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Shade Tolerant Plants


Flower -- 147 Plants

Allegheny Mountain Spurge

American Alumroot

American Germander

American Spikenard

American Water Horehound

American Water Plantain

Appendaged Waterleaf

Arrowleaf Tearthumb

Astilbe

Beaked Snakeroot

Bent Trillium

Black Cohosh

Black Nightshade

Bloodroot

Blue Plantain Lily

Blue-Eyed Mary

Blue-Stemmed Goldenrod

Broadleaf Enchanter's Nightshade

Broadleaf Waterleaf

Calico Aster

Canadian Black Snakeroot

Canadian White Violet

Cardinal Flower

Carpenter's Square

Celandine Poppy

Chinese Hibiscus

Clearweed

Columbine

Common Blue Violet

Confederate Violet

Cranefly Orchid

Cutleaf Toothwort

Downy Skullcap

Dutchman's Breeches

Dwarf Crested Iris

Dwarf Larkspur

Early Meadow Rue

Elephant's Foot

Elmleaf Goldenrod

False Nettle

False Rue Anemone

False Solomon's Seal

Fernleaf Yellow False Foxglove

Fleming's Crown Jewels

Goatsbeard

Golden Alexanders

Golden Ragwort

Goldenseal

Great Blue Lobelia

Great Yellow Woodsorrel

Green Dragon

Green-Headed Coneflower

Hairy Beardtongue

Hairy Sweet Cicely

Hairy Wood Mint

Halberd-Leaved Rose Mallow

Harbinger-of-Spring

Heart-Leaved Aster

Heartleaf Skullcap

Honewort

Horsebalm

Indian Pipe

Indian Tobacco

Jack-in-the-Pulpit

Jacob's Ladder

Large-Flowered Bellwort

Large-Flowered Trillium

Large-Flowered Valerian

Largeleaf Waterleaf

Lopseed

Mad-Dog Skullcap

Mayapple

Mild Waterpepper

Naked-Flowered Tick Trefoil

Pointed-Leaved Tick Trefoil

Pokeweed

Purple Cress

Purple Foxglove

Purple Giant Hyssop

Purple Rocket

Purple-Node Joe-Pye Weed

Ramps

Roundleaf Ragwort

Rue Anemone

Scarlet Beebalm

Sessile Trillium

Sharp-lobed Hepatica

Shining Bedstraw

Shooting Star

Short's Aster

Siebold Viburnum

Smooth Beardtongue

Smooth Hydrangea

Smooth Solomon's Seal

Smooth Wild Petunia

Smoother Sweet Cicely

Spotted Horse Mint

Spotted Jewelweed

Spotted St. John's Wort

Spring Beauty

Squawroot

Squirrel Corn

Starry Campion

Striped Cream Violet

Swamp Rose Mallow

Sweet-Scented Bedstraw

Tall Bellflower

Tall Meadow Rue

Tall Thimbleweed

Thin-Leaved Sunflower

Tutsan

Twinleaf

Twoleaf Miterwort

Violet Wood Sorrel

Virginia Bluebells

Virginia Knotweed

Virginia Snakeroot

Virginia Spiderwort

White Baneberry

White Snakeroot

White Trout Lily

Wild Bergamot

Wild Blue Phlox

Wild Chervil

Wild Garlic

Wild Geranium

Wild Ginger

Wild Hydgrangea

Wild Lettuce

Wild Licorice

Wild Madder

Wild Stonecrop

Wingstem

Wister's Coralroot

Wood Nettle

Woodland Lettuce

Woodland Sunflower

Yellow Corydalis

Yellow Jewelweed

Yellow Pimpernel

Yellow Stargrass

Yellow Trillium

Yellow Trout Lily

Yellow Wood Sorrel

Yellowroot

Zigzag Goldenrod

Zigzag Spiderwort
Tree -- 25 Plants

American Beech

American Holly

American Hornbeam

Basswood

Black Gum

Black Maple

Cornelian Cherry

Eastern Hemlock

Eastern Redbud

Eastern Wahoo

Flowering Dogwood

Hop Hornbeam

Northern Catalpa

Ohio Buckeye

Pawpaw

Red Buckeye

Red Maple

Red Mulberry

Roughleaf Dogwood

Sassafras

Slippery Elm

Sugar Maple

Umbrella Magnolia

Yellow Buckeye

Yellowwood
Fern -- 18 Plants

Bracken Fern

Broad Beech Fern

Bronze Fern

Christmas Fern

Cinnamon Fern

Cutleaf Grapefern

Ebony Spleenwort

Giant Wood Fern

Lady Fern

Marginal Wood Fern

Marsh Fern

Ostrich Fern

Rattlesnake Fern

Sensitive Fern

Silvery Glade Fern

Southern Fragile Fern

Toothed Wood Fern

Walking Fern
Grass -- 16 Plants

Bosc's Panicgrass

Bottlebrush Grass

Deertongue

Early Wildrye

Fowl Manna Grass

Giant Cane

Nodding Fescue

Purple Love Grass

Riverbank Wildrye

Silky Wild Rye

Slender Muhly

Upland Bentgrass

Virginia Wild Rye

Whitegrass

Wood Reedgrass

Woodland Bluegrass
Shrub -- 59 Plants

American Beautyberry

American Wintergreen

American Witch-Hazel

Amur Honeysuckle

Arrowwood Viburnum

Asiatic Witch-Hazel

Autumn Olive

Black Chokeberry

Black Raspberry

Blackhaw

Bladdernut

Blue Pfitzer Juniper

Bottlebrush Buckeye

Bridalwreath Spirea

Burning Bush

Butterfly Bush

Buttonbush

Chinese Lespedeza

Climbing Prairie Rose

Common Blackberry

Common Buckthorn

Common Privet

Coralberry

Dwarf Flowering Almond

Dwarf Fothergilla

Eastern Sweetshrub

Elderberry

European Cranberrybush Viburnum

False Indigo-Bush

Flowering Quince

Forsythia

Fragrant Sumac

Glossy Abelia

Inkberry

Japanese Barberry

Japanese Quince

Japanese Spiraea

Judd Viburnum

Knock Out Rose

Leatherwood

Mapleleaf Viburnum

Multiflora Rose

Ninebark

Northern Bush Honeysuckle

Oakleaf Hydrangea

Prickly Ash

Red Twig Dogwood

Rose of Sharon

Shrubby St. John's Wort

Silky Dogwood

Southern Blackhaw

Spicebush

Steeplebush

Summer Wine

Sweet Pepperbush

Virginia Sweetspire

White Meadowsweet

Wineberry

Winterberry
Sedge -- 25 Plants

Bicknell's Sedge

Bur-Reed Sedge

Carey's Sedge

Common Wood Sedge

Crested Sedge

Eastern Star Sedge

Fibrousroot Sedge

Frank's Sedge

Fringed Sedge

Golden Sedge

Greater Straw Sedge

Hairy-Leaved Sedge

James' Sedge

Limestone Meadow Sedge

Oval-Headed Sedge

Palm Sedge

Pennsylvania Sedge

Plantainleaf Sedge

Pointed Broom Sedge

Reflexed Sedge

Rosy Sedge

Short's Sedge

Soft Fox Sedge

Swan's Sedge

White Bear Sedge
Rush -- 7 Plants

Bog Rush

Common Rush

Common Wood Rush

Greater Poverty Rush

Jointed Rush

Path Rush

Torrey's Rush