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| Common Name | Other Names | Scientific Name | Family |
|---|---|---|---|
| wand black root | wand blackroot | Pterocaulon virgatum | Asteraceae |
| warty panicgrass | Panicum verrucosum | Poaceae | |
| warty sedge | Carex verrucosa | Cyperaceae | |
| warty spurge | roughpod spurge, prairie spurge | Euphorbia spathulata | Euphorbiaceae |
| water cowbane | Oxypolis filiformis | Apiaceae | |
| water hickory | bitter pecan | Carya aquatica | Juglandaceae |
| water lettuce | water-lettuce, apon-apon, pistie, tropical duckweed, laitue d'eau, lechuguita de agua | Pistia stratiotes | Araceae |
| water locust | swamp-locust, waterlocust, water honeylocust | Gleditsia aquatica | Fabaceae |
| water oak | Quercus nigra | Fagaceae | |
| water paspalum | Paspalum modestum | Poaceae | |
| water southern morning-glory | water dawnflower | Stylisma aquatica | Convolvulaceae |
| water spangles | water fern | Salvinia minima | Salviniaceae |
| water tupelo | blackgum, sourgum, water gum, tupelo gum, tupelo, cotton-gum, water-tupelo | Nyssa aquatica | Cornaceae |
| watershield | schreber's watershield, purple wen-dock | Brasenia schreberi | Cabombaceae |
| waterspider bog orchid | waterspider false reinorchid, habenaria acuática, water-spider orchid | Habenaria repens | Orchidaceae |
| waterthyme | Hydrilla verticillata | Hydrocharitaceae | |
| waxy mannagrass | Glyceria declinata | Poaceae | |
| wedgeleaf prairie clover | Dalea emarginata | Fabaceae | |
| west indian dropseed | smut grass, rattail smutgrass, smutgrass, smut-grass | Sporobolus indicus | Poaceae |
| west indian meadowbeauty | Rhexia cubensis | Melastomataceae | |
| west indian shrubverbena | texas lantana, calico bush, hierba de cristo | Lantana horrida | Verbenaceae |
| western dwarfdandelion | Krigia occidentalis | Asteraceae | |
| western horsenettle | torrey's nightshade, torrey nightshade, western horse-nettle | Solanum dimidiatum | Solanaceae |
| western ragweed | cuman ragweed, perennial ragweed | Ambrosia psilostachya | Asteraceae |
| western rough goldenrod | Solidago radula | Asteraceae | |
| whip nutrush | whip-grass, whipgrass | Scleria triglomerata | Cyperaceae |
| white arrow arum | white arum, spoonflower | Peltandra sagittifolia | Araceae |
| white ash | american ash | Fraxinus americana | Oleaceae |
| white avens | Geum canadense | Rosaceae | |
| white baneberry | baneberry, doll's eyes | Actaea pachypoda | Ranunculaceae |
| white clover | ladino clover, dutch clover, white dutch clover | Trifolium repens | Fabaceae |
| white colic-root | white colicroot, colic root, unicorn root | Aletris farinosa | Liliaceae |
| white doll's daisy | star boltonia, white doll's-daisy, boltonia | Boltonia asteroides | Asteraceae |
| white edge sedge | Carex debilis | Cyperaceae | |
| white fawnlily | white troutlily, white dogtooth-violet, adder's tongue | Erythronium albidum | Liliaceae |
| white four o'clock | Mirabilis albida | Nyctaginaceae | |
| white fringed orchid | Platanthera blephariglottis | Orchidaceae | |
| white fringetree | fringetree, fringe tree, grancy graybeard | Chionanthus virginicus | Oleaceae |
| white mountain-mint | white mountain mint, whiteleaf mountainmint | Pycnanthemum albescens | Lamiaceae |
| white oak | northern white oak, stave oak, ridge white oak, forked-leaf white oak, chene blanc | Quercus alba | Fagaceae |
| white panicle aster | whitepanicle aster, panicled aster, lanceleaf aster, eastern lined aster | Symphyotrichum lanceolatum | Asteraceae |
| white poplar | silver poplar, alamo blanco | Populus alba | Salicaceae |
| white prairie-clover | white prairie clover, white dalea, white prairieclover, slender white prairieclover | Dalea candida | Fabaceae |
| white sagebrush | cudweed sagewort, louisiana sagewort, gray sagewort, louisiana wormwood, mugwort wormwood, prairie sage, silver sage, louisiana sage, white sage, silver wormwood | Artemisia ludoviciana | Asteraceae |
| white snakeroot | Ageratina altissima | Asteraceae | |
| white thoroughwort | white-bracted eupatorium | Eupatorium album | Asteraceae |
| white tridens | white fluff grass, white top | Tridens albescens | Poaceae |
| white vervain | white verbena, nettle-leaved vervain | Verbena urticifolia | Verbenaceae |
| white wand beardtongue | white wand penstemon, tube penstemon | Penstemon tubaeflorus | Scrophulariaceae |
| white waterlily | american waterlily, american white waterlily, american white water lily, fragrant white water lily, fragrant water lily, white water lily, fragrant white waterlily, sweet-scented white water lily, sweet-scented water lily | Nymphaea odorata | Nymphaeaceae |
| white wild indigo | white false indigo, white baptisia | Baptisia alba | Fabaceae |
