs |
| Agastache scrophulariifolia | Purple giant hyssop | Herbs |
| Ageratina altissima | White snakeroot | Herbs |
| Ageratina aromatica | Small white snakeroot, Lesser snakeroot | Herbs |
| Agrimonia gryposepala | Tall hairy agrimony | Herbs |
| Agrimonia parviflora | Small-flowered agrimony, Harvest-lice | Herbs |
| Agrimonia rostellata | Woodland agrimony, Beaked agrimony | Herbs |
| Agrostis hyemalis | Winter bentgrass, Ticklegrass | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Agrostis perennans | Autumn bentgrass | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Aletris farinosa | White colicroot | Herbs |
| Alisma subcordatum | Southern water-plantain, American water plantain | Herbs |
| Allium canadense var. canadense | Wild onion, Meadow onion | Herbs |
| Allium cernuum | Nodding onion | Herbs |
| Allium tricoccum | Ramps, Wild leek, Rampscallions | Herbs |
| Alnus serrulata | Smooth alder, Hazel alder | Shrubs & Small Trees |
| Amelanchier arborea | Downy serviceberry | Medium Trees |
| Amelanchier canadensis | Canadian serviceberry | Medium Trees |
| Amelanchier laevis | Smooth serviceberry | Medium Trees |
| Ammannia latifolia | Scarlet ammannia, Purple ammannia, Scarlet toothcup | Herbs |
| Amorpha fruticosa | False indigo-bush, Tall indigo-bush | Shrubs & Small Trees |
| Anchistea virginica | Virginia chain fern | Fern & Fern Allies |
| Andersonglossum virginianum | Wild comfrey | Herbs |
| Andropogon gerardii | Big bluestem, Turkeyfoot | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Andropogon glomeratus | Bushy bluestem, Bushy beardgrass | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Andropogon gyrans | Broomsedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Andropogon virginicus | Broomsedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Anemone quinquefolia var. quinquefolia | Wood anemone | Herbs |
| Anemone virginiana var. virginiana | Tall anemone, Thimbleweed | Herbs |
| Angelica venenosa | Hairy angelica | Herbs |
| Antennaria neglecta | Field pussytoes | Herbs |
| Antennaria plantaginifolia | Plantain-leaved pussytoes, Everlasting, Ladies' tabacco, Mouse ear, Plantain-leaved everlasting, Plantain pussytoes, Pussytoes | Herbs |
| Antennaria solitaria | Single-head pussytoes | Herbs |
| Apios americana | Groundnut | Herbs, Vines |
| Aplectrum hyemale | Puttyroot, Adam-and-eve | Herbs |
| Apocynum androsaemifolium | Spreading dogbane | Herbs |
| Apocynum cannabinum | Indian hemp, Hemp dogbane | Herbs |
| Aquilegia canadensis | Wild columbine, Eastern red columbine | Herbs |
| Aralia nudicaulis | Wild sarsaparilla | Herbs |
| Aralia racemosa | Spikenard, American spikenard | Herbs |
| Aralia spinosa | Devil's walking-stick | Medium Trees, Shrubs & Small Trees |
| Arisaema dracontium | Green dragon | Herbs |
| Arisaema triphyllum ssp. pusillum | Common jack-in-the-pulpit | Herbs |
| Aristida purpurascens | Long-awned slim-spike, Three-awn grass | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Arnoglossum atriplicifolium | Pale indian-plantain | Herbs |
| Aronia arbutifolia | Red chokeberry | Shrubs & Small Trees |
| Aronia melanocarpa | Black chokeberry | Shrubs & Small Trees |
| Aruncus dioicus var. dioicus | Goat's-beard | Herbs |
| Asarum canadense | Common wild ginger | Herbs |
| Asclepias amplexicaulis | Clasping milkweed, Sand milkweed, Blunt-leaved milkweed | Herbs |
| Asclepias exaltata | Tall milkweed | Herbs |
| Asclepias incarnata var. pulchra | Swamp milkweed, Swamp butterfly weed, Marsh milkweed | Herbs |
| Asclepias syriaca | Common milkweed | Herbs |
| Asclepias tuberosa | Butterfly milkweed, Common butterfly weed, Butterfly weed, Common butterfly-weed | Herbs |
| Asclepias variegata | White milkweed | Herbs |
| Asclepias verticillata | Whorled milkweed | Herbs |
| Asclepias viridiflora | Green milkweed, Green-flowered milkweed, Green comet milkweed, Wand milkweed | Herbs |
| Asimina triloba | Pawpaw, Common pawpaw | Medium Trees |
| Asplenium platyneuron | Ebony spleenwort | Fern & Fern Allies |
| Asplenium rhizophyllum | Walking fern | Fern & Fern Allies |
| Asplenium trichomanes ssp. trichomanes | Maidenhair spleenwort | Fern & Fern Allies |
| Astilbe biternata | Appalachian false goat's-beard | Herbs |
| Astragalus canadensis var. canadensis | Canada milkvetch | Herbs |
| Athyrium asplenioides | Southern lady fern | Fern & Fern Allies |
| Aureolaria flava | Smooth yellow false foxglove, Smooth oak-leach | Herbs |
| Baccharis halimifolia | High-tide bush, Groundsel tree | Shrubs & Small Trees |
| Baptisia australis | Blue wild indigo, False blue indigo | Herbs |
| Baptisia tinctoria | Yellow wild indigo, Horsefly weed | Herbs |
| Bartonia virginica | Yellow bartonia, Yellow screwstem | Herbs |
