Native Plants
Larval Host Plants
Spice Bush - Lindera benzoin
Spicebush is a deciduous shrub that can grow to 16 feet tall. It is typically found in the understory of thickets. The flowers grow in showy yellow cluster that appear in early spring, and the fruit is a berrylike red drupe, rich in lipids. Spicebush is the favorite food plant of two insects, the Spicebush Swallowtail butterfly and the Promethea Silk moth. Spicebush Swallowtail larvae can be easily found inside leaves folded over by silk applied by caterpillars.
Native Plums - Prunus americana and Prunus angustifolia
American Plum (Prunus americana) and Chickasaw Plum (Prunus angustifolia) provide fruit loved by many animals and birds.
Oaks - Quercus sp.
Hazelnut | Corylus americana |
Hearts-a-bustin | Euonymus americana |
Dwarf Huckleberry | Gaylussacia dumosa |
Wild Hydrangea | Hydrangea arborescens |
Inkberry | Ilex glabra |
Virginia Willow | Itea virginica |
Mountain Laurel | Kalmia latifolia |
Fetterbush | Lyonia lucida |
Dwarf Azalea | Rhododendron atlanticum |
Wild Azalea | Rhododendron periclimenoides |
Sparkleberry | Vaccinium arboretum |
Highbush Blueberry | Vaccinium corymbosum |
Deerberry | Vaccinium stamineum |
Lowbush Blueberry | Vaccinium vacillans |
Mapleleaf Viburnum | Viburnum acerifolium |
Arrowwood | Viburnum dentatum |
Wild Raisin | Viburnum nudum |
Rattanvine | Berchemia scandens |
Crossvine | Bignonia capreolata |
Trumpet Vine | Campsis radicans |
Carolina Jessamine | Gelsemium sempervirens |
Coral Honeysuckle | Lonicera sempervirens |
Virginia Creeper | Parthenocissus quinquefolia |
Passionflower | Passiflora incarnata |
Grape | Vitis spp. |
Ferns | |
Christmas Fern | Polystichum acrostichoides |
Wildflowers & Herbs | |
Hemp Dogbane | Apocynum cannabinum |
Columbine | Aquilegia Canadensis |
Jack-in-the-Pulpit | Arisaema triphylium |
Virginia Snakeroot | Aristilochia serpentaria |
Goat’s Beard | Aruncus dioicus |
Swamp Milkweed | Asclepias incarnata |
Butterfly Weed | Asclepias tuberosa |
White Milkweed | Asclepias variegata |
Heart-Leaved Aster | Aster divaricatus |
White Heath Aster | Symphotrichum ericoides |