Jun 9, 2026
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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
47
Species
151
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.
Jun 6, 2026
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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.
Redbud Tree
10 snaps
butterfly milkweed
10 snaps
Trumpet Vine
9 snaps
Ghost Pipe
7 snaps
Woodland Pinkroot
7 snaps
Places to Start
Best places for flowers in Tennessee
These place guides connect well with the flowers covered in this region.
Park47 sightings50 species
Tennessee, US
Market Square
You might spot American Robin and Eastern Gray Squirrel.
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Park32 sightings50 species
Tennessee, US
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts
You might spot Black Bear, Yellow Wakerobin, and Pipevine Swallowtail.
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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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Park40 sightings50 species
Tennessee, US
Concord
You might spot American Robin, Northern Cardinal, and Eastern Chipmunk.
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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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Redbud Tree
butterfly milkweed
Trumpet Vine
Ghost Pipe
Woodland Pinkroot
grey-headed coneflower
American water-willow
purple crownvetch
American pokeweed
Christmas fern
Mountain Laurel
Tulip Tree
great rhododendron
Carolina horsenettle
Clover
Empress Tree
Virginia creeper
eastern poison ivy
striped wintergreen
white clover
American black elderberry
American persimmon
Broad Beech Fern
Silk Tree
box elder
broad-leaved sweet pea
common jewelweed
fan clubmoss
fragrant sumac
lizard's tail
lyreleaf sage
musk thistle
partridge pea
ribwort plantain
shining sumac
tall bellflower
wild comfrey
wineberry
American germander
Black Tupelo
Bull Thistle
Carolina sweetshrub
Chinese privet
Field madder
Gaillardia
Japanese Spirea
Kudzu
Paper mulberry
Purple Phacelia
Red Buckeye
Wild Yam
azure bluet
common milkweed
devil's walkingstick
eastern hemlock
ebony spleenwort
giant ragweed
leatherleaf mahonia
moth mullein
northern spicebush
possumhaw
strawberry bush
tall thimbleweed
yellow passionflower
American cancer-root
Asiatic dayflower
Butterweed
Camphorweed
Carolina snailseed
Celandine Poppy
Chinese Holly
Climbing Rose
Common Purslane
Coreopsis
Cornflower
Cross Vine
Cucumber Root
Dutchman's breeches
Eastern Pricklypear
Echinacea
Flame Azalea
Golden Club
Heavenly bamboo
Hooked Buttercup
Jack-in-the-Pulpit
Japanese knotweed
Japanese stiltgrass
Lacy phacelia
Largeflower pink-sorrel
Marsh Dewflower
Narrowleaf Vervain
Ohio spiderwort
Passion Flower
Philadelphia fleabane
Plantainleaf Sedge
Queen Anne's Lace
Rattlesnake Fern
Red Columbine
Sacred Datura
Silky Dogwood
Smooth Yellow Violet
Soft Rush
Sourwood
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
chicory
common boneset
common hackberry
common selfheal
common star-of-Bethlehem
common yucca
eastern redcedar
goat's rue
ground-ivy
hay-scented fern
horseweed
lesser celandine
low smartweed
mapleleaf viburnum
mayapple
mountain woodsorrel
partridgeberry
pickerelweed
pink lady's slipper
poison hemlock
purple passionflower
red deadnettle
resurrection fern
rue anemone
sassafras
sensitive fern
smooth Solomon's seal
smooth sumac
southern red oak
tansy
white baneberry
white snakeroot
white turtlehead
winged euonymus
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