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Appendix A Selection List for Ground Covers and Shrubs
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Ground Covers
| BOTANICAL NAME | COMMON NAME |
| Adiantum pedatum | Maidenhair fern |
| Agrostis perennans (A. altissima) | Autumn bent-grass |
| Anaphalis margaritacea | Pearly everlasting |
| Andropogon gerardii | Big bluestem |
| Andropogon glomeratus | Bushy bluestem |
| Andropogon virginicus | Broom Sedge |
| Anemone canadensis | Canada anemone |
| Antennaria plantaginifolia | Plantain-leaved pussytoes |
| Arctostaphylos uvaursi | Bearberry |
| Asarum canadense | Wild ginger |
| Aster cordifolius | Heart-leaved aster |
| Aster divericatus | White wood aster |
| Aster ericoides | Heath aster |
| Aster lanceolatus (A. simplex) | Lined aster |
| Aster macrophyllus | Large-leaved aster |
| Aster novae angliae | New England aster |
| Athyrium filix femina (A. asplenoides) | Lady fern |
| Athyrium thelypteroides | Silvery glade fern |
| Carex appalachica (C. radiata) | Sedge |
| Carex pensylvanica | Pennsylvania sedge |
| Chimaphila maculata | Spotted or stripped wintergreen/Pipsissewa |
| Chimaphila umbellata | Pipsissewa, Prince's pine, Bitter wintergreen |
| Chrysopsis mariana | Maryland golden aster |
| Danthonia compressa | Flattened oat grass |
| Danthonia spicata | Oatgrass, Poverty grass |
| Dennstaedtia punctilobula | Hay-scented fern |
| Deschampsia cespitosa | Tufted hair grass |
| Deschampsia flexuosa | Common hair grass, Crinkled hair grass |
| Dryopteris intermedia | Common wood fern |
| Dryopteris marginalis | Marginal wood fern, Leatherleaf wood fern |
| Erigeron philadelphicus | Daisy fleabane |
| Eupatorium maculatum | Spotted JoePye weed |
| Eupatorium rugosum | White snakeroot |
| Eupatorium sessilifolium | Upland boneset |
| Fragaria virginiana | Wild strawberry, Virginia strawberry |
| Gaultheria hispidula | Creeping snowberry, Creeping pearl berry |
| Gaultheria procumbens | Wintergreen, Teaberry, Checkerberry |
| Geranium maculatum | Wild geranium, Spotted cranesbill |
| Geum canadense | White avens, Winter rosette |
| Heuchera americana | Hairy alum root, Rock geranium |
| Hypericum ellipticum | Pale St. John's Wort |
| Muhlenbergia schreberi | Nimblewill |
| Oenothera fruticosa | Sundrops, Wild beet, Suncups, Scabish |
| Onoclea sensibilis | Sensitive fern, Bead fern |
| Osmunda claytoniana | Interrupted fern |
| Panicum clandestinum | Deer tongue grass |
| Panicum virgatum | Switch grass, Wild red top, Thatch grass |
| Parthenocissus quinquefolia | Virginia creeper, Woodbine, American ivy |
| Phlox subulata | Mountain phlox, Moss pink, Moss phlox |
| Polygonatum biflorum | Smooth Solomon's seal, True King Solomon's seal |
| Polygonatum virginianum (Tovaria v.) | Jumpseed |
| Polypodium virginianum | P. vulgare, Rocky polypody, Am. wall fern |
| Polystichum acrostichoides | Christmas fern, Dagger fern, Canker break |
| Rudbeckia hirta var. hirta | Black-eyed Susan |
| Rudbeckia triloba | Thin-leaved cone flower |
| Thelypteris noveboracensis | New York fern |
| Tiarella cordifolia | Allegheny foamflower, False mitrewort |
| Tradescantia virginiana | Virginia Spiderwort, Common S., Widow's tears |
| Verbena hastata | Blue vervain |
| Vernonia noveboracensis | New York ironweed |
| Verbesina alternifolia (Actinomeria a.) | Wingstem |
| Viola sororia | Woolly blue violet sister violet, Dooryard violet |
Shrubs
| Amelanchier canadensis | Shadblow |
| Amelanchier laevis (A. arborea) | Serviceberry, Allegheny |
| Aronia arbutifolia | Red chokeberry |
| Aronia melanocarpa | Black chokeberry |
| Clethra alnifolia | Sweet pepperbush, Summersweet |
| Comptonia peregrina | Sweet fern, Meadow fern, Spleenwort bush |
| Cornus amomum | Silky dogwood |
| Cornus racemosa | Gray dogwood, Red-panicled dogwood |
| Cornus sericea (C. stolonifera) | Red osier dogwood |
| Corylus americana | American hazelnut |
| Corylus cornuta | Beaked hazelnut |
| Diervilla lonicera | Bush honeysuckle, Blue herb, Gravel weed |
| Hamamelis virginiana | Witch hazel |
| Ilex glabra | Inkberry, Gallberry |
| Ilex verticillata | Winterberry |
| Juniperus communis | Common juniper |
| Juniperus horizontalis | Creeping juniper, Creeping cedar/Savin |
| Kalmia angustifolia | Sheep laurel |
| Kalmia latifolia | Mountain laurel |
| Lindera benzoin | Spice bush |
| Myrica pensylvanica | Northern bayberry |
| Physocarpus opulifolius | Common ninebark |
| Potentilla fruticosa | Cinquefoil, Bush cinquefoil |
| Rhododendron maximum | Great laurel |
| Rhododendron periclymenoides | Pinkster azalea |
| Rhododendron viscosum | Swamp azalea |
| Rhus aromatica | Fragrant sumac, Sweet scented sumac/Lemon sumac |
| Rhus copallina | Winged sumac |
| Rhus glabra | Smooth sumac |
| Rhus typhina | Staghorn sumac |
| Rosa blanda | Smooth rose, Meadow rose |
| Rubus allegheniensis | Common blackberry, Allegheny blackberry |
| Salix humilis | Prairie willow |
| Salix lucida | Shining willow |
| Sambucus canadensis | American elderberry |
| Spirea tomentosa | Hardhack spirea |
| Vaccinium angustifolium | Lowbush blueberry |
| Vaccinium corymbosum | Highbush blueberry |
| Viburnum acerifolium | Maple leaf viburnum |
| Viburnum alnifolium (V. Lantanoides) | Hobble bush |
| Viburnum dentatum | Arrowwood viburnum |
| Viburnum lentago | Nanny-berry |
| Viburnum prunifolium | Black-haw |
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