Jun 3, 2026
Lake Missoulai
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Flowers Guide
Flowers Guide for Montana
Big skies, mountains, plains, and wildlife
Flower highlights, bloom-focused sightings, and the best places to look for flowers in Montana. Use the highlight list to start quickly, then work through the full guide for a broader local view.
Sightings
246
Species
127
Active Months
12
Category Overview
Flowers across Montana
This guide focuses on flowers within Montana'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 Montana
A recent look at flower sightings across Montana.
May 30, 2026
Great Northern Railway Buildingsi
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May 30, 2026
Great Northern Railway Buildingsi
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May 30, 2026
Great Northern Railway Buildingsi
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Jul 23, 2025
Sherburne Ranger Station Historic Districti
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Jun 9, 2025
St. Mary Utility Area Historic Districti
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Sightings Map
See where flower sightings cluster
Start wide, then zoom in to see where flower sightings cluster across Montana.
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Top Highlights
Top 5 flowers to look for in Montana
These flowers are snapped the most across this region.
Baker's Mariposa Lily
12 snaps
fireweed
10 snaps
common beargrass
9 snaps
thimbleberry
7 snaps
Glacier Lily
5 snaps
Places to Start
Best places for flowers in Montana
These place guides connect well with the flowers covered in this region.
Park46 sightings50 species
Montana, US
Great Northern Railway Buildings
You might spot Bighorn Sheep and Mountain Goat.
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Park30 sightings12 species
Montana, US
Butte-Anaconda Historic District
You might spot Spotted Knapweed, Great Mullein, and Nodding Onion.
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Park28 sightings12 species
Montana, US
Little Tom Mountain
You might spot Baker's Mariposa Lily and Columbian Monkshood.
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Park43 sightings50 species
Montana, US
Polebridge Ranger Station Historic District
You might spot Sticky Geranium, White-Tailed Deer, and Common Toadflax.
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Park48 sightings50 species
Montana, US
Sherburne Ranger Station Historic District
You might spot Black Bear, Brown Bear, and Moose.
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Park42 sightings50 species
Montana, US
Cut Bank Ranger Station Historic District
You might spot Great Blanketflower and Seven-Spotted Lady Beetle.
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Full Guide
Full Montana flowers list
The complete ranked list for this guide, ordered by sightings count.
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Baker's Mariposa Lily
fireweed
common beargrass
thimbleberry
Glacier Lily
Saskatoon
prairie smoke
small camas
woodland pinedrops
Bride's Bonnet
Devil's Club
Fairy-slipper
Goatsbeard
Solomon's plume
bearberry
red baneberry
Columbian Monkshood
Dwarf Fireweed
Fringed Grass of Parnassus
Yellow Beardtongue
mountain lady's-slipper
pearly everlasting
shrubby cinquefoils
spotted knapweed
tansy
thinleaf huckleberry
Alfalfa
Cheatgrass
Clover
Cushion Buckwheat
Douglas Fir
Hooded Ladies' Tresses
One-flowered Wintergreen
Purple Clematis
Silverleaf phacelia
St John's Wort
Yarrow
Yellow Columbine
bog wintergreen
chokecherry
common cowparsnip
common toadflax
creeping thistle
green false hellebore
heartleaf arnica
hoary alyssum
large-flowered triteleia
male fern
prairie pasqueflower
roundleaf alumroot
western larch
white twisted-stalk
Alberta Beardtongue
Alsike clover
Balkan toadflax
Bitterroot
Black Hawthorn
Black Henbane
Black Medick
Bogbean
Buttercup-Leaf Suksdorfia
Canadian bunchberry
Chives
Common Snowberry
Cornflower
Deptford pink
Elk Thistle
Foxtail Barley
Goutweed
Heartleaf Twayblade
Hooker'S Mountain-Avens
Kentucky Bluegrass
Lady Fern
Large-leaved lupine
Lewis' Monkeyflower
Linearleaf Phacelia
Northern Bedstraw
Orchard Grass
Oregon Boxwood
Pacific coralroot
Pacific trillium
Pretty Jacob's-ladder
Red Osier Dogwood
Red Sand Spurrey
Redstem Stork's-bill
Richardson'S Geranium
Rocky Mountain maple
Scarlet Beeblossom
Scarlet Gilia
Scouler'S St. John'S Wort
Sheep's sorrel
Sitka valerian
Small-Flower Beardtongue
Timothy Grass
Western Bunchberry
Western Ponderosa Pine
Western Rattlesnake Plantain
White Sweetclover
Yellow Sweetclover
bird's-eye speedwell
bird's-foot trefoil
creeping mahonia
curled dock
dark-throated shooting star
field chickweed
flowery phlox
giant red paintbrush
great mullein
grey alder
harsh paintbrush
large hop clover
narrowleaf puccoon
nodding onion
oxeye daisy
pinesap
red-berried elder
shepherd's-purse
small-flowered blue-eyed mary
star-flowered lily-of-the-valley
sticky geranium
subalpine fir
subalpine larch
sulfur buckwheat
white campion
white clover
wild bergamot
wild sarsaparilla
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