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Flowers Guide
Flowers Guide for West Virginia
Mountains, forests, rivers, and rugged landscapes
Flower highlights, bloom-focused sightings, and the best places to look for flowers in West Virginia. Use the highlight list to start quickly, then work through the full guide for a broader local view.
Sightings
150
Species
103
Active Months
12
Category Overview
Flowers across West Virginia
This guide focuses on flowers within West Virginia'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 West Virginia
A recent look at flower sightings across West Virginia.
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Sightings Map
See where flower sightings cluster
Start wide, then zoom in to see where flower sightings cluster across West Virginia.
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Top Highlights
Top 5 flowers to look for in West Virginia
These flowers are snapped the most across this region.
Ghost Pipe
5 snaps
Virginia bluebells
5 snaps
dame's rocket
5 snaps
Trumpet Vine
4 snaps
purple crownvetch
4 snaps
Places to Start
Best places for flowers in West Virginia
These place guides connect well with the flowers covered in this region.
Park30 sightings12 species
West Virginia, US
Battle of Camp Allegheny
You might spot Eastern Red-Backed Salamander and Wehrle's Salamander.
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West Virginia, US
Nuttallburg Coal Mining Complex and Town Historic District
You might spot Great Rhododendron, Mountain Laurel, and Ghost Pipe.
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West Virginia, US
Salt Sulphur Springs Historic District
You might spot White-Tailed Deer, Dame's Rocket, and Jimsonweed.
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West Virginia, US
Hinton Historic District
You might spot Common Merganser, Great Blue Heron, and Canada Goose.
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West Virginia, US
New River Gorge National Park and Preserve
You might spot Great Rhododendron and Mountain Laurel.
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Beverly Historic District
You might spot Wide Leek, Eastern Newt, and Golden Ragwort.
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Full Guide
Full West Virginia flowers list
The complete ranked list for this guide, ordered by sightings count.
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Ghost Pipe
Virginia bluebells
dame's rocket
Trumpet Vine
purple crownvetch
Japanese honeysuckle
box elder
ground-ivy
mayapple
red deadnettle
sassafras
Annual Honesty
Black Tupelo
Christmas fern
Ivy-leaved toadflax
Mountain Laurel
Virginia Springbeauty
Virginia waterleaf
bird's-eye speedwell
common milkweed
dwarf crested iris
fragrant sumac
henbit deadnettle
intermediate wood fern
large white trillium
mock strawberry
pink lady's slipper
purple-flowered raspberry
wide leek
American black elderberry
American pokeweed
Amur honeysuckle
Callery pear
Canada mayflower
Carolina Springbeauty
Castor Bean
Chinese bushclover
Climbing Rose
Clover
Common Duckweed
Cut-Leaved Crane'S-Bill
Deptford pink
Dutchman's breeches
Eastern Cottonwood
European dewberry
Foxglove Beardtongue
Goatsbeard
Jack-in-the-Pulpit
Japanese Painted Fern
Japanese barberry
Japanese knotweed
New York fern
Orchard Grass
Queen Anne's Lace
Redbud Tree
Redstem Stork's-bill
Rose of Sharon
Small-Flowered Buttercup
Smooth Yellow Violet
Solomon's plume
Stringy Stonecrop
Two-leaved Toothwort
Watershield
Wingstem
azure bluet
bloodroot
blue cohosh
broadleaf arrowhead
butterfly milkweed
cinnamon fern
colt's-foot
common cowparsnip
common morning-glory
common pawpaw
downy rattlesnake plantain
eastern hemlock
eastern poison ivy
false indigo bush
field horsetail
fire pink
golden ragwort
hemp dogbane
honey-vine climbing milkweed
interrupted fern
moth mullein
mountain woodsorrel
multiflora rose
northern catalpa
painted trillium
ribwort plantain
scarlet pimpernel
sensitive fern
shepherd's-purse
stag's-horn clubmoss
staghorn sumac
striped maple
sulphur cinquefoil
white clover
whitemouth dayflower
wineberry
winged euonymus
wood anemone
yellow birch
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