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 |
| Amauropelta noveboracensis | New york fern | Fern & Fern Allies |
| Amelanchier arborea | Downy serviceberry | Medium Trees |
| Amelanchier canadensis | Canadian serviceberry | Medium Trees |
| Amelanchier laevis | Smooth serviceberry | Medium Trees |
| Ammannia latifolia | Koehne's ammannia, Pink redstem, Purple ammannia | Herbs |
| Amorpha fruticosa | False indigo-bush, Tall indigo-bush | Shrubs & Small Trees |
| Anatherum glomeratum | Bushy bluestem, Bushy beardgrass | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Anatherum gyrans | Elliott's bluestem, Bluestem, Broomsedge | Grasses, Sedges & Rushes |
| Anchistea virginica | Virginia chain fern | Fern & Fern Allies |
| Andersonglossum virginianum | Wild comfrey | Herbs |
| Andropogon gerardii | Big bluestem, Turkeyfoot | 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. triphyllum | Common jack-in-the-pulpit | Herbs |
| Aristida purpurascens | Purple three-awn grass, Arrow-feather, 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 |