Jun 14, 2026
Mystic River Reservationi
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Coasts, woodlands, marshes, and seasonal birdlife
Flower highlights, bloom-focused sightings, and the best places to look for flowers in Massachusetts. Use the highlight list to start quickly, then work through the full guide for a broader local view.
Sightings
105
Species
340
Active Months
12

Category Overview
This guide focuses on flowers within Massachusetts' 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 Massachusetts.
Jun 14, 2026
Mystic River ReservationPhoto attribution
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Jun 13, 2026
Wellfleet Bay Wildlife SanctuaryPhoto attribution
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Jun 13, 2026
Veterans FieldPhoto attribution
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Jun 6, 2026
Back BayPhoto attribution
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Jun 6, 2026
Harvard Shaker Village Historic DistrictPhoto attribution
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Jun 6, 2026
Harvard Shaker Village Historic DistrictPhoto attribution
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Sightings Map
Start wide, then zoom in to see where flower sightings cluster across Massachusetts.
Top Highlights
These flowers are snapped the most across this region.





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22 snaps
Places to Start
These place guides connect well with the flowers covered in this region.

Massachusetts, US
You might spot Common Eastern Bumble Bee and Eastern Gray Squirrel.
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Massachusetts, US
You might spot Painted Turtle and Eastern White Pine.
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Massachusetts, US
You might spot Hemlock Woolly Adelgid, Eastern Newt, and Red Trillium.
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Massachusetts, US
You might spot Maidenhair Spleenwort and Red Trillium.
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Massachusetts, US
You might spot Eastern Newt, Ghost Pipe, and Partridgeberry.
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Massachusetts, US
You might spot Common Eastern Bumble Bee and Eastern Skunk Cabbage.
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Full Guide
The complete ranked list for this guide, ordered by sightings count.
pink lady's slipper
Canada mayflower
Eastern Skunk Cabbage
Mountain Laurel
common milkweed
northern starflower
sensitive fern
azure bluet
wild sarsaparilla
partridgeberry
Solomon's plume
bluebead lily
Clover
eastern white pine
multiflora rose
cinnamon fern
dame's rocket
mapleleaf viburnum
tree-of-heaven
Cranesbill
Yellow Iris
bittersweet nightshade
garlic mustard
red trillium
Christmas fern
Cucumber Root
Greater celandine
common mugwort
eastern hemlock
white clover
American pokeweed
Sweet Pepperbush
hay-scented fern
Jack-in-the-Pulpit
Oriental bittersweet
great mullein
ground-ivy
painted trillium
sassafras
striped wintergreen
ribwort plantain
ragged-robin
American Royal Fern
American white waterlily
Heath Speedwell
common bracken
fan clubmoss
northern blue flag
oxeye daisy
winged euonymus
yellow birch
Witch Hazel
autumn olive
downy rattlesnake plantain
intermediate wood fern
American wintergreen
Orchard Grass
Yarrow
bird's-foot trefoil
bloodroot
interrupted fern
maidenhair spleenwort
purple crownvetch
rock polypody
sheep laurel
sweet birch
wood anemone
Eastern Teaberry
Large-leaved lupine
Red Sand Spurrey
Sheep's sorrel
Tulip Tree
Vinca Periwinkle
Virginia creeper
common cinquefoil
eastern poison ivy
purple-flowered raspberry
striped maple
wide leek
Cardinal Flower
Ghost Pipe
Herb Robert
Japanese barberry
Japanese knotweed
Ostrich Fern
Shining Firmoss
common reed
common star-of-Bethlehem
eastern redcedar
green false hellebore
marginal wood fern
marsh marigold
pitch pine
rock harlequin
spreading dogbane
sweetfern
white campion
white mulberry
Black Locust
Common Wrinkle-Leaved Goldenrod
