It has a very deep tap root. The Common Mullein has a large leaves at the base and the leaves taper away about half way up a tall spike that grows straight up about 5 feet. Enjoy the Winter! 2-4 ft tall. Wild Strawberry is native to Wisconsin. Serrated leaves. It is a native plant that also goes by the name Ghost Plant. A patch of these plants produces thousands of little floating thistle seeds to reproduce the following year. It is from Europe/Asia, so I don't know why it's called Canadian. About 20 inches tall with slender leaves growing from the central stem. It is drought tolerant and spreads easily, though I don't see it often. Where I live Wild Columbine is less abundant than many of the other wildflowers on this page. Hepatica is a native early spring blooming flower about 6 inches tall, with a hairy stem. The leaves grow tight against the ground and the yellow flowers bloom in a cluster on top of a single long stem. I have only found these in one place, in very wet ground near a small pond near here. Southeast Wisconsin, July 2019. It can really take over an area, as it has many seeds which seem to be quite succesful in germinating. This is a common woodland flower that can grow in large colonies on the forest floor. Rabbits and deer eat the leaves of this plant. This is a pretty native yellow flower that grows in large clusters. Near me, Wood Violets are some of the first flowers to emerge in April and early May. It blooms at the same time at Goldenrod and attracts butterflies like crazy! It is a restricted plant here in Wisconsin and is supposed to be removed if found. 
I had never seen this pretty native wildflower before, so I was very happy to find it blooming in a ditch, while on a hike near my home. I took a walk along the Bark River in the first week of June and found many of this unique flower, which does not grow in the drier hilly forest near my house. Photo taken in late July, southeast Wisconsin. Teasel is native to North Africa and Europe, and is a weed now in Wisconsin. Here you will find photos of flowers that grew without anyone planting them; this includes native species, along with non-native plants that were brought here both intentionally and unintentionally, and established themselves, returning year after year on their own. I started this project in May of 2019, and Old Man Winter took up residence in October that year, with all his freezing cold and snow. It is a fine lush green to have in your lawn and beloved by bees, bunnies, and kids looking for four-leaf clover. I did not want too much Queen Anne's Lace in my wildflower garden so I pulled it out. IT is a biennial so if you pull it out for two years, before any seeds fall, you should have it beat.
lettuce plants restoring native landscape flowering seen area It has been cultivated since ancient times. I find the flower quite pretty. I'd say 3 or 4 feet tall. It's a common and pretty flower. The leaves at the base look like big dandelion leaves. What a unique plant! These do not bloom long; this year the petals fell from the flowers after blooming for about 1 week.
The sickness resulting from accidently consuming milk or meat from an animal that ate White Snakeweed, was called Milk Sickness. This one is in my backyard. They are native to Eurasia and North Africa and were planted as erosion control ground cover in the USA. It is native to Eurasia. They are 1.5 - 2ft tall. An important food source for bees and other pollinators, and also a favorite of bunnies. Virginia Waterleaf growing near a small river in Wisconsin. Many of the buds had bloomed and many buds were present , that had yet to bloom.
This poisonous plant blooms in late Summer and early Autumn. The leaves have a white/light patch down the middle. It's cheery blue flowers are common site along roadsides here in Wisconsin.
The deep blue flower petals form a hollow flower and they never open, so the flower is like a pointy hollow balloon. Mayapples are native plants that grow in large colonies. This is a pretty, deep golden flower grows in large clusters. This is a native wildflower in Wisconsin and grows about 2 feet tall. As the leaves fall winter sets in and the flowers take a long winters nap in their seeds, roots, and rhizomes. The yellow flowers are on top of a very long stem, with a ring of large leathery leaves at the base of the plant. Apparently it is aggressive and will form large flower patches, edging out other plants. Native low growing plant that produces a white five petaled flower and a sweet berry. This is a graceful downward drooping yellow flower that I would have named Faerie's Skirt. They are about 2 feet tall. This one was in a nice little clump of daisies in the woods. This is true for my yard also, and I will break my own rule of only including pictures of wild-grown flowers, and include one picture of this crocus, which is maybe my favorite flower, and which I planted, in my yard. I have read that this plant blooms from summer to fall, but I only noticed its blooms after the other plants has all stopped blooming. ..Make a wish. Introduced to North America from Europe. We used to call it Cornflower, and I think that is still a common nickname for this plant. Like many summer flowers, this is often and easily spotted on the roadside. The next flowers we see outside, will be the hearty, brave and yet so delicate, Crocus, which can bloom through the snow in early spring. wildflowers A European plant also known as Wild Carrot.
