Tyrrell County’s Special Wildlife and Plants

Endangered or Threatened Wildlife Species

  • American alligator

  • Bald eagle

  • Red Wolf

  • Red-cockaded woodpecker

  • Short nosed sturgeon

Other Wildlife Species of Interest

  • Bobcat

  • Black bear

  • White tailed deer

  • Wood duck

  • Peregrine falcon

  • Red fox

  • Osprey

  • Barred, horned and eastern screech owl

  • Clapper, kin, Virginia and black rail

  • Prothonotary warbler

  • Black-throated green warbler (Wayne’s warbler)

Plants

  • Alligator weed (Alternaria philoxeroides)

  • American holly (Ilex opaca)

  • American mistletoe (Phoradendron leucarpum serotinum)

  • Arrowhead (Sagittaria latifolia)

  • Beauty berry (Callicarpa americana)

  • Bitterweed (Helenium amarum)

  • Blue toadflax (Linaria canadensis)

  • Blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum)

  • Blue-eyed grass (Sisyrinchium angustifolium)

  • Broomsedge (Andropogan virginicus)

  • Cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis)

  • Carolina cranesbill (Geranium carolinanum)

  • Climbing hempweed (Mikania scandens)

  • Common blue violet (Viola sp.)

  • Common cattail (Typha latifolia)

  • Dodder, love vine (Cuscuta sp.)

  • Dog fennel (Eupatorium capillifolium)

  • Downy foxglove (Aureolaria virginica)

  • Duckweed (Lemna perpusilla)

  • Dwarf azalea (Rhododendron atlanticum)

  • Dwarf cinquefoil (Potentilla canadensis)

  • Dwarf iris (Iris verna)

  • Elderberry (Sambucus canadensis)

  • Fetterbush (Leucanthoe sp.)

  • Floating bladderwort bladderwort (Utricularia inflata)

  • Flowering dogwood (Cornus florida)

  • Fragrant water lily, star lily (Nymphaea odorata)

  • Fringe-tree, old man's beard  (Chionanthus virginicus)

  • Gall-berry (Ilex sp.)

  • Goldenrod (Solidago sp. ), several species

  • Grass pink (Calopogon pulchellus)

  • Green arrow arum (Peltandra virginica)

  • Green passionflower (Passiflora sp.)

  • Greenbrier, smilax (Smilax sp.) several species

  • Hastate-leaved dock (Rumex hastatus)

  • Horrible thistle (cirsium horridulum)

  • Horse nettle (Solanum carolinensis)

  • Ironweed (Vernonia noveboracensis)

  • Japanese honeysuckle (Lonicera japonicum)

  • Jimson-weed (Datura stramonium)

  • Knotweed (Polygonum pensylvanicum)

  • Ladies' tresses (Spiranthes sp.)

  • Leather flower (Clematis viorna)

  • Lizard's-tail (Saururus cernuus)

  • Lyre-leaved sage (Salvia lyrata)

  • Manroot morning glory (Ipomoea pandurata)

  • Marsh pink (Sabatia stellaris)

  • Morning glory (Ipomoea purpurea) occurs in several colors

  • Muscadine grape (Vitis rotundifolia)

  • Orange milkwort  (Polygala lutea)

  • Oxeye daisey (Chrysanthemum leucanthemum)

  • Pale meadow beauty (Rhexia mariana)

  • Partridge pea (Chamaecrista pasciculata)

  • Partridgeberry (Mitchella repens)

  • Peppergrass (Lepidum virginicum)

  • Pickerelweed (Pontederia cordata)

  • Pinxter-flower (Rhododendron nudiflorum)

  • Pokeweed (Phytolacca americana)

  • Purple passionflower, maypop (Passiflora incarnata)

  • Purple pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea)

  • Queen's Anne's lace (Daucus carota)

  • Rabbit tobacco (Gnaphalium obtusifolium)

  • Red maple (Acer rubrum)

  • Red morning glory (Ipomoea hederifolia)

  • Rosebud orchid, spreading pogonia (Cleistes divaricata)

  • Rose-crested orchid (Pogonia ophioglossoides)

  • Sassafras (Sassafras albidum)

  • Sheep laurel (Kalmia angustifolium)

  • Silky camellia (Stewartia malacodendron) extremely rare

  • Skullcap (Scutellaria integrifolia)

  • Soapwort gentian (Gentiana saponaria)

  • Southern blue flag (Iris virginica)

  • Spanish bayonet, bear grass (Yucca filamentosa)

  • Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides)

  • Spatter dock (Nuphar lutea)

  • Spotted hoe-pye-weed (Eupatorium maculatum)

  • Swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata)

  • Swamp rose (Rosa palustris)

  • Swamp rose mallow (Hibiscus moscheutos)

  • Sweet bay, swamp bay (Magnolia virginiana)

  • Sweet white violet (Viola blanda)

  • Sweetleaf (Symplocos tinctoria)

  • Tag alder (Alnus serrulata)

  • Teaberry, dwarf wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens)

  • Trumpet honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens)

  • Venus' looking-glass (Specularia perfoliata)

  • Water smartweed (Polygonum amphibium)

  • White fringed orchid (Habenaria blephariglottis)

  • Wild strawberry (Fragaria virginiana)

  • Wood lily (Lilium sp.)

  • Yellow jessamine (Gelsemium sempervirens)

  • Yellow pitcher plant (Sarracenia flava)

  • Yellow sorrel, sour grass (Oxalis sp.)

  • Yellow star-grass (Hypoxis hirsuta)

  • Yellow-eyed grass (Xyris torta)

  • Zenobia (Zenobia pulverulenta)

 
 

Tyrrell County Ecotourism Committee
PO Box 55, 203 S. Ludington Dr., Columbia, NC  27925    Ph. 252-796-0723