Native Plants
H. L. Blomquist Garden of Native Plants
Images from H. L. Blomquist Garden of Native Plants at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Contributed December, 2005, by Stefan Bloodworth, Horticulturist, Sarah P. Duke Gardens.
scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
Achillea millefolium | Common Yarrow Western Yarrow Yarrow Milfoil | |
Actaea racemosa var. racemosa | Black Cohosh Black Bugbane Bugbane Black Snakeroot Fairy Candles | |
Acer rubrum | Red Maple Scarlet Maple Soft Maple | |
Aconitum uncinatum | Southern Blue Monkshood Monkshood | |
Aesculus parviflora | Bottlebrush Buckeye | |
Aesculus parviflora | Bottlebrush Buckeye | |
Alnus serrulata | Smooth Alder Hazel Alder Brookside Alder Tag Alder Common Alder Black Alder | |
Alnus serrulata | Smooth Alder Hazel Alder Brookside Alder Tag Alder Common Alder Black Alder | |
Amelanchier arborea | Common Serviceberry Downy Serviceberry Shadbush Juneberry Junebush Shadblow Sarvis | |
Amianthium muscitoxicum | Fly Poison Crow Poison | |
Amsonia rigida | Stiff Bluestar Marsh Bluestar | |
Anemone canadensis | Canadian Anemone Round-leaf Thimbleweed Canada Anemone Windflower Meadow Anemone | |
Anemone cylindrica | Candle Anemone Long-headed Thimbleweed Longhead Thimbleweed Thimbleweed | |
Antennaria parlinii | Parlin's Pussytoes Ladies' Tobacco | |
Antennaria solitaria | Singlehead Pussytoes | |
Anemone virginiana | Tall Thimbleweed Thimbleweed Tall Anemone | |
Apios americana | Groundnut Wild Potato Indian Potato | |
Apios americana | Groundnut Wild Potato Indian Potato | |
Apocynum cannabinum | Indian Hemp Prairie Dogbane Hemp Dogbane Dogbane | |
Aquilegia canadensis | Eastern Red Columbine Wild Red Columbine | |
Arnica acaulis | Common Leopardbane | |
Aronia arbutifolia | Red Chokeberry Red Chokecherry | |
Arnoglossum atriplicifolium | Pale Indian Plantain | |
Arisaema dracontium | Green Dragon Dragonroot Greendragon | |
Arisaema dracontium | Green Dragon Dragonroot Greendragon | |
Aralia nudicaulis | Wild Sarsaparilla | |
Aralia racemosa | American Spikenard | |
Arnoglossum reniforme | Great Indian Plantain | |
Aralia spinosa | Devil's Walking Stick Hercules Club Angelica Tree Pigeon Tree Shotbush Prickly Elder Prickly Ash | |
Aralia spinosa | Devil's Walking Stick Hercules Club Angelica Tree Pigeon Tree Shotbush Prickly Elder Prickly Ash | |
Arisaema triphyllum | Jack In The Pulpit Indian Jack In The Pulpit Jack-in-the-pulpit | |
Arisaema triphyllum | Jack In The Pulpit Indian Jack In The Pulpit Jack-in-the-pulpit | |
Arisaema triphyllum | Jack In The Pulpit Indian Jack In The Pulpit Jack-in-the-pulpit | |
Astilbe biternata | Appalachian False Goat's Beard False Goatsbeard | |
Asarum canadense | Canadian Wild Ginger Wild Ginger | |
Asimina triloba | Pawpaw Common Pawpaw Custard Apple Indian Banana Wild Banana | |
Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly Weed Butterfly Milkweed Orange Milkweed Pleurisy Root Chigger Flower Chiggerweed | |
Asclepias variegata | Redring Milkweed White-flowered Milkweed | |
Athyrium filix-femina | Common Lady Fern Subarctic Lady Fern Lady Fern Ladyfern | |
Aureolaria virginica | Downy Yellow False Foxglove Downy False Foxglove | |
Baptisia australis | Blue Wild Indigo Wild Blue Indigo Blue False Indigo | |
Baptisia bracteata var. leucophaea | Longbract Wild Indigo Cream False Indigo Plains Wild Indigo Cream Wild Indigo Large-bracted Wild Indigo | |
Bignonia capreolata | Crossvine | |
Boltonia asteroides | Boltonia White Doll's Daisy | |
Botrychium virginianum | Rattlesnake Fern | |
Callicarpa americana | American Beautyberry French Mulberry | |
Cardamine angustata | Slender Toothwort | |
Calycanthus floridus | Eastern Sweetshrub Carolina Allspice Sweet Shrub | |
Carex pensylvanica | Pennsylvania Sedge | |
Carex pensylvanica | Pennsylvania Sedge | |
Carex pensylvanica | Pennsylvania Sedge | |