It kinda looks like a yellow-flowered strawberry plant. This orange wildflower suspends from the stem and is shaped like a funnel with a curved end. Not a great photo, but it shows the slender pointy end of the leaves. 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One-flowered Cancer Root, Ghostpipe, Naked Broomrape, Prairie Mimosa, Illinois Bundleflower, Prickleweed, Illinois Desmanthus, Bur Cucumber, Oneseed Bur Cucumber; Star Cucumber, Small Burnet, Salad burnet, Garden burnet, Littleleaf Buttercup, Littleleaf Crowfoot, Buttonbush, Common Buttonbush, Button Ball, Riverbush, Honey-bells, Button Willow, White Campion, White Cockle, Evening Lychnis, New Jersey Tea, Wild Snowball, Mountain Sweet, Redroot, Common Cinquefoil, Decumbent Five-finger, Old Field Cinquefoil, Low-Hop Clover, Field Clover, Large Hop Clover, Hop Trefoil, Southern Ground Cedar, Fan Clubmoss, Running Pine, Running Ground Cedar, Green-headed Coneflower, Cutleaf Coneflower, Golden Glow, Browneyed Susan, Thin-leaf Coneflower, Three-lobed Coneflower, Virginia Cottongrass, Tawny Cottongrass, Rusty Cotton Grass, American Cow Parsnip, Masterwort, American Hogweed, Common Cowparsnip, Cow Wheat, Narrowleaf Cow-Wheat, Appalachian Cow-Wheat, Stiff Cowbane, Pig-potato, Common Water-Dropwort, Common Daylily, Tawny Daylily, Orange Daylily, Purple Deadnettle, Red Deadnettle, Purple Archangel, Red-osier Dogwood, Western Dogwood, American Dogwood, Bunchberry, Bunchberry Dogwood, Dwarf Dogwood, Canadian Bunchberry, Dwarf Cornel, Creeping Dogwood, Two-flower Cynthia, Twoflower Dwarfdandelion, Orange Dwarf-dandelion, Common Elderberry, American Elderberry, American Black Elderberry, Red Elderberry, Red Elder, Rocky Mountain Elder, Scarlet Elderberry, Rattlesnake Master, Button Eryngo, Button Snakeroot, Yuccaleaf Eryngo, Common Evening Primrose, Evening Star, Sun Drop, Calypso Orchid, Fairy Slipper, Venus Slipper, Angel Slipper, Deer's Head Orchid, Slender Gerardia, Slenderleaf False Foxglove, Indigobush, False Indigo Bush, Desert False Indigo, Tall Indigo-bush, Japanese Knotweed, Crimson Beauty, Mexican bamboo, Japanese Fleece Flower, Reynoutria, Trout Lily, Yellow Dogtooth Violet, Yellow Adder's Tongue, Yellow Trout-Lily, Fireweed, Narrow-leaf fireweed, Willow Herb, Rosebay Willow Herb, Blooming Sally, False Nutsedge, Strawcolored Flatsedge, Strawcolor Nutgrass, False Pennyroyal, Fluxweed, Glade Bluecurls, Heartleaf Foamflower, False Miterwort, Coalwort, Coolwort, False Bitterroot, Fogfruit, Lanceleaf Fogfruit, Northern Fogfruit, Small Purple Fringed Orchid, Lesser Purple Fringed Orchid, Lesser Purple Fringed Bog-orchid, Small Green Wood Orchid, Club-Spur Orchid, Green Rein Orchid, Wood Orchid, Small Woodland Orchid, Yellow Corydalis, Yellow Harlequin, Yellow Fumewort, Wild Geranium, Spotted geranium, Cranesbill, American Germander, Wood Sage, Canada Germander, Ground Ivy, Gill-over-the-ground, Haymaids, Creeping Charlie, Yellow Salsify, Yellow Goatsbeard, Western Salsify, Wild Oysterplant, Goatsbeard, Eastern Goatsbeard, Bride's Feathers, Tall Goldenrod, Late Goldenrod, Canada Goldenrod, Common Grass Pink, Bearded Pink, Swamp Pink, Tuberous Grass Pink, Meadow Gift, Smooth Carrionflower, Jacob's Ladder, Common Carrion-flower, Virginia Groundcherry, Ground Cherry, Lanceleaf Groundcherry, Hog Plum, Husk Tomato, Groundnut, Potato Bean, Indian Potato, Virginia Potato, Wild Bean, Wild Sweet Potato, Goat's Rue, Virginia Tephrosia, Catgut, Hoary-pea, Rabbit-pea, Wild Comfrey, Wild Hound's-tongue, Blue Houndstongue, Scarlet Indian Paintbrush, Scarlet Paintbrush, Painted Cup, Prairie Fire, Blackberry Lily, Leopard Flower, Leopard Lily, Yellow Flag Iris, Paleyellow Iris, Yellow Iris, Water Flag. The poisonous plant, White Snakeroot, which causes Milk Sickness, growing in Wisconsin in September. It is growing amongst lillypads and there is an American White Water Lilly flower in the background. The petals fall at different times so some of the flowers were still full, but