The following pages show photos and a short description of the wildflowers we grow or have grown in the past. They’re arranged alphabetically by Genus — often by the traditional Genus rather than the updated ones that don’t match my reference materials.
DEFINITION OF TERMS:
- KEYSTONE means they are listed by National Wildlife Federation as core plants for a wildlife garden in my ecoregion (Ecoregion 8).
- NOT QUITE NATIVE means they are slightly out of range but adjacent to NYS as determined by GoBotany and NY Flora Atlas.
- Otherwise the plant is a NY-native or native to the area noted.
- Agastache foeniculum – Anise hyssop (MIDWEST NATIVE)
- Agastache scrophulariifolia – Purple giant hyssop
- Ageratina altissima – White snakeroot
- Allium cernuum – Nodding onion
- Allium tricoccum – Wild leeks aka ramps
- Amsonia tabernaemontana – Common bluestar (MIDWEST NATIVE)
- Anaphalis margaritacea – Pearly everlasting
- Anemone canadensis – Canada anemone
- Anemone virginiana – Thimbleweed
- Antennaria plantaginifolia – Plantain pussytoes
- Antennaria solitaria – Singlehead pussytoes
- Antennaria virginica – Shale barrens pussytoes
- Aquilegia canadensis – Wild columbine
- Aralia racemosa – American spikenard
- Arisaema dracontium – Green dragon
- Arisaema triphyllum – Jack in the pulpit
- Aruncus dioicus – Goatsbeard (NOT QUITE NATIVE)
- Asarum canadense – Wild ginger
- Asclepias exaltata – Poke milkweed
- Asclepias incarnata – Swamp milkweed
- Asclepias purpurascens – Purple milkweed
- Asclepias sullivantii – Sullivant’s milkweed (MIDWEST NATIVE)
- Asclepias syriaca – Common milkweed
- Asclepias tuberosa – Butterfly weed
- Asclepias verticillata – Whorled milkweed
- Aster azureus – Sky blue aster KEYSTONE
- Aster cordifolius – Heart-leaf aster KEYSTONE
- Aster divaricatus – White wood aster
- Aster laevis – Smooth aster KEYSTONE
- Aster macrophyllus Bigleaf aster
- Aster novae-angliae – New England aster KEYSTONE
- Aster novae-belgii – New York aster KEYSTONE
- Aster pilosus – Frost aster KEYSTONE
- Aster prenanthoides – Crooked aster KEYSTONE
- Aster ptarmicoides – Upland white aster
- Aster umbellatus – Flat-top white aster
- Baptisia australis – False indigo (NOT QUITE NATIVE)
- Blephilia ciliata – Downy wood mint
- Boltonia asteroides – Boltonia ‘Snowbank’ (MIDWEST NATIVE)
- Caltha palustris – Marsh marigold
- Camassia scilloides – Wild hyacinth (NOT QUITE NATIVE)
- Campanulastrum americanum – Tall bellflower
- Cassia hebecarpa – Wild senna (aka Senna hebecarpa)
- Caulophyllum thalictroides – Blue cohosh
- Chelone glabra – White turtlehead
- Chelone lyonii – Pink turtlehead (SOUTHEAST NATIVE)
- Chrysogonum virginianum – Golden star (NOT QUITE NATIVE)
- Cimicifuga racemosa – Black cohosh/Bugbane
- Cirsium discolor – Pasture thistle KEYSTONE
- Collinsonia canadense – Horse balm
- Coreopsis tripteris – Tall coreopsis
- Coreopsis verticillata – Coreopsis ‘Zagreb’ (SOUTHEAST NATIVE)
- Dalea purpurea – Prairie clover (MIDWEST NATIVE)
- Desmodium canadense – Showy tick-trefoil
- Dicentra cucullaria – Dutchman’s breeches
- Dicentra eximia – Everblooming bleeding heart (NOT QUITE NATIVE)
- Dodecatheon meadia – Eastern shooting star
- Echinacea pallida – Pale coneflower (MIDWEST NATIVE)
- Echinacea purpurea – Purple coneflower (MIDWEST NATIVE)
- Erigeron annuus – Eastern daisy fleabane KEYSTONE
- Erythronium americum – Trout lily
- Eupatorium coelestinum – Wild ageratum (NOT QUITE NATIVE)
- Eupatorium maculatum – Joe-pye
- Eupatorium perfoliatum – Common boneset
- Eupatorium purpureum – Sweet joe-pye weed
- Eupatorium serotinum – Late boneset
- Euphorbia corollata – Flowering spurge
- Filipendula rubra – Queen of the prairie (NOT QUITE NATIVE)
- Fragaria vesca – Woodland strawberry
- Gentiana andrewsii – Closed bottle gentian
- Geranium maculatum – Spotted geranium
- Geum rivale – Purple avens
- Geum triflorum – Prairie smoke
- Helenium autumnale – Sneezeweed aka Swamp sunflower KEYSTONE
- Helianthus divaricatus – Woodland sunflower KEYSTONE
- Heliopsis helianthoides – Oxeye daisy KEYSTONE
- Hepatica acutiloba – Sharp-lobed hepatica
- Heuchera americana – Alumroot
- Hibiscus moscheutos – Common rose mallow
- Hibiscus palustris – Swamp rose mallow
