Dwarf Trillium is a small plant with three leaves spreading outward and a flower with three petals spreading outward.
Dwarf Trillium is a small plant with three leaves spreading outward and a flower with three petals spreading outward.
Wildlife

Other Plants

Dwarf Trillium (Trillium pusillum) is a rare plant that can be found for a few weeks along our boardwalk in limited locations. Photo: Richard Covey
Dwarf Trillium (Trillium pusillum) is a rare plant that can be found for a few weeks along our boardwalk in limited locations. Photo: Richard Covey

This list is of small to medium sized plants that are commonly seen at Beidler Forest.

Herbaceous

  • Golden Club (Orontium aquaticum)
  • Jack-in-the-Pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum)
  • Spanish Moss (Tillandsia usneoides)
  • Spidarwort (Tradescantia rosea)
  • Little Sweet Betsy (Trillium cuneatum)
  • Dwarf Trillium (Trillium pusillum)
  • Wild Yam (Dioscorea villosa)
  • Yellow Star-grass (Hypoxis micrantha)
  • Atamasco Lily (Zephyranthes atamasco)
  • Southern Twayblade (Listera australis)
  • Green Adder's Mouth (Malaxis unifolia)
  • Crane-fly Orchid (Tipularia discolor)
  • Green-fly Orchid (Epidendrum conopseum)
  • Shadow-witch Orchid (Ponthieva racemosa)
  • Lizard's tail (Saururus cernuus)
  • False Nettle (Boehmeria cylinrica)
  • Heartleaf (Aristolochia serpentaria)
  • Swamp Leatherflower (Clematis crispa)
  • Mayapple (Podophyllum pelatum)
  • Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis)
  • Spotted Wintergreen (Chimaphila maculata)
  • Water Pimpernel (Samolus parviflorus)
  • Spadderdock (Nuphar lutea)
  • Indian Pink (Spigelia marilandica)
  • Lopseed (Phryma leptostachya)
  • Skullcap (Scutellaria lateriflora)
  • Blue-eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium montanum)
  • False Ginger (Hexastylis arafolia)
  • Coral Bean (Erythrina herbacea)
  • Pennywort (Obolaria virginica)
  • Obedient Plant (Dracocephalum purpureum)
  • American Cancer-root (Conopholis americana)
  • Partridge Berry (Mitchella repens)
  • Lavender Lobelia (Lobelia inflata)
  • Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis)
  • Butterweed (Senecia glabellus)
  • Beauty Berry (Callicarpa americana)
  • Butterfly Milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa)
  • False Sunflower (Heliopsis helianthoides)
  • Partridge Pea (Chamaecrista fasciculata)
  • Indian Blanket (Gaillardia pulchella)

Vines

  • Wisteria (Wisteria frutescens)
  • Virginia Creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia)
  • Muscadine (Vitis rotundifolia)
  • Pepper Vine (Ampelopsis arborea)
  • Cross Vine (Anisostichus capreolata)
  • Trumpet Vine (Campsis radicans)
  • Yellow Jessamine (Gelsemium sempervirens)
  • Poison Ivy (Toxicodendron radicans)
  • Japanese Honeysuckle (Loicera japonica)
  • Coral Honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens)
  • Climbing Hydrangea (Decumaria barbara)
  • Supplejack (Berchemia scandens)
  • Greenbriar (Smilax sp.)
  • Purple Passionflower (Passiflora incarnata)

Ferns

  • Southern Grapefern (Botrychium biternatum)
  • Rattlesnake Fern (Botrychium virginianum)
  • Cinnamon Fern (Osmunda cinnamonea)
  • Royal Fern (Osmunda regalis)
  • Bracken Fern (Pteridium aquilinum)
  • Southern Lady Fern (Athyrium asplendiodes)
  • Christmas Fern (Polystichum arostichoides)
  • Sensitive Fern (Onoclea sensibillis)
  • Virginia Chain Fern (Woodwardia virginica)
  • Netted Chain Fern (Woodwardia areolata)
  • Ebony Spleenwort (Asplenium platyneuron)
  • Resurrection Fern (Polypodium polypodioides)
The roots of Green Fly Orchid cling to the bark of a tree, its thick, plastic-feeling leaves cluster and from that grow small, thin flowers that sort of have the same shape as a housefly.
Green-fly Orchid (Epidendrum conopseum) is the only epiphytic (grows on other plants but is not parasitic) orchid in South Carolina. It is most often found in the canopies of Bald Cypress, but can be found eye level around the boardwalk. Photo: Richard Covey

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