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Click for Full Size	Name	Description
	Autumn Olive (Elaegnus umbellata)	Shrub with deciduous, simple, alternate leaves 3-8 cm long, 1-3 cm wide. Flowers fragrant, about 1 cm long in leafy clusters of 5-10, covered with silver scales. Petals, yellow to cream, united with 4 lobes. Blooms April-May.
	Bear Grass (Yucca filamentosa)	Perennial with thick, leathery basal leaves 2-6 dm long, the edges fraying into stiff twisted fibers. A tall scape terminates into a branched inflorescence with white flowers having petals 3-6 cm long. Blooms late April-early June.
	Big Root Morning Glory (Ipomoea pandurata)	A trailing perennial vine with wide, heart-shaped leaves. White flowers are bell-shaped to 8 cm long, equally broad, with lavender throats. Male and female flower parts extrude from the throat. Bloom May-July.
	Bird-foot Violet (Viola pedata)	Plant is stemless. Leaves are 2.5-5 cm long with three principal divisions. Flowers are 3-4.5 cm broad with 5 lavendar petals opening in one plane. A brilliant orange color is conspicious in center of the flower. Blooms March-May.
	Biscuit Flower; Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia flava)	Insectivorous perennial with hollow, trumpet shaped leaves, 3-10 dm tall,with narrow linear wing. Flower scape equaling the leaves. Petals bright yellow, 5.5-8 cm long. Flowers with a strong musty odor. Blooms March-April.
	Black Gum (Nyssa sylvatica)	Small to large tree. Leaves are widest above the middle, 1-5 dm long, 1 dm wide. Petioles are 1-2.5 cm long. Male and female flowers are on separate trees. Female flowers are solitary. Fruit is a blue drupe. Blooms April-May
	Black Locust (Robinia pseudo-acacia)	Tree to 25 m tall. Leaves are 2-3 dm long with 7-19 leaflets 2-5 cm long, 1-2 cm wide. Drooping inflorescence is 1-2 dm long with numerous fragrant flowers. Petals are white with a yellowish patch on the standard. Blooms April-June.
	Blackberry (Rubus cuneifolius)	Thorny shrubs with arching stems 0.3-1.6 m tall. Leaves are white with hairs beneath, divided into 3 toothed leaflets on the floricanes and 5 on the primocanes. Inflorescence has 3-9 flowers with white petals 1-1.5 cm long. Blooms April-June.
	Blueberry (Vacciniumj corymbosum)	Erect shrub with deciduous, alternate leaves 4-8 cm long, 1.5-4 cm wide, appearing after the flowers. White, urn-shaped flowers are 8-11 mm long, 4-6 mm wide. Edible blue berry matures June-Aug. Blooms late Feb.-May.
	Bogmoss (Mayaca aubletii)	Small, moss-like immersed or submersed perennials with branched, creeping or floating stems. Leaves are numerous, alternate, linear. Flowers are solitary, 3 parted, in the axils of leaves. Petals are maroon. Blooms May-July.
	Bull Nettle(Cnidoscolus stimulosus)	Perennial herb 0.5-10 dm tall with dissected or lobed alternate leaves. Entire plant is covered in stinging hairs. White flowers are united into a tube with 5 lobes. Blooms late March-Aug.; Fruits May-Sept.
	Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa)	Perennial herb 2-8 dm tall, with stout stems clustered from a crown. Leaves are alternate, 4-10 cm long, 3-25 mm wide. Hemispherical inflorescence is 2-5 cm broad. Flowers are red to yellow and attract butterflies. Blooms May-Aug.
	Carolina Laurel Cherry(Prunus caroliniana)	Tree with simple, alternate, evergreen leaves, 5-10 cm long, 1.5-4 cm wide. Inflorescence 1.5-3 cm long from leaf axils of preceding year. Flowers have 5 white petals 2-3 mm long. Fruit is a dull black drupe. Blooms March-April.
	Catawba Tree (Catalpa speciosa)	Tree to 40 m tall. Leaves are opposite, heart-shaped. The branched inflorescence is 1-3 dm long. Flowers are white with yellow marks, 4 cm or more long, with united petals. The lower lobe is notched. Blooms May-June.