| Betula nigra | River birch, Red birch | Large Trees |
| Bidens frondosa | Devil's beggar-ticks | Herbs |
| Bidens laevis | Smooth bur-marigold, Showy bur-marigold | Herbs |
| Bignonia capreolata | Cross-vine | Vines |
| Blephilia ciliata | Downy wood mint | Herbs |
| Boehmeria cylindrica | False nettle | Herbs |
| Boykinia aconitifolia | Brook saxifrage, Allegheny brookfoam, Eastern boykinia | Herbs |
| Brachyelytrum erectum | Bearded shorthusk, Common shorthusk | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Bromus pubescens | Common eastern brome grass | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Calamagrostis canadensis | Bluejoint reedgrass, Canada reedgrass | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Caltha palustris var. palustris | Marsh marigold, Cowslip | Herbs |
| Campanula americana | Tall bellflower | Herbs |
| Campsis radicans | Trumpet-creeper, Trumpet creeper, Trumpet vine, Hellvine, Cow-itch, Foxglove vine, Devil's shoestring | Vines |
| Capnoides sempervirens | Pale corydalis, Pink corydalis, Rock harlequin | Herbs |
| Cardamine concatenata | Cut-leaf toothwort | Herbs |
| Carex aggregata | Glomerate sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex albicans var. albicans | White-tinged sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex amphibola | Eastern narrow-leaved sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex annectens | Yellow-fuited sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex appalachica | Appalachian sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex blanda | Eastern woodland sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex brevior | Shortbeak sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex bromoides | Common brome sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex cephalophora | Oval-leaved sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex comosa | Bottlebrush sedge, Bristly sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex crinita var. crinita | Long-fringed sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex digitalis var. digitalis | Slender woodland sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex emoryi | Emory's sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex flaccosperma | Meadow sedge, Thin-fruited sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex folliculata | Northern long sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex frankii | Frank's sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex glaucescens | Southern waxy sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex glaucodea | Blue sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex gracilescens | Slender loose-flowered sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex gracillima | Graceful sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex granularis | Limestone meadow sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex grayi | Gray's sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex gynandra | Nodding sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex hystericina | Porcupine sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex intumescens var. intumescens | Bladder sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex jamesii | James's sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex laxiculmis | Spreading sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex leavenworthii | Leavenworth's sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex lupulina | Hop sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex lurida | Sallow sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex muehlenbergii | Muehlenberg's sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex nigromarginata | Black-edged sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex normalis | Greater straw sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex pensylvanica | Plantain-leaved sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex pigra | Lazy sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex planispicata | Flat-spiked sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex plantaginea | Plantain-leaved sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex platyphylla | Broad-leaved sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex radiata | Eastern star sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex rosea | Rosy sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex scoparia | Broom sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex squarrosa | Squarrose sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex stipata | Large stalk-grain sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex stipata | Awl-fruit sedge, Stalk-grain sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex