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Common Name Index: common name sorted alphabetically. Click on the appropriate initial letter.

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A
acacia, prairie
alder, hazel
alder, seaside
alder, smooth
Apache plume
arrow-wood, downy
ash, American prickly
ash, blue
ash, common prickly
ash, green
ash, northern prickly
ash, stinking
ash, Texas
ash, wafer
ash, white
azalea, hoary
azalea, piedmont
azalea, Texas

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B
bamboo vine
basswood
beautyberry
beech, American
beech, blue
birch, red
birch, river
bittersweet, American
bittersweet, climbing
blackberry, Allegheny
blackberry, high-bush
blackberry, Oklahoma
blackberry, Pennsylvania
blackberry, sand
blackberry, sawtooth
blackberry, sharp-toothed
blackberry, sow-teat
blackberry, twice-leafed
blackhaw, rusty
blackjack
bladdernut, American
blueberry, hillside
blueberry, lowbush
blueberry, male
blueberry, rabbit-eye
blueberry, thick-leaf
bois d'arc
boxelder
briar, catclaw
briar, sensitive
brier, cat (a)
brier, cat (b)
brier, green
brier, laurel
brier, saw (a)
brier, saw (b)
buckbrush (a)
buckbrush (b)
buckeye, red
buckeye, Texas
buckthorn, Carolina
buckthorn, wooly
burning bush
buttonbush

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C
California brickellbush
cane, giant
catalpa, northern
catalpa, southern
cedar, eastern red
cedar, red
cedar, rock
cedar, salt (a)
cedar, salt (b)
cedar, salt (c)
cherry, black
cherry, choke
cherry, Indian
Chinaberry
Chinaberry, wild
chinkapin, Allegheny
chinkapin, Ozark
chittamwood
cholla, pencil
cholla, thistle
cholla, tree
Christmasberry
clapweed
clematis, curly
coffee-tree, Kentucky
coralbean
coralberry
cottonwood
cow-itch vine
crabapple, prairie
crossvine
cucumbertree
cupseed
currant, buffalo
currant, clove
currant, golden
currant, western red
cypress, bald

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D
dalea, black
dalea, feather
deerberry
devil's walkingstick
dewberry, aboriginal
dewberry, northern
dewberry, southern
dogwood, flowering
dogwood, gray
dogwood, roughleaf
dogwood, silky
dogwood, stiff
dogwood, swamp

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E
elbow bush
elderberry
elm, American
elm, cedar
elm, cork
elm, red
elm, September
elm, slippery
elm, water
elm, winged
Eve's necklace
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F
farkleberry
featherplume
fringetree

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G
gooseberry, drooping
gooseberry, Georgia
gooseberry, granite
gooseberry, Missouri
gooseberry, prickly
gooseberry, southern
grape, bush
grape, cat
grape, fox
grape, graybark
grape, maple-leaf
grape, muscadine
grape, mustang
grape, pigeon
grape, possum
grape, raccoon
grape, river-bank
grape, sand
grape, summer (a)
grape, summer (b)
grape, winter
greasebush
greenbrier (a)
greenbrier (b)
greenbrier (c)
greenbrier, bristly
groundsel tree
groundsel tree, Texas
groundsel tree, Wright's
groundsel, threadleaf
gum, black
gum, sour
gum, sweet
gumdrop-bush

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H
hackberry, common
hackberry, dwarf
hackberry, Georgia
hackberry, netleaf
hackberry, northern
hackberry, roughleaf
hackberry, southern
hackberry, western
haw, downy
haw, possum
haw, red
haw, summer
haw, urn-tree
hawthorn, barberry
hawthorn, blue
hawthorn, blueberry
hawthorn, cockspur
hawthorn, dotted
hawthorn, dwarf
hawthorn, Engelmann
hawthorn, frosted
hawthorn, green
hawthorn, Kansas
hawthorn, little-hip
hawthorn, one-flower
hawthorn, parsley
hawthorn, pear
hawthorn, red
hawthorn, Reverchon
hawthorn, thicket
hazelnut, American
hedge apple
hellfetter
Hercules' club
Hercules' club, Texas
hickory, big shagbark
hickory, bitternut
hickory, black
hickory, mockernut
hickory, nutmeg
hickory, pignut
hickory, red
hickory, shagbark
hickory, shellbark
hickory, Texas
hickory, water
hickory, white
hickory, yellowbud
Himalayan berry
holly, American
holly, Carolina
holly, deciduous
holly, sand
holly, yaupon
honeysuckle, Japanese
honeysuckle, trumpet
honeysuckle, western white
honeysuckle, white limestone
honeysuckle, wild
honeysuckle, yellow
hophornbeam
hoptree
hornbeam, American
horse apple
horse-sugar
huckleberry, he-
huckleberry, highbush
huckleberry, squaw
huckleberry, tree
hydrangea, wild

