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Flowers Guide
Flowers Guide for Kentucky
Forests, caves, rivers, and rolling hills
Flower highlights, bloom-focused sightings, and the best places to look for flowers in Kentucky. Use the highlight list to start quickly, then work through the full guide for a broader local view.
Sightings
21
Species
145
Active Months
12
Category Overview
Flowers across Kentucky
This guide focuses on flowers within Kentucky's 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 Kentucky
A recent look at flower sightings across Kentucky.
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Sightings Map
See where flower sightings cluster
Start wide, then zoom in to see where flower sightings cluster across Kentucky.
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Top Highlights
Top 5 flowers to look for in Kentucky
These flowers are snapped the most across this region.
multiflora rose
7 snaps
Delphinium
5 snaps
American pokeweed
4 snaps
Amur honeysuckle
4 snaps
Canadian lousewort
4 snaps
Places to Start
Best places for flowers in Kentucky
These place guides connect well with the flowers covered in this region.
Park29 sightings12 species
Kentucky, US
Kentenia State Forest
You might spot Purple Phacelia, Eastern Newt, and American Cancer-Root.
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Kentucky, US
Knob Creek Farm
You might spot Virginia Bluebells and Tall Bellflower.
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Kentucky, US
Pennyrile State Forest
You might spot Jack-In-The-Pulpit and Prairie Trillium.
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Park30 sightings12 species
Kentucky, US
Red River Gorge
You might spot Multiflora Rose, Eastern Newt, and American Beech.
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Park30 sightings12 species
Kentucky, US
Kentucky Ridge State Forest
You might spot Eastern Box Turtle, Rainbow Darter, and Green Salamander.
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Kentucky, US
Bat Cave and Cascade Caverns State Nature Preserves
You might spot Large White Trillium and Sharp-Lobed Hepatica.
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Full Guide
Full Kentucky flowers list
The complete ranked list for this guide, ordered by sightings count.
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multiflora rose
Delphinium
American pokeweed
Amur honeysuckle
Canadian lousewort
Largeflower Valerian
Trumpet Vine
dwarf larkspur
mayapple
mock strawberry
strawberry bush
American jumpseed
Carolina horsenettle
Christmas fern
Deptford pink
Foxglove Beardtongue
Grey Field-speedwell
Phlox
Tulip Tree
Wild Yam
common milkweed
dwarf crested iris
marginal wood fern
northern maidenhair fern
purple crownvetch
woodland stonecrop
American black elderberry
Black Medick
Cornflower
Curly-Leaf Pondweed
Field madder
Ghost Pipe
Jacob's ladder
Lance-Leaved Coreopsis
New England aster
Smooth Yellow Violet
Virginia Springbeauty
Watershield
aniseroot
common pawpaw
devil's walkingstick
downy rattlesnake plantain
eastern poison ivy
eastern shooting star
fire pink
fortune's spindle
great mullein
ground-ivy
leafcup
musk thistle
oxeye daisy
red deadnettle
star chickweed
white mulberry
wild garlic
yellow trout lily
American cancer-root
American hazelnut
American persimmon
American water-willow
Black Tupelo
Broad Beech Fern
Broadleaf Enchanter'S Nightshade
Cheatgrass
Cranesbill
Cut-Leaved Crane'S-Bill
Dutchman's breeches
Eastern Cottonwood
Eastern Pricklypear
Halberd-leaf Rosemallow
Hooked Buttercup
Jack-in-the-Pulpit
Little Brown Jugs
Narrow-leaved Everlasting-pea
New York fern
Orchard Grass
Osage-orange
Purple Phacelia
Queen Anne's Lace
Rose campion
Rudbeckia
Solomon's plume
Southern Blue Flag
Spotted spurge
Trailing Ivy
Vinca Periwinkle
Virginia Pepperweed
Virginia Saxifrage
Virginia creeper
Whorled Coreopsis
Yarrow
Yellow Fumitory
azure bluet
bigleaf magnolia
blackjack oak
blue cohosh
bulbous cress
butterfly milkweed
catchweed bedstraw
chestnut oak
clasping Venus's looking glass
common dandelion
common hoptree
common soapwort
common star-of-Bethlehem
creeping Jenny
cup plant
curled dock
cut-leaved toothwort
cutleaf teasel
dwarf mallow
ebony spleenwort
fan clubmoss
great blue lobelia
grey-headed coneflower
hairy vetch
horseweed
largeflower bellwort
moth mullein
nipplewort
northern spicebush
partridge pea
pennywort
pickerelweed
pineapple-weed
pink lady's slipper
pointed-leaved tick-trefoil
poison hemlock
prairie trillium
prickly lettuce
purple loosestrife
red trillium
sassafras
sensitive fern
spatterdock
striped wintergreen
sulphur cinquefoil
tree-of-heaven
virgin's-bower
white baneberry
wild comfrey
winged euonymus
wood anemone
wood nettle
yellow archangel
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