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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
70
Species
239
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 6, 2026
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Jun 6, 2026
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(c) Mark Apgar, some rights reserved (CC BY)
License: CC BY 4.0 ↗
Image may be shown cropped inside the card frame.
Jun 6, 2026
Photo attribution
(c) Mark Apgar, some rights reserved (CC BY)
License: CC BY 4.0 ↗
Image may be shown cropped inside the card frame.
Jun 6, 2026
Photo attribution
(c) Mark Apgar, some rights reserved (CC BY)
License: CC BY 4.0 ↗
Image may be shown cropped inside the card frame.
Jun 6, 2026
Photo attribution
(c) Mark Apgar, some rights reserved (CC BY)
License: CC BY 4.0 ↗
Image may be shown cropped inside the card frame.
Jun 6, 2026
Photo 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 White Pine, Eastern Hemlock, and Mountain Laurel.
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Connecticut, US
You might spot Striped Wintergreen and Eastern Red-Backed Salamander.
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Connecticut, US
You might spot American Robin, Monarch, and American Pokeweed.
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Connecticut, US
You might spot Striped Wintergreen and Pink Lady's Slipper.
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Connecticut, US
You might spot Garlic Mustard, Striped Wintergreen, and Mountain Laurel.
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Connecticut, US
You might spot Eastern Gray Squirrel, Dark-Eyed Junco, and House Sparrow.
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Full Guide
The complete ranked list for this guide, ordered by sightings count.
Canada mayflower
common mugwort
pink lady's slipper
azure bluet
Cranesbill
Mountain Laurel
eastern white pine
cinnamon fern
garlic mustard
sensitive fern
Eastern Skunk Cabbage
eastern hemlock
sassafras
mapleleaf viburnum
ragged-robin
white clover
Tulip Tree
Yellow Iris
American pokeweed
eastern poison ivy
Clover
Greater celandine
dame's rocket
multiflora rose
northern starflower
wood anemone
Christmas fern
Jack-in-the-Pulpit
Oriental bittersweet
Solomon's plume
Japanese knotweed
common star-of-Bethlehem
narrow-leaved bittercress
wild sarsaparilla
winged euonymus
yellow trout lily
American Royal Fern
Virginia creeper
Witch Hazel
bloodroot
ground-ivy
hay-scented fern
marginal wood fern
ribwort plantain
Common Wrinkle-Leaved Goldenrod
Goutweed
mayapple
red trillium
striped maple
striped wintergreen
Ajuga
Cucumber Root
New York fern
Sweet Pepperbush
common cowparsnip
common milkweed
lesser celandine
partridgeberry
round-lobed hepatica
sweetfern
white campion
American jumpseed
American wintergreen
Heath Speedwell
Japanese barberry
Pinxter Flower
Silky Dogwood
downy rattlesnake plantain
field horsetail
interrupted fern
tree-of-heaven
Black Medick
Flowering Dogwood
Ghost Pipe
Siberian squill
Summer snowflake
Virginia Saxifrage
Virginia strawberry
bastard toadflax
bluebead lily
common bracken
dwarf ginseng
great mullein
green false hellebore
horseweed
northern blue flag
northern maidenhair fern
pickerelweed
purple crownvetch
rock harlequin
rue anemone
tall meadow-rue
wineberry
Allegheny blackberry
American cancer-root
Bull Thistle
Canadian lousewort
Eastern Cottonwood
Far Eastern Smartweed
Japanese stiltgrass
Little Bluestem
Ostrich Fern
Philadelphia fleabane
Red Osier Dogwood
Small-Flowered Buttercup
Steeplebush
Vinca Periwinkle
Virginia waterleaf
White Wood Aster
Yarrow
beaked hazelnut
bittersweet nightshade
bladder campion
buttonbush
chicory
common cinquefoil
common jewelweed
common selfheal
common soapwort
cypress spurge
ebony spleenwort
golden Alexanders
hemp dogbane
intermediate wood fern
marsh marigold
mountain woodsorrel
northern spicebush
oxeye daisy
purple pitcher plant
rock polypody
sheep laurel
spinulose wood fern
swamp milkweed
sweet vernal grass
white meadowsweet
wide leek
American hazelnut
American white waterlily
Arrow-Leaved Tearthumb
Asian jumpseed
Asiatic dayflower
Barberry
Beach Plum
Black Locust
Black Tupelo
Blue Spruce
Bonfire Moss
Broad Beech Fern
Canadian bunchberry
Carolina sweetshrub
Celandine Poppy
Cheatgrass
Christmas berry
Dusky Crane's-bill
Dutchman's breeches
European field pansy
European swallow-wort
Five-leaf akebia
Flat-leaved Scalewort
Fox Grape
Foxglove Beardtongue
Herb Robert
Hooked Buttercup
Japanese iris
Johnson Grass
Lady's Smock
Large Whorled Pogonia
Large-leaved lupine
Marchantia
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
White Avens
Wild Four o'Clock
Wild Lupine
Wild Yam
annual fleabane
autumn clematis
autumn olive
bear oak
bird's-foot trefoil
bitter wintercress
blue cohosh
blunt woodsia
box elder
broad-leaved goldenrod
bulbous buttercup
chokecherry
climbing hempvine
colt's-foot
common boneset
common columbine
common comfrey
common dandelion
common reed
common valerian
creeping thistle
cutleaf coneflower
dwarf cinquefoil
eastern wild indigo
fall phlox
fan clubmoss
field penny-cress
fortune's spindle
giant ragweed
large white trillium
lowbush blueberry
mile-a-minute weed
mock strawberry
northern oak fern
pipsissewa
pitch pine
prickly lettuce
purple foxglove
purple loosestrife
red campion
red deadnettle
red-berried elder
shagbark hickory
slender stinging nettle
star-flowered lily-of-the-valley
sweet cicely
threeleaf goldthread
trailing fuzzy-bean
virgin's-bower
water forget-me-not
white snakeroot
winterberry holly
yellow birch
Other Guides
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