List of plants endemic to the Appalachian Mountains

This is a list of plants that are endemic to the Appalachian mountains of North America.

List

 * Abies fraseri - Fraser fir. Endemic to high elevations of the Appalachian mountains.


 * Aconitum reclinatum - trailing white monkshood.


 * Actaea podocarpa - mountain bugbane.


 * Ageratina luciae-brauniae


 * Ageratina roanensis


 * Allium allegheniense


 * Allium keeverae


 * Allium oxyphilum


 * Ambrosia porcheri- exists only in Pickens County and Greenville County of South Carolina.


 * Amorpha glabra - Appalachian indigo-bush. It grows in the mountains of western North Carolina.


 * Anemone minima - tiny anemone.


 * Angelica triquinata


 * Astilbe crenatiloba


 * Blephilia subnuda


 * Borodinia serotina


 * Boykinia aconitifolia


 * Bryodesma tortipilum


 * Buckleya distichophylla


 * Calamagrostis cainii


 * Campanula divaricata


 * Cardamine clematitis


 * Cardamine flagellifera


 * Cardamine micranthera


 * Cardamine rotundifolia


 * Carex aestivalis


 * Carex austrocaroliniana


 * Carex austrolucorum


 * Carex biltmoreana


 * Carex fraseriana


 * Carex fumosimontana


 * Carex manhartii


 * Carex misera


 * Carex radfordi


 * Carex roanensis


 * Carex ruthii


 * Castilleja kraliana


 * Clematis addisoni


 * Clematis albicoma


 * Clematis coactilis


 * Clematis morefieldii


 * Clematis terminalis


 * Clematis vinacea


 * Clematis viticaulis


 * Clethra acuminata- mountain pepperbush.


 * Clinopodium talladeganum


 * Clintonia umbellulata


 * Conradina verticillata


 * Convallaria pseudomajalis - American lily-of-the-valley. It is found in the Southern Appalachians, in mountain forests at elevations between 700 and 1,500 feet.


 * Convolvulus sericatus


 * Corallorhiza bentleyi -Bentley's coralroot. It is found only in the mountains of West Virginia and Virginia.


 * Coreopsis latifolia


 * Crataegus austromontana


 * Crataegus buckleyi


 * Crataegus pallens


 * Cuscuta rostrata


 * Dicentra eximia


 * Dichanthelium appalachiense


 * Diervilla rivularis


 * Diervilla sessilifolia


 * Diphylleia cymosa


 * Draba ramosissima


 * Eriogonum alleni


 * Eubotrys recurva


 * Eutrochium steelei - Appalachian Joe Pye weed.


 * Eurybia chlorolepis - Mountain wood aster. It is found in the red spruce-Fraser fir forests of the high elevation Appalachian mountains.


 * Eurybia saxicastelli- Rockcastle aster. It is found only in Tennessee and Kentucky.


 * Eurybia surculosa


 * Galium latifolium


 * Gaylussacia orocola


 * Gaylussacia ursina


 * Gentiana austromontana


 * Gentiana decora


 * Gentiana latidens


 * Geocarpon cumberlandensis


 * Geum geniculatum


 * Geum radiatum


 * Glyceria nubigena


 * Gymnocarpum appalachianum


 * Helianthus glaucophyllus


 * Heuchera aceroides


 * Heuchera alba


 * Heuchera villosa


 * Hexastylis chueyi


 * Hexastylis contracta


 * Hexastylis heterophylla


 * Hexastylis rhombiformis


 * Hexastylis ruthii


 * Hexastylis shuttleworthii


 * Houstonia montana


 * Houstonia serpyllifolia


 * Hudsonia montana


 * Hydrangea radiata


 * Hydrophyllum atranthum


 * Hymenophyllum tayloriae


 * Hypericum buckleyi


 * Hypericum graveolens


 * Hypericum mitchelianum


 * Ilex collina


 * Ilex montana


 * Iliamna corei


 * Isoetes tennesseensis


 * Isotrema macrophyllum


 * Krigia montana


 * Leptogramma burksiorum


 * Leucothoe fontanesiana


 * Liatris helleri


 * Lilium grayi- Gray's lily.


