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Species List

Common Name(s) Title Restoration Potential Sort descending
Sedge species Carex species
Woodland lettuce Lactuca floridana Avoid!
White snakeroot Ageratina altissima Avoid!
Wingstem Verbesina alternifolia Avoid!
White avens Geum canadense Avoid!
Stickseed Hackelia virginiana Avoid!
Black snakeroot Sanicula gregaria Avoid!
Honewort Cryptotaenia canadensis Avoid!
Brown-eyed Susan Rudbeckia triloba Avoid!
Blue phlox, sweet William Phlox divaricata High
Wild geranium Geranium maculatum High
White baneberry Actaea pachypoda High
Yellow forest violet Viola pubescens High
Dooryard violet Viola sororia High
Elm-leaved goldenrod Solidago ulmifolia High
Virginia blue bells Mertensia virginica High
Wild columbine Aquilegia canadensis High
Virginia waterleaf Hydrophyllum virginianum High (by transplant)
James' sedge Carex jamesii High (with transplants)
Troublesome sedge Carex molesta High by seed
Cardinal flower Lobelia cardinalis High in moist habitats
Trout lily, dogtooth violet Erythronium albidum Low
Carrion flower Smilax herbacea Low
Joe Pye weed Eutrochium purpureum Low
Hepatica Hepatica nobilis Low
Spotted touch-me-not/Pale touch-me-not Impatiens capensis/ I. pallida Low
Jacob's Ladder Polemonium reptans Low
Great blue lobelia Lobelia siphilitica Low
Monkey flower Mimulus ringens Low
Dutchman's breeches Dicentra cucullaria Low
Rue anemone Anemonella thalictroides Low
Pussy toes and Ladies' tobacco Antennaria plantaginifolia and A. neglecta Low
Culver's root Veronicastrum virginicum Low
Ironweed Vernonia balwinii Low
Cut-leaf toothwort Cardamine concatenata Low
Davis' sedge Carex davisii Low
Large flowered bellwort Uvularia grandiflora Low
Wood anemone Anemone quinquefolia Low
Meadow rue Thalictrum dasycarpum Low
Yellow pimpernel Taenidia integerrima Low
Spreading chervil Chaerophyllum procumbens Low
Cluster leaf tick trefoil Desmodium glutinosum Low
Lousewort, wood betony Pedicularis canadensis Low
Bishop's cap Mitella diphylla Low
Mayapple, mandrake Podophyllum peltatum Low (extremely) by seed; high by transplant and vegetatively
Golden alexanders Zizia aurea Low to medium
False rue anemone Isopyrum biternatum Medium
Early meadow rue Thalictrum dioicum Medium
Cutleaf coneflower Rudbeckia laciniata Medium
Hedge nettle Stachys tenuifolia Medium
Bloodroot Sanguinaria canadensis Medium
Long-beaked sedge Carex sprengelii Medium
Yellow giant hyssop Agastache nepetoides Medium
Wild leek Allium tricoccum Medium
Spikenard Aralia racemosa Medium
Jack-in-the-pulpit Arisaema triphyllum Medium
Oak sedge Carex pennsylvanica Medium
Spring beauty Claytonia virginica Medium
Bottlebrush grass Elymus hystrix Medium
Solomon's seal Polygonatum biflorum Medium
Thimbleweed Anemone virginiana Medium (by transplant)
Whorled milkweed Asclepias verticillata Medium to Low
False Solomon's seal Smilacina racemosa Medium to Low
Blue cohosh Caulophyllum thalictroides Medium to low by seed (requires patience)
Lion's foot, White lettuce, Rattlesnake-root Prenanthes alba moderate
Hairy wood mint Blephilia hirsuta Proven performer
Jumpseed Polygonum virginianum Proven performer
Side-flowered aster, Calico aster Symphyotrichum lateriflorum Proven performer
Tall bellflower Campanula americana Proven performer
Nodding fescue Festuca subverticillata Proven performer
American germander Teucrium canadense Proven performer
Downy or silky wild rye Elymus villosus Proven performer
Heart-leaved aster; blue wood aster Aster cordifolius Proven performer
Canada anemone/meadow anemone Anemone canadensis Proven performer (by rhizomes)
American beakgrain Diarrhena americana Proven performer (by rhizomes)
Hispid buttercup Ranunculus hispidus Proven performer (by vegetative spread)
Coralberry Symphoricarpos orbiculatus Proven performer (vegetatively)
Wild ginger Asarum canadense Proven performer by vegetative spread
Zig zag goldenrod Solidago flexicaulis Proven performer by vegetative spread
Stellate sedge Carex rosea Undetermined
Rough-leaved sunflower, woodland sunflower Helianthus strumosus Undetermined but probably high due to colony formation