Jun 6, 2026
West Argyle Street Historic Districti
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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
47
Species
293
Active Months
12

Category Overview
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
A recent look at flower sightings across Illinois.
Jun 6, 2026
West Argyle Street Historic DistrictPhoto attribution
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Jun 6, 2026
West Argyle Street Historic DistrictPhoto attribution
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Jun 4, 2026
Busse WoodsPhoto attribution
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May 28, 2026
Dresden Island Lock and Dam Historic DistrictPhoto attribution
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May 21, 2026
Brandon Road Lock and DamPhoto attribution
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Mar 30, 2026
Central Springfield Historic DistrictPhoto attribution
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Sightings Map
Start wide, then zoom in to see where flower sightings cluster across Illinois.
Top Highlights
These flowers are snapped the most across this region.
Places to Start
These place guides connect well with the flowers covered in this region.

Illinois, US
You might spot American Robin, Monarch, and Duck.
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Illinois, US
You might spot Osage-Orange, Cutleaf Teasel, and Red Clover.
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Illinois, US
You might spot Viceroy, Common Wood-Nymph, and Acadian Hairstreak.
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Illinois, US
You might spot Large White Trillium and Virginia Bluebells.
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Illinois, US
You might spot Eastern Red-Backed Salamander and Blanchard's Cricket Frog.
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Illinois, US
You might spot Reticulated Giraffe and Southern White Rhinoceros.
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Full Guide
The complete ranked list for this guide, ordered by sightings count.
common milkweed
chicory
Virginia bluebells
Cranesbill
Clover
compass plant
mock strawberry
purple crownvetch
Orchard Grass
Japanese creeper
Virginia Springbeauty
butterfly milkweed
prairie dock
Ohio spiderwort
common dandelion
garlic mustard
henbit deadnettle
musk thistle
partridge pea
tree-of-heaven
Queen Anne's Lace
Southern Blue Flag
Yarrow
bloodroot
common motherwort
hemp dogbane
poison hemlock
prairie trillium
white clover
Amur honeysuckle
Black Medick
Canadian lousewort
Foxglove Beardtongue
Lance-Leaved Coreopsis
Trumpet Vine
Tulip Tree
Yellow Iris
Yellow Sweetclover
common cowparsnip
common jewelweed
creeping thistle
dame's rocket
eastern poison ivy
field penny-cress
fire pink
golden Alexanders
great mullein
ground-ivy
low smartweed
mayapple
oxeye daisy
pineapple-weed
prairie phlox
rattlesnake master
swamp milkweed
white fawnlily
wild bergamot
American pokeweed
Broad-leaved helleborine
Butterweed
Carolina horsenettle
Eastern Cottonwood
Halberd-leaf Rosemallow
Nodding Beggarticks
Ostrich Fern
Painted-cup Paintbrush
Smooth Brome
Virginia waterleaf
azure bluet
bird's-foot trefoil
bittersweet nightshade
buttonbush
common star-of-Bethlehem
curled dock
cut-leaved toothwort
eastern shooting star
hound's-tongue
large white trillium
late boneset
meadow anemone
moth mullein
pickerelweed
prairie false indigo
ribwort plantain
sensitive fern
spotted lady's thumb
tall bellflower
white campion
American Linden
American black elderberry
American jumpseed
American vetch
American white waterlily
Atlantic camas
Black Locust
Black Raspberry
Bloody Crane's-bill
Borage
Carolina rose
Common Lambsquarters
Creeping Bellflower
Dutchman's breeches
Foxtail Barley
Jack-in-the-Pulpit
Jacob's ladder
Lily of the Valley
Osage-orange
Phlox
Reed Canary Grass
Solomon's plume
Virginia creeper
Wild Four o'Clock
Wild Yam
Wood Lily
aniseroot
autumn olive
common hoptree
common pawpaw
cutleaf coneflower
fortune's spindle
fox sedge
fringed loosestrife
giant ragweed
goat's rue
hoary vervain
lesser celandine
marsh marigold
multiflora rose
northern maidenhair fern
prairie alumroot
purple prairie clover
smooth Solomon's seal
smooth sumac
staghorn sumac
stiff-leaved goldenrod
sulphur cinquefoil
virginia stickseed
water smartweed
white snakeroot
winged euonymus
Alsike clover
American Bittersweet
American Hog-Peanut
American Hophornbeam
American Royal Fern
American cancer-root
American lotus
American persimmon
American water-willow
Bird'S Foot Violet
Black Tupelo
Blue Ash
Blue Vervain
Bread Wheat
Bull Thistle
Callery pear
Canada mayflower
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
Floating Primrose-Willow
Flowering Spurge
Flowering-rush
Gaillardia
Goatsbeard
Greater Duckweed
Grey Field-speedwell
Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Hedge Bindweed
Hoary Puccoon
Hollyhock
Hyacinth
Indiangrass
Ivy-leaved toadflax
Japanese barberry
Japanese honeysuckle
Kentucky Yellowwood
Little Bluestem
Missouri Gooseberry
Northern Bedstraw
Oceanblue Phacelia
Ohio Buckeye
Oriental bittersweet
Pale Jewelweed
Pennsylvania Pellitory
Philadelphia fleabane
Prostrate Knotweed
Red Columbine
Rose of Sharon
Scots pine
Sheep's sorrel
Siberian squill
Silk Tree
Silvery Bryum
Smooth Phlox
Smooth Yellow Violet
Spotted spurge
Spring Starflower
St John's Wort
Starry Campion
Sumpweed
Tall Green Milkweed
Timothy Grass
Vinca Periwinkle
Violet Woodsorrel
White Avens
White Sweetclover
Wild Lupine
Wild Quinine
Wingstem
Wood Sorrel
Woolly Beachheather
Yellow Star Grass
Yorkshire fog
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 teasel
eastern white pine
ebony spleenwort
false indigo bush
false sunflower
field bindweed
fragrant sumac
goldenrods
great blue lobelia
great waterleaf
greater plantain
green antelopehorns
grey-headed coneflower
hairy vetch
horseweed
interrupted fern
jimsonweed
largeflower bellwort
leadplant
lizard's tail
marginal wood fern
narrowleaf puccoon
northern blue flag
northern catalpa
northern spicebush
pale Indian plantain
pale smartweed
pointed-leaved tick-trefoil
prickly lettuce
purple foxglove
purple-flowered raspberry
red deadnettle
red pine
red raspberry
red trillium
rue anemone
shepherd's-purse
shining sumac
spinulose wood fern
star-flowered lily-of-the-valley
swamp rose mallow
sweetfern
tall thimbleweed
trailing fuzzy-bean
tufted vetch
water hemlock
white poplar
wild garlic
wild parsnip
wood anemone
woodland stonecrop
yellow archangel
yellow trout lily
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