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Mountains, forests, lakes, coasts, and parks
Flower highlights, bloom-focused sightings, and the best places to look for flowers in New York. Use the highlight list to start quickly, then work through the full guide for a broader local view.
Sightings
81
Species
375
Active Months
12

Category Overview
This guide focuses on flowers within New York'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 New York.
Jun 6, 2026
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Jun 4, 2026
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Jun 2, 2026
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Sightings Map
Start wide, then zoom in to see where flower sightings cluster across New York.
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.

Connecticut, US
You might spot American Nursery Web Spider and Common Eastern Bumble Bee.
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New York, US
You might spot Sundial Lupine, Spotted Horsemint, and New Jersey Tea.
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New York, US
You might spot American Robin, Pond Slider, and Northern Cardinal.
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New York, US
You might spot Rock Pigeon, American Robin, and Spotted Lanternfly.
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New York, US
You might spot Common Eastern Bumble Bee and American Robin.
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New York, US
You might spot Allegheny Mountain Dusky Salamander.
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Full Guide
The complete ranked list for this guide, ordered by sightings count.
sensitive fern
dame's rocket
common mugwort
chicory
multiflora rose
Christmas fern
tree-of-heaven
Solomon's plume
Tulip Tree
cinnamon fern
Yellow Iris
hay-scented fern
white clover
American pokeweed
Canada mayflower
New York fern
pink lady's slipper
Wild Lupine
garlic mustard
purple crownvetch
Cardinal Flower
Cranesbill
bloodroot
common milkweed
mayapple
sassafras
American jumpseed
American wintergreen
Mountain Laurel
lesser celandine
Eastern Skunk Cabbage
Redbud Tree
mock strawberry
red trillium
Broad-leaved helleborine
Foxglove Beardtongue
Goutweed
Greater celandine
Jack-in-the-Pulpit
box elder
yellow trout lily
American cancer-root
American white waterlily
Black Medick
Herb Robert
bittersweet nightshade
common jewelweed
common star-of-Bethlehem
eastern white pine
great mullein
partridgeberry
purple-flowered raspberry
white campion
wild sarsaparilla
Blue Vervain
Clover
Japanese barberry
Orchard Grass
Oriental bittersweet
butterfly milkweed
common reed
eastern poison ivy
low smartweed
narrow-leaved bittercress
northern starflower
ragged-robin
red deadnettle
sweetfern
wineberry
Ajuga
American Royal Fern
Black Tupelo
Carolina horsenettle
Japanese knotweed
Siberian squill
Wood Lily
bladder campion
colt's-foot
common buckthorn
creeping thistle
ground-ivy
intermediate wood fern
interrupted fern
purple loosestrife
purple pitcher plant
round-leaved sundew
white snakeroot
American black elderberry
Bull Thistle
Canadian bunchberry
Carolina Springbeauty
Cattail
Celandine Poppy
Cucumber Root
European swallow-wort
Japanese creeper
Porcelain Berry
Smooth Brome
St John's Wort
Sweet Pepperbush
Velvetleaf
Vinca Periwinkle
Virginia bluebells
Virginia creeper
Witch Hazel
Yellow Sweetclover
annual fleabane
burdocks
buttonbush
common boneset
common bracken
common valerian
creeping Jenny
fragrant sumac
golden Alexanders
jimsonweed
large white trillium
marginal wood fern
northern spicebush
painted trillium
pickerelweed
purple foxglove
ribwort plantain
smooth sumac
striped maple
striped wintergreen
swamp milkweed
sweet vernal grass
wide leek
Asiatic dayflower
Barberry
Black Huckleberry
Black Locust
Common Lambsquarters
Creeping Foamflower
Daisy
