Jun 7, 2026
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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
54
Species
252
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 7, 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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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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11 snaps
Places to Start
These place guides connect well with the flowers covered in this region.

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