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Plants listed alphabetically by scientific name.
Thumbnail Common name,
link to Portrait		 Scientific name Native / Alien (1)
image Allegheny Spurge Pachysandra procumbens

Native
image Grass of Parnassus Parnassia caroliniana

Native

Endangered
image Lousewort Pedicularis canadensis

Native
image Beardtongue Penstemon canescens

Native
image Buttercup phacelia or Eastern buttercup phacelia Phacelia covillei

Native

Significantly Rare
image Red Chokeberry Photinia pyrifolia (=Aronia arbutifolia)

Native
image Large White Fringed Orchid Platanthera blephariglottis var. conspicua

Native

Rare
image Yellow Fringed Orchid Platanthera ciliaris

Native
image Small Green Woodland Orchid Platanthera clavellata

Native
image Yellow Crested Orchis Platanthera cristata

Native
image Southern Rein Orchid Platanthera flava var. flava

Native

Rare
image Northern Green Orchid Platanthera flava var. herbiola

Native

Significantly Rare
image Large Purple Fringed Orchid Platanthera grandiflora

Native

Significantly Rare
image Yellow Fringeless Orchid Platanthera integra

Native

Threatened
image White Fringeless Orchid Platanthera integrilabia

Native

Endangered
image Green Fringe Orchid Platanthera lacera

Native

Rare
image Snowy Orchid Platanthera nivea

Native

Threatened
image Large Round Leaved Orchid Platanthera orbiculata

Native

Rare
image Purple Fringeless Orchid Platanthera peramoena

Native

Candidate
image Small Purple Fringe Orchid Platanthera psycodes

Native

Rare
image Bicolor Bog Orchid Platanthera x bicolor (P. blephariglottis x P.ciliaris)

Native
image Rose Pogonia Pogonia ophioglossoides

Native

Rare
image Solomon's Seal Polygonatum biflorum

Native
image Shadow Witch Ponthieva racemosa

Native

Significantly Rare
image Dwarf Cinquefoil Potentilla canadensis

Native
image Rattlesnake Root Prenanthes sp.

Native
image Heal-all, Selfheal Prunella vulgaris

Alien
image Chokecherry Prunus virginiana

Native
image Bracken, Bracken Fern Pteridium aquilinum

Native
image Spiked Medusa Pteroglossaspis ecristata (+Eulophia e.)

Native

Critically Rare

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