Jun 15, 2026
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Marshes, beaches, forests, and coastal wildlife
Flower highlights, bloom-focused sightings, and the best places to look for flowers in South Carolina. Use the highlight list to start quickly, then work through the full guide for a broader local view.
Sightings
46
Species
157
Active Months
12

Category Overview
This guide focuses on flowers within South Carolina'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 South Carolina.
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May 23, 2026
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May 17, 2026
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Sightings Map
Start wide, then zoom in to see where flower sightings cluster across South Carolina.
Top Highlights
These flowers are snapped the most across this region.





16 snaps





12 snaps





10 snaps





10 snaps




8 snaps
Places to Start
These place guides connect well with the flowers covered in this region.
South Carolina, US
You might spot Anole, Green Treefrog, and Eastern Gray Squirrel.
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South Carolina, US
You might spot American Alligator, Anole, and Great Blue Heron.
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South Carolina, US
You might spot Butterfly Pea, Red-Tailed Hawk, and Northern Cardinal.
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South Carolina, US
You might spot Anole, Asian Lady Beetle, and Gulf Fritillary.
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South Carolina, US
You might spot Brown Pelican, Boat-Tailed Grackle, and Great Egret.
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US
You might spot Brown Pelican, Boat-Tailed Grackle, and Great Egret.
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Full Guide
The complete ranked list for this guide, ordered by sightings count.
Passion Flower
American pokeweed
Chinese Tallow
Spanish moss
Trumpet Vine
Carolina Ruellia
Silk Tree
striped wintergreen
Carolina horsenettle
Japanese honeysuckle
pickerelweed
Kudzu
Southern Magnolia
bloodroot
box elder
Dogfennel
Ghost Pipe
Mountain Laurel
Yaupon Holly
sea ox-eye
shining sumac
southern live oak
tree-of-heaven
yellow passionflower
American beautyberry
American black elderberry
American burnweed
Chinese privet
Heavenly bamboo
Paper mulberry
Virginia creeper
butterfly milkweed
eastern poison ivy
greater periwinkle
leatherleaf mahonia
musk thistle
partridgeberry
sassafras
sensitive fern
smooth sumac
American Groundnut
American Holly
American Royal Fern
American white waterlily
Artichoke Thistle
Cahaba Lily
Carolina snailseed
Christmas fern
Common Hedge Parsley
Little Brown Jugs
Loquat
Orange Milkwort
Parrot's feather
Scarlet Sesbane
Southern Blue Flag
Summer snowflake
Tievine
Wild Lupine
buttonbush
cinnamon fern
daisy fleabane
lizard's tail
netted chain fern
post oak
resurrection fern
round-lobed hepatica
white clover
yellow jessamine
American cancer-root
American persimmon
Baldcypress
Callery pear
Cardinal Flower
Clasping Milkweed
Climbing Fig
Clustered Mountainmint
Cosmos
Creeping Juniper
Dutchman's breeches
Dwarf Palmetto
Earleaf Greenbrier
Eastern Coral Bean
English Ivy
Field madder
Green Arrow Arum
Japanese stiltgrass
Lance-Leaved Coreopsis
Peppervine
Pinkladies
Pumpkin
Red Buckeye
Redbud Tree
Rudbeckia
Sacred Datura
Shepherd's Cress
Solomon's plume
Spoonleaf Sundew
Star Magnolia
Tall Goldenrod
Tulip Tree
Violet Woodsorrel
Virginia Pepperweed
Winter Honeysuckle
Woodland Pinkroot
Yellow Crownbeard
Yellow Fortnight Lily
bird's-eye speedwell
blue mistflower
common bracken
common milkweed
common pawpaw
common reed
common soapwort
eastern white pine
ebony spleenwort
fan clubmoss
fetterbush lyonia
fragrant heliotrope
giant ragweed
goat's rue
groundsel tree
henbit deadnettle
jimsonweed
largeleaf pennywort
longleaf pine
low smartweed
lyreleaf sage
mapleleaf viburnum
mock strawberry
mophead hydrangea
muscadine
needlegrass rush
pecan
pine-barren sandwort
pink-sorrel
purple-flowered raspberry
red deadnettle
sallow sedge
saw greenbrier
shepherd's-purse
showy milkweed
smooth Solomon's seal
southern dewberry
sparkleberry
spotted horsemint
spurge nettle
strawberry bush
sugar hackberry
swamp rose mallow
sweetbay magnolia
thorny olive
tiger lily
tree privet
turkey tangle frogfruit
water hemlock
water oak
willow oak
Other Guides
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