Common Plants in Western Pennsylvania

Here is a list of some of the common plants that I have found in Western Pennsylvania during my hikes. Some can be found in gardens but most of them are found growing wild.

Note: Some of these are invasive species and are not native to Pennsylvania.

Blue Violet
Wine Raspberry
Bear Corn
Wine Raspberry
Jack-in-the-pulpit
Moleplant, Caper Spurge
Woodland Stonecrop
White avens
Spreading Dogbane
Ramps, Allium tricoccum
Mullein
White Trillium
Yarrow
Japanese Knotweed
Fire pink
Wild Onion
Devil’s Walking Stick
White Violet
Cow Parsnip
Amur Honeysuckle
Skunk Cabbage
Dock
Blue Cohosh
Downy Rattlesnake Plantain
Ghost Plant, Indian Pipe
Black Rasberry
Solomon’s seal
Spicebush
Castor oil plant
Blackberry
Mock Strawberry
Wingstem
Wood Nettle
Dutchman’s Pipe
Bloodroot
Japanese Honeysuckle
Wintercress
Appalachian bluet
Garlic Mustard
False Solomon’s seal
Spurge
Woodland Phlox
Cockscomb
Yellow Violet
Wild Basil
Common Knapweed
Moonflower
Jumpseed
Bittersweet
Eastern waterleaf
Poison Hemlock
Stinging Nettle
Wild Anise Root
Blackhaw
Purple dead nettle
Wild Asparagus
Stoneroot
Jack-in-the-pulpit
Dewberries, Rubus flagellaris
Skunk Cabbage
Common Name Scientific Name Photo Gallery
1 American Spikenard Aralia racemosa https://goo.gl/photos/MbVZaDzHJnUJnDXU9
2 Amur Honeysuckle Lonicera maackii https://goo.gl/photos/Ee5fJMeyWuVH4FfQ8
3 Appalachian Bluet Houstonia serpyllifolia https://goo.gl/photos/x3Dt5CwDnJLkRiiV7
4 Bear corn Conopholis americana https://goo.gl/photos/SLjmreyy14UABvWp9
5 Beechdrops Epifagus virginiana https://goo.gl/photos/ff2FS5WgRRPADQbj7
6 Bittersweet Celastrus orbiculatus https://goo.gl/photos/uSJwY2qQ3wNakexa6
7 Blackberry Rubus pensilvanicus https://goo.gl/photos/2wSv647azious3hR8
8 Blackhaw Viburnum prunifolium https://goo.gl/photos/P3KLp4XVTn5iKLor5
9 Black Raspberry Rubus occidentalis https://goo.gl/photos/GHpqYofmCayCMdZZ9
10 Bloodroot Sanguinaria canadensis https://goo.gl/photos/fr9TCjezHq5enqmw6
11 Blue Cohosh Caulophyllum thalictroides https://goo.gl/photos/RmCL8Qm7omsnUuXn8
12 Castor Oil Plant Ricinus communis https://goo.gl/photos/ThPAxJGrk2BZPQ4W8
13 Cockscomb Celosia cristata https://goo.gl/photos/jmcb3AirJqrHRpM28
14 Common Knapweed Centaurea nigra https://goo.gl/photos/Wo2pfERTcicqbKVs5
15 Common Shinleaf Pyrola elliptica https://goo.gl/photos/9UjuDb7c2swqyoNG6
16 Cow Parsnip Heracleum maximum https://goo.gl/photos/Go2Av6zXdtTiT8sA7
17 Devil’s Walking Stick Aralia spinoza https://goo.gl/photos/zvCFeDCC1Fp1UfFT7
18 Dewberry Rubus flagellaris https://goo.gl/photos/Hn7CA4TADnuxcvRK6
19 Dock Rumex obtusifolius https://goo.gl/photos/Y46yaEVNypVCvSQT7
20 Downy Rattlesnake Plantain Goodyera pubescens https://goo.gl/photos/yMkGp6Ue2RuKrdMw5
21 Dutchman’s Pipe Monotropa hypopitys https://goo.gl/photos/jKuchzdJSHF8RQSC7
22 Eastern Waterleaf Hydrophyllum virginianum https://goo.gl/photos/1wxxMVTARvpJHBFUA
23 False Solomon’s Seal Maianthemum racemosum https://goo.gl/photos/dFg9zLaTuwBFu7sC7
24 Fire pink Silene virginica https://goo.gl/photos/nprwGU5fPDfBCyePA
25 Garlic mustard Alliaria petiolara https://goo.gl/photos/LyA2Hya1qchMvnNf7
26 Ghost Plant, Indian Pipe Monotropa uniflora https://goo.gl/photos/jKuchzdJSHF8RQSC7