 * Magnolia fraseri


 * Marshallia grandiflora (Presumed extinct)


 * Marshallia mohrii


 * Marshallia pulchra


 * Meehania cordata


 * Melanthium parviflorum


 * Micranthes careyana


 * Micranthes caroliniana


 * Micranthes micranthidifolia


 * Monarda austroappalachiana


 * Monarda brevis


 * Nabalus cylindricus


 * Nabalus roanensis


 * Narthecium montanum (believed extinct)


 * Neottia smalli


 * Oenothera argillicola


 * Oenothera glauca


 * Oenothera hybrida


 * Orbexilum macrophyllum (possibly extinct)


 * Packera antennarifolia


 * Packera millefolium


 * Packera serpenticola


 * Packera schweinitziana


 * Paronychia argyrocoma


 * Paxistima canbyi


 * Penstemon kralii


 * Penstemon smallii


 * Phacelia fimbriata - fringed phacelia. It is found only in the southern Appalachian mountains, at elevations above 3,500 feet.


 * Phlox buckleyi


 * Phlox stolonifera


 * Pieris floribunda


 * Pityopsis ruthii


 * Pinus pungens


 * Platanthera shriveri


 * Polymnia johnbeckii


 * Pycnanthemum beadlei - Beadle's mountainmint, found only in the Southern Appalachian mountains.


 * Pycnanthemum montanum


 * Pyrularia pubera


 * Ranunculus allegheniensis


 * Rhododendron carolinianum


 * Rhododendron catawbiense


 * Rhododendron cumberlandense


 * Rhododendron pilosum


 * Rhododendron smokianum


 * Rhododendron vaseyi


 * Ribes rotundifolium


 * Rudbeckia truncata


 * Rugelia nudicaulis


 * Sagittaria fasciculata


 * Sagittaria secundifolia


 * Sarracenia jonesii


 * Sarracenia oreophila


 * Scirpus ancistrochaetus


 * Scutellaria montana


 * Sedum glaucophyllum


 * Sedum nevii


 * Shortia brevistyla


 * Shortia galacifolia


 * Silphium wasiotense


 * Sisyrinchium dichotomum


 * Spiraea corymbosa


 * Spiraea virginiana


 * Solidago albopilosa


 * Solidago arenicola


 * Solidago faucibus


 * Solidago curtissii


 * Solidago glomerata


 * Solidago harrisii


 * Solidago lancifolia


 * Solidago roanensis


 * Solidago simulans


 * Solidago spithamaea


 * Stachys appalachiana


 * Stachys clingmanii


 * Stachys eplingii


 * Stachys glandulosissima


 * Stachys latidens


 * Stachys nelsonii


 * Stachys subcordata - Blue Ridge hedgenettle.


 * Steironema gramineum


 * Stenanthium diffusum


 * Synandra hispidula


 * Symphyotrichum retroflexum


 * Symphyotrichum rhiannon


 * Symphyotrichum schistosum


 * Taenidia montana - mountain parsley. It is found only in the mountains of Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland.


 * Thalictrum clavatum


 * Thalictrum coriaceum


 * Thalictrum hepaticum


 * Thermopsis fraxinifolia


 * Thermopsis villosa


 * Tiarella austrina


 * Tiarella nautila


 * Trautvetteria fonticalcarea


 * Trillium georgianum


 * Trillium persistens


 * Trillium simile


 * Trillium tennesseense


 * Tsuga caroliniana


 * Vaccinium altomontanum


 * Vaccinium erythrocarpum


 * Vaccinium hirsutum


 * Vaccinium simulatum


 * Viburnum alabamense


 * Viola appalachiensis - Appalachian violet.


 * Viola monacanora


 * Viola tenuisecta


 * Vittaria appalachiana


 * Xyris spathifolia