See ferns and allies
See trees, shrubs and woody vines
Wildflowers
Acalypha virginica | Three Seeded Mercury | |
Achillea millefolium | Yarrow | Used as an 'all-heal' medicinal herb, this plant is circumpolar and was familiar to early settlers. Colonizes roadside and field edges. |
Aconitum uncinatum
![]() | Monkshood | Quite uncommon on the Eno and elsewhere in the central piedmont. The basal rosettes show up in late winter but this shade-loving plant has flower stems that don't elongate and bloom until very late in the summer, barely before frost. |
Actaea pachypoda | Dolls Eye, Baneberry | Agalinis decemloba |
Agalinis decemloba | Tenlobe Gerardia | |
A. purpurea
![]() | Purple Gerardia | A shrubby annual of the Figwort family that blooms in late summer and early fall. Found in open habitat such as powerlines and unmowed roadsides. |
A. tenuifolia | Slenderleaf Gerardia | |
Agrimonia parviflora | Harvestlice | |
A. pubescens | Soft Agrimony | |
Agrostemma githago | Corn-cockle | |
Aletris farinosa | Stargrass, Colic-root | |
Alisma subcordatum | Water Plantain | |
Allium canadense | Meadow Garlic | |
A. vineale | Wild Garlic | |
Amaranthus species | Pigweed | |
Ambrosia artemisiifolia | Annual Ragweed | |
A. trifida | Giant Ragweed | |
Amianthium muscaetoxicum
![]() | Fly-poison | A lily found in dry open woods. At one time, the bulbs were actually crushed and mixed with honey or syrup for fly poison. |
Amphicarpa bracteata | Hog Peanut | |
Amsonia tabernaemontana
![]() | Blue Star | An early blooming plant of woods edges. Closely related to Indian Hemp, both being from the Dogbane family. |
Anagallis arvensis | Scarlet Pimpernel | |
Aneilema keisak | Wartremoving Herb | |
Anemone lancifolia | Mountain Thimbleweed | Locally rare, being more common in the mountains. |
A. virginiana
![]() | Thimbleweed | The common name is derived from the appearance of the seed head. There is one very rare look-alike in NC. |
Angelica venenosa | Hairy Angelica | |
Antennaria plantaginifolia | Pussy-toes, Woman's Tobacco | |
A. solitaria | Pussy-toes | |
Anthemis cotula | Dog Fennel, | |
Apios americana | Groundnut | |
Aplectrum hyemale | Puttyroot, Adam-and-Eve | |
Apocynum cannabinum | Indian Hemp | |
Aquilegia canadensis
![]() | Columbine | Along the Eno this plant can be found growing in the wild at Cox's Mountain. Frequently a cultivated garden plant. |
Arabis Canadensis | Sicklepod | |
A. laevigata | Smooth Rockcress | Lesser Burdock |
Arisaema dracontium | Green Dragon | |
A. triphyllum
![]() | Jack-in-the-pulpit | Denizens of low, swampy woods and edges, flowering in early spring.The bright red berries are very spectacular in the fall. |
Aristolochia serpentaria | Birthwort | |
Arnica acaulis
![]() | Leopard's-bane | Early blooming (April) member of the Composite family. Common name means killer of leopards! Actually all parts of the plant are deemed poisonous to mammals. |
Artemisia vulgaris | Common Wormwood | |
Aruncus dioicus | Goat's Beard | |
Asarum canadense | Deciduous Ginger | |
Asclepias amplexicaulis | Clasping Milkweed | |
A. incarnata | Swamp Milkweed | |
A. syriaca | Common Milkweed | |
A. tuberosa
![]() | Butterfly-weed | |
A. variegata
![]() | White Milkweed | Growing in open areas, this tall summer milkweed attracts numerous butterflies. The floss from the seedpods was collected for life jackets during World War II! |
A. verticillata | Horsetail or Whorled Milkweed | |
A. viridiflora | Green Milkweed | |
Aster concolor | Eastern Silver Aster | |
A. divaricatus | Wood Aster | |