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appalachian plants

  • Allegheny-Cumberland dry oak forest and woodland
  • Appalachian balds
  • Appalachian hemlock–northern hardwood forest
  • Appalachian mixed mesophytic forests
  • Appalachian temperate rainforest
  • Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests
  • Central and southern Appalachian montane oak forest
  • Central Appalachian dry oak-pine forest
  • Central Appalachian pine-oak rocky woodland
  • Northeastern interior dry-mesic oak forest
  • Northern hardwood forest
  • Southern Appalachian low-elevation pine forest
  • Southern Appalachian spruce–fir forest
  • Southern Ridge and Valley/Cumberland dry calcareous forest

A

  • Abies fraseri
  • Acer negundo
  • Acer saccharum
  • Acer spicatum
  • Aesculus flava
  • Alnus serrulata
  • American chestnut
  • Anemone virginiana

B

  • Betula alleghaniensis
  • Betula lenta
  • Betula uber
  • Bromus ciliatus

C

  • Camassia scilloides
  • Campanula americana
  • Carya glabra
  • Chelone glabra
  • Chelone obliqua
  • Claytonia virginica
  • Clematis morefieldii
  • Collinsia verna
  • Cornus canadensis
  • Cornus florida
  • Cornus foemina

D

  • Delphinium tricorne
  • Diarrhena americana
  • Dicentra canadensis
  • Dicentra cucullaria
  • Dicentra eximia
  • Dodecatheon meadia
  • Dryopteris campyloptera
  • Dryopteris intermedia

E

  • Elymus canadensis
  • Elymus hystrix
  • Euonymus obovatus
  • Euphorbia marginata
  • Euphorbia nutans

F

  • Fagus grandifolia
  • Frangula caroliniana
  • Fraser fir

G

  • Gaylussacia baccata
  • Gaylussacia brachycera
  • Gymnocladus dioicus

H

  • Halesia
  • Heuchera villosa
  • Hexastylis arifolia
  • Hexastylis naniflora
  • Hexastylis shuttleworthii
  • Hexastylis virginica

I

  • Ilex montana
  • Iris cristata

J

  • Juglans nigra
  • Juniperus virginiana

K

  • Kalmia latifolia

L

  • Lepidium densiflorum
  • Liquidambar styraciflua
  • Liriodendron tulipifera
  • Luzula multiflora
  • Luzula pilosa

M

  • Maianthemum racemosum
  • Marshallia grandiflora
  • Micranthes micranthidifolia
  • Micranthes petiolaris
  • Mimulus alatus
  • Muhlenbergia mexicana
  • Muhlenbergia schreberi

N

  • Nemophila aphylla
  • Nyssa sylvatica

O

  • Ophioglossum pusillum
  • Osmorhiza claytonii
  • Ostrya virginiana
  • Oxalis montana

P

  • Pellaea atropurpurea
  • Pellaea glabella
  • Penstemon canescens
  • Penstemon digitalis
  • Penstemon hirsutus
  • Penstemon laevigatus
  • Phacelia covillei
  • Phacelia dubia
  • Phlox stolonifera
  • Picea rubens
  • Pinus echinata
  • Pinus pungens
  • Pinus rigida
  • Pinus strobus
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  • Polygonatum biflorum
  • Prunus pensylvanica
  • Prunus serotina

Q

  • Quercus alba
  • Quercus coccinea
  • Quercus ilicifolia
  • Quercus muehlenbergii
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  • Quercus rubra

R

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  • Rhododendron calendulaceum
  • Rhododendron catawbiense
  • Rhododendron maximum
  • Rhus typhina
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  • Rubus depavitus
  • Rubus flagellaris
  • Rubus hispidus
  • Rubus invisus

S

  • Salix exigua
  • Senna hebecarpa
  • Sorbus americana
  • Stachys clingmanii
  • Swamp dewberry
  • Synandra

T

  • Table mountain pine
  • Thalictrum dioicum
  • Tiarella cordifolia
  • Tilia heterophylla
  • Tridens flavus
  • Trillium vaseyi
  • Tsuga canadensis
  • Tsuga caroliniana

U

  • Ulmus americana
  • Ulmus rubra

V

  • Vaccinium arboreum
  • Vaccinium crassifolium
  • Vaccinium elliottii
  • Vaccinium vitis-idaea
  • Viburnum lantanoides
  • Viola appalachiensis
  • Viola canadensis
  • Viola rotundifolia

X

  • Xanthorhiza

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Beannacht

On the day when
the weight deadens
on your shoulders
and you stumble,
may the clay dance
to balance you.

And when your eyes
freeze behind
the grey window
and the ghost of loss
gets in to you,
may a flock of colours,
indigo, red, green,
and azure blue
come to awaken in you
a meadow of delight.

When the canvas frays
in the currach of thought
and a stain of ocean
blackens beneath you,
may there come across the waters
a path of yellow moonlight
to bring you safely home.

May the nourishment of the earth be yours,
may the clarity of light be yours,
may the fluency of the ocean be yours,
may the protection of the ancestors be yours.
And so may a slow
wind work these words
of love around you,
an invisible cloak
to mind your life.

John O'Donohue, Echoes of Memory

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