Wildflower list

Wildflowers Listed In Alphabetical Order (Last updated - March 21, 2023)

If you know the name of the wildflower then find it in the alphabetical list below.
If you're not sure of the flower's name, but you know it's colour and some other distinguishing feature, like the number of petals, then
go to the colours list to browse thumbnail pictures of flowers having the same colour.
Check out the physical properties of flowers.
Link to reference materials for this site.
Try this wildflower identification site if you're still unsure of the name of your flower.

Other wildflower links

How to tell the difference between Giant Hogweed, Cow Parsnip and Angelica.

How to tell the difference between Poison Hemlock and Wild Parsnip.

How to tell the difference between Creeping Charlie, Purple Dead Nettle and Henbit.

Alyssum or Hoary Alyssum

Angelica or Golden Alexanders

Arrowhead (Sessile-Fruited)

Photo credit: John Sahli
Avens (White)

Barren Strawberry

Bastard Toadflax

Bedstraw Bellflower

Beggar Ticks or Bur-Marigolds

Bellflower (Creeping)

Birdfoot Trefoil

Bird's Eye Speedwell

Black-Eyed Susan

Black Medick

Black Snakeroot

Pale Swallowwort or Dog-Strangling Vine

Bladder Campion

Bladderwort

Blazing Star

Blue Eyed Grass

Blue Vervain

Bugloss or Blue Weed or Viper's Bugloss

Bouncing Bet

Bulbous Buttercup

Bullhead Lily

Bur Marigolds or Beggar Ticks

Butter & Eggs or Toadflax

Butterflyweed

Calla or Water Arum

Calopogon (Grass Pink)

Canada Lily or Wild Yellow Lily

Canada Thistle

Cardinal Flower

Carolina Jasmine

Chamomile or Stinking Mayweed

Chickweed and Star Chickweeed

Common, Sulphur & Shrubby Cinqfoil

Clammy Ground Cherry - Physalis heterophylla (Photo Credit: Nola Sager)

Colt's Foot

Common Skullcap

Cow Parsnip

Creeping Bellflower

Crown Vetch

Cuckoo Flower

Cucumber (Wild)

Curled Dock

Cut Leaved Toothwort

Daisy Fleabane

Dame's Rocket

Deptford Pink

Dog Tooth Violet or Trout Lily

Dutchman's Breeches

Dwarf Dandelion

Early Buttercup

English Plantain

Evening Lychnis

Evening Primrose

Everlasting Pea

False Dragonhead

False Solomon's Seal

Fiddleheads

Flat-Topped White Aster

Flax

Fleabane & Robin Plantain

Flowering Rush

Forget-Me-Nots

Four O'Clocks

Foxglove Beardtongue

Fragrant Water Lily

Fringed Loosestrife

Fringed Polygala or Gaywings

Garden Loosestrife (Domestic)

Garden Phlox

Garlic Mustard

Gaywings or Fringed Polygala

Gentian (Bottle)

Slender Gerardia

Germander (Wood Sage)

Giant Ragweed

Gill-Over-The-Ground or Creeping Charlie

Globe Thistle (Domestic Escape)

Goat's-Beard

Grass of Parnassus

Greater Lobelia and Pale-Spike Lobelia

Green Amaranth or Pigweed

Ground Ivy or Creeping Charlie or Gill O'er the Ground

Hairy Beardtongue

Hairy Woodrush

Hairy Willow Herb

Hawkweed (Orange)

Hedge Mustard

Helleborine

Hemlock (Water)

Hemp Nettle

Herb Robert

Hoary Alyssum

Hoary Vervain

Hound's Tongue

Pictures and text by Karen Major
Indian Cucumber Root

Photo Credit: Albert Paschkowiak

Indian Pipe

Indian Touch-Me-Not

Jack-in-the-Pulpit

Spotted Touch-Me-Not or Jewelweed

Joe-Pye-Weed or Red Boneset

Kidney Leaf Buttercup

Labrador Tea

Lance-Leaved Loosestrife

Leafy Spurge

Leek (Wild)

Lesser Celandine

Lily of the Valley (Garden Escape & Wild)

Lobelia (Spiked)

Marsh Marigold

Monkey Flower

Mossy Stonecrop

Musk Mallow

New England Aster

Nodding Ladies Tresses

Northern Green Orchis

Orange Hawkweed

Ox-eyed Daisy

Parsnip (Wild)

Pasture Rose

Pale Smartweed

Pale Swallow Wort

Pale Touch-Me-Not

Pearly Everlasting

Peppergrass

Phlox (Moss)

Pickerel Weed

Pineapple Weed

Pink Pyrola

Pitcherplant - Photo Credit: Sophie Seo

Be very careful!
Poison Ivy

Prairie Smoke

Purple Cone Flower

Purple Fragrant Raspberry

Purple Fringed Orchis

Purple Giant Hyssop

Purple Loosestrife

Queen Anne's Lace (Wild Carrot)

Rattlesnake Roots or White Lettuce

Red Trillium

Robin Plantain or Fleabane

Rose Pagonia (Snake Mouth)

Pictures and text by Karen Major
Rose Twisted Stalk

Salsify or Yellow Goat's Beard

Sarsaparilla

Scarlet Lychnis

Scarlet Pimpernel

Sheep Laurel Photo Credit - Carrie Audette

Shooting Star

Showy Lady's Slipper

Shrubby & Common Cinqfoil

Siberian Squill

Small Yellow Lady Slipper

Snake Mouth (Rose Pagonia)

Soapwort or Bouncing Bet

Solomon's Seal

Sow Thistle

Spotted Touch-Me-Not or Jewelweed

Spring Beauty

Spring Cress

Spring Forget-Me-Not

St. John's Wort

Stag Horn Sumac

Star of Bethlehem

Starry False Solomon's Seal

Stonecrop (Mossy)

Strawberry (Wild)

Sunflower (Showy)

Sunflower (Woodland)

Swamp Buttercup

Photo Credit: Karin Harridge

Swamp Candles

Swamp Loosestrife

Swamp Milkweed

Sweet Cecily

Tall Meadow Rue

Tall White Lettuce

Thimbleweed

Thistles - Canada & Pasture

Tick Trefoil

Toadflax (Butter & Eggs)

Toadshade (Sessile Trillium)

Trout Lily (Dog Tooth Violet)

Trumpet Honeysuckle

Virgin's Bower

Vetch - Cow & Crown

Violets - Yellow & Blue

Vipers Bugloss or Blueweed

Virginia Creeper

Virginia Waterleaf

Water Parsnip

Water Lily (Fragrant)

White Avens

White Lettuce or Rattlesnake Roots

White Snakeroot

White Sweet Clover

White Water Buttercup

White Wood Aster

Whorled Loosestrife

Wild Carrot

Wild Ginger

Wild Lettuce

Wild Sarsaparilla

Wild Stonecrop

Wild Yellow Iris

Photo Credit: Norm Leckie (Ottawa area)

Winter Aconite

Winter Cress

Wood Betony or Lousewort Photo Credit: Ruth Mann

Woodland Sunflower

Yellow Lady's Slipper (Small)

Yellow Lady's Slipper

Yellow Loosestrife

Yellow Sweet Clover

Yellow Wood Sorel

Zigzag Goldenrod

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