Carex plantaginea | Plantainleaf Sedge Plantain-leaf Sedge | |
Carex plantaginea | Plantainleaf Sedge Plantain-leaf Sedge | |
Carex platyphylla | Broadleaf Sedge | |
Carex platyphylla | Broadleaf Sedge | |
Campsis radicans | Trumpet Creeper Trumpet Vine Common Trumpet Creeper Cow Vine Foxglove Vine Hellvine Devil's Shoestring | |
Camassia scilloides | Atlantic Camas Wild Hyacinth | |
Catalpa speciosa | Northern Catalpa Catalpa Tree Cigar Tree Indian Bean | |
Caulophyllum thalictroides | Blue Cohosh Squaw-root Papoose-root Caulophylle Faux-pigamon | |
Cephalanthus occidentalis | Common Buttonbush Buttonbush Button Willow Honey Bells Honeybells Honey Balls Honeyballs Button-bush | |
Chamaedaphne calyculata | Leatherleaf Cassandra | |
Chamaecrista fasciculata var. fasciculata | Partridge Pea Showy Partridge-pea Beeflower | |
Chelone glabra | White Turtlehead | |
Chasmanthium latifolium | Inland Sea Oats Indian Wood Oats Wild Oats River Oats Flathead Oats Upland Oats Upland Sea Oats | |
Chimaphila maculata | Striped Prince's Pine Spotted Wintergreen Pipsissewa Spotted Pipsissewa Ratsbane Rheumatism Root Striped Wintergreen | |
Cheilanthes tomentosa | Woolly Lipfern | |
Chionanthus virginicus | White Fringetree Fringe Tree Snowflower Tree Flowering Ash Old Man's Beard Grandfather Graybeard Grancy Graybeard | |
Chrysogonum virginianum | Green And Gold Green-and-gold | |
Clethra acuminata | Mountain Pepperbush Mountain Sweet Pepperbush Cinnamon Clethra | |
Clethra alnifolia | Coastal Pepperbush Coastal Sweet Pepperbush Coastal Sweet Pepper Alderleaf Pepperbush Alderleaf Clethra Clethra Summer Sweet | |
Clethra alnifolia | Coastal Pepperbush Coastal Sweet Pepperbush Coastal Sweet Pepper Alderleaf Pepperbush Alderleaf Clethra Clethra Summer Sweet | |
Cladrastis kentukea | Kentucky Yellowwood Yellowwood Gopherwood Virgilia | |
Clitoria mariana | Atlantic Pigeonwings Butterfly Pea | |
Cliftonia monophylla | Buckwheat Tree Buckwheat Bush | |
Clematis ochroleuca | Curlyheads | |
Clematis ochroleuca | Curlyheads | |
Claytonia virginica | Virginia Springbeauty Springbeauty | |
Clematis viorna | Vasevine Leatherflower | |
Clematis viorna | Vasevine Leatherflower | |
Corylus americana | American Hazelnut American Filbert | |
Corylus americana | American Hazelnut American Filbert | |
Conradina canescens | False Rosemary Wild Rosemary Conradina | |
Commelina erecta | Dayflower Widow's Tears White-mouth Dayflower Whitemouth Dayflower | |
Cornus florida | Flowering Dogwood Virginia Dogwood Florida Dogwood White Cornel Arrowwood American Boxwood False Box St. Peter's Crown Corona De San Pedro | |
Cornus florida | Flowering Dogwood Virginia Dogwood Florida Dogwood White Cornel Arrowwood American Boxwood False Box St. Peter's Crown Corona De San Pedro | |
Cornus florida | Flowering Dogwood Virginia Dogwood Florida Dogwood White Cornel Arrowwood American Boxwood False Box St. Peter's Crown Corona De San Pedro | |
Cornus florida | Flowering Dogwood Virginia Dogwood Florida Dogwood White Cornel Arrowwood American Boxwood False Box St. Peter's Crown Corona De San Pedro | |
Coreopsis gladiata | Coastal Plain Tickseed Coastal Tickseed | |
Conradina glabra | Apalachicola False Rosemary | |
Coreopsis lanceolata | Lanceleaf Coreopsis Lance-leaved Coreopsis Lanceleaf Tickseed Sand Coreopsis | |
Coreopsis latifolia | Broadleaf Tickseed | |
Coreopsis major | Greater Tickseed Major Coreopsis | |
Corydalis sempervirens | Rock Harlequin | |
Coreopsis tripteris | Tall Tickseed Tall Coreopsis | |
Conradina verticillata | Cumberland False Rosemary | |
Coreopsis verticillata | Threadleaf Coreopsis Whorled Tickseed Whorled Coreopsis | |
Croton alabamensis | Alabama Croton | |
Crinum americanum | American Crinum Lily Seven Sisters Swamp Lily Southern Swamp Lily String Lily Crinum Lily | |
Crataegus flabellata | Fanleaf Hawthorn | |
Crataegus rufula | Rusty Hawthorn | |
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