Jun 20, 2026
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Forests, wetlands, rivers, and Lake Erie
Flower highlights, bloom-focused sightings, and the best places to look for flowers in Ohio. Use the highlight list to start quickly, then work through the full guide for a broader local view.
Sightings
50
Species
251
Active Months
12

Category Overview
This guide focuses on flowers within Ohio'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 Ohio.
Jun 20, 2026
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Jun 10, 2026
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Jun 6, 2026
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Jun 6, 2026
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Jun 6, 2026
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Jun 5, 2026
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Sightings Map
Start wide, then zoom in to see where flower sightings cluster across Ohio.
Top Highlights
These flowers are snapped the most across this region.
Places to Start
These place guides connect well with the flowers covered in this region.

Ohio, US
You might spot Large White Trillium, Fire Pink, and Christmas Fern.
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Ohio, US
You might spot American Cancer-Root and Christmas Fern.
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Ohio, US
You might spot Spotted Lanternfly, Virginia Springbeauty, and Blue Phlox.
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Ohio, US
You might spot Duck, Canada Goose, and Muscovy Duck.
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Ohio, US
You might spot Brown-Belted Bumble Bee and Eastern Carpenter Bee.
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Ohio, US
You might spot Wild Bergamot, Rattlesnake Master, and Eastern Pondhawk.
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Full Guide
The complete ranked list for this guide, ordered by sightings count.
mayapple
mock strawberry
Christmas fern
bloodroot
white campion
American cancer-root
Tulip Tree
Virginia Springbeauty
chicory
purple crownvetch
American pokeweed
common milkweed
partridgeberry
Foxglove Beardtongue
dame's rocket
poison hemlock
ribwort plantain
Cranesbill
Jack-in-the-Pulpit
common pawpaw
ground-ivy
partridge pea
scarlet pimpernel
American black elderberry
Solomon's plume
box elder
sensitive fern
American jumpseed
Orchard Grass
Redbud Tree
bittersweet nightshade
common jewelweed
garlic mustard
great mullein
hemp dogbane
multiflora rose
yellow trout lily
Amur honeysuckle
Carolina horsenettle
Deptford pink
Eastern Cottonwood
Ohio Buckeye
Phlox
Virginia bluebells
butterfly milkweed
buttonbush
creeping thistle
eastern hemlock
eastern poison ivy
large white trillium
musk thistle
sweetfern
tree-of-heaven
Black Raspberry
Celandine Poppy
Clover
Echinacea
Flowering Dogwood
Rudbeckia
Virginia creeper
Wingstem
azure bluet
blue cohosh
eastern white pine
fire pink
interior sandbar willow
lesser celandine
moth mullein
red deadnettle
shagbark hickory
virginia stickseed
woodland stonecrop
American white waterlily
Canada mayflower
Citronella Horse Balm
Curly-Leaf Pondweed
Deertongue
Eastern Pricklypear
Eastern Skunk Cabbage
Herb Robert
Japanese creeper
Japanese knotweed
Jetbead
Johnson Grass
Ohio spiderwort
Philadelphia fleabane
Queen Anne's Lace
Red Buckeye
Reed Canary Grass
Trumpet Vine
Virginia Saxifrage
White Avens
border privet
broad-leaved sweet pea
catchweed bedstraw
colt's-foot
common hackberry
common mugwort
common selfheal
common star-of-Bethlehem
dwarf ginseng
eastern shooting star
eastern wild indigo
fortune's spindle
golden ragwort
hay-scented fern
intermediate wood fern
obedient plant
oxeye daisy
prairie dock
round-leaved sundew
sallow sedge
sassafras
swamp milkweed
white clover
white fawnlily
wild garlic
wild parsnip
wood nettle
yellow archangel
Alsike clover
American Groundnut
American Holly
American Linden
American Royal Fern
American burnweed
Atlantic camas
Bee Balm
Black Locust
Broad-Leaved Dock
Brown Knapweed
Bull Thistle
Butterweed
Canadian lousewort
Castor-Aralia
Catnip
Chinese bushclover
Climbing Rose
Common Hedge Parsley
Cornflower
Cream Violet
Daisy
Dog-rose
Evening Primrose
False Nettle
Gaillardia
Garlic Penny-Cress
Ghost Pipe
Goutweed
Greater celandine
Heath Speedwell
Hyacinth
Japanese barberry
Japanese snowball
Java Water-Dropwort
Lenten-rose
Little Bluestem
Madagascar Periwinkle
Mountain Laurel
Oriental bittersweet
Ostrich Fern
Pale Green Orchid
Pinkladies
Poison Sumac
Poppy
Purple Milkweed
Riverbank Grape
Rose of Sharon
Scots pine
Sharp-Lobed Hepatica
Shining Firmoss
Spanish Bluebell
Sweet Alyssum
Tall Goldenrod
Tall Ironweed
Timothy Grass
Violet Woodsorrel
Virginia marsh St. John's-wort
Virginia waterleaf
White Wood Aster
Wild Lupine
Wood Lily
Woodland Pinkroot
Yarrow
Yellow Crownbeard
Yellow Iris
Yellow Sweetclover
Yorkshire fog
alder buckthorn
autumn clematis
autumn olive
bird's-foot trefoil
bottlebrush grass
bur oak
cinnamon fern
clasping Venus's looking glass
common cowparsnip
common motherwort
common ninebark
common snowdrop
cup plant
cut-leaved toothwort
cutleaf coneflower
daisy fleabane
downy rattlesnake plantain
eastern leatherwood
eastern redcedar
false sunflower
field horsetail
field penny-cress
field thistle
giant ragweed
golden Alexanders
great blue lobelia
great waterleaf
greater burdock
grey-headed coneflower
hairy vetch
Horse Chestnut
leafcup
low smartweed
marginal wood fern
netted chain fern
northern blue flag
northern catalpa
northern green-and-gold
northern maidenhair fern
northern starflower
pin oak
prickly sowthistle
purple pitcher plant
red trillium
river birch
round-lobed hepatica
shaggy soldier
shepherd's-purse
spinulose wood fern
staghorn sumac
stiff-leaved goldenrod
swamp rose mallow
tall meadow-rue
toadshade
viper's-bugloss
water forget-me-not
water smartweed
white mulberry
wild bergamot
wild sarsaparilla
wild teasel
winged euonymus
yellow birch
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