The following is a species list that I have compiled from my work and that of other peers working in the Berkshires. Readers are encouraged to comment or contribute.
Species Name | Common Name |
Acer pensylvanicum | Striped maple |
Acer rubrum | Red maple |
Acer saccharum | Sugar maple |
Acer spicatum | |
Actaea pachypoda | |
Actaea rubra | |
Adiantum pedatum | |
Adlumia fungosa | |
Ageratina altissima | |
Agrimonia ?gryposepala | |
Agrostis perennans | Hairgrass |
Alliaria petiolata * | Garlic mustard |
Allium tricoccum | Wild leek |
Alnus incana ssp. rugosa | Alder |
Ambrosia artemisiifolia | Common ragweed |
Amelanchier laevis | Smooth shadbush |
Amelanchier species | |
Amphicarpaea bracteata | Hog-peanut |
Anaphalis margaritacea | Pearly everlasting |
Andromeda glaucophylla | |
Anemone acutiloba | |
Anemone americana | |
Anemone quinquefolia | Wood anemone |
Anemone virginiana | Canada anemone |
Angelica ?atropurpurea | |
Antennaria ?neglecta | Pussy’s-toes |
Antennaria plantaginifolia | |
Anthoxanthum odoratum * | Sweet vernal grass |
Apocynum ?cannabinum | Dogbane |
Aquilegia canadensis | |
Aralia hispida | |
Aralia nudicaulis | Wild sarsaparilla |
Aralia racemosa | |
Arceuthobium pusillum | |
Arctium minus * | |
Arisaema triphyllum | Jack-in-the-pulpit |
Aronia species | |
Arrhenatherum elatius * | |
Artemisia vulgaris * | Mugwort |
Asarum canadense | |
Asclepias incarnata | |
Asclepias syriaca | Common milkweed |
Asplenium platyneuron | |
Asplenium trichomanes | |
Athyrium filix-femina | Lady fern |
Barbarea vulgaris * | Winter-cress |
Berberis thunbergii * | Barberry |
Betula alleghaniensis | Yellow birch |
Betula lenta | Black birch |
Betula papyrifera | Paper birch |
Betula populifolia | Gray birch |
Bidens species | |
Boechera laevigata | |
Boehmeria cylindrica | False-nettle |
Botrychium virginianaum | |
Brachyelytrum erectum | Bearded shorthusk |
Bromus inermis * | Smooth brome |
Bromus pubescens | |
Calamagrostis canadensis | |
Calamagrostis stricta ssp. inexpansa | |
Calla palustris | |
Caltha palustris | Marsh marigold |
Campanula aparinoides | |
Cardamine concatenata | |
Cardamine diphylla | |
Carex aestivalis † | Sedge |
Carex albicans var. albicans | |
Carex albursina | Sedge |
Carex amphibola | |
Carex appalachica | Sedge |
Carex arctata | |
Carex argyrantha | Sedge |
Carex aurea | |
Carex blanda | Sedge |
Carex bromoides | Sedge |
Carex brunnescens | Sedge |
Carex canescens | |
Carex castanea | |
Carex cephalophora | Sedge |
Carex communis | Sedge |
Carex comosa | |
Carex crinita | Sedge |
Carex cristatella | |
Carex debilis | Sedge |
Carex deweyana | Sedge |
Carex digitalis | Sedge |
Carex flava | |
Carex folliculata | Sedge |
Carex gracillima | Sedge |
Carex gracillescens | |
Carex granularis | Sedge |
Carex hirtifolia | |
Carex hitchcockiana | |
Carex hystericina | |
Carex interior | |
Carex intumescens | Sedge |
Carex lacustris | |
Carex laevivaginata | |
Carex lasiocarpa | |
Carex laxiflora | Sedge |
Carex leptalea | |
Carex leptonervia | |
Carex lupulina | Sedge |
Carex lurida | Sedge |
Carex muricata | |
Carex normalis | |
Carex novae-angliae | |
Carex ?ormostachya | |
Carex pedunculata | |
Carex pensylvanica | Sedge |
Carex platyphylla | |
Carex prasina | Sedge |
Carex rosea | Sedge |
Carex retroflexa | |
