Wildflowers Encyclopedia

Echium vulgare (Viper's Bugloss)

Echium vulgare is a bristly biennial of the borage family reaching 30-90 cm, producing spectacular spikes of vivid blue flowers from June through September on sunny roadsides, dry banks, and...

Echium vulgare (Viper's Bugloss)

Echium vulgare is a bristly biennial of the borage family reaching 30-90 cm, producing spectacular spikes of vivid blue flowers from June through September on sunny roadsides, dry banks, and...

Oenothera humifusa (Seabeach Evening Primrose)

Oenothera humifusa is a sprawling herbaceous perennial or biennial of the Onagraceae family, native to sandy beaches and coastal dunes along the Atlantic coast from New Jersey to Florida. Plants...

Oenothera humifusa (Seabeach Evening Primrose)

Oenothera humifusa is a sprawling herbaceous perennial or biennial of the Onagraceae family, native to sandy beaches and coastal dunes along the Atlantic coast from New Jersey to Florida. Plants...

Lamium maculatum (Spotted Dead-nettle)

Lamium maculatum is a spreading semi-evergreen perennial reaching 15-25 cm with silver-striped ovate leaves and whorls of hooded pink, purple, or white flowers from April to August. Native across Europe...

Lamium maculatum (Spotted Dead-nettle)

Lamium maculatum is a spreading semi-evergreen perennial reaching 15-25 cm with silver-striped ovate leaves and whorls of hooded pink, purple, or white flowers from April to August. Native across Europe...

Asclepias incarnata (Swamp Milkweed)

Swamp milkweed is a moisture-loving prairie perennial growing 90-150 cm with fragrant clusters of deep pink to mauve flowers and opposite, willowy leaves. Native to wet prairies and stream margins...

Asclepias incarnata (Swamp Milkweed)

Swamp milkweed is a moisture-loving prairie perennial growing 90-150 cm with fragrant clusters of deep pink to mauve flowers and opposite, willowy leaves. Native to wet prairies and stream margins...

Maianthemum racemosum (False Solomon's Seal)

Maianthemum racemosum is a graceful woodland perennial reaching 45-90 cm, producing arching unbranched stems lined with alternate pleated leaves and terminated by a feathery plume of tiny fragrant cream-white flowers,...

Maianthemum racemosum (False Solomon's Seal)

Maianthemum racemosum is a graceful woodland perennial reaching 45-90 cm, producing arching unbranched stems lined with alternate pleated leaves and terminated by a feathery plume of tiny fragrant cream-white flowers,...

Rhinanthus minor (Yellow Rattle)

Rhinanthus minor is an annual hemiparasitic plant of the Orobanchaceae, native across Europe and northern Asia. Plants grow 10-50 cm tall with yellow, hooded, 2-lipped flowers 12-15 mm long arranged...

Rhinanthus minor (Yellow Rattle)

Rhinanthus minor is an annual hemiparasitic plant of the Orobanchaceae, native across Europe and northern Asia. Plants grow 10-50 cm tall with yellow, hooded, 2-lipped flowers 12-15 mm long arranged...