There are hundreds of variegated wildflowers found in the United States!
Because of the vast value of species, it can be really nonflexible to correctly identify one that you found. In addition, there are numerous cultivars and hybrids you may come wideness that probably originated at a local garden center.
These facts make it difficult to put together a list of wildflowers in the United States. 
Regardless, I did my weightier to find the most worldwide and widespread species. To make the list easier to navigate, I have organized the wildflowers unelevated by color. Click the links unelevated to go directly to that section.
Please remember these two things as you read:
- This list is not a recommendation of plants you should plant in your yard. It is an ID guide to wildflowers you may encounter. While many of the wildflowers unelevated would make spanking-new additions to your gardens, there are moreover various species that are invasive and should be avoided and destroyed if it starts growing on your property.
- Determining the verisimilitude of some wildflowers is a matter of opinion. For example, unrepealable species may towards purplish-blue to me, so I included it in the “Blue Wildflowers” section, but you think it’s increasingly of a blue-purple, and it belongs under “Purple Wildflowers.”
Here are 61 worldwide types of wildflowers in the United States:
BLUE WILDFLOWERS:
#1. Chicory
- Cichorium intybus
Growing Information
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 3-10
- Life Cycle: Perennial
- Approximate mature size: 1-4′ (30-120 cm)
- Bloom Time: Summer, Fall
- Sun Exposure: Full Sun
This non-native wildflower is found throughout the United States.
Typically you will find this plant where it’s sunny and dry, so squint for it withal roads and unshut fields.
The heady thing well-nigh Chicory is that you can eat it! The leaves are upper in vitamins and minerals. You can eat the leaves as a vegetable or in a salad, but beware, they are very stormy tasting. The roots can moreover be boiled and eaten with butter. Sometimes the root is roasted and ground as a substitute or ingredient to coffee.
Interestingly, Chicory flowers only viridity for ONE day. And in hot weather, the flower may only be unshut for a few hours!
#2. Undecorous Vervain
- Verbena hastata
Also known as the American Vervain or Swamp Verbena.
Growing Information
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 3-9
- Life Cycle: Perennial
- Approximate mature size: 2-5′ (60-150cm)
- Bloom Time: Early Summer-Fall
- Sun Exposure: Full Sun
Look for this hardy and drought-resistant wildflower in the United States in plains, foothills, wet soils, ditches, shores, and wet fields.
The Undecorous Vervain attracts various native bees, honeybees, salubrious wasps, small butterflies, skippers, and moths. It is moreover a unconfined host plant considering the Verbena Moth and the Worldwide Buckeye Butterfly caterpillars feed on the leaves.
#3. Worldwide Undecorous Violet
- Viola sororia
Also known as Worldwide Meadow Violet, Purple Violet, Woolly Undecorous Violet, Hooded Violet, and Wood Violet.
Growing Information
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 3-10
- Life Cycle: Perennial
- Approximate mature size: 6-10″ (15-25cm)
- Bloom Time: Mid-Spring-Late Summer
- Sun Exposure: Full Sun, Partial Sun
Some people consider this trappy wildflower a weed in the United States!
Believe it or not, the Worldwide Undecorous Violet can randomly start growing in the middle of your lawn. If it appears, it can vamp mason bees, caterpillars, wild turkeys, rabbits, deer, doves, and ants. The ants are attracted to their seeds that are coated with protein.
Interestingly, this wildflower can self-fertilize inside the plant without opening. The seed capsules sooner turn upright, open, and SHOOT OUT their seeds as far as 9 feet (2.75 m) yonder from the plant.
#4. Worldwide Periwinkle
- Vinca minor
Also known as Lesser Periwinkle or Dwarf Periwinkle.
Growing Information
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 4-9
- Life Cycle: Perennial
- Approximate mature size: 4-6″ (10-15cm)
- Bloom Time: Year-Round
- Sun Exposure: Full Sun, Partial Sun, Shade
The Worldwide Periwinkle is not native to North America. Regardless, this perennial can vamp bumblebees, Anthophorid Bees, Mason Bees, and bee flies.
This wildflower is often used as a ground imbricate in the United States. The main goody is it’s deer resistant!
#5. Teasel
- Dipsacus fullonum
Also known as Wild Teasel and Fuller’s Teasel.
Growing Information
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 3-8
- Life Cycle: Biennial
- Approximate mature size: 4-6′ (120-180 cm)
- Bloom Time: Summer, Fall
- Sun Exposure: Full Sun to Partial Shade
These worldwide wildflowers are hands identified in the United States by their prickly stem and leaves and unique purplish-blue flowers.