	Chickasaw Plum(Prunus angustifolia)	Thicket forming shrub with simple, alternate, deciduous leaves 4-7 cm long, 1-2.4 cm wide, finely toothed. Flowers have 5 white petals, 1-1.5 cm long. Fruit is a red or yellow drupe. Blooms March-April.
	Cinnamon Fern (Osmunda cinnamomea)	Sterile fronds 6-14 dm long, twice divided into pinnae. Fertile fronds cinnamon colored, narrower and shorter than the sterile, appearing early and soon withering. Fertile fronds appear March-May.
	Coastal Serviceberry (Amelanchier obovalis)	Small shrub with simple, alternate leaves, 2-6 cm long, 2-3.5 cm wide appearing after the flowers. Flowers have 5 white, strap-shaped petals 0.7-1.2 cm long. Fruit is a purple pome. Blooms March-April.
	Colicroot (Aletris farinosa)	Perennial herb in the Lily Family. Leaves are basal. Flowering scape is 4-12 dm tall with white flowers 5-11 mm long. Petals are united, constricted beneath the 6 flaired lobes, covered in blunt projections. Blooms April-early June.
	Common Star Grass(Hypoxis hirsuta)	Perennial herb will linear leaves 0.5-4.5 dm long, 2-13 mm wide. Yellow petals united at the base, lobes 0.5-1.5 cm long. Blooms March to June.
	Creeping Blueberry (Vaccinium crassifolium)	Sprawling shrub under 1 m tall, characteristic of the Sandhills. Evergreen leaves extend from the stem at a 90 degree angle, are 3-18 mm long. White urn-shaped flowers are 2X as long as wide and as long as the leaves. Blooms April-May.
	Daisy Fleabane (Erigeron strigosus)	Annual herb with numerous heads of white ray flowers and yellow dic flowers. Blooms late April-Oct.
	Dangleberry (Gaylussacia frondosa)	Shrub 3-9 dm tall. Leaves are deciduous 2.5-7 cm long, 1.5-3.5 cm wide, with golden punctate glands beneath. The inflorescence is 5-10 flowered. Urn-shaped flowers are greenish-white to pinkish, 3-5 mm long. Blooms late-March-May.
	Deerberry (Vaccinium stamineum)	Shrub 0.5-5 m tall. Leaves are alternate, deciduous, 3-10 cm long, 1.5-4.5 cm wide. Flowers are white, bell-shaped, open when very young and enlarged in age 5-8 mm long. Blooms April-June.
	Dwarf Azalea (Rhododendron atlanticum)	Low shrub, 1-1.5 m tall. Leaves deciduous, alternate, hairy and glandular, 2.5-6 cm long. White flower petals united into a slendar tube, l.5-2.5 cm long with spreading lobes, the largest often marked with yellow. Blooms April-May.
	Dwarf Bristly Locust (Robinia nana)	Shrub to 1.5-3 m tall. Leaves 1-1.5 dm long with 7-13 leaflets 3-4 cm long, 1.5-2 cm wide. Inflorescence nodding, 3-5 flowered, glandular. Petals roseate 1.6-1.8 cm long. Blooms April-May.
	Dwarf Huckleberry (Gaylussacia dumosa)	Shrub 1-4 dm tall. Leaves are semi-evergreen, glandular punctate beneath, 1.5-4 cm long with a tiny spine at the tip. The inflorescence is 2-6 flowered, with white or pinkish globular to urn-shaped flowers, 3-5 mm long. Blooms March-June.
	Dwarf Iris (Iris verna)	Perennial with an erect stem less than 1.5-5 cm tall. Flowers are very fragrant, bluish to violet with a yellow or orange band in the center. Petals are 2-8 cm long, 1-2 cm wide. Blooms late March-early May.
	Dwarf Sundew (Drosera brevifolia)	Pinkish herb with glandular hairs on the flower scape and leaves that ooze a sticky secretion that contributes to the insect-catching function of the spatula-shaped leaves. Flowers have 5 white petals, 5-7 mm long. Blooms May-Aug.
	Fetter-bush (Lyonia lucida)	Colonizing shrub to 2 m tall. Evergreen leaves are lustrous, 3-9 cm long, 1-4.5 cm wide. Urn-shaped white to pinkish flowers, 6-8 mm long, appear in clusters in leaf axils. Plant is toxic, possibly fatal if eaten. Blooms April-early June.
