Ways to Identify Wildflowers - By Flower Color BLUE PURPLE Twinflower Bellflower (Creeping) Aster (New York) Venus Flytrap Blue Flag Azalea (Alpine) Wintergreen Blue-eyed Grass Beardtongue (Hairy) Yarrow Bluebells (Virginia) Blue Violet (Common) Bluets Blue Violet (Marsh) WHITE WITH PINK VEINS Chicory Comfrey (Common) Bilberry (Alpine) Lobelia (Great) Comfrey (Wild) Bladder Campion Fleabane (Common) Spring Beauty BROWN Gentian (Blind) Trillium (Painted) Cattails Grape Hyacinth Wood Sorrel (Common) Ginger (Wild) Harebell Herb Robert YELLOW GREEN Jack-in-the-Pulpit Bellwort Fairy Bells Larkspur (Dwarf) Birdsfoot Trefoil Green Dragon Loosestrife (Purple) Black-eyed Susan Poison Ivy Pickerelweed Bluebead Lily or Clintonia Ragweed (Common) Speedwell (Common) Butter and Eggs Twisted-stalk Teasel (Common) Coltsfoot Sarsaparilla (Wild) Venus Looking-glass Foxglove (Smooth False) Solomons Seal (Great) Vetch (Cow) Goatsbeard (Yellow) Stinging Nettle Golden Club Virginia Creeper RED Goldenrod (Rough Stemmed) Cardinal Flower Goldenrod (Woodland) or Blue- MAROON Columbine stemmed Pitcher Plant (Northern) Trumpet Honeysuckle Lady Slipper (Yellow) Trillium (Red) Marsh Marigold WHITE Mullein (Common) ORANGE Arrowhead Pineapple Weed Hawkweed (Common) Aster (White Wood) Primrose (Evening) Tiger Lily Aster (Whorled) Rough-fruited Cinquefoil Touch-me-not (Spotted) Baneberry (Red) Sundrops Baneberry (White) Trout Lily PINK Bloodroot Witch-hazel Clover (Rabbit-foot) Boneset (Common) Clover (Red) Bunchberry Deptford Pink Canada Mayflower Fireweed Diapensia Joe-Pye Weed (Eastern) Foamflower Joe-Pye Weed (Spotted) Goldthread Lady Slipper (Pink) Hepatica (Round-Lobed) Lapland Rosebay Hepatica (Sharp-Lobed) Laurel (Sheep) Hobblebush Meadow Rue (Tall) Indian Cucumber Root Meadowsweet Indian Pipe Milkweed (Common) Lily-of-the-valley Rose Twisted-stalk or Rosybells Miterwort Smartweed (Water) Partridgeberry Steeplebush Pearly Everlasting Pipsissewa Queen Anne’s Lace (Wild Carrot) Raspberry (Wild) ©Sheri Amsel www.exploringnature.org Ways to Identify Wildflowers - By Flower Color
BLUE FLOWERS
Bellflower (Creeping) Blue Flag Blue-eyed Grass Bluebells (Virginia) Bluets Chicory Lobelia (Great)
GREEN FLOWERS BROWN FLOWERS
Cattails Ginger (Wild) Fairy Bells Green Dragon Poison Ivy Ragweed
Twisted-stalk Sarsaparilla (Wild) Solomons Seal (Great) Stinging Nettle Virginia Creeper MAROON FLOWERS ORANGE FLOWERS
Pitcher Plant Trillium (Red) Hawkweed Tiger Lily Touch-me-not (Spotted) PINK FLOWERS
Clover (Rabbit-foot) Clover (Red) Deptford Pink Fireweed Joe-Pye Weed (Eastern and Spotted) Lady Slipper (Pink)
Lapland Rosebay Laurel (Sheep) Meadow Rue Meadowsweet Milkweed Rosybells Smartweed (Water) Steeplebush ©Sheri Amsel www.exploringnature.org Ways to Identify Wildflowers - By Flower Color
PURPLE FLOWERS
Aster (New York) Azalea (Alpine) Beardtongue (Hairy) Violet (Common) Violet (Marsh) Comfrey (Common) Fleabane
Gentian (Blind) Grape Hyacinth Harebell Herb Robert Jack-in-the-Pulpit Larkspur (Dwarf) Loosestrife (Purple)
Pickerelweed Speedwell (Common) Teasel (Common) Venus Looking-glass Vetch (Cow)
WHITE FLOWERS
Arrowhead Aster (White Wood) Aster (Whorled) Baneberry (Red) Baneberry (White) Bloodroot
Boneset Bunchberry Canada Mayflower Diapensia Foamflower Goldthread Hepatica (Round and Sharp-Lobed)
Hobblebush Indian Cucumber Root Indian Pipe Lily-of-the-valley Miterwort Partridgeberry Pearly Everlasting
Pipsissewa Queen Anne’s Lace Twinflower Venus Flytrap Wintergreen Yarrow ©Sheri Amsel www.exploringnature.org Ways to Identify Wildflowers - By Flower Color
RED FLOWERS
Cardinal Flower Columbine Trumpet Honeysuckle
WHITE FLOWERS WITH PINK VEINS
Bilberry (Alpine) Bladder Campion Spring Beauty Trillium (Painted) Wood Sorrel (Common)
YELLOW FLOWERS
Bellwort Birdsfoot Trefoil Black-eyed Susan Bluebead Lily or Clintonia Butter and Egg
Coltsfoot Foxglove (Smooth False) Goatsbeard (Yellow) Golden Club Goldenrod (Rough Stemmed)
Goldenrod (Woodland) Lady Slipper (Yellow) Marsh Marigold Mullein (Common) Pineapple Weed
Primrose (Evening) Rough-fruited Cinquefoil Sundrops Trout Lily Witch-hazel
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