Goutweed
New York fern
Red Columbine
alder buckthorn
common buckthorn
narrow-leaved bittercress
northern bayberry
northern maidenhair fern
orange hawkweed
threeleaf goldthread
water forget-me-not
Black Tupelo
Broad-leaved helleborine
Canadian bunchberry
Common Dewberry
Foxglove Beardtongue
Green Arrow Arum
Long-spurred violet
Porcelain Berry
Queen Anne's Lace
Sweet Woodruff
Two-leaved Toothwort
Virginia Saxifrage
Virginia waterleaf
Western Wallflower
Wild Lupine
annual fleabane
bastard toadflax
black swallow-wort
bulbous buttercup
colt's-foot
common columbine
common cowparsnip
ebony spleenwort
field horsetail
guelder-rose
hemp dogbane
low smartweed
northern bush honeysuckle
pineapple-weed
round-lobed hepatica
scarlet pimpernel
sweet vernal grass
tufted vetch
yellow trout lily
American Linden
American black elderberry
American cancer-root
Black Medick
Broadleaf Enchanter'S Nightshade
Canadian Burnet
Common Vetch
Creeping Foamflower
Dangleberry
Dotted Loosestrife
Dutchman's breeches
Eastern Cottonwood
Flat-Branched Tree-Clubmoss
Flat-leaved Scalewort
Hairy Bittercress
Hobblebush
Hooked Buttercup
Marchantia
Narrowleaf Cow Wheat
Purple-Stemmed Angelica
Redbud Tree
Showy Lady'S Slipper
Trumpet Vine
Twoleaf Miterwort
Variegated Yellow Pond-Lily
Virginia Springbeauty
Virginia spiderwort
Walking Fern
Watershield
White Avens
Whorled Loosestrife
Yorkshire fog
bear oak
box elder
chicory
common jewelweed
common juniper
common toadflax
curled dock
false indigo bush
golden Alexanders
gray birch
great rhododendron
interrupted clubmoss
leatherleaf
lowbush blueberry
mayapple
meadow buttercup
meadow hawkweed
mock strawberry
mountain woodsorrel
northern catalpa
purple foxglove
purple loosestrife
purple pitcher plant
red deadnettle
red-berried elder
sallow sedge
seaside pea
shining sumac
tansy
water horsetail
white baneberry
white turtlehead
wineberry
Alsike clover
American Hog-Peanut
American Holly
Amur Corktree
Amur honeysuckle
Annual Honesty
Asiatic dayflower
Bird'S Foot Violet
Bloody Crane's-bill
Bogbean
Bulbous Bluegrass
Bull Thistle
Canada Toadflax
Canada yew
Carolina Sea Lavender
Carolina Springbeauty
Carolina horsenettle
Carolina sweetshrub
Citronella Horse Balm
Deertongue
European swallow-wort
Evening Primrose
Feverfew
Fox Grape
Fringed Polygala
Garden Grape-hyacinth
Germander Speedwell
Golden Club
Golden-Bell
Hyacinth
Jacob's ladder
Japanese creeper
Japanese iris
Japanese snowball
Lacy phacelia
Lady's Smock
Lesser hop trefoil
Lily of the Valley
Mackay'S Fragile Fern
Mountain Maple
Nasturtium
Pennsylvania Bittercress
Perfoliate Bellwort
Plantainleaf Sedge
Poet's Narcissus
Poison Sumac
Powder Gun Moss
Rudbeckia
Rugosa Rose
Sawbrier
Sea Sandwort
Sharp-Lobed Hepatica
Silky Dogwood
Silver Hairgrass
Small-Flowered Buttercup
Spotted spurge
St John's Wort
Summer snowflake
Sweet Alyssum
Sweet-William
Tree-Skirt Moss
Virginia Pepperweed
Wall Lettuce
Wall Scalewort
Water caltrop
White Sweetclover
Wild Four o'Clock
Yellow Rattle
aniseroot
beaked hazelnut
bulblet fern
buttonbush
catchweed bedstraw
chokecherry
common dandelion
common motherwort
common ragweed
common selfheal
common snowdrop
common soapwort
creeping Jenny
creeping thistle
cup plant
dwarf cinquefoil
dwarf ginseng
fetterbush
field bindweed
fortune's spindle
fringed loosestrife
gallberry
golden ragwort
greater burdock
hoary alyssum
horseweed
large-leaved aster
lesser celandine
low pricklypear
meadow anemone
netted chain fern
nipplewort
northern green-and-gold
northern oak fern
obedient plant
pickerelweed
pinesap
pipsissewa
rabbitfoot clover
red baneberry
rough horsetail
roundleaf greenbrier
shagbark hickory
smooth sumac
spinulose wood fern
spotted lady's thumb
staghorn sumac
sulphur cinquefoil
swamp loosestrife
swamp milkweed
swamp rose mallow
swamp white oak
tamarack
tower mustards
virgin's-bower
western poison ivy
white meadowsweet
white snakeroot
wild bergamot
wild garlic
woolgrass
yellow archangel
Other Guides
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