	Field Pansy (Viola bicolor)	Perennial herb with slender stems. The leaves are 0.5-3 cm long. Flowers are pale blue to white with blue veins. This is the only native North American Violet. Blooms March-May
	Flowering Dogwood(Cornus florida)	Small tree 5-15 m tall. Leaves, opposite, 6-10 cm long, 3-7 cm wide with several veins ultimately curving to run parallel with the leaf margins. Flowering heads subtended by 4 showy white bracts, notched at apex. Blooms March-April.
	Fringed Blue Star (Amsonia ciliata)	Stems are 3-7 dm tall, hairy, branched above. Leaves are 3-8 cm long, 1-5 mm wide. Flowers have blue petals united into a tube 6-8 mm long with 5 expanded lobes, also 6-8 mm long. Blooms in April.
	Goats Rue (Tephrosia virginiana)	Perennial herb 2-7 dm tall. Leaves are 5-14 cm long, divided into 15-25 leaflets that are 1-3.3 cm long and 4-10 mm wide. Flowers are bicolored: lemon yellow to cream and rose. Blooms May-June.
	Golden Club (Orontium aquaticum)	Perennial aquatic herb, 2-6 dm tall. Leaves in a basal cluster 1-4 dm long, 4-16 cm wide. Flower a golden yellow spadix, 4-10 cm long, 6-10 mm wide. Erect in flower, prostrate in fruit. Blooms March-April.
	Grass-leaf Roseling (Callisia graminea)	Perennial herb 2-5 dm tall. Leaves are 0.2-3 dm long, 0.3-3 mm wide. The leaf sheaths are fringed with white hair. Petals are rose, 4-8 mm long. Blooms May-July
	Greater Tickseed (Coreopsis major)	Perennial herb 0.5-1 m tall with divided leaves. Yellow ray flowers are 2-4 cm long. Disk flowers are yellow or red. Blooms May-July
	Hairy Vetch (Vicia villosa )	Annual with trailing or climbing vine-like hairy stems to 2 m long. Alternate leaves are divided into 10-20 narrow leaflets 1-3 cm long with branched tendrils. Purple flowers are densely clustered and secund. Blooms May-Sept.
	Hawthorne(Craetaegus anisophylla)	Small tree or shrub with spines 2-6 cm long. Leaves widest above middle, often lobed toward apex, 1-5 cm long, 0.603 cm wide. Flowers have 5 white petals. Blooms late March-April.
	Horsefly Weed (Baptisia tinctoria)	Bushy perennial 3-10 dm tall, blackening on drying. Leaves are divided into 3 leaflets, 0.6-2 cm long and 0.5-1.2 cm wide. Numerous yellow stalked flowers terminate the branches. Blooms April-Aug.
	Inkberry (Ilex glabra)	Shrub to 3 m tall that forms extensive colonies. Evergreen leaves are 3.5-7 cm long, lustrous above, remotely toothed toward apex. The last pair of teeth are directly opposite from each other. Blooms May-June.
	Ipecac (Euphorbia ipecacuanhae)	Perennial with a long root branched near top into many stems with only the tips showing above the soil. Leaves are opposite, fleshy 1-7 cm long and 0.5-20 mm wide. Appendages that resemble flowers are bordered in yellow. Blooms March-May.
	Japanese Honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica)	High climbing vine with opposite, evergreen leaves 3-7.5 cm long, 1.5-4.5 cm wide. Flowers are very fragrant and paired. Petals are white fading to yellow, united into a tube with longest lobe equaling the tube. Blooms April-June.
	Kidney-leaf Roisen Weed (Silphium compositum)	Erect perennial, 1-4 m tall with basal heart-shaped deeply lobed leaves. Flowering heads with yellow ray flowers 1-2 cm long, 3-5 cm wide, are numerous on a branched inflorescence from an essentially leafless stem. Blooms May-Sept.
	Little-leaf Sensitive Briar (Schrankia microphylla )	Perennial herb with prostrate or weakly arching stems often 1-2 m long, often with numerous prickles. Leaves are evenly twice divided. The 2 cm globe-shaped inflorescence is has numerous pink flowers. Blooms June-Sept.
