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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
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
A recent look at flower sightings across West Virginia.
Jun 6, 2026
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May 30, 2026
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May 28, 2026
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May 8, 2026
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Mar 14, 2026
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Mar 14, 2026
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Sightings Map
Start wide, then zoom in to see where flower sightings cluster across West Virginia.
Top Highlights
These flowers are snapped the most across this region.




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Places to Start
These place guides connect well with the flowers covered in this region.

West Virginia, US
You might spot Eastern Red-Backed Salamander and Wehrle's Salamander.
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West Virginia, US
You might spot Great Rhododendron, Mountain Laurel, and Ghost Pipe.
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West Virginia, US
You might spot White-Tailed Deer, Dame's Rocket, and Jimsonweed.
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West Virginia, US
You might spot Common Merganser, Great Blue Heron, and Canada Goose.
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West Virginia, US
You might spot Great Rhododendron and Mountain Laurel.
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West Virginia, US
You might spot Wide Leek, Eastern Newt, and Golden Ragwort.
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Full Guide
The complete ranked list for this guide, ordered by sightings count.
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
Other Guides
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