Carex scabrata | Sedge |
Carex scoparia | Sedge |
Carex sparganioides | |
Carex sprengelii | |
Carex stipata | Sedge |
Carex stricta | Sedge |
Carex swanii | Sedge |
Carex tetanica | |
Carex trisperma | |
Carex virescens | |
Carex viridula | |
Carex vulpinoidea | Sedge |
Carpinus caroliniana | Hornbeam |
Carya cordiformis | Bitternut |
Carya ?ovalis | Sweet pignut |
Carya ovata | Shagbark hickory |
Castanea dentata | Chestnut |
Ceanothus americanus | |
Celastrus orbiculatus * | Oriental bittersweet |
Centaurea maculosa * | Knapweed |
Cerastium species * | |
Cercidiphyllum japonicum * | Katsura |
Chelidonium majus * | Greater celandine |
Chelone glabra | Turtle-heads |
Chamaedaphne calyculata | |
Chimaphila maculata | Spotted wintergreen |
Chimaphila umbellata | |
Chrysosplenium americanum | Golden saxifrage |
Cicuta species | |
Cinna latifolia | Drooping wood reed |
Circaea alpina | Dwarf enchanter’s nightshade |
Circaea lutetiana | Enchanter’s nightshade |
Cirsium ?muticum | |
Clematis virginiana | Virgin’s-bower |
Clethra alnifolia | Sweet pepper-bush |
Clinopodium vulgare * | Wild basil |
Clintonia borealis | Wood lily |
Collinsonia canadensis | |
Comptonia peregrina | Sweet-fern |
Conioselinum chinense | |
Coptis trifolia | Goldthread |
Corallorhiza trifida | |
Cornus alternifolia | |
Cornus amomum | |
Cornus canadensis | |
Cornus rugosa | |
Cornus stolonifera | |
Corydalis sempervirens | |
Corylus cornuta | Beaked hazel |
Crataegus brainerdii | Hawthorn |
Cryptotaenia canadensis | |
Cypripedium acaule | |
Cypripedium parviflorum | |
Cystopteris bulbifera | |
Cystopteris tenuis | |
Dactylis glomerata * | Orchard grass |
Danthonia compressa | Northern oat grass |
Danthonia spicata | Poverty-grass |
Dasiphora fruticosa | |
Daucus carota * | Queen Anne’s-lace |
Decodon verticillatus | |
Dennstaedtia punctilobula | Hay-scented fern |
Dentaria concatenata | |
Deparia acrostichoides | Silvery spleenwort |
Deschampsia flexuosa | |
Desmodium species | Tick-clover |
Dianthus armeria * | Deptford pink |
Dicanthelium acuminatum var. implicatum | |
Dichanthelium latifolium | Panic grass |
Dichanthelium linearifolium | Panic grass |
Dichanthelium oligosanthes | Panic grass |
Dicanthelium ?spretum | |
Dicanthelium villosissimum | |
Dicentra cucullaria | |
Diervilla lonicera | Bush honeysuckle |
Digitalis ?lanata | |
Drosera rotundifolia | |
Dryopteris carthusiana | Spinulose wood fern |
Dryopteris cristata | Crested wood fern |
Dryopteris intermedia | Common wood fern |
Dryopteris marginalis | Marginal wood fern |
Dulichium arundinaceum | |
Eleocharis obtusa | Spike rush |
Eleocharis species | |
Elymus hystrix | |
Elymus species | |
Elymus trachycaulus | |
Epifagus virginiana | Beech drops |
Epigaea repens | Trailing arbutus |
Epilobium coloratum | Purple-leaf willow-herb |
Epipactis helleborine * | Helleborine |
Equisetum arvense | Common horsetail |
Equisetum scirpoides | |
Equisetum sylvaticum | Woodland horsetail |
Equisetum variegatum | |
Erigeron annuus | Daisy-fleabane |
Erigeron philadelphicus | |
Erigeron pulchellus | Robin’s-plantain |
Eriophorum viridi-carinatum | |
Eriophorum species | |
Erythronium americanum | Trout lily |
Eupatorium perfoliatum | Boneset |
Eupatorium rugosum | |
Eupatorium ?sessilifolium | |
Eurybia divaricata | White wood aster |
