Common

Name

Scientific

Name

Habit

Height (ft)

Flowering

Time

Flower

Color

Interesting Traits

American

Bittersweet*

Celastrus scandens

Climbing

Vine

Variable

May-June

Orange-

Yellow

Fall color;

Dry flowers; Attractive

fruit

Common

Witch Hazel

Hamamelis

virginiana

Shrub

10-15

Sept-Dec

Yellow

Exploding

seed capsules

Christmas

Fern

Polystichum acrostichoides

Fern

2/3-1

NA

NA

Evergreen

Jack-in-

the-pulpit

Arisaema triphyllum

Herb

2–3

April-May

Yellow-Green Spadix

Unusual

large red

fruit cluster

Maidenhair Fern

Adiantum pedatum

Herb

1-2

NA

NA

Lacy foliage;

Shiny black stems

Purple Trillium

Trillium recurvatum

Herb

1–4

April-May

Purple

Mottled leaves in 3’s

Solomon’s Seal

Polygonatum

commutatum

Herb

1-3

April-June

Greenish-White

Bluish-purple berries; Arching stem

Spicebush

Lindera benzoin

Shrub

6-12

April-May

Yellow

Fragrant leaves;

Fall color; Scarlet fruit

Virginia

Bluebells

Mertensia

virginica

Ephemeral Herb

2-3

Mar-May

Purplish

Blue

Buds are pink

Wild

Ginger

Asarum canadense

Groundcover

2/3-1

April-May

Maroon-

hidden by leaves

Edible rhizome that smells like ginger