- Hydrastis canadensis – Goldenseal
- Impatiens capensis – Spotted jewelweed
- Impatiens pallida – Pale jewelweed
- Iris cristata – Crested iris
- Iris verna – Dwarf iris (NOT QUITE NATIVE)
- Iris versicolor – Blue flag iris
- Jeffersonia diphylla – Twinleaf
- Liatris spicata – Gayfeather (NOT QUITE NATIVE)
- Lilium superbum – Turk’s cap lily
- Lobelia cardinalis – Cardinal flower lobelia
- Lobelia syphilitica – Blue lobelia
- Mertensia virginica – Bluebells
- Micranthes pensylvanica – Swamp saxifrage
- Mimulus ringens – Monkey-flower
- Mitchella repens – Partridgeberry
- Mitella diphylla – Miterwort
- Monarda bradburiana – Bradbury’s bee balm (MIDWEST NATIVE)
- Monarda didyma – Oswego tea aka beebalm
- Monarda fistulosa – Bergamot
- Monarda punctata – Dotted horsemint
- Napaea dioica – Glade mallow (NOT QUITE NATIVE)
- Oenothera biennis – Evening primrose KEYSTONE
- Oenothera fruticosa or perennis – Sundrops primrose KEYSTONE
- Oenothera speciosa – Pink ladies primrose (MIDWEST NATIVE)
- Pachysandra procumbens – Allegheny spurge (SOUTHEAST NATIVE)
- Penstemon digitalis – Foxglove beardtongue (NOT QUITE NATIVE)
- Penstemon digitalis – Foxglove beardtongue ‘Husker’s Red’ (NOT QUITE NATIVE)
- Penstemon hirsutus – Hairy beardtongue
- Penstemon smallii – Small’s beardtongue (SOUTHEAST NATIVE)
- Phlox divaricata – Woodland phlox
- Phlox paniculata – Summer phlox (NOT QUITE NATIVE)
- Phlox stolonifera – Creeping phlox ‘Sherwood Purple’ (NOT QUITE NATIVE)
- Phlox subulata – Moss phlox
- Physostegia virginiana – Obedient plant
- Phytolacca americana – Pokeweed
- Podophyllum peltatum – Mayapple
- Polygonatum biflorum – Solomon’s seal
- Polygonatum commutatum – Giant Solomon’s seal
- Porteranthus trifoliatus – Bowman’s root
- Pycnanthemum incanum – Hoary mountain mint
- Pycnanthemum muticum – Clustered mountain mint
- Pycnanthemum tenuifolium – Slender-leaved mountain mint
- Pycnanthemum verticillatum var. pilosum – Whorled mountain mint
- Pycnanthemum virginianum – Virginia mountain mint
- Ratibida columnifera – Mexican hat (MIDWEST NATIVE)
- Ratibida pinnata – Gray-headed coneflower (NOT QUITE NATIVE)
- Rudbeckia fulgida – Eastern coneflower ‘Goldsturm’ (NOT QUITE NATIVE)
- Rudbeckia laciniata – Cutleaf coneflower KEYSTONE
- Rudbeckia subtomentosa – Sweet coneflower (MIDWEST NATIVE)
- Rudbeckia triloba – Brown-eyed Susan KEYSTONE
- Ruellia humilis – Wild petunia (NOT QUITE NATIVE)
- Sanguinaria canadensis – Bloodroot
- Sanguisorba canadensis – Canada burnet
- Scrophularia marilandica – Late figwort
- Scutellaria incanum – Hoary skullcap
- Sedum ternatum – Wild stonecrop (SOUTHEAST NATIVE up to PA)
- Senecio aureus – Golden ragwort
- Senna hebecarpa – Wild senna
- Silene virginica – Fire pink
- Sisyrinchium angustifolium – Blue-eyed grass
- Smilacina racemosa – False Solomon’s seal
- Smilacina stellata – Starry Solomon’s seal
- Solidago caesia – Wreath goldenrod KEYSTONE
- Solidago canadensis – Canada goldenrod KEYSTONE
- Solidago flexicaulis – Zigzag goldenrod KEYSTONE
- Solidago patula – Roundleaf goldenrod KEYSTONE
- Solidago rigida – Stiff goldenrod KEYSTONE
- Solidago rugosa – Rough-stemmed goldenrod KEYSTONE
- Solidago sempervirens – Seaside goldenrod KEYSTONE
- Solidago shortii – Short’s goldenrod ‘Solar Cascade’ (MIDWEST NATIVE)
- Solidago speciosa – Showy goldenrod KEYSTONE
- Spigelia marilandica – Indian pink (SOUTHEAST NATIVE)
- Stylophorum diphyllum – Woodland poppy (NOT QUITE NATIVE)
- Thalictrum dioicum – Early meadow rue
- Thalictrum pubescens – Tall meadow rue
- Thalictrum thalictroides – Rue anemone
- Tiarella cordifolia – Running foamflower
- Tiarella wherryi – Clumping foamflower
- Tradescantia virginiana (or ohioensis?) – Spiderwort
- Trillium erectum – Wake-robin trillium
- Trillium grandiflorum – Great white trillium
- Trollius laxus ssp. laxus – Spreading globeflower
- Uvularia grandiflora – Large merrybells
- Verbena hastata – Blue vervain
- Vernonia noveboracensis – New York ironweed KEYSTONE
- Veronicastrum virginicum – Culver’s root
- Viola labradorica – Labrador violet
- Viola sororia – Common blue violet
- Waldsteinia fragarioides – Barren strawberry
- Zizia aurea – Golden alexander