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Acer leucoderme
Chalk Maple
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Whitebarked Maple
Acer nipponicum
Nippon Maple
Acer triflorum
Three-Flower Maple
Achillea
Yarrow
Acorus calamus
Sweet Flag
2 Cultivars
Actaea pachypoda
Baneberry
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Doll's Eyes
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Necklace Weed
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White Cohosh
Actaea racemosa
Black Cohosh
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Black Snakeroot
Adiantum capillus veneris
Southern Maidenhair Fern
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Venus Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
Common Maidenhair
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Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adina rubella
Chinese Buttonbush
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Glossy Adina
Aegopodium podograria
Bishops' Weed
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Gout Weed
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Ground Elder
1 Cultivar
Ajuga reptans
Ajuga
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Bugle Weed
3 Cultivars
Akebia quinata
Chocolate Vine
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Five Leaf Akebia
5 Cultivars
Alchemilla mollis
Lady's Mantle
Anemone quinquefolia
Windflower
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Wood Anemone
Anemone virginiana
Tall Anemone
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Thimbleweed
Angelica archangelica
Angelica
Antennaria solitaria
Pussy-Toes
Arachniodes simplicior 'Variegata'
Indian Holly Fern
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Variegated Holly Fern
Ardisia japonica
Japanese Ardisia
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Maleberry
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Marlberry
2 Cultivars
Arisaema triphyllum
Jack-in-the-Pulpit
Aristolochia serpentaria
Virginia Dutchmanspipe
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Virginia Snakeroot
Aruncus dioicus
Goat's Beard
Asarum
Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
Canadian Wild Ginger
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Wild Ginger
Asarum splendens
Chinese Wild Ginger
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Splendid Wild Ginger
Asimina triloba 'Susquehanna'
Susquehanna Pawpaw
1 Cultivar
Asplenium nidus
Birds Nest Fern
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Nest Fern
Athyrium filix-femina
Lady Fern
1 Cultivar
Athyrium filix-femina spp. asplenioides
Southern Lady Fern
Bambusa multiplex
Hedge Bamboo
Caladium
Angel Wings
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Caladium
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Elephant's Ear
Calycanthus 'Aphrodite' pp#24,014
Aphrodite Sweetshrub
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Sweetshrub
Campanula americana
American Bellflower
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Bellflower
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Tall Bellflower
Carex laxiculmus 'Bunny Blue'
Creeping Sedge
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Sedge
Cephalotaxus harringtonia
Japanese Plum Yew
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Spreading Plum Yew
1 Cultivar
Chrysogonum virginianum
Green and Gold
1 Cultivar
Cornus florida
Flowering Dogwood
13 Cultivars
Cypripedium
Lady Slipper Orchid
Cyrtomium fortunei
Japanese Holly Fern
Cystopteris fragilis
Brittle Bladder Fern
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Fragile Fern
Dicentra spectabilis
Bleeding Heart
Disanthus cercidifolius
Disanthus
Dracaena fragrans
Corn Plant
2 Cultivars
Dryopteris affinis
Golden-scaled Male Fern
3 Cultivars
Dryopteris carthusiana
Shield Fern
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Spinulose Wood Fern
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Toothed Wood Fern
Dryopteris dilatata
Broad Wood Fern
2 Cultivars
Dryopteris filix-mas
Male Fern
2 Cultivars
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