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Flowers Guide
Flowers Guide for South Carolina
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
30
Species
129
Active Months
12
Category Overview
Flowers across South Carolina
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
Recent flower sightings in South Carolina
A recent look at flower sightings across South Carolina.
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Sightings Map
See where flower sightings cluster
Start wide, then zoom in to see where flower sightings cluster across South Carolina.
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Top Highlights
Top 5 flowers to look for in South Carolina
These flowers are snapped the most across this region.
Passion Flower
9 snaps
Spanish moss
8 snaps
American pokeweed
7 snaps
striped wintergreen
6 snaps
Carolina horsenettle
5 snaps
Places to Start
Best places for flowers in South Carolina
These place guides connect well with the flowers covered in this region.
Park30 sightings12 species
South Carolina, US
Caldwell Street Historic District
You might spot Butterfly Pea, Red-Tailed Hawk, and Northern Cardinal.
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South Carolina, US
South Carolina Botanical Garden
You might spot Pond Slider, Gulf Fritillary, and Anole.
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South Carolina, US
City of Camden Historic District
You might spot Eastern Pondhawk and Four-Spotted Pennant.
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Park30 sightings12 species
South Carolina, US
Kingstree Historic District
You might spot Gulf Fritillary, Admiral Butterfly, and Cypress Vine.
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Park30 sightings12 species
South Carolina, US
Ashley River Historic District
You might spot American Alligator, Great Blue Heron, and Anole.
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South Carolina, US
Erskine College-Due West Historic District
You might spot Fiery Skipper, Clouded Skipper, and Carolina Satyr.
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Full Guide
Full South Carolina flowers list
The complete ranked list for this guide, ordered by sightings count.
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Passion Flower
Spanish moss
American pokeweed
striped wintergreen
Carolina horsenettle
Japanese honeysuckle
bloodroot
box elder
Carolina Ruellia
Chinese Tallow
Kudzu
Mountain Laurel
Silk Tree
Southern Magnolia
shining sumac
American burnweed
Chinese privet
Ghost Pipe
Heavenly bamboo
Trumpet Vine
Yaupon Holly
greater periwinkle
leatherleaf mahonia
musk thistle
sassafras
sensitive fern
smooth sumac
tree-of-heaven
American Groundnut
American Royal Fern
Common Hedge Parsley
Little Brown Jugs
Loquat
Parrot's feather
Scarlet Sesbane
Summer snowflake
Tievine
Virginia creeper
Wild Lupine
butterfly milkweed
buttonbush
cinnamon fern
daisy fleabane
netted chain fern
partridgeberry
pickerelweed
resurrection fern
round-lobed hepatica
southern live oak
yellow jessamine
yellow passionflower
American beautyberry
American black elderberry
American cancer-root
American persimmon
American white waterlily
Artichoke Thistle
Callery pear
Cardinal Flower
Carolina snailseed
Christmas fern
Climbing Fig
Cosmos
Creeping Juniper
Dutchman's breeches
Dwarf Palmetto
Earleaf Greenbrier
Eastern Coral Bean
English Ivy
Field madder
Green Arrow Arum
Lance-Leaved Coreopsis
Pinkladies
Pumpkin
Red Buckeye
Redbud Tree
Rudbeckia
Sacred Datura
Shepherd's Cress
Solomon's plume
Southern Blue Flag
Spoonleaf Sundew
Star Magnolia
Tall Goldenrod
Tulip Tree
Violet Woodsorrel
Winter Honeysuckle
Woodland Pinkroot
Yellow Crownbeard
Yellow Fortnight Lily
bird's-eye speedwell
blue mistflower
common milkweed
common pawpaw
common soapwort
eastern poison ivy
eastern white pine
fan clubmoss
fetterbush lyonia
goat's rue
henbit deadnettle
jimsonweed
largeleaf pennywort
lizard's tail
low smartweed
mapleleaf viburnum
mock strawberry
mophead hydrangea
muscadine
pine-barren sandwort
post oak
purple-flowered raspberry
red deadnettle
sallow sedge
saw greenbrier
sea ox-eye
shepherd's-purse
showy milkweed
smooth Solomon's seal
sparkleberry
spotted horsemint
spurge nettle
strawberry bush
sweetbay magnolia
thorny olive
tree privet
water oak
white clover
willow oak
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