stricta | Tussock sedge, Upright sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex swanii | Swan's sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex texensis | Texas sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex tribuloides | Blunt broom sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex trichocarpa | Hairy-fruited sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex typhina | Cattail sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex vulpinoidea | Fox sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex willdenowii | Willdenow's sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carex woodii | Wood's sedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Carpinus caroliniana | American hornbeam, Ironwood | Medium Trees, Shrubs & Small Trees |
| Carya cordiformis | Bitternut hickory | Large Trees |
| Carya glabra | Pignut hickory | Large Trees |
| Carya ovalis | Red hickory, Sweet pignut hickory | Large Trees, Medium Trees |
| Carya ovata | Shagbark hickory | Large Trees |
| Carya tomentosa | Mockernut hickory | Large Trees |
| Castanea pumila | Allegheny chinquapin | Shrubs & Small Trees |
| Caulophyllum thalictroides | Blue cohosh, Common blue cohosh | Herbs |
| Ceanothus americanus | New jersey tea, Redroot, Mountain snowbell | Shrubs & Small Trees |
| Celastrus scandens | Climbing bittersweet, American bittersweet | Vines |
| Celtis occidentalis | Common hackberry, Northern hackberry | Large Trees |
| Celtis pumila | Dwarf hackberry, Georgia hackberry | Shrubs & Small Trees |
| Centrosema virginianum | Spurred but-terfly pea | Vines |
| Cephalanthus occidentalis | Buttonbush | Shrubs & Small Trees |
| Cercis canadensis | Eastern redbud | Medium Trees |
| Chamaecrista fasciculata | Partridge pea, Prairie senna, Common partridge-pea | Herbs |
| Chamaecrista nictitans var. nictitans | Wild sensitive plant, Sensitive partridge-pea | Herbs |
| Chasmanthium latifolium | River oats, Indian wood oats, Inland sea oats, Wild oats, Wood-oat, Northern sea oats | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Chasmanthium laxum | Slender spikegrass | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Chelone glabra | White turtlehead | Herbs |
| Chimaphila maculata | Spotted wintergreen, Striped wintergreen | Herbs |
| Chionanthus virginicus | Fringetree, Old man's beard | Medium Trees |
| Chrysogonum virginianum | Green and gold, Golden knees | Herbs |
| Chrysopsis mariana | Maryland golden-aster, Maryland golden aster | Herbs |
| Chrysosplenium americanum | Golden saxifrage, Water-mat, Water-carpet | Herbs |
| Cinna arundinacea | Common wood reedgrass, Sweet wood reed-grass | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Circaea canadensis | Enchanter's night-shade | Herbs |
| Cirsium discolor | Field thistle | Herbs |
| Cirsium pumilum | Pasture thistle | Herbs |
| Claytonia virginica var. virginica | Spring beauty, Virginia spring beauty, Eastern spring beauty | Herbs |
| Claytosmunda claytoniana | Interrupted fern | Fern & Fern Allies |
| Clematis ochroleuca | Curlyheads | Herbs |
| Clematis virginiana | Virgin's bower, Virgin's-bower | Vines |
| Clethra alnifolia | Coastal white-alder, Sweet pepperbush | Shrubs & Small Trees |
| Clinopodium vulgare | Wild basil | Herbs |
| Clitoria mariana | Maryland butterfly pea | Herbs |
| Coleataenia anceps ssp. anceps | Beaked panic grass | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Coleataenia stipitata | Redtop panic grass | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Collinsonia canadensis | Richweed, Canada horsebalm | Herbs |
| Commelina erecta | Slender dayflower, Erect dayflower | Herbs |
| Commelina virginica | Virginia dayflower | Herbs |
| Comptonia peregrina | Sweet-fern | Shrubs & Small Trees |
| Conoclinium coelestinum | Mistflower, Ageratum, Blue boneset, Blue mistflower, Wild ageratum | Herbs |
| Coreopsis auriculata | Lobed coreopsis, Eared coreopsis , Mouse-eared coreopsis , Lobed tickseed , Ear-leaved tickseed | Herbs |
| Coreopsis major | Woodland coreopsis, Greater tickseed, Greater coreopsis | Herbs |
| Coreopsis tripteris | Tall coreopsis, Tall tickseed | Herbs |
| Coreopsis verticillata | Whorled coreopsis, Thread-leaf coreopsis | Herbs |
| Cornus alternifolia | Alternate-leaf dogwood, Pagoda cornel, Pagoda dogwood | Medium Trees, Shrubs & Small Trees |
| Cornus amomum | Silky dogwood | Shrubs & Small Trees |
| Cornus florida | Flowering dogwood | Medium Trees |
| Cornus racemosa | Gray dogwood | Shrubs & Small Trees |
| Corylus americana | American hazelnut, American filbert | Shrubs & Small Trees |
| Crataegus phaenopyrum | Washington hawthorn | Shrubs & Small Trees |
| Crataegus uniflora | One-flowered hawthorn | Shrubs & Small Trees |