Teasel attracts unrepealable types of birds, such as goldfinches, considering the seeds are an important winter supplies resource.
Teasel has health benefits such as a kidney tonic, which promotes the healing of wrenched wreck and torn, injured, or inflamed connective tissue. This makes it helpful in treating Lyme disease symptoms since the Lyme-inducing yes-man often target the nerve, muscle & connective tissues.
#6. Forget-me-not
- Myosotis scorpioides
Also known as Water Forget-me-not, True Forget-me-not, Love-me, Mouse-ear, Mouse-ear Scorpion Grass, Scorpion Weed, and Snake Grass.
Growing Information
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 5-9
- Life Cycle: Perennial
- Approximate mature size: 6-12″ (15-30 cm)
- Bloom Time: Spring, Summer, Fall
- Sun Exposure: Full Sun, Partial Sun
The Forget-me-not is moreover known as the Scorpion Weed. The reason for this is considering it has a waved flower stalk like a tail of a scorpion. Some have moreover said the worldwide name Forget-me-not comes from this plant’s unpleasant taste or odor, which is nonflexible to forget!
The seeds of Forget-me-nots spread rapidly, and you may find them sprouting up in places you didn’t plan for. Don’t worry; you can dig up the flower and replant it anywhere you want since they are not bothered by stuff moved. I would suggest not destroying the plant considering this perennial attracts butterflies, bees, and moths.
#7. Virginia Bluebells
- Mertensia virginica
Also known as Bluebells, Virginian Bluebells, Undecorous and Pink Ladies, Undecorous Iris, Chiming Bells, Kentucky Bluebells, Roanoke Bells, Smooth Lungwort, Tree Lungwort, Virginian Cowslip, Virginian Spiderwort, and Mertensia pulmonarioides.
Growing Information
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 3-8
- Life Cycle: Perennial
- Approximate mature size: 10-24″ (25-60 cm)
- Bloom Time: Spring
- Sun Exposure: Partial Sun, Shade
Virginia Bluebells are one of the primeval visculent wildflowers in the United States.
This BEAUTIFUL perennial is typically found in wet shade and on the edges of deciduous woods. This unique wildflower starts with pink buds; then blooms into pretty sky-blue flowers.
Virginia Bluebells vamp hummingbirds and butterflies. I think they are stunning when massed together and are definitely one of my favorite wildflowers.
#8. Bachelor’s Button
- Centaurea cyanus
Also known as Cornflower.
Growing Information
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 2-4
- Life Cycle: Annual
- Approximate mature size: 1-3′ (30-90cm)
- Bloom Time: Late Spring-Late Summer
- Sun Exposure: Full Sun to Light Shade
This worldwide wildflower is a magnet for butterflies in the United States. In addition, it’s spanking-new for wearing and drying.
The Bachelor’s Button flowers are daisy-like and virtually pest and disease-free. And can you believe they are moreover deer and drought tolerant?! I recommend this easy-to-grow plant for confines of flower beds or waddle gardens.
PURPLE WILDFLOWERS:
#9. Bull Thistle
- Cirsium vulgare
Also known as Boar Thistle, Worldwide Thistle, Dodder, and Spear Thistle.
Growing Information
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 3a-8b
- Life Cycle: Biennial
- Approximate mature size: 2-6′ (.6-1.8 m)
- Bloom Time: Summer, Fall
- Sun Exposure: Full Sun, Sun to Partial Shade
Bull Thistle is a worldwide wildflower in the United States.
But be shielding when handling it considering it’s spiny!
The seeds of this thistle are an spanking-new supplies source for goldfinches. However, these birds moreover use the thistledown to line their nests; thus, they wait until the flowers viridity in late summer to raise their young. In addition, it’s moreover a unconfined flower if you want to vamp giant bees and butterflies.
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#10. Worldwide Burdock
- Arctium minus
Also known as Lesser Burdock, Little Burdock, Louse-bur, Button-bur, Cuckoo-button, and Wild Rhubarb.
Growing Information:
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 4a-10b
- Life Cycle: Biennial
- Approximate mature size: 4-6′ (120-180 cm)
- Bloom Time: Mid Summer – Mid Fall
- Sun Exposure: Sun to Partial Shade
Look for this wildflower in the United States in pastures, unshut prairies, hayfields, roadsides, old fields, barnyards, railways, and other disturbed areas.
Common Burdock has large leaves and deep purple flowers resembling rhubarb, making it easy to identify. Without the flower throne dries, they are similar to velcro considering they stick onto humans and animals to transport the unshortened seed head!
This wildflower attracts bees, butterflies, and birds. But be shielding if you handle this plant; it may rationalization skin irritation or an allergic reaction.