	Longbranch Frostweed (Helianthemum canadense)	Perennial herb 1-3.5 dm tall. Basal leaves absent. 10-20 stem leaves, 1-3 cm long 2-8 mm wide. Flowers are yellow, usually solitary and terminal. 5 petals, 1-1.5 cm long. Blooms April-May.
	Meadow Beauty (Rhexia mariana)	Perennial herb, frequently forming colonies. Stems,to 8 dm tall, are hairy with sides unequal. Leaves are 6.5 cm long, 2 cm wide. Flowers have 4 white petals. Anthers are 6-10 mm long. Fruit is urn-shaped. Blooms May-Oct.
	Muscadine (Vitis rotundifolia )	High-climbing vine with conspicuous tendrils. Leaves are almost round to 8 cm across. Mature inflorescences are up to 5 cm long, few fruited. Edible berries are 1-2 cm in diameter. Fruit is used for making wine and jam. Blooms May-June.
	Narrow-leaf Evening Primrose (Oenothera fruticosa)	Erect hairy, branched perennial to 8 dm tall. Leaves are opposite, to 11 cm long and 2.5 cm wide, narrowing at base. Flowers are 4 parted. Petals are yellow, united at base with lobes 1-2 cm long. Blooms April-Aug.
	Narrow-leaf White Topped Aster(Sericocarpus linifolius )	Perennial herb, 2-7 dm tall. Leaves are 4-8 cm long, 2-7 mm wide, hairy on the margins and not twisted at the base, with punctate glands beneath. Disc and ray flowers are white. Rays are 7-12 mm long. Blooms June-July.
	Netted Chain Fern (Woodwardia areolata)	Fronds 3-8 dm tall, once divided and joined in a wide wing along the frond rachis. Sterile fronds shorter than fertile with green petioles. Fertile leaves with purple-brown, shiny thick petioles 2X as long as the blades. Fruits June-Sept.
	New Jersey Tea (Ceanothus americanus)	Shrub to 1 m tall. Leaves are alternate, 3-8 cm long, 1-4 cm wide, toothed, strongly three veined beneath. Terminal inflorescence has many tiny white flowers. Petal blades are about 1 mm long on a narrow claw about 1 mm long. Blooms May-June.
	New York Fern(Thelypteris noveboracensis)	Fronds are widely sword like, 5-15 cm wide, divided twice. Divisions cut completely to the midrib. It is characteristic the way in which the divisions are reduced equally at the top and bottom of the frond. Fruits May-Aug.
	Oak Ridge Lupine(Lupinus diffusus)	Perennial herb 2-4 dm tall, densely hairy throughout. Evergreen leaves are 4-12 cm long, 1.5-5 cm wide. Flowers are light to deep blue with a conspicuous cream spot. Blooms March-May; Fruits June-July.
	Orange Milkwort (Polygala lutea)	Biennial or short-lived perennial with succulent leaves in basal rosettes. Stems are 1.5-5 dm tall. Flowers are brilliant orange in a compact head 1-3.5 cm long, 1.2-2 cim wide. Blooms April-Oct.
	Passion Flower, Maypops (Passiflora incarnata)	Repent or climbing vine to 2 m long. Leaf blades are 3-5 lobed, 6-15 cm long, 6-15 cm wide. Flowers are mostly solitary from leaf axils. Petals are bluish to white, 3-4 cm long, with lavendar parts banded in purple. Blooms May-July.
	Persimmon (Diospyros virginiana)	Tree to 15 m tall. Leaves are simple alternate, 7-15 cm long, 3-7 cm wide. Yellow urn-shaped female flowers are on a different tree than the clustered male flowers. Fruit is a fleshy berry to 4 cm in diameter. Blooms May-June.
	Pine Barren Stitch Wort (Minuartia caroliniana)	A delicate short-lived perennial, 0.5-3 dm tall from a large basal cushion. Leaves are opposite, overlapping, 3-12 mm long, 0.3-1 mm wide. The petals are 5-12 mm long. Blooms April-June.
