Jun 7, 2026
Boerner Botanical Gardensi
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Flowers Guide
Flowers Guide for Wisconsin
Lakes, forests, wetlands, and northern wildlife
Flower highlights, bloom-focused sightings, and the best places to look for flowers in Wisconsin. Use the highlight list to start quickly, then work through the full guide for a broader local view.
Sightings
25
Species
198
Active Months
12
Category Overview
Flowers across Wisconsin
This guide focuses on flowers within Wisconsin'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 Wisconsin
A recent look at flower sightings across Wisconsin.
Jun 6, 2026
Bascom Hilli
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Jun 6, 2026
Bascom Hilli
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(c) Mason Holum, some rights reserved (CC BY)
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Jun 6, 2026
Bascom Hilli
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(c) Mason Holum, some rights reserved (CC BY)
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Jun 4, 2026
Ice Age Traili
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Jun 4, 2026
Ice Age Traili
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Sightings Map
See where flower sightings cluster
Start wide, then zoom in to see where flower sightings cluster across Wisconsin.
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Top Highlights
Top 5 flowers to look for in Wisconsin
These flowers are snapped the most across this region.
eastern white pine
38 snaps
Cranesbill
13 snaps
common milkweed
11 snaps
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bloodroot
9 snaps
dame's rocket
9 snaps
Places to Start
Best places for flowers in Wisconsin
These place guides connect well with the flowers covered in this region.
Park45 sightings50 species
Wisconsin, US
University of Wisconsin–Madison Arboretum
You might spot Sundial Lupine, Canadian Lousewort, and Cream Wild-Indigo.
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Park43 sightings50 species
Wisconsin, US
Boerner Botanical Gardens
You might spot Turkey, White-Tailed Deer, and Dame's Rocket.
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Park47 sightings50 species
Wisconsin, US
Gibraltar Rock State Natural Area
You might spot Eastern Redcedar, Rock Polypody, and Vulture.
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Park38 sightings50 species
Wisconsin, US
Black Tern Bog State Natural Area
You might spot Purple Pitcher Plant, Papillose Peatmoss, and Tamarack.
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Park45 sightings50 species
Wisconsin, US
Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory
You might spot Common Eastern Bumble Bee, Red-Belted Bumble Bee, and Duck.
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Park42 sightings50 species
Wisconsin, US
Richard Bong State Recreation Area
You might spot Eastern Forktail and Brown-Belted Bumble Bee.
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Full Guide
Full Wisconsin flowers list
The complete ranked list for this guide, ordered by sightings count.
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eastern white pine
Cranesbill
common milkweed
bloodroot
dame's rocket
mayapple
Canadian lousewort
Cardinal Flower
Foxglove Beardtongue
Rudbeckia
Wild Lupine
chicory
golden Alexanders
leadplant
purple pitcher plant
rock polypody
American cancer-root
Clover
Jack-in-the-Pulpit
Papillose Peatmoss
bird's-foot trefoil
butterfly milkweed
common cowparsnip
compass plant
eastern redcedar
eastern shooting star
marginal wood fern
prairie dock
Greater Peatmoss
Ohio spiderwort
Smooth Cliffbrake
Solomon's plume
catchweed bedstraw
tamarack
Red Columbine
Spoonleaf Sundew
White Avens
common buckthorn
cup plant
garlic mustard
hairy puccoon
hemp dogbane
marsh marigold
meadow anemone
northern catalpa
oxeye daisy
prairie smoke
round-lobed hepatica
rue anemone
star-flowered lily-of-the-valley
American black elderberry
American hazelnut
American jumpseed
American white waterlily
Black Raspberry
Bogbean
Bull Thistle
Canada mayflower
Canadian bunchberry
Canadian wild ginger
Divine Bogmoss
Fringed Bogmoss
Jack pine
Lesser Burdock
Lyreleaf Rockcress
Phlox
Rannoch-Rush
Sheep's sorrel
Virginia strawberry
Witch Hazel
Yarrow
Yellow Sweetclover
aniseroot
box elder
common hackberry
common jewelweed
common ninebark
downy rattlesnake plantain
false indigo bush
field penny-cress
goat's rue
ground-ivy
hound's-tongue
largeflower bellwort
lowbush blueberry
northern bush honeysuckle
northern starflower
prairie phlox
purple crownvetch
red-berried elder
round-leaved sundew
smooth Solomon's seal
sweetfern
tufted vetch
white campion
wild sarsaparilla
Allegheny blackberry
American Bladdernut
American Cranberry
American Linden
American vetch
Amur honeysuckle
Black Medick
Bog Labrador Tea
Broad-leaved helleborine
Catnip
Celandine Poppy
Cheatgrass
Common Privet
Cream Wild-Indigo
Culver'S Root
Eastern Skunk Cabbage
Echinacea
Fee's lip fern
Flowering Spurge
Foxtail Barley
Ghost Pipe
Glade Mallow
Goutweed
Greater celandine
Hoary Puccoon
Hooked Buttercup
Jacob's ladder
Large-Flowered Beardtongue
Lily of the Valley
Lungwort
Moonseed
Mountain Deathcamas
Northern Bedstraw
Prairie Rose
Purple-Stemmed Angelica
Rattlesnake Fern
Reed Canary Grass
Riverbank Grape
Silvery Cinquefoil
Small-Flowered Buttercup
Southern Blue Flag
Steeplebush
Tawny Cottongrass
Timothy Grass
Tuberous Grasspink
Tufted Hairgrass
Variegated Yellow Pond-Lily
Velvetleaf
Virginia Springbeauty
Virginia waterleaf
Watershield
Wayfaring-tree
White Beak-Sedge
Wild Rosemary
autumn olive
azure bluet
bastard toadflax
bittersweet nightshade
blue cohosh
bog cranberry
broad-leaved goldenrod
bur oak
chokecherry
common bracken
common cinquefoil
common dandelion
common groundsel
common motherwort
creeping thistle
cutleaf teasel
false sunflower
field bindweed
fragrant sumac
great mullein
guelder-rose
hoary alyssum
leatherleaf
marsh cinquefoil
meadow buttercup
mock strawberry
multiflora rose
narrowleaf puccoon
northern maidenhair fern
orange hawkweed
partridge pea
pineapple-weed
prairie pasqueflower
prairie rosinweed
purple foxglove
purple-flowered raspberry
rattlesnake master
ribwort plantain
slender stinging nettle
smooth sumac
spotted horsemint
sulphur cinquefoil
swamp milkweed
virginia stickseed
western poison ivy
white mulberry
wild bergamot
wood anemone
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