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Plant Guide of Great Falls Park

A guide to the plants of Great Falls Park

Amur honeysuckle 1
Lonicera maackii
spotted wintergreen 2
Chimaphila maculata
Japanese Hops 3
Humulus japonicus
common blue violet 4
Viola sororia
trailing arbutus 5
Epigaea repens
strawberry bush 6
Euonymus americanus
golden Alexander 7
Zizia aurea
American persimmon 8
Diospyros virginiana
partridgeberry 9
Mitchella repens
woodland sunflower 10
Helianthus divaricatus
wineberry 11
Rubus phoenicolasius
American black elderberry 12
Sambucus canadensis
obedient plant 13
Physostegia virginiana
white avens 14
Geum canadense
American hog-peanut 15
Amphicarpaea bracteata
golden ragwort 16
Packera aurea
harbinger of spring 17
Erigenia bulbosa
Virginia spring beauty 18
Claytonia virginica
wingstem 19
Verbesina alternifolia
rue anemone 9
Thalictrum thalictroides
white snakeroot 20
Ageratina altissima
blue mistflower 21
Conoclinium coelestinum
beefsteak plant 22
Perilla frutescens
post oak 23
Quercus stellata
wild potato vine 24
Ipomoea pandurata
princess tree 25
Paulownia tomentosa
great blue lobelia 26
Lobelia siphilitica
plantain-leaved pussytoes 27
Antennaria plantaginifolia
willow oak 28
Quercus phellos
bluestem goldenrod 14
Solidago caesia
Carolina laurelcherry 29
Prunus caroliniana
small-flowered buttercup 30
Ranunculus abortivus
Japanese mazus 31
Mazus pumilus
star chickweed 32
Stellaria pubera
cream violet 33
Viola striata
clustered black snakeroot 34
Sanicula odorata
American alumroot 35
Heuchera americana
woodland stonecrop 36
Sedum ternatum
White Wood Aster 37
Eurybia divaricata
Carolina ruellia 38
Ruellia caroliniensis
chestnut oak 39
Quercus montana
Wild Pink 38
Silene caroliniana
coralberry 28
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
starry campion 40
Silene stellata
honewort 14
Cryptotaenia canadensis
Carolina rose 41
Rosa carolina
Green-and-gold 36
Chrysogonum virginianum
smooth blue aster 7
Symphyotrichum laeve
Blackhaw 42
Viburnum prunifolium
hairy sweet cicely 10
Osmorhiza claytonii
aniseroot 43
Osmorhiza longistylis
late purple aster 44
Symphyotrichum patens
moonseed 20
Menispermum canadense
mile-a-minute weed 45
Persicaria perfoliata
White Morning-glory 46
Ipomoea lacunosa
Climbing Milkvine 47
Matelea obliqua
low smartweed 48
Persicaria longiseta
American jumpseed 49
Persicaria virginiana
silverrod 50
Solidago bicolor
Chinese bushclover 15
Lespedeza cuneata
bigleaf magnolia 51
Magnolia macrophylla
arrowleaf violet 52
Viola sagittata
Swamp Saxifrage 53
Micranthes pensylvanica
Virginia saxifrage 17
Micranthes virginiensis
Porcelain Berry 54
Ampelopsis glandulosa
broadleaf enchanter's nightshade 55
Circaea canadensis
lesser celandine 56
Ficaria verna
mock strawberry 57
Potentilla indica
round-lobed hepatica 38
Hepatica americana
wood anemone
Anemonoides quinquefolia

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