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Flowers Guide
Flowers Guide for Illinois
Prairies, wetlands, woodlands, and migratory birds
Flower highlights, bloom-focused sightings, and the best places to look for flowers in Illinois. Use the highlight list to start quickly, then work through the full guide for a broader local view.
Sightings
40
Species
252
Active Months
12
Category Overview
Flowers across Illinois
This guide focuses on flowers within Illinois' wider region guide, with bloom-rich sightings and the places where wildflowers help define the landscape through the seasons.
Latest Sightings
Recent flower sightings in Illinois
A recent look at flower sightings across Illinois.
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Sightings Map
See where flower sightings cluster
Start wide, then zoom in to see where flower sightings cluster across Illinois.
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Top Highlights
Top 5 flowers to look for in Illinois
These flowers are snapped the most across this region.
Places to Start
Best places for flowers in Illinois
These place guides connect well with the flowers covered in this region.
Park30 sightings12 species
Illinois, US
Chicago Botanic Garden
You might spot Large White Trillium and Virginia Bluebells.
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Zoo28 sightings12 species
Illinois, US
Niabi Zoo
You might spot Prairie Trillium and Common Eastern Bumble Bee.
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Park30 sightings12 species
Illinois, US
Lilacia Park
You might spot American Robin, Monarch, and Duck.
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Park30 sightings12 species
Illinois, US
Dresden Island Lock and Dam Historic District
You might spot Blue Phlox, Great Blue Heron, and Bloodroot.
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Park28 sightings12 species
Illinois, US
Haight Village Historic District
You might spot Common Eastern Bumble Bee and Brown-Belted Bumble Bee.
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Park27 sightings12 species
Illinois, US
Mount Carroll Historic District
You might spot Virginia Bluebells and Wavy-Lined Emerald.
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Full Guide
Full Illinois flowers list
The complete ranked list for this guide, ordered by sightings count.
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chicory
common milkweed
Virginia bluebells
Cranesbill
Clover
Orchard Grass
Virginia Springbeauty
prairie dock
purple crownvetch
Ohio spiderwort
compass plant
garlic mustard
henbit deadnettle
partridge pea
Queen Anne's Lace
Southern Blue Flag
bloodroot
common dandelion
musk thistle
poison hemlock
prairie trillium
Canadian lousewort
Japanese creeper
Trumpet Vine
Tulip Tree
Yarrow
Yellow Iris
Yellow Sweetclover
common cowparsnip
dame's rocket
field penny-cress
golden Alexanders
mayapple
prairie phlox
rattlesnake master
tree-of-heaven
white clover
white fawnlily
wild bergamot
American pokeweed
Amur honeysuckle
Broad-leaved helleborine
Foxglove Beardtongue
Halberd-leaf Rosemallow
Lance-Leaved Coreopsis
Nodding Beggarticks
Ostrich Fern
Smooth Brome
Virginia waterleaf
azure bluet
bittersweet nightshade
buttonbush
common motherwort
common star-of-Bethlehem
creeping thistle
curled dock
cut-leaved toothwort
fire pink
ground-ivy
hemp dogbane
hound's-tongue
large white trillium
late boneset
meadow anemone
mock strawberry
pineapple-weed
prairie false indigo
sensitive fern
swamp milkweed
tall bellflower
white campion
American jumpseed
American vetch
Atlantic camas
Black Locust
Bloody Crane's-bill
Butterweed
Carolina rose
Common Lambsquarters
Dutchman's breeches
Eastern Cottonwood
Jack-in-the-Pulpit
Jacob's ladder
Lily of the Valley
Phlox
Reed Canary Grass
Virginia creeper
Wild Yam
autumn olive
bird's-foot trefoil
butterfly milkweed
common hoptree
common jewelweed
common pawpaw
eastern poison ivy
fortune's spindle
fox sedge
fringed loosestrife
goat's rue
great mullein
low smartweed
marsh marigold
multiflora rose
northern maidenhair fern
oxeye daisy
prairie alumroot
purple prairie clover
ribwort plantain
smooth sumac
staghorn sumac
stiff-leaved goldenrod
sulphur cinquefoil
virginia stickseed
white snakeroot
winged euonymus
Alsike clover
American Linden
American cancer-root
American lotus
American persimmon
American white waterlily
Black Medick
Black Tupelo
Blue Vervain
Borage
Bread Wheat
Bull Thistle
Callery pear
Canada mayflower
Carolina horsenettle
Catnip
Cheatgrass
Christmas fern
Common Duckweed
Curly-Leaf Pondweed
Cut-Leaved Crane'S-Bill
Eastern Pricklypear
Eastern Skunk Cabbage
Echinacea
Evening Primrose
Fee's lip fern
Foxtail Barley
Goatsbeard
Greater Duckweed
Grey Field-speedwell
Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Hollyhock
Indiangrass
Ivy-leaved toadflax
Japanese honeysuckle
Kentucky Yellowwood
Little Bluestem
Missouri Gooseberry
Northern Bedstraw
Oceanblue Phacelia
Ohio Buckeye
Oriental bittersweet
Osage-orange
Painted-cup Paintbrush
Pennsylvania Pellitory
Philadelphia fleabane
Prostrate Knotweed
Rose of Sharon
Scots pine
Sheep's sorrel
Silk Tree
Silvery Bryum
Smooth Yellow Violet
Solomon's plume
Spring Starflower
Sumpweed
Vinca Periwinkle
Violet Woodsorrel
White Sweetclover
Wild Four o'Clock
Wild Lupine
Yorkshire fog
aniseroot
annual fleabane
bitter wintercress
blue cohosh
bottlebrush grass
box elder
broadleaf arrowhead
bulbous cress
bur oak
clasping Venus's looking glass
common blue violet
common buckthorn
common cinquefoil
common columbine
common reed
common serviceberry
common valerian
common water hyacinth
cup plant
cutleaf coneflower
cutleaf teasel
eastern shooting star
eastern white pine
ebony spleenwort
false indigo bush
false sunflower
field bindweed
giant ragweed
goldenrods
great blue lobelia
great waterleaf
greater plantain
green antelopehorns
grey-headed coneflower
hairy vetch
hoary vervain
horseweed
interrupted fern
jimsonweed
largeflower bellwort
leadplant
lesser celandine
lizard's tail
moth mullein
narrowleaf puccoon
northern blue flag
northern catalpa
northern spicebush
pale Indian plantain
pale smartweed
purple foxglove
purple-flowered raspberry
red deadnettle
red pine
red trillium
rue anemone
shepherd's-purse
shining sumac
smooth Solomon's seal
spinulose wood fern
spotted lady's thumb
star-flowered lily-of-the-valley
swamp rose mallow
sweetfern
tall thimbleweed
trailing fuzzy-bean
tufted vetch
water hemlock
water smartweed
white poplar
wild garlic
wood anemone
woodland stonecrop
yellow archangel
yellow trout lily
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