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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
70
Species
326
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.
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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.

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