Forest Plant Latin Names

Mountain Maple

-Typical maple shape (tri-lobed but 2 smaller), deeply veined

-Moist open woodlands

Red Maple

-Red=rough leaves serrated

Striped (Moose) Maple

Acer pensylvanicum

Sugar Maple

Acer saccharum

Wild Sarsaparilla

Aralia nudicaulis

Whorled Wood Aster

Oclemena acuminata

Paper (White) Birch

Betula papyrifera

Yellow Birch

Betula alleghaniensis

Red Elderberry

Sambucus racemosa

Wild Raisin

Viburnum cassinoides

Twinflower

Linnaea borealis

Alternate-leaved Dogwood

Cornus alternifolia

Bunchberry

Cornus canadensis

Eastern White Cedar

Thuja occidentalis

Bracken fern

Pteridium aquilinum

Ostrich Ferb

Matteuccia struthgiopteris

Christmas Fern

Polystichum arcostichoides

Sensitive Fern

Onoclea sensibilis

Creeping Snowberry

Gaultheria hispidula

Eastern Teaberry

Gaultheria procumbens

Trailing Arbutus

Epigaea repens

American Beech

Fagus grandifolia

English Oak

Quercus robur

Northern Red Oak

Quercus rubra

Virginia Cucumber Root

Medeola virginiana

Nodding Trillium

Trillium cernuum

Painted Trillium

Trillium undulatum

Wild Lily-of-the-Valley

Maianthemum canadense

Yellow Clintonian

Clintonia borealis

Round-branched (Prickly) Tree-clubmoss

Dendrolycopodium dendroideum

Stiff Clubmoss

Spinulum annotinum

Running Clubmoss (Running Ground-pine)

Lycopodium clavatum

Ghost Pipe

Monotropa uniflora

Black Ash

Fraxinus nigra

White Ash

Fraxinus americana

Pink lady's Slipper

Cypripedium acaule

Virginia Beech drops

Epifagus virginiana

Interrupted Fern

Claytosmunda claytoniana

Cinnamon Fern

Osmundastrum cinnamomeum

White (Mountain) Wood-sorrel

Oxalis montana

Balsam Fir

Abies balsamea

Black Spruce

Picea Mariana

Red Spruce

Picea rubens

Eastern Hemlock

Tsuga canadensis

Eastern White Pine

Pinus strobus

Jack Pine

Pinus banksiana

Red Pine

Pinus resinosa

Tamarack

Larix laricina

Northern Starflower

Lysimachia borealis

Goldthread

Coptis trifolia

Trembling Aspen

Populus grandidentata

Canada Yew

Taxus canadensis

New York Fern

Amauropelta noveboracensis

Evergreen Wood Fern

Dryopteris intermedia

Spinulose Wood Fern

Dryopteris carthusiana

Mountain Wood Fern

Dryopteris campyloptera

Common Haircap Moss

Polytrichum commune

Three-lobed Whipwort

Bazzania trilobata

British Soldier's Lichen

Cladonia cristatella

Beard Lichen

Usnea spp.

Lungwort Lichen

Lobaria pulmonaria