| Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Araliaceae | Aralia | Aralia |  (c) Ware, Richard & Teresa - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | ||
| Araliaceae | Aralia elata | Japanese Angelica-tree | Suburban woodlands. | Native of Japan. Naturalizing in ne. North America at least as far south as NJ, DE, se. PA, MD, DC, and n. VA. See Moore, Glenn, & Ma (2009) for detailed information on this alien species and its naturalization in the northeastern United States. |  (c) Powell, Eric M - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Araliaceae | Aralia hispida | Bristly Sarsaparilla, Dwarf Elder | Rocky woodlands, cliffs, and clearings, primarily over acidic rocks (such as quartzite, granite, and sandstone). This species appears to be strongly dependent on disturbance, such as fire, appearing in great numbers following fire where previously rare or apparently absent. | NL (Labrador) and NL (Newfoundland) west to MB, south to w. VA, w. NC (?), WV, OH, IN, IL, and MN. Fernald (1950) and Smith (1944) credited this species to w. NC; the documentation is not known to me, and the species was not treated by RAB. Doug Rayner (pers. com. 2002) reported a site record of it in Polk County, NC. |  (c) Fleming, Gary P. |
| Araliaceae | Aralia nudicaulis | Wild Sarsaparilla | Upland forests and woodlands, rocky places, most typically in rather dry places, such as ridgetop forests. | NL (Labrador) and NL (Newfoundland) west to BC, south to e. VA, c. NC, ne. GA, e. TN, IN, IL, MO, NE, CO, ID, and WA. |  (c) Cressler, Alan M. |
| Araliaceae | Aralia racemosa | Spikenard, Hungry-root, Spignet, Petty-Morrel, Life-of-Man, Old-Man's-Root | Rich woodlands, trail margins and roadsides. | NB and QC west to MB, MN, and e. SD, south to nw. SC. N. GA, n. AL, n. MS, c. AR, e. KS. |  (c) Powell, Eric M - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Araliaceae | Aralia spinosa | Devil's-walking-stick, Hercules's-club, Prickly-ash, Angelica-tree | Disturbed pocosins and bottomlands, disturbed areas, moist to dry forests and woodlands. | NJ west to s. IN, IL, and IA, south to c. peninsular FL and e. TX. |  (c) Ware, Richard & Teresa - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Araliaceae | Araliaceae | Ginseng Family | (c) Ware, Richard & Teresa - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | ||
| Araliaceae | Eleutherococcus | Fiveleaf Aralia |  (c) Kuhn, Will - CC-BY | ||
| Araliaceae | Eleutherococcus sieboldianus | Fiveleaf Aralia | Disturbed areas, persisting and spreading from horticultural use. | Native of Japan. Reported as introduced and apparently naturalized in Randolph County, WV, scattered locations in PA (Rhoads & Klein 1993), OH, n. KY (Clark et al. 2005), and IL (Mohlenbrock 2014); this species is undoubtedly present in more localities and states than currently documented. |  (c) Wang, Zihao - CC-BY |
| Araliaceae | Eleutherococcus trifoliatus | Climbing Ginseng | Suburban woodlands, escaped from cultivation. | Native of China. |  (c) 葉子 - CC0 |
| Araliaceae | Fatsia | Fatsia |  (c) Marcum, Paul | ||
| Araliaceae | Fatsia japonica | Fatsia, Japanese Aralia | Suburban woodlands. | Native of Japan. | (c) Marcum, Paul |
| Araliaceae | Hedera | Ivy |  (c) Fleming, Gary P. | ||
| Araliaceae | Hedera algeriensis | Algerian Ivy | Disturbed areas, spread from horticultural use. | Native of n. Africa. Naturalizing and fruiting in 7 counties in Panhandle and ne. FL (L. Anderson, pers. comm., 2021). |  (c) McWilliam, Stephen James - CC0 |
| Araliaceae | Hedera helix | Common Ivy, English Ivy | Persistent, established, and spreading around old home sites, in suburban woodlands and waste areas. | Native of Europe. |  (c) Fleming, Gary P. |
| Araliaceae | Hedera hibernica | Atlantic Ivy, Irish Ivy | Persistent, established, and spreading around old home sites, in suburban woodlands and waste areas. | Native of Europe. |  (c) Sampedro, Óscar - CC-BY |
| Araliaceae | Heptapleurum | Schefflera |  (c) Montes de Oca, Joseph - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | ||
