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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
230
Species
188
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 5, 2026
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Jun 4, 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 Virginia Bluebells.
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Virginia, US
You might spot Eastern Gray Squirrel, Northern Cardinal, and Red Fox.
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Virginia, US
You might spot Osage-Orange, Willow Oak, and Kousa Dogwood.
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Virginia, US
You might spot Large White Trillium, Wild Geranium, and Rue Anemone.
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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 White-Tailed Deer, Northern Cricket Frog, and Garter Snake.
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Full Guide
The complete ranked list for this guide, ordered by sightings count.
Tulip Tree
Redbud Tree
chicory
Flowering Dogwood
Yarrow
eastern white pine
mayapple
Mountain Laurel
Rudbeckia
American pokeweed
common pawpaw
Carolina horsenettle
Christmas fern
Trumpet Vine
box elder
eastern poison ivy
ground-ivy
bloodroot
great mullein
pink lady's slipper
American jumpseed
Cardinal Flower
Silk Tree
dame's rocket
garlic mustard
hemp dogbane
multiflora rose
purple crownvetch
ribwort plantain
sensitive fern
white clover
wineberry
American black elderberry
Clover
Cranesbill
Ghost Pipe
Japanese stiltgrass
Yellow Iris
butterfly milkweed
mock strawberry
moth mullein
rue anemone
woodland stonecrop
American cancer-root
American water-willow
Black Locust
Japanese barberry
Japanese honeysuckle
Queen Anne's Lace
Solomon's plume
Trailing Ivy
Vinca Periwinkle
Wild Yam
ebony spleenwort
henbit deadnettle
lyreleaf sage
pickerelweed
poison hemlock
purple-flowered raspberry
striped wintergreen
tree-of-heaven
Black Tupelo
Callery pear
Common Lambsquarters
Eastern Skunk Cabbage
Empress Tree
Field madder
Heath Speedwell
Ivy-leaved toadflax
Orchard Grass
Small-Flowered Buttercup
St John's Wort
Verbena
Violets
Virginia Springbeauty
Virginia spiderwort
autumn clematis
autumn fern
buttonbush
common selfheal
common star-of-Bethlehem
fan clubmoss
horseweed
lizard's tail
low smartweed
musk thistle
netted chain fern
northern spicebush
oxeye daisy
roundleaf greenbrier
sassafras
wild bergamot
American Royal Fern
American burnweed
Amur honeysuckle
Asian jumpseed
Asiatic dayflower
Bee Balm
Big Bluestem
Black Cohosh
Blackhaw
Carolina sweetshrub
Cherry laurel
Chinese Holly
Common Vetch
Cornflower
Cucumber Root
Deptford pink
Dove's-foot crane's-bill
Eastern Teaberry
Echinacea
Evening Primrose
False Nettle
Goatsbeard
Greater celandine
Japanese spindle tree
Kudzu
Lenten-rose
New York fern
Oriental bittersweet
Osage-orange
Painted-cup Paintbrush
Philadelphia fleabane
Phlox
Pinkladies
Pinxter Flower
Seabeach Evening-primrose
Silky Dogwood
Spanish Needles
Switchgrass
Tree-Skirt Moss
Violet Woodsorrel
Virginia creeper
Virginia pine
White Wood Aster
Wood Sorrel
Yellow Crownbeard
Yellow Sweetclover
autumn olive
blackjack oak
blue mistflower
broad-leaved sweet pea
catchweed bedstraw
cinnamon fern
clasping Venus's looking glass
colt's-foot
common bracken
common chickweed
common hackberry
common hoptree
common jewelweed
common lilac
common milkweed
crane-fly orchid
cut-leaved toothwort
cutleaf coneflower
eastern redcedar
fire pink
fragrant bedstraw
fringed loosestrife
mapleleaf viburnum
marginal wood fern
naked-flowered tick-trefoil
narrow-leaved sundrops
northern green-and-gold
partridge pea
partridgeberry
pink-sorrel
rabbitfoot clover
red deadnettle
rough horsetail
smooth sumac
southern adder's-tongue
spatterdock
star chickweed
strawberry bush
swamp agrimony
swamp rose
sweet vernal grass
thyme-leaved speedwell
trifoliate orange
wavyleaf basketgrass
white fringetree
wild garlic
wild teasel
yellow archangel
yellow passionflower
yellow trout lily
Other Guides
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