Wildflowers Encyclopedia

Isopyrum biternatum (False Rue Anemone)

Isopyrum biternatum is an airy, delicate spring ephemeral reaching 15-30 cm, producing loose clusters of pristine white 5-petaled flowers above finely divided biternate foliage that creates a lace-like texture across...

Isopyrum biternatum (False Rue Anemone)

Isopyrum biternatum is an airy, delicate spring ephemeral reaching 15-30 cm, producing loose clusters of pristine white 5-petaled flowers above finely divided biternate foliage that creates a lace-like texture across...

Leontopodium alpinum (Edelweiss)

Leontopodium alpinum, the Edelweiss, is the most iconic flower of the European Alps, forming star-shaped arrangements of densely woolly-white bracts around clusters of tiny yellowish flower heads on stems 5-20...

Leontopodium alpinum (Edelweiss)

Leontopodium alpinum, the Edelweiss, is the most iconic flower of the European Alps, forming star-shaped arrangements of densely woolly-white bracts around clusters of tiny yellowish flower heads on stems 5-20...

Glechoma hederacea (Ground Ivy)

Glechoma hederacea is a low-growing, creeping perennial of hedgerows, woodland edges, and damp grassland across Europe, bearing small violet-blue labiate flowers 15-20 mm long from March to June. Its trailing...

Glechoma hederacea (Ground Ivy)

Glechoma hederacea is a low-growing, creeping perennial of hedgerows, woodland edges, and damp grassland across Europe, bearing small violet-blue labiate flowers 15-20 mm long from March to June. Its trailing...

Hydrophyllum virginianum (Eastern Waterleaf)

Hydrophyllum virginianum is a robust spring ephemeral reaching 30-60 cm tall with large pinnately divided leaves that display distinctive pale watermark-like blotches on their surface, inspiring both the common and...

Hydrophyllum virginianum (Eastern Waterleaf)

Hydrophyllum virginianum is a robust spring ephemeral reaching 30-60 cm tall with large pinnately divided leaves that display distinctive pale watermark-like blotches on their surface, inspiring both the common and...

Stylophorum diphyllum (Celandine Poppy)

Stylophorum diphyllum is a bold-flowered spring ephemeral reaching 30-45 cm, producing bright golden-yellow 4-petaled poppy-like flowers 3-5 cm across above deeply pinnately lobed blue-green foliage, with all parts exuding a...

Stylophorum diphyllum (Celandine Poppy)

Stylophorum diphyllum is a bold-flowered spring ephemeral reaching 30-45 cm, producing bright golden-yellow 4-petaled poppy-like flowers 3-5 cm across above deeply pinnately lobed blue-green foliage, with all parts exuding a...

Corydalis lutea (Yellow Corydalis)

Corydalis lutea (now reclassified as Pseudofumaria lutea) is a mounding, fern-leaved perennial reaching 20-35 cm tall, producing clusters of tubular spurred yellow flowers almost continuously from April through October, an...

Corydalis lutea (Yellow Corydalis)

Corydalis lutea (now reclassified as Pseudofumaria lutea) is a mounding, fern-leaved perennial reaching 20-35 cm tall, producing clusters of tubular spurred yellow flowers almost continuously from April through October, an...