| Araliaceae | Heptapleurum actinophyllum | Australian Umbrella Tree, Octopus Tree | In a wide variety of disturbed sites, invasive in hammocks, pine rocklands, pine flatwoods. | Native of Australia, New Guinea, and Java. | (c) Montes de Oca, Joseph - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Araliaceae | Heptapleurum arboricola | Dwarf Umbrella-tree | Disturbed areas, pine rocklands. | Native of e. Asia (Taiwan and Hainan Island). |  (c) Ehlert, Jonathan Lorencetti - CC-BY-SA |
| Araliaceae | Hydrocotyle | Water-pennywort |  (c) Bradley, Keith | ||
| Araliaceae | Hydrocotyle americana | American Water-pennywort | Bogs, marshes, seepages, cliffs and ledges where wet by seepage or spray from waterfalls, sometimes roadside ditches. | Widespread in ne. North America, south to w. NC, SC, e. and c. TN, and IN, and n. AR. |  (c) Danielson, Erik |
| Araliaceae | Hydrocotyle bonariensis | Dune Pennywort, Sombrerillo | Beaches, dunes, and moist sandy areas. | Widespread in Mexico, South and Central America, and now occurring north in North America to the Southeastern Coastal Plain, se. VA to s. FL and TX and s. AR. This species was not included in Darby (1855), Chapman (1887), or Mohr (1901); Small (1913) gave "in waste grounds and on ballast" as habitat. This suggests the likelihood that H. bonariensis is adventive from South America, and indeed it was first named from collections from South America (the epithet 'bonariensis means 'of Buenos Aires'). | (c) Bradley, Keith |
| Araliaceae | Hydrocotyle bowlesioides | Lawns. | Native of Costa Rica and Panama (naturalized in South America, se. United States, and New Zealand). See Anderson (1983) for discussion of the species' occurrence in Thomasville, Thomas Co. GA. Reported for Panhandle FL (Wunderlin & Hansen 2011). See Krings, Newton, & Liles (2017) for the first report for NC (Scotland County). |  (c) Hill, Sonnia | |
| Araliaceae | Hydrocotyle ranunculoides | Swamp Water-pennywort | Stagnant to (less commonly) swiftly flowing waters of swamps pools, backwaters, blackwater streams, sometimes forming floating mats. | NY, IL, MO, and KS south to s. FL and se. TX; BC south to CA, AZ, Mexico, Central America, and South America. |  (c) Amyx, Herbert L. |
| Araliaceae | Hydrocotyle sibthorpioides | Lawn Water-pennywort | Lawns, pond margins, cracks between paving stones. Greatly increasing as a lawn and garden weed. | Native of Asia and Africa. |  (c) Fleming, Gary P. |
| Araliaceae | Hydrocotyle umbellata | Marsh Water-pennywort | Moist areas, including maritime grasslands. | NB; near the Great Lakes in w. NY, ne. OH, s. MI, n. IN, and ne. IL; MA to s. FL, west to sc. TX, south through Mexico to Central America and South America; CA south into Mexico; West Indies. Reported as a likely introduction for s. MO (Aaron 2024). |  (c) Sorrie, Bruce A. - CC-BY |
| Araliaceae | Hydrocotyle verticillata | Whorled Water-pennywort | Swamp forests, pools. | Widespread in North, Central, and South America. |  (c) Wong, Michelle - CC-BY |
| Araliaceae | Kalopanax | Castor Aralia |  (c) Davis, Rochelle - CC-BY | ||
| Araliaceae | Kalopanax septemlobus | Castor Aralia | Disturbed, suburban areas. | Native of e. Asia. Introduced in ne. United States, apparently naturalizing in s. MD and n. VA (Fort Belvoir, Fairfax County) (E. Wells, pers. comm., 2006). | (c) Davis, Rochelle - CC-BY |
| Araliaceae | Nanopanax | Dwarf Ginseng |  (c) Ware, Richard & Teresa - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | ||
| Araliaceae | Nanopanax trifolius | Dwarf Ginseng | Cove forests, bottomland forests, other nutrient-rich forests. | NS and QC west to MN, south to PA, e. VA, c. NC, nc. GA, ec. TN, IN, and IA. |  (c) Raskin, Evan |
| Araliaceae | Panax | Ginseng |  (c) Cressler, Alan M. | ||
| Araliaceae | Panax quinquefolius | Ginseng, Sang, American Ginseng | Cove forests, mesic hardwood forests, generally in nutrient-rich forests though tending to avoid the richest coves. | ME and QC west to MN and SD, south to e. VA, e. NC, nc. SC, sw. GA, s. AL, s. MS, e. LA, and OK. |  (c) Cressler, Alan M. |
| Araliaceae | Polyscias |  (c) Severns, Tara - CC-BY | |||
| Araliaceae | Polyscias guilfoylei | Geranium Aralia | Escaping in disturbed areas from horticultural use. | Native of Asia. |  (c) Groom, Quentin - CC0 |
| Araliaceae | Tetrapanax | Ricepaper-plant |  (c) Corder, Brandon | ||
| Araliaceae | Tetrapanax papyrifer | Ricepaper-plant | Disturbed forests. | Native of Asia. Reported for Beaufort County, SC (Bradley et al. [in prep.]). |  (c) 張家瑜 - CC-BY |