Eurybia macrophylla | |
Euthamia graminifolia | Flat-top goldenrod |
Eutrochium ?purpureum | |
Fagus grandifolia | American beech |
Festuca subverticillata | Nodding fescue |
Fragaria virginiana | Wild strawberry |
Fraxinus americana | White ash |
Fraxinus nigra | Black ash |
Galium aparine * | |
Galium mollugo * | White bedstraw |
Galium ?lanceolatum | |
Galium tinctorium | Bedstraw |
Galium ?trifidum | |
Galium triflorum | |
Gaultheria procumbens | Wintergreen |
Gaultheria hispidula | |
Gaylussacia baccata | Black huckleberry |
Geranium maculatum | Wild geranium |
Geranium robertianum | |
Geum canadense | White avens |
Geum rivale | |
Glyceria canadensis | Rattlesnake grass |
Glyceria ?grandis | |
Glyceria melicaria | Slender manna grass |
Glyceria striata | Fowl manna grass |
Gnaphalium obtusifolium | |
Gymnocarpium dryopteris | |
Hackelia virginiana | |
Hamamelis virginiana | Witch-hazel |
Hesperis matronalis * | Dame’s-rocket |
Hieracium paniculatum | Hawkweed |
Heuchera americana | |
Holcus lanatus * | |
Houstonia caerulea | Bluets |
Huperzia lucidula | |
Hydrocotyle americana | Pennywort |
Hypericum boreale | |
Ilex verticillata | Winterberry |
Impatiens capensis | Spotted jewelweed |
Impatiens pallida | |
?Inula helenium | |
Iris versicolor | Blue flag |
Juncus effusus | Soft rush |
Juncus ?greenei | |
Juncus pelocarpus | |
Juncus tenuis | Slender yard-rush |
Kalmia angustifolia | |
Kalmia latifolia | Mountain laurel |
Laportea canadensis | |
Larix laricina | |
Ledum groenlandicum | |
Leersia oryzoides | Rice cutgrass |
Leucanthemum vulgare * | Ox-eye daisy |
Ligustrum species | |
Lilium ?superbum | Turk’s-cap lily |
Linaria vulgaris * | Common toadflax |
Lindera benzoin | Spicebush |
Liriodendron tulipifera | Tulip tree |
Lobelia cardinalis | Cardinal-flower |
Lobelia inflata | Indian-tobacco |
Lobelia spicata | |
Lonicera canadensis | Fly honeysuckle |
Lonicera dioica | |
Lonicera morrowii * | |
Lotus corniculatus * | Bird’s-foot trefoil |
Ludwigia palustris | |
Luzula acuminata | Hairy woodrush |
Luzula campestris | Common wood-rush |
Lychnis flos-cuculi * | Ragged-robin |
Lycopodium annotinum | |
Lycopodium clavatum | |
Lycopodium obscurum | Tree clubmoss |
Lycopus uniflorus | Water-horehound |
Lycopus virginicus | Water-horehound |
Lyonia ligustrina | Maleberry |
Lysimachia ciliata | Fringed loosestrife |
Lysimachia terrestris | |
Lythrum salicaria * | Purple loosestrife |
Maianthemum canadense | False lily-of-the-valley |
Malus ?pumila * | Common apple |
Matteuccia struthiopteris | |
Medeola virginiana | Indian cucumber root |
Melampyrum lineare | |
Melilotus alba * | White sweet-clover |
Mentha arvensis | |
Mitchella repens | Partridgeberry |
Mitella diphylla | |
Moehringia lateriflora | |
Monarda fistulosa | Horsemint |
Monotropa hypopithys | |
Monotropa uniflora | Indian-pipe |
Muhlenbergia species | Wire stem muhly |
Nemopanthus mucronatus | Mountain holly |
Nyssa sylvatica | Black gum |
Oclemena acuminata | Mountain aster |
Oenothera perennis | |
Onoclea sensibilis | Sensitive fern |
Oryzopsis asperifolia | |
Oryzopsis racemosa | |
Osmorhiza species | |
Osmunda cinnamomea | Cinnamon fern |
Osmunda claytoniana | Interrupted fern |
Osmunda regalis | Royal fern |
Ostrya virginiana | Hop hornbeam |
Oxalis montana | |
