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Lamiaceae

• Agastache foeniculum — blue giant-hyssop
• Agastache nepetoides — yellow giant-hyssop
• Agastache urticifolia — nettleleaf giant-hyssop
• Blephilia ciliata — downy woodmint
• Blephilia hirsuta — hairy woodmint
• Clinopodium arkansanum — low calamint
• Clinopodium douglasii — Douglas' savoury
• Clinopodium vulgare — field basil
• Collinsonia canadensis — Canada horsebalm
• Dracocephalum parviflorum — American dragonhead
• Hedeoma hispida — rough false pennyroyal
• Hedeoma pulegioides — American false pennyroyal
• Lycopus americanus — American bugleweed
• Lycopus asper — rough bugleweed
• Lycopus laurentianus — St. Lawrence water-horehound
• Lycopus rubellus — taperleaf bugleweed
• Lycopus uniflorus — northern bugleweed
• Lycopus virginicus — Virginia bugleweed
• Lycopus x sherardii
• Mentha arvensis — corn mint
• Mentha canadensis — Canadian mint
• Monarda didyma — Oswego-tea
• Monarda fistulosa — wild bergamot beebalm
• Monarda media — purple bergamot

• Monarda punctata — spotted beebalm
• Monardella odoratissima — mountain wildmint
• Physostegia ledinghamii — Ledingham's physostegia
• Physostegia parviflora — purple dragonhead
• Physostegia virginiana — false dragonhead
• Prunella vulgaris — self-heal
• Pycnanthemum incanum — hoary mountainmint
• Pycnanthemum tenuifolium — slender mountainmint
• Pycnanthemum verticillatum — whorled mountainmint
• Scutellaria angustifolia — narrowleaf skullcap
• Scutellaria galericulata — hooded skullcap
• Scutellaria lateriflora — mad-dog skullcap
• Scutellaria nervosa — veined skullcap
• Scutellaria parvula — small skullcap
• Scutellaria x churchilliana — Churchill's skullcap
• Stachys chamissonis — coastal hedge-nettle
• Stachys mexicana — Mexican hedge-nettle
• Stachys palustris — marsh hedge-nettle
• Stachys pilosa — hairy hedge-nettle
• Stachys tenuifolia — smooth hedge-nettle
• Teucrium canadense — American germander
• Trichostema brachiatum — false pennyroyal
• Trichostema dichotomum — forked bluecurls
• Trichostema oblongum — mountain bluecurls

Lauraceae

• Lindera benzoin — spicebush

• Sassafras albidum — sassafras

Lejeuneaceae

• Cololejeunea biddlecomiae
• Cololejeunea macounii

• Lejeunea alaskana
• Lejeunea cavifolia

Lemnaceae

• Lemna minor — lesser duckweed
• Lemna trisulca — star duckweed
• Lemna turionifera — turion duckweed
• Spirodela polyrrhiza — common water-flaxseed

• Wolffia arrhiza — spotless water-flaxseed
• Wolffia borealis — dotted watermeal
• Wolffia brasiliensis — pointed watermeal
• Wolffia columbiana — Columbian watermeal

Lentibulariaceae

• Pinguicula macroceras — California butterwort
• Pinguicula villosa — hairy butterwort
• Pinguicula vulgaris — common butterwort
• Utricularia cornuta — horned bladderwort
• Utricularia geminiscapa — hidden-fruit bladderwort
• Utricularia gibba — humped bladderwort
• Utricularia intermedia — flatleaf bladderwort

• Utricularia macrorhiza — greater bladderwort
• Utricularia minor — lesser bladderwort
• Utricularia ochroleuca — northern bladderwort
• Utricularia purpurea — purple bladderwort
• Utricularia radiata — small swollen bladderwort
• Utricularia resupinata — northeastern bladderwort
• Utricularia subulata — zigzag bladderwort

Lepidoziaceae

• Bazzania ambigua
• Bazzania denudata — bazzania lichen
• Bazzania pearsonii
• Bazzania tricrenata
• Bazzania trilobata — three-lobed bazzania
• Kurzia pauciflora

• Kurzia setacea
• Kurzia sylvatica
• Lepidozia filamentosa
• Lepidozia reptans
• Lepidozia sandvicensis

Leptodontaceae

• Forsstroemia trichomitria

Leskeaceae

• Bryohaplocladium microphyllum
• Bryohaplocladium virginianum
• Claopodium bolanderi
• Claopodium crispifolium
• Claopodium pellucinerve
• Claopodium whippleanum
• Lescuraea saxicola
• Leskea gracilescens
• Leskea obscura
• Leskea polycarpa
• Leskeella nervosa

• Lindbergia brachyptera — Lindberg's maple-moss
• Pseudoleskea atricha
• Pseudoleskea baileyi
• Pseudoleskea incurvata
• Pseudoleskea julacea
• Pseudoleskea patens
• Pseudoleskea radicosa
• Pseudoleskea stenophylla
• Pseudoleskeella sibirica
• Pseudoleskeella tectorum