Deertongue
Deptford pink
Eastern Cottonwood
Eastern Teaberry
Germander Speedwell
Green Arrow Arum
Hairy Bittercress
Heath Speedwell
Hobblebush
Italian arum
Japanese honeysuckle
New England aster
Ohio spiderwort
Ostrich Fern
Red Osier Dogwood
Redstem Stork's-bill
Rose campion
Sheep's sorrel
Shining Firmoss
Spindle
Spotted deadnettle
Sunflower
Switchgrass
Virginia waterleaf
White Avens
Yarrow
Yorkshire fog
alder buckthorn
autumn olive
azure bluet
black swallow-wort
blue mistflower
bog myrtle
bottlebrush grass
common chickweed
common dandelion
common motherwort
common ragweed
corn speedwell
cut-leaved toothwort
dwarf mallow
eastern hemlock
eastern redcedar
ebony spleenwort
false indigo bush
fetterbush
field bindweed
hemp dogbane
horseweed
low pricklypear
mapleleaf viburnum
marsh marigold
meadow anemone
mountain woodsorrel
netted chain fern
nipplewort
northern blue flag
northern catalpa
orange hawkweed
pondcypress
red-berried elder
rock polypody
roundleaf greenbrier
rue anemone
sallow sedge
shining sumac
swamp rose
tall meadow-rue
tamarack
thyme-leaved speedwell
virginia stickseed
water forget-me-not
white turtlehead
winterberry holly
wood nettle
Allegheny monkeyflower
Alsike clover
American Hog-Peanut
American Linden
American searocket
Annual Honesty
Black Chokeberry
Black Cohosh
Blue Cohoshes
Bog Labrador Tea
Broad-winged Thistle
Broadleaf Enchanter'S Nightshade
Canadian lousewort
Canadian wild ginger
Carolina Silverbell
Carolina rose
Catherine's moss
Citronella Horse Balm
Common Butterbur
Common Dewberry
Common Grape Hyacinth
Common Wrinkle-Leaved Goldenrod
Coreopsis
Cornflower
Creeping Bellflower
Curly-Leaf Pondweed
Dandelion
Dangleberry
Deerberry
Early Blue Cohosh
Echinacea
Evening Primrose
Far Eastern Smartweed
Five-leaf akebia
Flat-Topped Goldenrod
Flowering Dogwood
Ghost Pipe
Grape
Hop Trefoil
Hornwort
Ivy-leaved toadflax
Japanese holly
Japanese stiltgrass
Lady's Smock
Lance-Leaved Coreopsis
Marchantia
Mexican Tea
Nasturtium
Northern Highbush Blueberry
Northern Prickly Ash
Oregano
Pale Jewelweed
Pennsylvania Pellitory
Philadelphia fleabane
Phlox
Pinkladies
Plantainleaf Sedge
Prostrate Knotweed
Quackgrass
Queen Anne's Lace
Red Chokeberry
Red Columbine
Red Sand Spurrey
Rose Pogonia
Rudbeckia
Russian olive
Sacred Datura
Silvergrass
Smokebush
Spanish Bluebell
Spoonleaf Sundew
Summer Grape
Summer snowflake
Trailing Ivy
Trumpet Vine
Two-leaved Toothwort
Tyrol knapweed
Variegated Yellow Pond-Lily
Violets
Virginia Pepperweed
Water Lily
Whorled Loosestrife
Wild Oat Grass
Wild Pansy
Wild Quinine
Wood Forget-me-not
Wood Sorrel
Yellow Star Grass
Yellow groove bamboo
bear oak
bird's-eye speedwell
bird's-foot trefoil
bitter wintercress
blunt woodsia
border privet
broad-leaved sweet pea
bulblet fern
common columbine
common hackberry
common selfheal
common serviceberry
common toadflax
crimson clover
cup plant
curled dock
cypress spurge
dwarf cinquefoil
false sunflower
fan clubmoss
field horsetail
field penny-cress
fireweed
fortune's spindle
fringed loosestrife
fringed willowherb
gallberry
goat's rue
gray birch
great rhododendron
great stinging nettle
greater plantain
green false hellebore
grey alder
largeflower bellwort
leatherleaf
leatherleaf mahonia
lizard's tail
lowbush blueberry
maidenhair spleenwort
marsh mallow
mile-a-minute weed
moth mullein
mouse-eared hawkweed
musk mallow
northern bush honeysuckle
obedient plant
oxeye daisy
pearly everlasting
pin oak
pitch pine
pointed-leaved tick-trefoil
prickly lettuce
prickly sowthistle
river oats
rough horsetail
scarlet pimpernel
seductive entodon moss
sheep laurel
spatterdock
spotted knapweed
staghorn sumac
sulphur cinquefoil
swamp loosestrife
tansy
tower mustards
tufted vetch
umbrella magnolia
white mulberry
wild bergamot
wild parsnip
winged euonymus
wood anemone
woolgrass
yellow birch
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