many had only partial petals remaining. English Plantain blooming in Wisconsin, July 2021. This is a big boy, must be 6 feet tall. If you find one with less pointy leaves and with flowers that grow on little stems that extend a bit further from the main flower stem, then you may have found the very rare Naked Stem Tick Trefoil. Thanks. wild lupine minnesota flower wildflowers lupinus perennis Found in lawns, roadsides, disturbed areas. Garlic Mustard spreading over larger and larger areas of a hardwood forest floor. These flowers grow in dense colonies and are listed as invasive and to be eradicated. This plant is from Europe/Asia and can apparently become quite invasive/overgrown. Indian Pipe Plant, also known as a Ghost Plant. The petals are very narrow as the emerge, then broaden. New England Aster growing in September in Wisconsin. This is a large broad, tall plant with huge leaves. Common Boneset looks similar but the leaves are different. Blooms in late summer to fall. Field Bindweed, wrapping itself tightly around the stem of another plant as it grows. It is a biennial, and I think if one kept it from going to seed for two years in a row, you could keep it out of a small managed area, but good luck keeping it out of unmanaged wild areas. Virginia Waterleaf with partial petals remaining.
Wood Anemone blooming in Wisconsin, May 11. The leaves are all in a circle at the base of the stem. It grows in wetlands, and the flowers in the photo were found in a marshy area on the Bark River full of cattails that were just beginning to emerge. I see them in some areas on the side of the road and have also found them in open woods. This is an endangered native wildflower in Wisconsin. Tall Boneset growing at the end of Summer. The only pollinator strong enough to pry open the petals, is a bumble bee, so these flowers are pollinated by the strong bumble bees! This is a non-native plant, that I thought was very pretty when I saw it growing in the forest. This is one of my favorite flowers. As the years go by, the rhizome spreads and the flowers grow in clusters up from the rhizomes. This plant from Europe and Asia, has become a challenge to control here in Wisconsin due its aggressive growth ability here. A circle of downward facing flowers, each on their own curved stem, radiate out from the very top of a single central tall stem. Native wildflower. It can get quite tall, around 5 feet. It is a native Wisconsin woodland wildflower. They get 6 or 7 feet tall, not to be confused with the nasty Giant Hogweed, which looks similar but is 14 feet tall. This is one impressive plant. This medium size flower blooms for a long time; the first picture below is from July and the second is from September. Bellwort blooming in Wisconsin, May 3, 2021. It is however not a native wildflower and I have come across them in large patches on the forest floor, so we are discouraged from planting this. Bumble Bee on a Wild Rose in Wisconsin. About the top third of the spike is covered in little yellow flowers which don't all bloom at once. The bright white flower is three quarters, to one and a half inches in diameter and looks like a 5 sided funnel. US Wildflower's Database of Wildflowers for Wisconsin, Click on thumbnail for larger version of image, scientific name for detail page. I find them growing in grassy areas. A small (under a foot) native wildflower. I found it growing off a path in the woods. Red Clover is another non-native wildflower that has become important to pollinating insects here in Wisconsin, such as Bumblebees. Asters bring a last burst of white, pink, and purplle color to the end of summer and the beginning of Autumn. I found his delicate white or pink flower in a hardwood forest near home, It bloomed after Bloodroot blooms were done. This is an aggressive, fast spreading, easy to identify flower, as the flower is decent size and very unique in my opinion. Wild Geranium patch in a little clearing in the Oak and Hickory forest.