	Pipsissewa (Chimaphila maculata)	Perennial to 2 dm tall. Leaves are evergreen, 2-6 cm long, 0.6-2.3 cm wide, sharply toothed, with a grayish area along the midrib and larger veins. Flowers are 1-2 cm wide and nodding with 5 white petals. Blooms May-June.
	Poison Oak (Toxicodendron pubens)	Shrub to 0.3-2 m tall. Leaves have 3 leaflets, densely hairy beneath and coarsely toothed. Flowers are greenish-yellow to white. Fruit is a drupe, covered in thick hairs. A severe contact poison. Blooms in May.
	Prickly Pear Cactus (Opuntia compressa)	Low, woody, perennial with fleshy, segmented, photosynthetic, spiny, flattened stems. Leaves are alternate and promptly deciduous, fleshy 3-10 mm long. Flowers are 5-7 cm wide, with yellow petals. Blooms May-June.
	Queens Delight (Stillingia sylvatica)	Perennial herb to 8 dm tall. Leaves are 3.5-9 cm long, 1-4.5 cm wide, with glands on the petiole. Female flowers appear above the male flowers on a spike-like inflorescence. Flowers have a yellow calyx but no petals. Blooms May-June
	Red Maple (Acer rubrum)	Medium to large tree. Flower parts are red and appear before the leaves. Leaves are 3-lobed. Fruit is a samara. Blooms in March; Fruits May-July.
	Rough Mexican Clover(Richardia scabra)	Diffuse sprawling hairy annual. Leaves are opposite, lance-shaped, 2.5-7 cm long, 1-2 cm wide. The 4 white flower petals are united, with lobes 1/3 the length of the tube. Blooms late June-frost.
	Royal Fern (Osmunda regalis)	Sterile frond 5-18 dm long, to 5 cm wide, twice divided, petiole about equil to blade. Pinnae (leaflets) distinct, widely spaced, 4X as long as wide. Fertile frond tan, terminal inflorescence, open, 3X divided. Blooms March-June.
	Sampson Snakeroot (Orbexilum pendunculatum)	Perennial herb 3-9 dm tall. Divided leaves have 3 leaflets 3-7 cm long, 0.5-1.5 cm wide, with punctate glands. Inflorescence is 2-10 cm long with conspicuous bracts below the purple flowers. Blooms May-July.
	Sand Cherry (Prunus susquehanae)	Low-growing colonizing shrub with stiffly ascending branches. Leaves are 3-7 cm long, 1-3.5 cm wide with fine teeth. White flowers have petals 4-8 mm long, in fascicles of 2-4 and appear before the leaves. Blooms April-May.
	Sandhills Thistle (Cirsium repandum)	Biennial or possibly perennial, 0.5-0.8 m tall. Stems are leafy to apex, spreading and spiny. Purple tubular flowers occur in dense heads. Blooms May-July.
	Sassafras (Sassafras albidum)	Aromatic deciduous shrub or small tree. Flowers appear before the leaves which are simple, alternate, 6-12 cm long, 2-8 cm wide with 1-2 lateral lobes. Yellow flowers have 6 petal-like segments, 3-5 mm long. Blooms March-April.
	Savannah Meadow Beauty (Rhexia alifanus)	Perennial herb grows to 1 m tall. Leaves grow to 7 cm long and 1 cm wide. Flowers are purple with 4 petals that are glandular beneath, 16-22 mm long. Anthers are 6-7.5 mm long. Fruit is urnshaped. Blooms May-Oct.
	Stagger-bush (Lyonia mariana)	Shrub growing to 1.5 m tall with angled twigs and deciduous to semi-evergreen leaves. Urn-shaped white flowers, 7-14 mm long, appear in clusters on leafless branches. Leaves and nectar are highly toxic and may be fatal if eaten. Blooms April-May.
	Swamp Doghobble(Eubotrys racemosa)	Shrub to 4 m tall. Leaves deciduous, alternate, 3-9 cm long, 1-4 cm wide, petioles 1-3 mm long. Inflorescence usually curved. Urn-shaped flowers with white, united petals 6-8mm long. Blooms late March-early June.
	Sweet Bay (Magnolia virginiana)	Small tree with semi-evergreen leaves 6-15 cm long, 2-6 cm wide, waxy above, silky below. Flower is cup-shaped with white petals 2.5-4.5 cm long. Blooms April-July.
