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Flowers Guide
Flowers Guide for Tennessee
Forests, mountains, rivers, and rich birdlife
Flower highlights, bloom-focused sightings, and the best places to look for flowers in Tennessee. Use the highlight list to start quickly, then work through the full guide for a broader local view.
Sightings
33
Species
132
Active Months
12
Category Overview
Flowers across Tennessee
This guide focuses on flowers within Tennessee'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 Tennessee
A recent look at flower sightings across Tennessee.
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Sightings Map
See where flower sightings cluster
Start wide, then zoom in to see where flower sightings cluster across Tennessee.
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Top Highlights
Top 5 flowers to look for in Tennessee
These flowers are snapped the most across this region.
butterfly milkweed
10 snaps
Trumpet Vine
7 snaps
Woodland Pinkroot
7 snaps
Redbud Tree
6 snaps
American pokeweed
5 snaps
Places to Start
Best places for flowers in Tennessee
These place guides connect well with the flowers covered in this region.
Park30 sightings12 species
Tennessee, US
Great Falls Dam
You might spot Black Maidenhair Fern and Great Blue Heron.
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Park30 sightings12 species
Tennessee, US
Elkmont
You might spot Pipevine Swallowtail, Fraser's Sedge, and Partridgeberry.
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Park30 sightings12 species
Tennessee, US
Rugby
You might spot Painted-Cup Paintbrush, Cucumber Root, and Big Bluestem.
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Park30 sightings12 species
Tennessee, US
Nickajack Cave
You might spot Twinleaf, Purple-Stem Cliffbrake, and Trifoliate Orange.
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Park30 sightings12 species
Tennessee, US
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts
You might spot Black Bear, Yellow Wakerobin, and Pipevine Swallowtail.
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Tennessee, US
Memphis Botanic Garden
You might spot Pond Slider, Blue Phlox, and Mayapple.
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Full Guide
Full Tennessee flowers list
The complete ranked list for this guide, ordered by sightings count.
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butterfly milkweed
Trumpet Vine
Woodland Pinkroot
Redbud Tree
American pokeweed
American water-willow
Christmas fern
Empress Tree
Ghost Pipe
Tulip Tree
Virginia creeper
eastern poison ivy
striped wintergreen
white clover
American black elderberry
Carolina horsenettle
Clover
Mountain Laurel
box elder
broad-leaved sweet pea
fan clubmoss
fragrant sumac
great rhododendron
grey-headed coneflower
lizard's tail
lyreleaf sage
musk thistle
purple crownvetch
shining sumac
tall bellflower
wild comfrey
wineberry
American persimmon
Black Tupelo
Broad Beech Fern
Carolina sweetshrub
Chinese privet
Silk Tree
Wild Yam
azure bluet
common jewelweed
eastern hemlock
leatherleaf mahonia
moth mullein
partridge pea
possumhaw
ribwort plantain
tall thimbleweed
American cancer-root
American germander
Asiatic dayflower
Bull Thistle
Butterweed
Camphorweed
Carolina snailseed
Chinese Holly
Climbing Rose
Common Purslane
Cucumber Root
Dutchman's breeches
Eastern Pricklypear
Field madder
Gaillardia
Golden Club
Heavenly bamboo
Hooked Buttercup
Jack-in-the-Pulpit
Japanese Spirea
Japanese knotweed
Japanese stiltgrass
Kudzu
Largeflower pink-sorrel
Marsh Dewflower
Ohio spiderwort
Paper mulberry
Passion Flower
Philadelphia fleabane
Queen Anne's Lace
Red Buckeye
Silky Dogwood
Smooth Yellow Violet
Soft Rush
Southern Blue Flag
Stringy Stonecrop
Virginia sweetspire
Watershield
Wingstem
Winter jasmine
Yellow Iris
autumn olive
bear's foot
bigleaf magnolia
black maidenhair fern
blackjack oak
blue mistflower
bur oak
common boneset
common hackberry
common milkweed
common selfheal
common star-of-Bethlehem
common yucca
devil's walkingstick
eastern redcedar
ebony spleenwort
giant ragweed
goat's rue
ground-ivy
hay-scented fern
horseweed
low smartweed
mapleleaf viburnum
mountain woodsorrel
northern spicebush
partridgeberry
pickerelweed
pink lady's slipper
poison hemlock
red deadnettle
resurrection fern
rue anemone
sassafras
sensitive fern
smooth Solomon's seal
smooth sumac
southern red oak
strawberry bush
tansy
white baneberry
white snakeroot
white turtlehead
yellow passionflower
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