Where the Wild Things Are: Plant List Plant list of Rare and Endangered species Botanical Supports Abies balsamea (balsam fir) Blackpoll warbler (special concern) Acer rubrum (red maple) and Northern parula (threatened), Chamaecyparis thyroides (Atlantic white Hessel’s hairstreak (special concern) cedar) Andropogon gerardii (big blue stem) and Agaros skipper (endangered) Schizachyrium scoparium (little blue stem) Frosted elfin (special concern), Baptisia tinctoria (yellow wild indigo) and persius duskywing (endangered), Lupinus perennis (sundial lupine) and karner blue (endangered, Lupinus only) Fagus grandifolia (American beech) Early hairstreak (threatened) Pinus rigida (pitch pine), Juglans spp. (walnut), Tilia americana (basswood), Imperial moth (threatened) Quercus spp. (oak), and Betula (birch) Rubus spp. (brambles) Mourning warbler (special concern) Common moorhen (special Typha latifolia (cattail) concern), king rail (threatened), pied-billed grebe (endangered) Viola spp. (violet) Regal fritillary (globally vulnerable) Other Great Plants for Supporting Wildlife Agastache foeniculum (anise hyssop) Benthamidia florida (flowering Allium cernuum (nodding onion) dogwood) Alnus spp. (alder) Boltonia asteroides (fasle aster) Amsonia spp. (bluestar) Callirhoe spp. (poppy mallow) Antennaria spp. (pussytoes) Campanula rotundifolia (bellflower) Aquilegia canadensis (columbine) Campsis radicans (trumpet creeper) Aronia spp. (chokeberry) Celtis occidentalis (hackberry) Aruncus dioicus (goats rue) Cercis canadensis (redbud) Asclepias spp. (milkweed) Chelone glabra (turtle head) Asimina triloba (paw paw) Chionanthus virginicus (fringe tree) Chrysopsis villosa (golden aster) Monarda spp. (bee balm) Conradina verticillata (false Opuntia humifusa (prickly pear) rosemary) Panicum virgatum (switch grass) Coreopsis spp. (tickseed) Parthenocissus quinquefolia (Virginia Crataegus spp. (hawthorn) creeper) Dicentra spp. (bleeding heart) Penstemon spp. (beardtounge) Diospyros virginiana (persimmon) Philadelphus inodorus (mock orange) Echinacea spp. (coneflower) Phlox spp. (Phlox) Eryngium yuccifolium (false yucca) Physocarpus opulifolium (ninebark) Eutrochium spp. (Joe Pye weed) Physostegia virginiana (obedient Filipendula rubra (queen of the plant) prarie) Polemonium spp. (Jacob’s ladder) Gaylussacia spp. (huckleberry) Prunus serotina (black cherry) Gentiana spp. (Gentian) Pycnanthemum spp. (mountain mint) Geranium maculatum(wild geranium) Quercus spp. (oak) Helianthus spp. (ashy sunflower) Ratibida spp. (mexican hat) Heliopsis helianthoides (oxeye) Rhododendron spp. (rhododendron) Ionactis linariifolia (stiff aster) Rhus spp. (sumac) Isotrema macrophyllus (Dutchmen’s Rudbeckia spp. (black eyed Susan) pipe) Salix spp. (willow) Itea virginica (Virginia sweet spire) Sassafras albidum (sassafras) Juniperus virginiana (red cedar) Scutellaria spp. (skullcap) Leucothoe spp. (dog hobble) Solidago spp. (goldenrod) Liatris spp. (gayfeather) Swida spp. (dogwood) Liquidambar styraciflua (sweet gum) Symphyotrichum spp. (aster) Liriodendron tulipifera (tulip tree) Ulmus spp. (elm) Lobelia spp. (cardinal flower) Vernonia spp. (ironweed) Malus coronaria (sweet crab apple) Viburnum spp. (viburnum) Marshallia grandiflora (Barbara’s Vitis spp. (grape) buttons) Dan Jaffe Propagator and Stock Bed Grower New England Wild Flower Society [email protected] .