Jun 20, 2026
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Mountains, wetlands, forests, and coastal habitats
Flower highlights, bloom-focused sightings, and the best places to look for flowers in Virginia. Use the highlight list to start quickly, then work through the full guide for a broader local view.
Sightings
255
Species
229
Active Months
12

Category Overview
This guide focuses on flowers within Virginia'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 Virginia.
Jun 20, 2026
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Jun 20, 2026
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Jun 19, 2026
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Jun 19, 2026
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Jun 19, 2026
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Jun 19, 2026
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Sightings Map
Start wide, then zoom in to see where flower sightings cluster across Virginia.
Top Highlights
These flowers are snapped the most across this region.
Places to Start
These place guides connect well with the flowers covered in this region.
Virginia, US
You might spot Garlic Mustard, Spotted Lanternfly, and Bloodroot.
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Virginia, US
You might spot Duck, Eastern Gray Squirrel, and Painted Turtle.
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Virginia, US
You might spot Canada Goose, Eastern Gray Squirrel, and Great Blue Heron.
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Virginia, US
You might spot White-Tailed Deer and House Sparrow.
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Virginia, US
You might spot Canada Goose, Duck, and Great Blue Heron.
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Virginia, US
You might spot Eastern Gray Squirrel, Northern Cardinal, and Red Fox.
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Full Guide
The complete ranked list for this guide, ordered by sightings count.
Tulip Tree
Redbud Tree
chicory
mayapple
Flowering Dogwood
Yarrow
eastern white pine
common pawpaw
American pokeweed
Trumpet Vine
white clover
Carolina horsenettle
Rudbeckia
Silk Tree
bloodroot
eastern poison ivy
wineberry
Mountain Laurel
tree-of-heaven
Christmas fern
box elder
buttonbush
garlic mustard
hemp dogbane
mock strawberry
purple crownvetch
striped wintergreen
American jumpseed
Clover
ground-ivy
Cardinal Flower
Japanese stiltgrass
Queen Anne's Lace
butterfly milkweed
great mullein
pink lady's slipper
ribwort plantain
American black elderberry
American water-willow
Asian jumpseed
Ghost Pipe
Vinca Periwinkle
Yellow Iris
dame's rocket
ebony spleenwort
multiflora rose
pickerelweed
sensitive fern
woodland stonecrop
Cranesbill
Japanese honeysuckle
Solomon's plume
Trailing Ivy
common milkweed
lyreleaf sage
moth mullein
northern spicebush
rue anemone
sassafras
American cancer-root
Black Locust
Common Lambsquarters
Japanese barberry
Wild Yam
Yellow Lady'S Slipper
cinnamon fern
common selfheal
henbit deadnettle
horseweed
lizard's tail
poison hemlock
purple-flowered raspberry
Asiatic dayflower
Black Tupelo
Bull Thistle
Callery pear
Carolina Ruellia
Eastern Skunk Cabbage
Empress Tree
Field madder
Heath Speedwell
Ivy-leaved toadflax
Kudzu
New York fern
Orchard Grass
Osage-orange
Small-Flowered Buttercup
St John's Wort
Verbena
Violets
Virginia Springbeauty
Virginia bluebells
Virginia creeper
Virginia spiderwort
Wingstem
autumn clematis
autumn fern
blue mistflower
common jewelweed
common star-of-Bethlehem
fan clubmoss
fringed loosestrife
low smartweed
musk thistle
netted chain fern
oxeye daisy
pink-sorrel
river birch
roundleaf greenbrier
strawberry bush
wild bergamot
wild garlic
American Holly
American Royal Fern
American burnweed
Amur honeysuckle
Bee Balm
Big Bluestem
Black Cohosh
Blackhaw
Broad-Leaved Dock
Canada Toadflax
Canadian wild ginger
Carolina sweetshrub
Cherry laurel
Chinese Holly
Common Vetch
Corn Gromwell
Cornflower
Cream Violet
Creeping Phlox
Cucumber Root
Deptford pink
Dogfennel
Dove's-foot crane's-bill
Drooping Star-of-Bethlehem
Eastern Teaberry
Echinacea
Evening Primrose
False Nettle
Flame Azalea
Fringed Polygala
Goatsbeard
Greater celandine
Helmet Skullcap
Japanese knotweed
Japanese spindle tree
Lenten-rose
Narrowleaf Mountainmint
New Jersey Tea
Oriental bittersweet
Painted-cup Paintbrush
Passion Flower
Perfoliate Bellwort
Philadelphia fleabane
Phlox
Pinkladies
Pinxter Flower
Putty Root
Rose of Sharon
Seabeach Evening-primrose
Seedbox
Silky Dogwood
Sourwood
Southeastern Pricklypear
Spanish Needles
Spotted spurge
Spring Ladies' Tresses
Starry Campion
Switchgrass
Tree-Skirt Moss
Violet Woodsorrel
Virginia pine
White Wood Aster
Wild Basil
Wood Sorrel
Yellow Crownbeard
Yellow Star Grass
Yellow Sweetclover
autumn olive
blackjack oak
broad-leaved sweet pea
catchweed bedstraw
clasping Venus's looking glass
colt's-foot
common bracken
common chickweed
common hackberry
common hoptree
common lilac
crane-fly orchid
cut-leaved toothwort
cutleaf coneflower
eastern redcedar
fire pink
fortune's spindle
fragrant bedstraw
giant ragweed
greater periwinkle
intermediate wood fern
jimsonweed
mapleleaf viburnum
marginal wood fern
naked-flowered tick-trefoil
narrow-leaved sundrops
northern green-and-gold
partridge pea
partridgeberry
rabbitfoot clover
red deadnettle
rough horsetail
scarlet pimpernel
smooth sumac
southern adder's-tongue
spatterdock
star chickweed
swamp agrimony
swamp rose
swamp white oak
sweet vernal grass
thyme-leaved speedwell
trifoliate orange
water smartweed
wavyleaf basketgrass
white fringetree
wild teasel
yellow archangel
yellow passionflower
yellow trout lily
Other Guides
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