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Forests, ridges, rivers, and Appalachian wildlife
Flower highlights, bloom-focused sightings, and the best places to look for flowers in Pennsylvania. Use the highlight list to start quickly, then work through the full guide for a broader local view.
Sightings
80
Species
311
Active Months
12

Category Overview
This guide focuses on flowers within Pennsylvania'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 Pennsylvania.
Jun 16, 2026
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Jun 15, 2026
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Sightings Map
Start wide, then zoom in to see where flower sightings cluster across Pennsylvania.
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.

Pennsylvania, US
You might spot Spotted Lanternfly, White-Tailed Deer, and American Robin.
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Pennsylvania, US
You might spot Solomon's Plume, Moonseed, and Virginia Waterleaf.
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Pennsylvania, US
You might spot Mountain Laurel, Ghost Pipe, and Sweetfern.
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Pennsylvania, US
You might spot American Robin, Red-Winged Blackbird, and Lesser Celandine.
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Pennsylvania, US
You might spot Pinesap, Great Rhododendron, and Mountain Laurel.
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Pennsylvania, US
You might spot Painted Trillium, Eastern Newt, and Christmas Fern.
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Full Guide
The complete ranked list for this guide, ordered by sightings count.
eastern hemlock
purple crownvetch
mayapple
Mountain Laurel
common milkweed
dame's rocket
Philadelphia fleabane
Solomon's plume
Tulip Tree
chicory
marsh marigold
Christmas fern
Ghost Pipe
common mugwort
creeping thistle
great mullein
hay-scented fern
musk thistle
white campion
Canada mayflower
Cucumber Root
Goutweed
eastern white pine
multiflora rose
painted trillium
partridgeberry
white clover
American pokeweed
Greater celandine
Virginia creeper
bittersweet nightshade
moth mullein
northern starflower
pink lady's slipper
red deadnettle
sassafras
striped maple
Cardinal Flower
Cranesbill
Foxglove Beardtongue
colt's-foot
dwarf ginseng
garlic mustard
great rhododendron
poison hemlock
ribwort plantain
rue anemone
scarlet pimpernel
American cancer-root
American jumpseed
Clover
Red Columbine
Vinca Periwinkle
Witch Hazel
Yarrow
Yellow Sweetclover
annual fleabane
bloodroot
ebony spleenwort
ground-ivy
wild sarsaparilla
yellow trout lily
American Linden
Amur honeysuckle
Black Tupelo
Canadian lousewort
Empress Tree
Fringed Polygala
Purple-Stemmed Angelica
azure bluet
box elder
cinnamon fern
clasping Venus's looking glass
common star-of-Bethlehem
eastern poison ivy
mock strawberry
northern maidenhair fern
oxeye daisy
sensitive fern
sweet vernal grass
sweetfern
white mulberry
wood anemone
American black elderberry
Annual Honesty
Black Locust
Carolina horsenettle
Eastern Teaberry
Porcelain Berry
Sweet Mock Orange
Wingstem
Yellow Iris
aniseroot
bird's-foot trefoil
bulbous buttercup
butterfly milkweed
common columbine
hemp dogbane
horseweed
intermediate wood fern
lesser celandine
mapleleaf viburnum
northern catalpa
red trillium
red-berried elder
trifoliate orange
wineberry
American Royal Fern
Blackhaw
Broad-leaved helleborine
Canadian bunchberry
Common Lambsquarters
Creeping Woodsorrel
Eastern Skunk Cabbage
Flat-Topped Goldenrod
Heath Speedwell
Herb Robert
Hooked Buttercup
Jacob's ladder
Japanese Pagoda Tree
Japanese honeysuckle
Japanese knotweed
Japanese stiltgrass
Lady's Smock
Moss Phlox
New York fern
Pale Jewelweed
Queen Anne's Lace
Rattlesnakeweed
Redbud Tree
Sea Thrift
Shining Firmoss
Smooth Yellow Violet
Stringy Stonecrop
Trailing Ivy
White Avens
White Sweetclover
bluebead lily
buttonbush
common jewelweed
common pawpaw
cup plant
cut-leaved toothwort
cutleaf coneflower
dwarf mallow
eastern wild indigo
giant ragweed
greater plantain
interrupted clubmoss
interrupted fern
low smartweed
lowbush blueberry
mountain woodsorrel
narrow-leaved bittercress
nipplewort
northern blue flag
northern spicebush
purple foxglove
round-leaved sundew
round-lobed hepatica
striped wintergreen
swamp milkweed
umbrella magnolia
white snakeroot
wild parsnip
winterberry holly
Allegheny monkeyflower
American Hog-Peanut
American burnweed
American white waterlily
Appalachian Sandwort
Asian jumpseed
Asiatic dayflower
Biting Stonecrop
Black Raspberry
Broad-Leaved Dock
Bull Thistle
Calico Aster
Canada Toadflax
Canada Violet
Carolina sweetshrub
Catnip
Cattail
Celandine Poppy
Common Wrinkle-Leaved Goldenrod
Coral Honeysuckle
Creeping Snowberry
Deertongue
Deptford pink
Dutchman's breeches
European gooseberry
Flowering Dogwood
Goatsbeard
Golden Club
Green Arrow Arum
Hedge Bindweed
Incised Fumewort
Indian tobacco
Ivy-leaved toadflax
Jack-in-the-Pulpit
Japanese Spirea
Japanese barberry
Japanese creeper
Lance-Leaved Coreopsis
Large-leaved lupine
Lily of the Valley
Long-spurred violet
Lungwort
Lyreleaf Rockcress
Moonseed
Orchard Grass
Osage-orange
Ostrich Fern
Pennsylvania Pellitory
Pinkladies
Purple Milkweed
Rattlesnake Fern
Red Chokeberry
Redstem Stork's-bill
Rose of Sharon
Rudbeckia
Saskatoon
Sheep's sorrel
Siberian squill
Silk Tree
Silky Dogwood
Silvery Cinquefoil
St John's Wort
Steeplebush
Summer snowflake
Veronica Hederifolia
Virginia Pepperweed
Virginia Saxifrage
Virginia Springbeauty
Virginia bluebells
Virginia strawberry
Virginia waterleaf
Weeping Cherry
Whorled Loosestrife
Wild Basil
Wild Hydrangea
Wild Yam
Wood Forget-me-not
Yellow Fumitory
autumn clematis
autumn olive
bastard toadflax
bear oak
bird's-eye speedwell
bitter wintercress
bitternut hickory
bladder campion
border privet
bottlebrush grass
broad-leaved sweet pea
catchweed bedstraw
chestnut oak
common boneset
common bracken
common buckthorn
common comfrey
common cowparsnip
common groundsel
common reed
common selfheal
common snowdrop
common toadflax
corn speedwell
creeping Jenny
curled dock
downy rattlesnake plantain
fall phlox
false sunflower
fan clubmoss
field bindweed
golden Alexanders
golden ragwort
gray birch
green false hellebore
henbit deadnettle
interior sandbar willow
late boneset
linden viburnum
lizard's tail
marginal wood fern
meadow buttercup
mile-a-minute weed
mouse-eared hawkweed
orange hawkweed
pin oak
pineapple-weed
pinesap
pointed-leaved tick-trefoil
prickly lettuce
purple-flowered raspberry
rock harlequin
sallow sedge
sheep laurel
shining sumac
southern red oak
staghorn sumac
sweet birch
tall meadow-rue
threeleaf goldthread
tree-of-heaven
water smartweed
white turtlehead
wild teasel
willow oak
winged euonymus
yellow birch
Other Guides
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