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I
indigo, false
indigobush
indigobush, Ouachita Mountain
indigobush, panicled
indigobush, shining
indigobush, smooth
ironwood
ivy, poison (a)
ivy, poison (b)
ivy, western poison
joint-weed, southern

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J
juniper
juniper, Ashe's
juniper, oneseed
juniper, Pinchot's
juniper, redberry
juniper, Rocky Mountain

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K
kingnut

L
ladies' eardrops
leadplant
leatherflower
leatherwood
locust, black
locust, bristly
locust, honey
lotebush

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M
magnolia, cucumber
magnolia, umbrella
maidenbush
maple, red
maple, silver
maple, sugar
matrimony vine
mesquite
mimosa
mimosa, fragrant
mistletoe
mistletoe, hairy
moonseed
mountain mahogany
mulberry, French
mulberry, red
mulberry, Texas
mulberry, white
muscadine
musclewood

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N
ninebark, common
ninebark, mountain

O
oak, black
oak, blackjack
oak, bluejack
oak, Buckley's
oak, bur
oak, chinkapin
oak, dwarf chinkapin
oak, eastern poison
oak, Havard's
oak, interior live
oak, live
oak, maple-leaf
oak, Mohr's
oak, northern red
oak, Nuttall's
oak, overcup
oak, pin
oak, plateau
oak, poison (a)
oak, poison (b)
oak, post
oak, Rocky Mountain white
oak, runner
oak, sand post
oak, shingle
oak, shinnery
oak, shortlobe
oak, Shumard's
oak, southern red
oak, Spanish
oak, swamp chestnut
oak, swamp post
oak, swamp white
oak, Texas live
oak, Texas
oak, water
oak, wavyleaf
oak, white
oak, willow
old-man's beard
olive, Russian
opossum-wood
orange, hardy
orange, mock (a)
orange, mock (b)
orange, Osage

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P
pale wolfberry
palmetto, dwarf
pawpaw
pecan
peppervine
persimmon
pine, loblolly
pine, ponderosa
pine, shortleaf
piñón
plum, American
plum, bigtree
plum, Chickasaw
plum, creek
plum, fall
plum, hog
plum, hortulan
plum, Mexican
plum, Oklahoma
plum, sand
plum, wildgoose
powderpuff tree
prickly pear, Texas
princess tree
privet
privet, swamp

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R
raspberry, American red
raspberry, black
raspberry, boulder
rattan vine
red chokeberry
redbud
redroot
ropebark
rose, Carolina
rose, Cherokee
rose, climbing
rose, Japanese
rose, leafy
rose, multiflora
rose, pasture
rose, prairie
rose, western wood
rose, wild prairie
rubber rabbit brush (a)
rubber rabbit brush (b)

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S
sage, sand
sage, white
sagebrush, sand
saltbush, fourwing
saltbush, shadscale
sarvis
sassafras
sea-myrtle
seepweed, desert
seepweed, shrubby
serviceberry
shadblow
silktree
silverbell
silverbell, Carolina
silverbell, mountain
skunkbush
smoke tree
snailseed, Carolina
snowball
snowbell, American
snowberry, Palmer's
snowberry, western
snowdrop-tree
soapberry
soapweed
soapweed, small
sophora, Texas
sparkleberry
spicebush
St. Andrew's cross
St. John's wort, shrubby
staggerbush
star-jasmine, climbing
strawberry bush
stretchberry
sugarberry
sumac, aromatic
sumac, desert
sumac, flameleaf
sumac, fragrant
sumac, littleleaf
sumac, prairie
sumac, shining
sumac, skunkbush
sumac, smooth
sumac, winged
supplejack
sweetleaf
sweetspire, Virginia
switchcane
swordplant
sycamore

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T
tamarisk (a)
tamarisk (b)
tamarisk (c)
tea, Mormon
tea, New Jersey
tea, whorehouse
thimbleberry
tingle-tongue
toothache tree (a)
toothache tree (b)
toothache tree (c)
tree of heaven
trumpet creeper
trumpet vine
turkey-apple

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U

V
virgin's-bower, sweet autumn
virgin's-bower, Texas
Virginia creeper

W
wahoo
walnut, black
walnut, little
walnut, Texas
wax-myrtle, southern
wicopy
willow baccharis
willow, black
willow, Carolina
willow, coastal plain
willow, crack
willow, desert
willow, peachleaf
willow, prairie false
willow, prairie
willow, sandbar
willow, Virginia
winterberry
winterfat
wisteria, American
wisteria, Kentucky
witch hazel (a)
witch hazel (b)
witch-hazel, American
witch-hazel, Ozark
wolfberry
woodbine
wooly pipevine

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X

Y
yellowwood
yucca, Arkansas
yucca (a)
yucca (b)
yucca (c)
yucca, Gulf Coast

Z

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Last update: 9/23/99

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