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

References

• Weakely, Alan S. (2024). Flora of the Southeastern United States. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.