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Flowers Guide
Flowers Guide for Rhode Island
Coastal habitats, bays, marshes, and seabirds
Flower highlights, bloom-focused sightings, and the best places to look for flowers in Rhode Island. Use the highlight list to start quickly, then work through the full guide for a broader local view.
Sightings
171
Species
102
Active Months
8
Category Overview
Flowers across Rhode Island
This guide focuses on flowers within Rhode Island's wider region guide, with bloom-rich sightings and the places where wildflowers help define the landscape through the seasons.
Latest Sightings
Recent flower sightings in Rhode Island
A recent look at flower sightings across Rhode Island.
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Sightings Map
See where flower sightings cluster
Start wide, then zoom in to see where flower sightings cluster across Rhode Island.
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Top Highlights
Top 5 flowers to look for in Rhode Island
These flowers are snapped the most across this region.
multiflora rose
8 snaps
bittersweet nightshade
7 snaps
Canada mayflower
5 snaps
Oriental bittersweet
5 snaps
cinnamon fern
4 snaps
Places to Start
Best places for flowers in Rhode Island
These place guides connect well with the flowers covered in this region.
Park30 sightings12 species
Rhode Island, US
Clayville Historic District
You might spot Eastern Red-Backed Salamander and American Toad.
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Rhode Island, US
Norman Bird Sanctuary
You might spot Great Blue Heron, Painted Turtle, and Sensitive Fern.
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Park30 sightings12 species
Rhode Island, US
Towers Historic District
You might spot Common Eastern Bumble Bee and Rugosa Rose.
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Park30 sightings12 species
Rhode Island, US
Tiverton Four Corners Historic District
You might spot Mountain Laurel, American Holly, and Eastern Skunk Cabbage.
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Park30 sightings12 species
Rhode Island, US
Old Ashton Historic District
You might spot Common Mugwort, Duck, and Eastern Gray Squirrel.
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Park30 sightings12 species
Rhode Island, US
Rhodes Street Historic District
You might spot Spotted Lanternfly, Duck, and American Robin.
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Full Guide
Full Rhode Island flowers list
The complete ranked list for this guide, ordered by sightings count.
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multiflora rose
bittersweet nightshade
Canada mayflower
Oriental bittersweet
cinnamon fern
hay-scented fern
lesser celandine
white clover
Japanese knotweed
Tulip Tree
Yarrow
common milkweed
eastern poison ivy
garlic mustard
red deadnettle
sensitive fern
wood anemone
American pokeweed
Common Wrinkle-Leaved Goldenrod
Cranesbill
Eastern Skunk Cabbage
Greater celandine
Heath Speedwell
Mountain Laurel
New York fern
Queen Anne's Lace
Wild Four o'Clock
Yellow Iris
autumn olive
azure bluet
chicory
common star-of-Bethlehem
green false hellebore
mapleleaf viburnum
northern starflower
sassafras
seaside pea
wild garlic
winged euonymus
Allegheny blackberry
American Royal Fern
American searocket
Asian jumpseed
Asiatic dayflower
Black Locust
Black Medick
Bull Thistle
Christmas fern
Clover
Cucumber Root
Eastern Teaberry
Ivy-leaved toadflax
Jack-in-the-Pulpit
Japanese barberry
Lesser hop trefoil
Orchard Grass
Pennsylvania Pellitory
Pinxter Flower
Sheep's sorrel
Siberian squill
Solomon's plume
Sweet Woodruff
Virginia creeper
Wild Lupine
alder buckthorn
bulbous buttercup
common cinquefoil
common dandelion
common jewelweed
common motherwort
common mugwort
common ragweed
corn speedwell
dame's rocket
eastern white pine
ebony spleenwort
great mullein
ground-ivy
interrupted fern
lowbush blueberry
maidenhair spleenwort
marsh marigold
mayapple
northern bayberry
northern blue flag
northern maidenhair fern
oxeye daisy
partridge pea
pineapple-weed
pink lady's slipper
purple pitcher plant
ribwort plantain
roundleaf greenbrier
shagbark hickory
sheep laurel
staghorn sumac
striped wintergreen
sweetfern
white baneberry
white campion
wild sarsaparilla
woodland stonecrop
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