| whitebract blazing-star | pinkscale blazing star, pinkscale gayfeather | Liatris elegans | Asteraceae |
| white-bract thoroughwort | justiceweed, justice-weed | Eupatorium leucolepis | Asteraceae |
| whitehead bogbutton | hairy pipewort, whitehead bog-button | Lachnocaulon anceps | Eriocaulaceae |
| whitemouth dayflower | erect dayflower, widow's tears, day flower, white-mouth dayflower, hierba del pollo | Commelina erecta | Commelinaceae |
| whitenymph | Trepocarpus aethusae | Apiaceae | |
| whiteroot rush | Juncus brachycarpus | Juncaceae | |
| whitestar | pitted morningglory, white morningglory | Ipomoea lacunosa | Convolvulaceae |
| wholeleaf rosinweed | entire-leaf rosinweed | Silphium integrifolium | Asteraceae |
| whorled marshpennywort | whorled pennyroyal, whorled marsh pennywort, whorled pennywort | Hydrocotyle verticillata | Apiaceae |
| whorled milkweed | eastern whorled milkweed | Asclepias verticillata | Asclepiadaceae |
| whorled milkwort | Polygala verticillata | Polygalaceae | |
| widgeongrass | beaked ditch-grass, widgeon-grass, | Ruppia maritima | Ruppiaceae |
| widowsfrill | starry campion | Silene stellata | Caryophyllaceae |
| wild blue phlox | louisiana phlox, blue woodland phlox, sweet william, wild sweet william, blue phlox | Phlox divaricata | Polemoniaceae |
| wild bushbean | Macroptilium lathyroides | Fabaceae | |
| wild coco | eulophia, giant orchid | Pteroglossaspis ecristata | Orchidaceae |
| wild comfrey | blue houndstongue | Cynoglossum virginianum | Boraginaceae |
| wild hydrangea | sevenbark | Hydrangea arborescens | Hydrangeaceae |
| wild oat | wild oats, flaxgrass, oatgrass, wheat oats | Avena fatua | Poaceae |
| wild parsnip | garden parsnip | Pastinaca sativa | Apiaceae |
| wild poinsettia | mexican fireplant, painted euphorbia, painted leaf | Euphorbia heterophylla | Euphorbiaceae |
| wild quinine | american fever-few, eastern parthenium | Parthenium integrifolium | Asteraceae |
| wild radish | Raphanus raphanistrum | Brassicaceae | |
| wild yam | Dioscorea villosa | Dioscoreaceae | |
| willdenow's maiden fern | neke fern | Thelypteris interrupta | Thelypteridaceae |
| willdenow's sedge | basal-fruit caric sedge, widow caric sedge | Carex basiantha | Cyperaceae |
| willow oak | Quercus phellos | Fagaceae | |
| willowleaf aster | veiny lined aster | Symphyotrichum praealtum | Asteraceae |
| windowbox woodsorrel | pink wood sorrel | Oxalis rubra | Oxalidaceae |
| winged elm | wahoo, cork elm | Ulmus alata | Ulmaceae |
| winged flax | Linum alatum | Linaceae | |
| winged lythrum | wing-angle loosestrife | Lythrum alatum | Lythraceae |
| winged primrose-willow | wing-cup water-primrose | Ludwigia alata | Onagraceae |
| winged sumac | flameleaf sumac, shining sumac, mountain sumac, dwarf sumac | Rhus copallinum | Anacardiaceae |
| wing-leaf primrose-willow | wingleaf water primrose, wingleaf primrose-willow, primrose willow, primrose-willow | Ludwigia decurrens | Onagraceae |
| wingleaf soapberry | soapberry, wild china tree | Sapindus saponaria | Sapindaceae |
| wingstem | Verbesina alternifolia | Asteraceae | |
| winter bentgrass | spring bentgrass, ticklegrass | Agrostis hyemalis | Poaceae |
| winter vetch | hairy vetch, woollypod vetch | Vicia villosa | Fabaceae |
| witchgrass | panicgrass, ticklegrass, tumble panic, tumbleweed grass, witches hair, annual witchgrass, common panic grass, common witchgrass | Panicum capillare | Poaceae |
| wolf's spikerush | wolf's spikerush | Eleocharis wolfii | Cyperaceae |
| woodland pinkroot | pinkroot, indian pink | Spigelia marilandica | Loganiaceae |
| woodland sunflower | rough sunflower | Helianthus divaricatus | Asteraceae |
| woodrush flatsedge | Cyperus entrerianus | Cyperaceae | |
| woods wine cups | woods poppymallow, woods poppy mallow, woodland poppy mallow | Callirhoe papaver | Malvaceae |
| woodvamp | decumaria, climbing hydrangea, wood-vamp | Decumaria barbara | Hydrangeaceae |
| woolly groundsel | woolly ragwort, southern woolly groundsel | Packera tomentosa | Asteraceae |
| woolly huckleberry | hirsute huckleberry | Gaylussacia mosieri | Ericaceae |
| woolly plantain | bristle-bract plantain, patagonian plantain | Plantago patagonica | Plantaginaceae |
| woolly rosette grass | Dichanthelium scabriusculum | Poaceae | |
| woolly sunbonnets | sun-bonnets | Chaptalia tomentosa | Asteraceae |
| woolly tidestromia | Tidestromia lanuginosa | Amaranthaceae | |
| woollysheath threeawn | woolysheath threeawn | Aristida lanosa | Poaceae |
| wright's morning-glory | palmleaf morningglory, wright's morningglory | Ipomoea wrightii | Convolvulaceae |
| wrinkled jointgrass | wrinkled jointtail grass | Mnesithea rugosa | Poaceae |
| wrinkleleaf goldenrod | wrinkle-leaf goldenrod, rough-leaved goldenrod, roughleaf goldenrod, rough-stemmed goldenrod, roughstem goldenrod | Solidago rugosa | Asteraceae |