Flowers Guide

Flowers Guide for Maryland

Bays, marshes, forests, and tidal wildlife

Flower highlights, bloom-focused sightings, and the best places to look for flowers in Maryland. Use the highlight list to start quickly, then work through the full guide for a broader local view.

Sightings

42

Species

148

Active Months

12

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Category Overview

Flowers across Maryland

This guide focuses on flowers within Maryland'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 Maryland

A recent look at flower sightings across Maryland.

Sightings Map

See where flower sightings cluster

Start wide, then zoom in to see where flower sightings cluster across Maryland.

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Top Highlights

Top 5 flowers to look for in Maryland

These flowers are snapped the most across this region.

Places to Start

Best places for flowers in Maryland

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

Full Guide

Full Maryland flowers list

The complete ranked list for this guide, ordered by sightings count.

148 species ranked
1

Tulip Tree

20 snaps
2

partridgeberry

9 snaps
3

Sweet Pepperbush

8 snaps
4

Christmas fern

6 snaps
5

Mountain Laurel

6 snaps
6

azure bluet

6 snaps
7

dame's rocket

6 snaps
8

mayapple

6 snaps
9

Eastern Skunk Cabbage

5 snaps
10

Trumpet Vine

5 snaps
11

purple crownvetch

5 snaps
12

sassafras

5 snaps
13

American pokeweed

4 snaps
14

Cucumber Root

4 snaps
15

Yellow Sweetclover

4 snaps
16

white clover

4 snaps
17

American Royal Fern

3 snaps
18

Black Tupelo

3 snaps
19

Bull Thistle

3 snaps
20

Ghost Pipe

3 snaps
21

Goutweed

3 snaps
22

Yellow Iris

3 snaps
23

bloodroot

3 snaps
24

box elder

3 snaps
25

common milkweed

3 snaps
26

common pawpaw

3 snaps
27

common selfheal

3 snaps
28

eastern poison ivy

3 snaps
29

ebony spleenwort

3 snaps
30

ground-ivy

3 snaps
31

hay-scented fern

3 snaps
32

lesser celandine

3 snaps
33

mile-a-minute weed

3 snaps
34

moth mullein

3 snaps
35

rue anemone

3 snaps
36

American black elderberry

2 snaps
37

American cancer-root

2 snaps
38

American white waterlily

2 snaps
39

Amur honeysuckle

2 snaps
40

Clover

2 snaps
41

Japanese knotweed

2 snaps
42

Lyreleaf Rockcress

2 snaps
43

Philadelphia fleabane

2 snaps
44

Queen Anne's Lace

2 snaps
45

Vinca Periwinkle

2 snaps
46

Virginia creeper

2 snaps
47

Witch Hazel

2 snaps
48

bittersweet nightshade

2 snaps
49

butterfly milkweed

2 snaps
50

cinnamon fern

2 snaps
51

common motherwort

2 snaps
52

creeping thistle

2 snaps
53

garlic mustard

2 snaps
54

great mullein

2 snaps
55

greater periwinkle

2 snaps
56

low smartweed

2 snaps
57

mock strawberry

2 snaps
58

multiflora rose

2 snaps
59

musk thistle

2 snaps
60

northern spicebush

2 snaps
61

post oak

2 snaps
62

sensitive fern

2 snaps
63

tree-of-heaven

2 snaps
64

white fringetree

2 snaps
65

willow oak

2 snaps
66

American wintergreen

1 snaps
67

Asian jumpseed

1 snaps
68

Black Chokeberry

1 snaps
69

Black Locust

1 snaps
70

Broad Beech Fern

1 snaps
71

Celandine Poppy

1 snaps
72

Common Vetch

1 snaps
73

Deptford pink

1 snaps
74

Dove's-foot crane's-bill

1 snaps
75

Foxglove Beardtongue

1 snaps
76

Gaillardia

1 snaps
77

Greater celandine

1 snaps
78

Ivy-leaved toadflax

1 snaps
79

Jack-in-the-Pulpit

1 snaps
80

Japanese Painted Fern

1 snaps
81

Japanese barberry

1 snaps
82

Japanese iris

1 snaps
83

Japanese stiltgrass

1 snaps
84

Largeflower Valerian

1 snaps
85

New York fern

1 snaps
86

Oriental false hawksbeard

1 snaps
87

Phlox

1 snaps
88

Pinkladies

1 snaps
89

Porcelain Berry

1 snaps
90

Red Hot Poker

1 snaps
91

Rose Pogonia

1 snaps
92

Small-Flowered Buttercup

1 snaps
93

Trailing Ivy

1 snaps
94

Violet Woodsorrel

1 snaps
95

Virginia Saxifrage

1 snaps
96

Virginia pine

1 snaps
97

Virginia sweetspire

1 snaps
98

White Sweetclover

1 snaps
99

Wild Yam

1 snaps
100

Wingstem

1 snaps
101

aniseroot

1 snaps
102

autumn fern

1 snaps
103

autumn olive

1 snaps
104

bigleaf magnolia

1 snaps
105

bird's-eye speedwell

1 snaps
106

bladder campion

1 snaps
107

blue mistflower

1 snaps
108

broad-leaved sweet pea

1 snaps
109

bulbous buttercup

1 snaps
110

buttonbush

1 snaps
111

chestnut oak

1 snaps
112

chicory

1 snaps
113

common cowparsnip

1 snaps
114

common reed

1 snaps
115

common star-of-Bethlehem

1 snaps
116

crane-fly orchid

1 snaps
117

creeping Jenny

1 snaps
118

dwarf mallow

1 snaps
119

eastern hemlock

1 snaps
120

fan clubmoss

1 snaps
121

field mustard

1 snaps
122

fortune's spindle

1 snaps
123

green false hellebore

1 snaps
124

guelder-rose

1 snaps
125

lizard's tail

1 snaps
126

low pricklypear

1 snaps
127

maidenhair spleenwort

1 snaps
128

mapleleaf viburnum

1 snaps
129

meadow hawkweed

1 snaps
130

northern blue flag

1 snaps
131

obedient plant

1 snaps
132

pink lady's slipper

1 snaps
133

poison hemlock

1 snaps
134

purple pitcher plant

1 snaps
135

purple-flowered raspberry

1 snaps
136

red-berried elder

1 snaps
137

ribwort plantain

1 snaps
138

round-lobed hepatica

1 snaps
139

scarlet pimpernel

1 snaps
140

spatterdock

1 snaps
141

spotted horsemint

1 snaps
142

strawberry bush

1 snaps
143

striped wintergreen

1 snaps
144

sulphur cinquefoil

1 snaps
145

swamp white oak

1 snaps
146

white campion

1 snaps
147

wild parsnip

1 snaps
148

wineberry

1 snaps

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