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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
21
Species
145
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.
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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
dame's rocket
9 snaps
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bloodroot
7 snaps
Canadian lousewort
6 snaps
Places to Start
Best places for flowers in Wisconsin
These place guides connect well with the flowers covered in this region.
Park46 sightings9 species
Wisconsin, US
Rocky Arbor State Park
You might spot Partridgeberry, Bluebead Lily, and Cinnamon Fern.
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Park25 sightings12 species
Wisconsin, US
Black Earth Rettenmund Prairie State Natural Area
You might spot Green Comet Milkweed, Wood Lily, and Flowering Spurge.
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Zoo30 sightings12 species
Wisconsin, US
International Crane Foundation
You might spot Hoary Vervain, Compass Plant, and Spotted Horsemint.
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Park30 sightings12 species
Wisconsin, US
University of Wisconsin–Madison Arboretum
You might spot Sundial Lupine, Canadian Lousewort, and Cream Wild-Indigo.
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Park113 sightings16 species
Minnesota, US
William O'Brien State Park
You might spot Rue Anemone, Eastern Skunk Cabbage, and Bloodroot.
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Park30 sightings12 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
dame's rocket
bloodroot
Canadian lousewort
Cardinal Flower
Wild Lupine
common milkweed
mayapple
purple pitcher plant
Jack-in-the-Pulpit
chicory
eastern redcedar
golden Alexanders
leadplant
rock polypody
Clover
Foxglove Beardtongue
Ohio spiderwort
Rudbeckia
eastern shooting star
tamarack
American cancer-root
Solomon's plume
Spoonleaf Sundew
catchweed bedstraw
common cowparsnip
compass plant
garlic mustard
hairy puccoon
marsh marigold
prairie smoke
rue anemone
American hazelnut
American jumpseed
Bogbean
Bull Thistle
Canada mayflower
Canadian bunchberry
Canadian wild ginger
Divine Bogmoss
Jack pine
Phlox
Sheep's sorrel
Virginia strawberry
Witch Hazel
Yellow Sweetclover
aniseroot
box elder
common buckthorn
common hackberry
false indigo bush
field penny-cress
ground-ivy
largeflower bellwort
lowbush blueberry
marginal wood fern
northern bush honeysuckle
northern starflower
oxeye daisy
prairie dock
prairie phlox
round-leaved sundew
round-lobed hepatica
star-flowered lily-of-the-valley
sweetfern
white campion
wild sarsaparilla
Allegheny blackberry
American Linden
American white waterlily
Amur honeysuckle
Black Medick
Bog Labrador Tea
Celandine Poppy
Cheatgrass
Culver'S Root
Eastern Skunk Cabbage
Fee's lip fern
Ghost Pipe
Greater celandine
Hooked Buttercup
Jacob's ladder
Lily of the Valley
Lungwort
Lyreleaf Rockcress
Mountain Deathcamas
Northern Bedstraw
Prairie Rose
Reed Canary Grass
Riverbank Grape
Silvery Cinquefoil
Small-Flowered Buttercup
Southern Blue Flag
Steeplebush
Tuberous Grasspink
Tufted Hairgrass
Variegated Yellow Pond-Lily
Virginia Springbeauty
Virginia waterleaf
Watershield
Yarrow
autumn olive
bastard toadflax
bird's-foot trefoil
bittersweet nightshade
blue cohosh
bog cranberry
bur oak
butterfly milkweed
chokecherry
common bracken
common dandelion
common jewelweed
creeping thistle
cup plant
downy rattlesnake plantain
great mullein
guelder-rose
hemp dogbane
hoary alyssum
hound's-tongue
leatherleaf
marsh cinquefoil
meadow anemone
meadow buttercup
multiflora rose
narrowleaf puccoon
northern maidenhair fern
partridge pea
pineapple-weed
prairie pasqueflower
prairie rosinweed
purple crownvetch
purple foxglove
rattlesnake master
red-berried elder
ribwort plantain
slender stinging nettle
smooth Solomon's seal
spotted horsemint
tufted vetch
virginia stickseed
white mulberry
wood anemone
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