It is May 3, 2021 and on a walk through the woods over lunch I found two of these growing about 40 feet into a hardwood forest from the woods' edge. Check back, as I am continually adding new photos. Spotted Touch Me Not. I found a large clump of these plants, with unique orange flowers, growing in the forest. It is a native plant and it is not dangerous to touch. Red Clover is a bit bigger than white clover and usually has pink flowers. June 25th 2020. It grows in dense clusters, especially in disturbed soil. This plant is native to a fairly small area: Illinois, Indiana, parts of Missouri, and Southern Wisconsin. Bottle Gentian, blooming in September in wet ground near a pond in Wisconsin. Similar to Prairie Phlox, which has narrower leaves, amongst other differences. There isn't a colorful flower, but the plant emerges and forms a very unique cylindrical "pulpit" over which grows a single-leaf canopy..and from the pulpit emerges little preaching "Jack"! There are many varieties of Asters and it can be tough to identify the exact type of aster it is. Purple Milkweed. Non Native European / Asian flower. This is a native wildflower that blooms in early spring. This annual herb is a fodder crop plant that originated in the lands around the Mediterranean Sea. The heads are green initially and then darken with age. Wow, that's quite a name for a flower.
It has proven to be my ultimate challenge to manually remove this thistle from my wildflower garden. This one was about 2 feet tall. This is a native Wisconsin wildflower that is vital to the reproductive cycle of Monarch butterflies. It almost looks tropical to me, but it is certainly a hardy northern plant. Also known as Bluejacket. This plant is a couple feet tall, but can grow taller when competing with nearby tall plants. This one was growing in the forest. It has deep tap roots, and even a small section of root left in the ground can sprout a new plant. It is very good for the soil, in that it has the rare ability to fix nitrogen in its root nodules, just like making natural nitrogen fertilizer. This is a tall yellow native wildflower. Autumn walk in the woods, Wisconsin, October 15, 2020. Grey Headed Coneflowers just starting to bloom. Native plant not to be confused with 4 petal Dames Rocket. Two Bellwort plants in bloom; argh look at the garlic mustard to the left and right. This plant is not native to this area and is originally from Eurasia. In the same fallow field above as the Common Mullein above, which had been planted with corn previously, was an abundance of St.John's Wort, and Oregano growing wild. The plant in the photo is 6 feet tall. From Europe/Asia. It is an all white plant that grows from the forest floor in clusters, and each stalk bends over to form what looks like a pipe stuck into the ground. It is important and useful as a source of food for bees and other pollinators. This plant is from the Mediterranean region but has spread widely, including across North America. These plants have an edible fruit and the Native Americans had medicinal uses for parts of this plant. It is native to Europe.
New, still green, bunch of Bittersweet Nightshade berries. The first photo below was taken May 4th as the flowers were just starting to bloom, at that stage the Wood Anemone has a pretty drooping white circular flower, which then opens up over a couple days to look like the second photo.