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A List of Wildflowers in Order of Approximate Bloom Time

 

February

Skunk Cabbage Symplocarpus foetidus

April

Dutchman's Breeches Dicentra cucullaria

Bloodroot Sanguinaria canadensis

Twin-leaf Jeffersonia diphylla

Round-lobed Hepatica Hepatica americana

Trout Lily Erythronium americanum

Shortia Shortia galacifolia

Wild Bleeding Heart Dicentra eximia

Wild Ginger Asarum canadense

Great White Trillium Trillium grandiflorum

Purple Trillium Trillium erectum

Blue Phlox Phlox divaricata

Creeping Phlox Phlox stolonifera

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Early to Mid May

Wood Anemone Anemone quinquefolia

Sweet White Violet Viola blanda

Eastern Shooting Star Dodecatheon meadia

White Baneberry Actaea alba

Red Baneberry Actaea rubra

Large-flowered Bellwort Uvularia grandiflora

Wild Oats Uvularia sessilifolia

Virginia Bluebells Mertensia virginica

Blue Cohosh Caulophyllum thalictroides

Wild Columbine Aquilegia canadensis

Foamflower Tiarella cordifolia

Globe Flower Trollius laxus

Golden Seal Hydrastis canadensis

Dwarf Crested Iris Iris cristata

Jack-in-the-Pulpit Arisaema triphyllum

Yellow Lady's Slipper Cypripedium calceolus

Marsh Marigold Caltha palustris

Mayapple Podophyllum peltatum

Great Solomon's Seal Polygonatum canaliclatum

Canada Violet Viola canadensis

Downy Violet Viola pubescens

Canada Mayflower Maianthemum canadense

Herb-Robert Geranium robertianum


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