Leucobryaceae

• Leucobryum glaucum — pincushion moss

Leucodontaceae

• Alsia californica
• Antitrichia californica
• Antitrichia curtipendula

• Dendroalsia abietina
• Leucodon brachypus
• Leucodon julaceus

Liliaceae

• Aletris farinosa — white-tubed colicroot
• Allium acuminatum — tapertip onion
• Allium amplectens — paper onion
• Allium burdickii — narrowleaf wild leek
• Allium canadense — meadow onion
• Allium cernuum — nodding onion
• Allium crenulatum — Olympic onion
• Allium geyeri — Geyer's onion
• Allium schoenoprasum — wild chives
• Allium stellatum — glade onion
• Allium textile — white wild onion
• Allium tricoccum — small white leek
• Allium validum — tall swamp onion
• Brodiaea coronaria — harvest firecracker-flower
• Calochortus apiculatus — Baker's mariposa lily
• Calochortus lyallii — Lyall's mariposa lily
• Calochortus macrocarpus — greenband mariposa lily
• Camassia leichtlinii — Leichtlin's camassia
• Camassia quamash — common camassia
• Camassia scilloides — wild hyacinth
• Chamaelirium luteum — Devil's-bit
• Clintonia borealis — blue bead-lily
• Clintonia uniflora — single-flowered clintonia
• Erythronium albidum — white trout-lily
• Erythronium americanum — yellow trout-lily
• Erythronium grandiflorum — largeflower yellow fawnlily
• Erythronium montanum — glacier fawnlily
• Erythronium oregonum — giant fawnlily
• Erythronium revolutum — pink fawnlily
• Fritillaria affinis — Ojai frittilary
• Fritillaria camschatcensis — Indian rice
• Fritillaria pudica — yellow mission-bells
• Gagea serotina (syn. Lloydia serotina) — common alpine-lily
• Hypoxis hirsuta — eastern yellow stargrass
• Lilium canadense — Canada lily
• Lilium columbianum — Columbian lily
• Lilium michiganense — Michigan lily
• Lilium philadelphicum — wood lily

• Lophiola aurea — golden crest
• Maianthemum canadense — wild lily-of-the-valley
• Maianthemum dilatatum — false lily-of-the-valley
• Maianthemum racemosum — Solomon's-plume
• Maianthemum stellatum — starflowered Solomon's-plume
• Maianthemum trifolium — three-leaf Solomon's-plume
• Medeola virginiana — Indian cucumber-root
• Nothoscordum bivalve — crow-poison
• Polygonatum biflorum — common Solomon's-seal
• Polygonatum pubescens — downy Solomon's-seal
• Prosartes hookeri — Hooker's mandarin
• Prosartes lanuginosa — yellow mandarin
• Prosartes smithii — Smith's fairy-bells
• Prosartes trachycarpa — rough-fruited mandarin
• Stenanthium occidentale — western featherbells
• Streptopus amplexifolius — clasping twisted-stalk
• Streptopus lanceolatus — rosy twisted-stalk
• Streptopus streptopoides — small twisted-stalk
• Streptopus x oreopolus — hybrid twisted-stalk
• Tofieldia coccinea — northern false-asphodel
• Tofieldia pusilla — Scotch false-asphodel
• Triantha glutinosa — sticky bog-asphodel
• Triantha occidentalis — western false-asphodel
• Trillium cernuum — nodding trillium
• Trillium erectum — ill-scent trillium
• Trillium flexipes — nodding trillium
• Trillium grandiflorum — white trillium
• Trillium ovatum — western trillium
• Trillium undulatum — painted trillium
• Triteleia grandiflora — largeflower triteleia
• Triteleia hyacinthina — white triteleia
• Uvularia grandiflora — largeflower bellwort
• Uvularia perfoliata — perfoliate bellwort
• Uvularia sessilifolia — sessile-leaf bellwort
• Veratrum viride — American false hellebore
• Xerophyllum tenax — western turkeybeard
• Zigadenus elegans — white camas
• Zigadenus venenosus — meadow deathcamas

Limnanthaceae

• Floerkea proserpinacoides — false mermaidweed

• Limnanthes macounii — Macoun's meadowfoam

Linaceae

• Linum australe — southern flax
• Linum compactum — Wyoming flax
• Linum lewisii — prairie flax
• Linum medium — stiff yellow flax

• Linum rigidum — stiff-stem flax
• Linum striatum — ridged yellow flax
• Linum sulcatum — grooved yellow flax
• Linum virginianum — Virginia flax

Loasaceae

• Mentzelia albicaulis — whitestem stickleaf
• Mentzelia decapetala — ten-petal stickleaf
• Mentzelia dispersa — Mada stickleaf

• Mentzelia laevicaulis — giant blazingstar
• Mentzelia veatchiana — Veatch's blazingstar

Lophocoleaceae

• Chiloscyphus pallescens
• Chiloscyphus polyanthos
• Lophocolea bidentata

• Lophocolea heterophylla
• Lophocolea minor

Lycopodiaceae

• Diphasiastrum alpinum — alpine clubmoss
• Diphasiastrum complanatum — trailing clubmoss
• Diphasiastrum digitatum — fan clubmoss
• Diphasiastrum sabinifolium — ground-fir
• Diphasiastrum sitchense — Alaskan clubmoss
• Diphasiastrum tristachyum — deeproot clubmoss
• Diphasiastrum x habereri
• Diphasiastrum x zeilleri
• Huperzia appressa — Appalachian fir-clubmoss
• Huperzia chinensis — Chinese clubmoss
• Huperzia haleakalae — Haleakalā fir-clubmoss
• Huperzia lucidula — shining clubmoss

• Huperzia occidentalis — western shining clubmoss
• Huperzia porophila — rock clubmoss
• Huperzia selago — fir clubmoss
• Huperzia x buttersii — Butters' clubmoss
• Lycopodiella appressa — southern bog clubmoss
• Lycopodiella inundata — bog clubmoss
• Lycopodium annotinum — stiff clubmoss
• Lycopodium clavatum — running-pine
• Lycopodium dendroideum — treelike clubmoss
• Lycopodium hickeyi — Hickey's clubmoss
• Lycopodium lagopus — one-cone ground-pine
• Lycopodium obscurum — tree clubmoss

Lythraceae

• Ammannia robusta — grand redstem
• Decodon verticillatus — hairy swamp loosestrife

• Lythrum alatum — winged loosestrife
• Rotala ramosior — toothcup