27 Greenbriar Smilax sp. https://goo.gl/photos/ffK6Xi4CyD7tfNuV7
28 Jack-in-the-pulpit Arisaema triphyllum https://goo.gl/photos/mFrb9oJQSwsaESFK8
29 Japanese Honeysuckle Lonicera japonica https://goo.gl/photos/pu9KCgKr9XS3PLAK7
30 Japanese Knotwood Fallopia japonica https://goo.gl/photos/FourUCfQsRErNXD86
31 Jumpseed, Virginia Knotweed Persicaria virginiana https://goo.gl/photos/KTBEACWQHSjt2qJv6
32 Mile-A-Minute Persicaria perfoliata https://goo.gl/photos/AHzjxgYnpPLiYJEE8
33 Mock Strawberry Duchesnea indica https://goo.gl/photos/dF8CX4EYFJ8V32m67
34 Moleplant, Caper Spurge Euphorbia lathyris https://goo.gl/photos/vjUnZGShRvUdPAab7
35 Moonflower Datura inoxia https://goo.gl/photos/rC2E9GmjSDSHQk5U6
36 Mullein Verbascum thapsus https://goo.gl/photos/HM5EcE6PE8Q4Sy3u9
37 Ninebark Pysocarpus capitatus https://goo.gl/photos/MtDPSabab8jchMfs9
38 Phlox – Woodland Phlox divaricata https://goo.gl/photos/hQHirkJMPkFYQMH4A
39 Poison hemlock Conium maculatum https://goo.gl/photos/EBspqXrcft6vHifj9
40 Purple dead nettle Lamium purpureum https://goo.gl/photos/oqjeMThDFfLbwH7m9
41 Purslane Portulaca oleracea https://goo.gl/photos/LYzFhT8hfJZNAjHf9
42 Ramps Allium tricoccum https://goo.gl/photos/tSrqRxFHb9TWY8T57
43 Rattlesnake hawkweed Hieracium venosum https://goo.gl/photos/yRv1E5fcQeMJV2Fp8
44 Rodger’s Flower Rodgersia aesculifolia https://goo.gl/photos/JSn5daVxt3oxLqQ86
45 Shining Clubmoss Huperzia lucidula https://goo.gl/photos/wVkFhRqo9Jb8oCaL6
46 Skunk cabbage Symplocarpus foetidus https://goo.gl/photos/Gze3ALddcvnybHMh8
47 Solomon’s Seal Polygonatum https://goo.gl/photos/GXj3UTs322doufbr8
48 Spicebush Lindera benzoin https://goo.gl/photos/dd87bmcVwdagjoxN7
49 Spiderwort Tradescantia https://goo.gl/photos/QdwpVHQpfu2fWuBj7
50 Spreading Dogbane Apocynum androsaemifolium https://goo.gl/photos/ZJ38XVJeqiCjytuV8
51 Spurge Euphorbia maculata https://goo.gl/photos/uxgT2FdaEmf9L37m9
52 Stinging Nettle Urtica dioica https://goo.gl/photos/NrC1ZK7rtknYSVbB8
53 Stonecrop – Woodland Sedum ternatum https://goo.gl/photos/KjRoeRTbGTM9Yawu5
54 Stoneroot Collinsonia canadensis https://goo.gl/photos/FnEZrVhtortNp2aH9
55 Violet, Blue Viola sororia https://goo.gl/photos/4zGrigViUHLsYgrX7
56 Violet, White Viola striata https://goo.gl/photos/AyWCA8hPQT81Z5uH7
57 Violet, Yellow Viola pubescens https://goo.gl/photos/wQG49YYcAxGgjv5k6
58 White avens Geum canadense https://goo.gl/photos/TGLq5RoHFQEvkxrt9
59 White Trillium Trillium grandiflorum https://goo.gl/photos/h18darCYoxTjGtNt5
60 Wild Anise Root Osmorhiza longistylus https://goo.gl/photos/Bag2e32LmeGopguV7
61 Wild Asparagus Asparagus officinalis https://goo.gl/photos/6pA2QJiW5QYos7Tu9
62 Wild Basil Clinopodium vulgare https://goo.gl/photos/UZcrmxyQ59Ef3P3s9
63 Wild Garlic/Onion Allium sp. https://goo.gl/photos/3TzV2VAJW2zvzZo27
64 Wild Yam Dioscorea sp. https://goo.gl/photos/DMxypMv3gmghTL7j9
65 Wine Raspberry Rubus phoenicolasius https://goo.gl/photos/RGyYMye924LPV1zk8
66 Wingstem Verbesina alternifolia https://goo.gl/photos/pRuy4XQ7NpoiDgDW9
67 Wintercress, Mustard Barbarea vulgaris https://goo.gl/photos/7btWBdTpYFXDvgPT7
68 Wood Nettle Laportea canadensis https://goo.gl/photos/h156xj3coC26dKXY8
69 Yarrow Achillea millefolium https://goo.gl/photos/qPEtNYLwNHFxjnD76