	Sweet Gallberry (Ilex coriacea)	Colonizing shrub to 6 m tall. Leaves are leathery, evergreen, 3.5-7 cm long, 1.5-4 cm wide, toothed at tip with salient teeth. Flowers appear in axils of leaves. Fruit is a black lustrous drupe, 7-10 mm long. Blooms April-May.
	Sweet Leaf, Horse Sugar (Symplocos tinctoria)	Shrub to 6 m tall. Leaves are simple, alternate, leathery, deciduous or weakly persistent, 8-13 cm long, 2.5-5 cm wide. Flowers appear before the leaves and are fragrant, 5 parted in clusters on wood of previous year. Blooms March-May.
	Sweetspire; Virginia willow(Itea virginica)	Shrub 1-2 m tall with finly toothed alternate leaves, 2-9 cm long, 1-4 cm wide. Inflorescence is terminal, 4-15 cm long. Flowers are numerous, cup-shaped with 5 white, awl-shaped petal lobes, 3.5-4.5 mm long. Blooms May-June.
	Ti Ti (Cyrilla racemiflora)	Tall shrub. Leaves are semi-evergreen, simple, alternate, widest above the middle,to 10 cm long and 4 cm wide. White, stalked flowers appear on numerous inflorescences 5-15 cm long from previous year's growth. Blooms May-July.
	Toadflax (Nuttalanthus canadensis )	Slender biennial or winter annual. Flowering stem erect, 1.5-7 dm tall, from a basal rosette. Flowers blue or purple, 5-15 mm long including spur. 2 upper and 3 lower petals
	Trailing Arbutus (Epigaea repens)	Prostrate shrub with spreading branches. Evergreen, alternate leaves, 2-6 cm long, 1-3.5 cm wide have a heart-shaped base. White to pinkish flower petals are united. Tube is 6-10 mm long with 5 lobes, also 6-10 mm long. Blooms late Feb.-early May.
	Virginia Plantain (Plantago virginica)	Stemless winter annual with basal leaves 4-15 cm long, 1-8 mm wide. Flowering scape is hollow,4-18 cm long with a densely flowered inflorescence 1-15 cm long. United petals have lobes 1.5-2.9 mm long, equaling the tube. Blooms late March-June.
	Wax Myrtle(Morella cerefera)	Shrub 0.3-7 m tall. Leaves are semi-evergreen, to 8 cm long, 2 cm wide, widest above the middle,heavily resinous on both surfaces. Flowers have no petals. Fruit is a white waxy drupe. Blooms April; Fruits Aug.-Oct.
	Whorled Loosestrife (Lysimachia quadrifolia)	Erect perennial 3-10 cm tall. Leaves in whorls of 3-6, 3-12 cm long, 0.8-4.5 cm wide. Flowers are solitary in the axils of the upper 2-6 leaf whorls. Yellow petals are streaked with black, red at base, 1/3-1.6 cm broad. Blooms May-July.
	Whorled Tickseed (Coreopsis verticillata )	Perennial 3-10 dm tall wity 6-12 nodes below the inflorescence. Leaves are 2 or 3 times divided into linear segments 0.5-5 cm long, 2 mm wide. Ray flowers are yellow, 1.5-3 cm long, 4-8 mm wide. Disc flowers are yellow. Blooms May-July.
	Wild Indigo(Baptisia cinerea)	Perennial 3-6 dm tall. Leaves are divided into 3 leaflets,3-7 cm long. Bright yellow flowers with petals 2.5 cm long terminate the branches. This plant is an endemic indicator of the NC pineland. Blooms May-June.
	Yellow Jessamine (Gelsemium sempervirens)	High-climbing vine that twines upward from left to right. Evergreen, opposite leaves are 3-7 cm long, 1-2.5 cm wide. Yellow flowers are fragrant. Petals are united into a tube with 5 lobes, 7-10 mm long. Blooms March-early May.
	Yellow Pond Lily (Nuphar luteum )	Aquatic perennial herb. Leaves are submersed with a length to width ratio of more than 3 and a heart-shaped base. Flower parts numerous, green to yellow, sometimes tinged with red. Blooms April-Oct.
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