Oxalis ?stricta | Lady’s-sorrel |
Packera aurea | Golden ragwort |
Packera obovata | |
Panax trifolius | Dwarf ginseng |
Parnassia glauca | |
Paronychia canadensis | |
Parthenocissus quinquefolia | Virginia creeper |
Peltandra virginica | |
Penstemon species | |
Phalaris arundinacea | Reed canary-grass |
Phegopteris connectilis | |
Phegopteris hexagonoptera | Broad beech fern |
Phleum pratense * | Timothy |
Phragmites australis * | Common reed |
Phytolacca americana | Pokeweed |
Picea rubens | Red spruce |
Picea mariana | Black spruce |
Pilea pumila | Clearweed |
Pinus strobus | White pine |
Plantago lanceolata * | English plantain |
Plantago rugelii | Pale plantain |
Platanus occidentalis | American sycamore |
Platanthera clavellata | Little club-spur bog-orchid |
Platanthera ?hyperborea | Orchid |
Platanthera species | |
Poa alsodes | Woodland bluegrass |
Poa annua * | Annual bluegrass |
Poa compressa * | |
Poa pratensis * | Kentucky bluegrass |
Poa saltuensis | |
Poa trivialis * | Rough bluegrass |
Podopyllum pedatum | |
Pogonia ophioglossoides | |
Polygala pauciflora | |
Polygonatum biflorum | Small Solomon’s-seal |
Polygonum arifolium | Arrow leaf tear thumb |
Polygonum cespitosum * | Low smartweed |
Polygonum cilinode | |
Polygonum sagittatum | Tear thumb |
Polypodium appalachianum | |
Polypodium virginianum | Rock polyploidy |
Polystichum acrostichoides | Christmas fern |
Populus deltoides | |
Populus grandidentata | Big tooth aspen |
Populus tremuloides | |
Potentilla canadensis | Dwarf cinquefoil |
Potentilla simplex | Common cinquefoil |
Prenanthes species | Rattlesnake-root |
Primula ?japonica | |
Prunella vulgaris * | Self-heal |
Prunus serotina | Black cherry |
Prunus virginiana | |
Pteridium aquilinum | Bracken |
Pyrola rotundifolia | Shinleaf |
Quercus alba | White oak |
Quercus ?coccinea | Scarlet oak |
Quercus montana | Chestnut oak |
Quercus rubra | Red oak |
Quercus velutina | Black oak |
Ranunculus abortivus | Kidney-leaf crowfoot |
Ranunculus hispidus | |
Ranunculus recurvatus | Hooked buttercup |
Rhamnus cathartica * | |
Rhododendron periclymenoides | Pinkster-flower |
Rhododendron ?maximum | |
Rhododendron viscosum | Swamp azalea |
Rhynchospora alba | |
Ribes americanum | |
Ribes glandulosum | |
Ribes cynosbati | Wild gooseberry |
Rosa multiflora * | Multiflora rose |
Rosa ?virginiana | |
Rubus allegheniensis | Northern blackberry |
Rubus ?flagellaris | Northern dewberry |
Rubus hispidus | Swamp dewberry |
Rubus occidentalis | Black raspberry |
Rubus odoratus | |
Rubus pubescens | Dwarf raspberry |
Rudbeckia species * | Black-eyed Susan |
Rumex acetosella * | Sheep sorrel |
Sagittaria ?latifolia | |
Salix bebbii | |
Salix discolor | Pussy willow |
Salix humilus | Gray willow |
Salix nigra | Black willow |
Salix sericea | |
Salix serissima | |
Sambucus canadensis | Black elderberry |
Sambucus racemosa ssp. pubens | Red elderberry |
Sanguinaria canadensis | |
Sanicula species | |
Sarracenia purpurea | |
Sassafras albidum | Sassafras |
Saxifraga pensylvanica | Swamp saxifrage |
Saxifraga virginiensis | |
Schizachne purpurascens | |
Schizachyrium scoparium | |
Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani | |
Scirpus atrocinctus | Bulrush |
Scirpus cyperinus | |
Scirpus ?expansus | Wood bulrush |
