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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
215
Species
117
Active Months
12

Category Overview
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
A recent look at flower sightings across Montana.
Jun 3, 2026
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May 30, 2026
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May 30, 2026
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May 30, 2026
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Jun 9, 2025
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Jun 9, 2025
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Sightings Map
Start wide, then zoom in to see where flower sightings cluster across Montana.
Top Highlights
These flowers are snapped the most across this region.





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

Montana, US
You might spot Spotted Knapweed, Great Mullein, and Nodding Onion.
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Montana, US
You might spot Baker's Mariposa Lily and Columbian Monkshood.
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Montana, US
You might spot Bighorn Sheep and Mountain Goat.
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Montana, US
You might spot Field Crescent, Thimbleberry, and Baker's Mariposa Lily.
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Montana, US
You might spot Western Toad and Mountain Lady's-Slipper.
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Montana, US
You might spot Thimbleberry, White-Tailed Deer, and Spreading Dogbane.
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Full Guide
The complete ranked list for this guide, ordered by sightings count.
Baker's Mariposa Lily
common beargrass
fireweed
thimbleberry
small camas
woodland pinedrops
Bride's Bonnet
Devil's Club
Glacier Lily
Saskatoon
Solomon's plume
bearberry
prairie smoke
Columbian Monkshood
Dwarf Fireweed
Fairy-slipper
Fringed Grass of Parnassus
Goatsbeard
mountain lady's-slipper
pearly everlasting
red baneberry
tansy
thinleaf huckleberry
Cheatgrass
Clover
Douglas Fir
Hooded Ladies' Tresses
One-flowered Wintergreen
Purple Clematis
Silverleaf phacelia
Yarrow
Yellow Beardtongue
Yellow Columbine
bog wintergreen
chokecherry
common cowparsnip
common toadflax
creeping thistle
green false hellebore
heartleaf arnica
hoary alyssum
male fern
prairie pasqueflower
roundleaf alumroot
spotted knapweed
white twisted-stalk
Alberta Beardtongue
Alsike clover
Balkan toadflax
Bitterroot
Black Hawthorn
Black Henbane
Black Medick
Bogbean
Buttercup-Leaf Suksdorfia
Canadian bunchberry
Chives
Cornflower
Deptford pink
Elk Thistle
Goutweed
Heartleaf Twayblade
Hooker'S Mountain-Avens
Kentucky Bluegrass
Lady Fern
Large-leaved lupine
Linearleaf Phacelia
Northern Bedstraw
Orchard Grass
Oregon Boxwood
Pacific trillium
Pretty Jacob's-ladder
Red Osier Dogwood
Red Sand Spurrey
Redstem Stork's-bill
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
large-flowered triteleia
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 larch
sulfur buckwheat
western larch
white campion
white clover
wild bergamot
wild sarsaparilla
Other Guides
Switch from flowers to birds and bugs for a broader view of Montana's wildlife and nature.