Jun 17, 2026
Pines Bridge Historic Districti
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Coastal nature, woodlands, marshes, and birdlife
Flower highlights, bloom-focused sightings, and the best places to look for flowers in Connecticut. Use the highlight list to start quickly, then work through the full guide for a broader local view.
Sightings
91
Species
272
Active Months
12

Category Overview
This guide focuses on flowers within Connecticut's wider region guide, with bloom-rich sightings and the places where wildflowers help define the landscape through the seasons.
Latest Sightings
A recent look at flower sightings across Connecticut.
Jun 17, 2026
Pines Bridge Historic DistrictPhoto attribution
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Jun 16, 2026
Glastonbury Historic DistrictPhoto attribution
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Jun 16, 2026
Glastonbury Historic DistrictPhoto attribution
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Jun 7, 2026
East Windsor Hill Historic DistrictPhoto attribution
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Jun 7, 2026
East Windsor Hill Historic DistrictPhoto attribution
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Jun 7, 2026
East Windsor Hill Historic DistrictPhoto attribution
(c) Mark Apgar, some rights reserved (CC BY)
License: CC BY 4.0 ↗
Image may be shown cropped inside the card frame.
Sightings Map
Start wide, then zoom in to see where flower sightings cluster across Connecticut.
Top Highlights
These flowers are snapped the most across this region.





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Places to Start
These place guides connect well with the flowers covered in this region.

Connecticut, US
You might spot Eastern Skunk Cabbage and Eastern White Pine.
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Connecticut, US
You might spot Eastern Gray Squirrel, Dark-Eyed Junco, and House Sparrow.
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Connecticut, US
You might spot Osprey, Diamondback Terrapin, and Monarch.
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Connecticut, US
You might spot Garlic Mustard and Common Eastern Bumble Bee.
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Connecticut, US
You might spot Eastern Skunk Cabbage and Garlic Mustard.
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Connecticut, US
You might spot Green Frog and Mountain Laurel.
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Full Guide
The complete ranked list for this guide, ordered by sightings count.
common mugwort
Canada mayflower
Mountain Laurel
pink lady's slipper
azure bluet
Cranesbill
eastern white pine
sassafras
cinnamon fern
garlic mustard
sensitive fern
white clover
Eastern Skunk Cabbage
mapleleaf viburnum
Tulip Tree
eastern hemlock
ragged-robin
American pokeweed
common milkweed
multiflora rose
Yellow Iris
Clover
eastern poison ivy
Christmas fern
Greater celandine
Japanese knotweed
dame's rocket
northern starflower
wood anemone
Jack-in-the-Pulpit
Oriental bittersweet
Solomon's plume
narrow-leaved bittercress
winged euonymus
Virginia creeper
Witch Hazel
common star-of-Bethlehem
ground-ivy
mayapple
partridgeberry
wild sarsaparilla
yellow trout lily
American Royal Fern
Cucumber Root
Sweet Pepperbush
bloodroot
hay-scented fern
marginal wood fern
purple crownvetch
ribwort plantain
striped maple
striped wintergreen
Common Wrinkle-Leaved Goldenrod
Goutweed
New York fern
hemp dogbane
red trillium
Ajuga
American black elderberry
American jumpseed
Ghost Pipe
Silky Dogwood
autumn olive
common cowparsnip
great mullein
lesser celandine
round-lobed hepatica
sweetfern
tree-of-heaven
white campion
American cancer-root
American wintergreen
Heath Speedwell
Japanese barberry
Pinxter Flower
Purple Milkweed
Red Columbine
Vinca Periwinkle
Virginia strawberry
common bracken
downy rattlesnake plantain
field horsetail
green false hellebore
intermediate wood fern
interrupted fern
northern maidenhair fern
wineberry
Black Medick
Flowering Dogwood
Japanese stiltgrass
Siberian squill
Summer snowflake
Virginia Saxifrage
White Wood Aster
bastard toadflax
bittersweet nightshade
bluebead lily
chicory
common jewelweed
cypress spurge
dwarf ginseng
horseweed
mile-a-minute weed
northern blue flag
northern catalpa
pickerelweed
purple-flowered raspberry
rock harlequin
rue anemone
sheep laurel
swamp milkweed
tall meadow-rue
Allegheny blackberry
American white waterlily
Black Tupelo
Bull Thistle
Canadian lousewort
Clasping Milkweed
Eastern Cottonwood
Far Eastern Smartweed
Ivy-leaved toadflax
Little Bluestem
Ostrich Fern
Philadelphia fleabane
Red Osier Dogwood
Small-Flowered Buttercup
Steeplebush
Virginia waterleaf
Whorled Loosestrife
Yarrow
beaked hazelnut
bladder campion
box elder
buttonbush
common cinquefoil
common reed
common selfheal
common soapwort
creeping Jenny
eastern wild indigo
ebony spleenwort
golden Alexanders
marsh marigold
mountain woodsorrel
northern spicebush
oxeye daisy
pitch pine
prickly lettuce
purple pitcher plant
red-berried elder
rock polypody
shagbark hickory
shining sumac
spinulose wood fern
sweet vernal grass
white meadowsweet
wide leek
Alsike clover
American Holly
American Hophornbeam
American burnweed
American hazelnut
Arrow-Leaved Tearthumb
Asian jumpseed
Asiatic dayflower
Barberry
Beach Plum
Black Locust
Blue Spruce
Blue Vervain
Bonfire Moss
Broad Beech Fern
Broad-Leaved Dock
Canada Toadflax
Canadian bunchberry
Carolina sweetshrub
Celandine Poppy
Cheatgrass
Christmas berry
Cornflower
Deptford pink
Dusky Crane's-bill
Dutchman's breeches
European field pansy
European swallow-wort
Five-leaf akebia
Flat-Branched Tree-Clubmoss
Flat-leaved Scalewort
Fox Grape
Foxglove Beardtongue
Herb Robert
Hooked Buttercup
Japanese iris
Jetbead
Johnson Grass
Lady's Smock
Large Whorled Pogonia
Large-leaved lupine
Marchantia
Moonseed
Narrowleaf Cow Wheat
Ohio spiderwort
Orchard Grass
Porcelain Berry
Queen Anne's Lace
Redbud Tree
Reed Canary Grass
Sheep's sorrel
Smooth Yellow Violet
St John's Wort
Virginia bluebells
Virginia chainfern
Virginia marsh St. John's-wort
Virginia meadowbeauty
Water Chickweed
White Avens
Wild Four o'Clock
Wild Lupine
Wild Yam
Yellow Star Grass
annual fleabane
autumn clematis
bear oak
bird's-foot trefoil
bitter wintercress
blue cohosh
blunt woodsia
border privet
broad-leaved goldenrod
bulbous buttercup
butterfly milkweed
chokecherry
climbing hempvine
colt's-foot
common boneset
common columbine
common comfrey
common dandelion
common toadflax
common valerian
creeping thistle
cutleaf coneflower
dwarf cinquefoil
fall phlox
false indigo bush
fan clubmoss
field penny-cress
fortune's spindle
giant ragweed
large white trillium
lowbush blueberry
mock strawberry
northern oak fern
oleander
pignut hickory
pipsissewa
purple foxglove
purple loosestrife
red campion
red deadnettle
slender stinging nettle
staghorn sumac
star-flowered lily-of-the-valley
sweet cicely
threeleaf goldthread
trailing fuzzy-bean
virgin's-bower
water forget-me-not
white mulberry
white snakeroot
winterberry holly
yellow birch
Other Guides
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