Scirpus hattorianus | |
Scirpus ?microcarpus | |
Scirpus pendulus | |
Scrophularia lanceolata | Hare-figwort |
Scutellaria galericulata | |
Scutellaria lateriflora | Common skullcap |
Sedum species * | Stonecrop |
Selaginella apoda | |
Setaria pumila * | Yellow foxtail |
Sisyrinchium montanum | Blue-eyed grass |
Smilax herbacea | Carrion-flower |
Solanum dulcamara * | |
Solidago caesia | Blue-stem goldenrod |
Solidago canadensis | Canada goldenrod |
Solidago flexicaulis | |
Solidago juncea | |
Solidago nemoralis | Gray goldenrod |
Solidago patula | Spreading goldenrod |
Solidago rugosa | Tall hairy goldenrod |
Solidago ?uliginosa | |
Sonchus species * | |
Sorbaria sorbifolia * | |
Sorbus americana | |
Sparganium species | Bur-reed |
Sphenopholis intermedia | |
Spiraea alba var. latifolia | Meadow-sweet |
Spiraea tomentosa | |
Stellaria graminea * | Common stitchwort |
Stellaria species | |
Streptopus roseus | |
Symphyotrichum lanceolatum | Tall white aster |
Symphyotrichum lateriflorum | Calico aster |
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae | |
Symphyotrichum novi-belgii | New York aster |
Symphyotrichum ?prenanthoides | |
Symphyotrichum puniceus | Purple-stemmed aster |
Taraxacum officinale * | Common dandelion |
Thalictrum dioicum | |
Thalictrum ?pubescens | Tall meadow-rue |
Thalictrum thalictroides | |
Thelypteris noveboracensis | New York fern |
Thelypteris palustris | Marsh fern |
Thelypteris simulata | |
Tiarella cordifolia | Foamflower |
Tilia americana | |
Torreyochloa pallida var. pallida | Pale manna grass |
Toxicodendron radicans | Poison ivy |
Toxicodendron vernix | |
Trientalis borealis | Starflower |
Triadenum species | |
Trifolium repens * | White clover |
Trillium erectum | Purple trillium |
Trillium undulatum | Painted trillium |
Tsuga canadensis | Hemlock |
Tussilago farfara * | Coltsfoot |
Typha latifolia | Common cat-tail |
Ulmus americana | American elm |
Urtica dioica * | Stinging nettle |
Utricularia species | |
Uvularia perfoliata | |
Uvularia sessilifolia | Bellwort |
Vaccinium angustifolium | Low bush blueberry |
Vaccinium corymbosum | High bush blueberry |
Vaccinium ?oxycoccos | |
Vaccinium stamineum | |
Valeriana officinalis * | |
Veratrum viride | False hellebore |
Verbena ?hastata | Blue vervain |
Veronica americana | |
Veronica chamaedrys * | Bird’s-eye speedwell |
Veronica peregrina | Purslane-speedwell |
Veronica officinalis * | Speedwell |
Veronica serpyllifolia * | Thyme-leaf speedwell |
Veronica scutellata | |
Viburnum acerifolium | Maple-leaf viburnum |
Viburnum dentatum | Southern arrow-wood |
Viburnum lantanoides | |
Viburnum lentago | |
Viburnum nudum var. cassinoides | Wild raisin |
Viburnum opulus var. opulus | |
Viola blanda | |
Viola conspersa | American dog-violet |
Viola cucullata | Blue marsh violet |
Viola macloskeyi | Pale violet |
Viola pubescens | |
Viola rotundifolia | |
Viola sagittata | Northern downy violet |
Viola sororia | Common violet |
Vitis riparia | |
Vitis species | Grape |
Woodsia ilvensis | |
Woodsia obtusa | |
Xyris montana | |
Zanthoxylum americanum | |
Zizia aurea | |
Latest update: August 15, 2017. |
(†) Denotes a species listed as “Endangered”, “Threatened”, or “Special Concern” by the State of Connecticut. |
(*) Denotes species regarded as alien to the region. |