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Plants listed alphabetically by scientific name.
Thumbnail Common name,
link to Portrait
Scientific name Native / Alien (1)
False Rue-anemone, Atlantic isopyrum False Rue-anemone, Atlantic isopyrum Enemion biternatum Native
Green Fly Orchids Green Fly Orchid Epidendrum magnoliae (conopseum) Native
Rare
Trailing arbutus blossom Trailing Arbutus Epigaea repens Native
Fireweed Fireweed Epilobium angustifolium (=Chamerion angustifolium ssp. angustifolium) Native
Eastern Helleborine Blooms Eastern Helleborine Epipactis helleborine Native
pilewort Pilewort Erechtites hieracifolia Native
Fleabane Common Fleabane, Philadelphia Fleabane Erigeron philadelphicus Native
Robin's plantain Robin's Plantain Erigeron pulchellus Native
Rattlesnake Master Rattlesnake Master Eryngium yuccifolium Native
Trout Lily bloom Trout Lily, Adder's Tongue Erythronium americanum Native
Burning Bush Burning Bush Euonymus alata Alien
INVASIVE
Joe Pye Weed Joe Pye Weed, Queen of the Meadow Eupatorium fistulosum (=Eupatoriadelphus fistulosus) Native
Spurge bloom Cypress Spurge Euphorbia cyparissias Alien
wild poinsettia Wild Poinsettia, Painted Leaf Euphorbia heterophylla Native

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