Stonehouse Elementary Habitat

Native Plant Photos

 Virginia native plants

 

Website design and photos by Jan Newton           *Please contact Jan Newton for permission to use photos.*

   

Go Wild, Plant Native! 

 

Perennials    
 

Aromatic Aster (Aster oblongifolius)

 

Aromatic Aster with Blue Mistflower

 
Bee Balm, Bergamot (Monarda didyma)  

 

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Blanket Flower (Gaillardia aristata)

 

 

 

 

 

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Blazing Star/ Gay Feather (Liatris spicata)

 

   
 

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Bloodroot   (Sanguinaria canadensis)

 

 

 

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Blue Mistflower/ Wild Ageratum (Conoclinium coelestinum (Eupatorium coelestinum))

 

Blue Mistflower with Green Headed Coneflower  
 

Blue Star (Amsonia tabernaemontana)

 

   
 

Blue Vervain (Verbena hastata)

 

   

Blue Wild Indigo (Baptisia australis)

 

   
 

Blue-eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium angustifolium)

 

   
     

Boneset (Eupatorium perfoliatum)

 

   

Brown-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia triloba)

 

Brown-eyed Susan

Brown-eyed Susan

 

Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa)

 

 

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Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis)

 

   
   

Common Blue Violet (Viola sororia)

 

   
   

Confederate Violet (Viola sororia)

 

   
   

Creeping Phlox (Phlox stolonifera)

 

 

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Cup Plant (Silphium perfoliatum)

 

   
   

Dwarf Iris  (Iris verna)

 

   

False Aster (Boltonia asteroides)

 

  False Aster pre-bloom
   

Fire Pinks (Silene virginica)

 

   
   

Foam Flower  (Tiarella cordifolia)

 

   
   

Golden Alexander (Zizia aurea)

 

 

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Golden Ragwort (Packera aurea (Senecio aureus))

 

   
   

Great Blue Lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica)

 

   

Green-Headed Coneflower (Rubeckia laciniata)

 

   

Green-Headed Coneflower (Rubeckia laciniata)

 

 

Green-Headed Coneflower

1st year plant

 

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Jack-in-the-Pulpit (Arisaema atrorubens)

 

   
 

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Jacob’s Ladder (Polemonium reptans)

 

   
   

Jamestown (Atamasco) Lily (Zephyranthes atamasca)

 

   
   

Jewelweed (Impatiens capensis)

 

 

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Joe-Pye Weed (Eupatorium fistulosum)

 

  Monarch Butterfly on Joe-Pye Weed
 

Lanceleaf Coreopsis (Coreopsis lanceolata)

 

   
   

Lyre-leaf Sage (Salvia lyrata)

 

   
 

Maryland Golden Asters (Chrysopsis mariana)

 

   
 

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Mayapple (Podophyllum peltatum)

 

   
 

Meadow Beauty (Rhexia mariana)

 

 

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Mountain Mint (Pycnanthemum tenuifolium)

 

   
 

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Netted Chain Fern (Woodwardia areolata)

 

   
 

New York Ironweed (Vernonia noveborareasis)

 
   

Obedient Plant (Physostegia virginiana)

 

Obedient Plant Brown-eyed Susan and Obedient Plant
   

Purple Coneflower (Echinacea pupurea)

 

   
 

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Royal Fern (Osmunda regalis)

 

   
 

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Showy Aster  (Aster spectabilis

 

   
 

 

   

Silky Golden Aster (Pityopsis graminifolia/ Chrysopsis graminifolia)

 

   
 

Small’s Ragwort (Senecio Anonymous/ Packera anonyma)

 

 

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Smooth Beardtongue (Penstemon laevigatus)

 

   
 

Soldier Mallow (Hibiscus militaris)

 

Soldier Mallow (young)    
 

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Solomon’s Seal (Polygonatum bilorum)

 

   
 

Spiderwort (Tradescantia virginiana)

 
   
 

Summer Phlox (Phlox paniculata)

 

   

Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata)    

 

   
   

Swamp Sunflowers  (Helianthus angustifolius)

 

 

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Sweet Goldenrod (Solidago odora)

 

   
 

Tall Tickseed (Coreopsis triptela)

 

   
     

Turk’s Cap Lily (Lilium superbum

 

   
 

Virginia Bluebells (Mertensia virginica

 

   
   

Whorled Milkweed (Asclepias verticillata) (w/ aphids)

 
 

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Wild Bleeding Heart (Dicentra exima)

 

   
 

Wild Blue Phlox (Phlox divaricata)

 

   
   

Wild Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)

 

   
   

Wild Pinks (Silene caroliniana)

 
 

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Ferns, Grasses and Ground Cover    

 

Christmas Fern (Polystichum acrostichoides)

 

Christmas Fern spores  

Cinnamon Fern (Osmunda cinnamomea)   

 

   
   

New York Fern (Thelypteris noveboracensis)

 

   
   

Southern Lady Fern (Athyrium asplenioides) (young)

 

   
 

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Ebony Spleenwort Fern (Asplenium platyneuron)

 

   

Purple (Pink) Muhly Grass (Muhlenbergia capillaris)

 
 

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Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum, ‘Shenandoah’)

 

Switchgrass Switchgrass in the winter
 

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Partridgeberry (Mitchella repens)  

 

   
 

Teaberry/ Creeping Wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbus)

 

Teaberry fruits

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Shrubs and Vines    
 

Beauty Berry (Callicarpa americana)

 

   
   

Coastal Leucothoe (Doghobble) (Leucothoe axillaris)

 

   
 

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Drooping Leucothoe  (Leucothoe sp.)

 

   
   

Dwarf Inkberry (Ilex glabra)

 
   
 

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Dwarf Yaupon Holly (Ilex vomitoria ‘Nana Schillings’)

 
 

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Hearts-a-Bustin’ (Euonymus americanus)

 

   
 

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Mapleleaf Viburnum (Viburnum acerifolium

 

   
 

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Spicebush (Lindera benzoin)

 

   
   

Sweet Pepper Bush (Clethra alnifolia) (young leaves)

 

 

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Coral Honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens)

 

Coral and Clayton Honeysuckle Coral and Clayton Honeysuckle
   

John Clayton Honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens, ‘John Clayton’)

 

(see above for picture of full vine) (see above for picture of both Coral and Clayton Honeysuckle)
 

Passionflower  (Passiflora incarnata)

 

Passionflower Fruit with Fritillary Caterpillar

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Small Trees    
   

Serviceberry/Shad Bush (Amelanchier arborea)

 

   

Winterberry (Ilex verticillata)

 

Winterberry female blossoms Winterberry male blossoms

Winterberry  (Ilex verticillata)

 

Winterberry in winter  
 

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Yaupon Holly (Ilex vomitoria)

 
 

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