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#11. Clasping Venus’ Looking Glass
- Triodanis perfoliata
Also known as Roundleaf Triodanis and Clasping Bellflower.
Growing Information:
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 2-11
- Life Cycle: Annual
- Approximate mature size: 6-36″ (15-91 cm)
- Bloom Time: Spring, Summer
- Sun Exposure: Full Sun
You can find this wildflower in the United States in dry sandy soils, such as disturbed areas, gardens, and woods.
Clasping Venus’ Looking Glass can be identified by looking for the flowers visculent in the rounded leaves. This plant can self-pollinate and attracts small butterflies, bees, and flies.
#12. Bee Balm
- Monarda fistulosa
Also known as Wild Bergamot, Horsemint, and Wild Bee Balm.
Growing Information
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 3a-9b
- Life Cycle: Perennial
- Approximate mature size: 2-4′ (60-120 cm)
- Bloom Time: Summer
- Sun Exposure: Sun to Partial Shade
This perennial has trappy lilac-purple blooms. Bee Unruffle can be found in dry areas of fields, prairies, and withal roads in the United States.
The main reason that I grow Bee Unruffle in my flower garden is to vamp hummingbirds, butterflies, and pollinator bees. When this NATIVE perennial is in full bloom, birds and insects can’t resist visiting the nectar-rich flowers. Many people requirement that Bee Unruffle is so constructive at drawing in hummingbirds that they no longer have to worry well-nigh filling their feeders!
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Interestingly, Bee Unruffle leaves make a refreshing tea that provides many health benefits, as its antimicrobial properties help ward off colds and the flu.
#13. Creeping Charlie
- Glechoma hederacea
Also known as Gill-over-ground, Ground Ivy, Hedgemaids, Field Balm, Tunhoof, Catsfoot, Run-away-robin, and Alehoof.
Growing Information
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 3a-10b
- Life Cycle: Perennials
- Approximate mature size: 5-8″ (12.5-20 cm)
- Bloom Time: Spring, Summer
- Sun Exposure: Sun to Partial Shade
This wildflower grows in large groups in moist semi-shaded areas and tolerates the sun very well. Bees expressly love collecting pollen from Creeping Charlie.
Many people in the United States consider this wildflower a weed. It’s wontedly found growing in lawns, and considering of the plant’s wide-stretching root system, it is difficult to get rid of by hand-pulling or mowing. I have personally battled with Creeping Charlie in my yard!
#14. Purple Loosestrife
- Lythrum salicaria
Also known as Spiked Loosetrife and Purple Lythrum.
Growing Information
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 3a-9b
- Life Cycle: Perennial
- Approximate mature size: 2-5′ (60-150 cm)
- Bloom Time: Summer
- Sun Exposure: Full Sun
Typically you will see this wildflower in the United States in wet areas.
For example, squint for it in wet meadows, marshes, and withal lakes. It’s nonflexible to believe Purple Loosestrife is usually not welcome, but this invasive species can take over and push out native plants.
Purple Loosestrife reproduces VERY quickly, as each flower spike can produce up to 300,000 seeds. In addition, it moreover spreads by growing new shoots from its roots.
#15. Dame’s Rocket
- Hesperis matronalis
Also known as the Damask-violet, Dame’s-violet, Dames-wort, Dame’s Gilliflower, Night-scented Gilliflower, Queen’s Gilliflower, Rogue’s Gilliflower, Summer Lilac, Sweet Rocket, Mother-of-the-evening, Good & Plenties, and Winter Gilliflower.
Growing Information
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 3-9
- Life Cycle: Biennials or Short-lived Perennials
- Approximate mature size: 1-4′ (30-122 cm)
- Bloom Time: Early to Mid Spring
- Sun Exposure: Full Sun to Partial Shade
This wildflower is widespread throughout the United States.
Dame’s Rocket is fast-spreading and found in meadows and woodlands. Squint for them included in prepackaged “wildflower seed” mixes.
In some areas, this plant is considered invasive. However, the young leaves of this spring-blooming flower are upper in Vitamin C, can be eaten in salads, and have a slightly stormy taste.
#16. Purple Coneflower
- Echinacea purpurea
Also known as Eastern Coneflower and Eastern Purple Coneflower.
Growing Information
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 2a-10b
- Life Cycle: Perennial
- Approximate mature size: 2-3′ (60-90 cm)
- Bloom Time: Summer, Fall
- Sun Exposure: Full Sun, Sun to Partial Shade
Purple Coneflower is extremely hardy, which is why people love growing them in their gardens in the United States. The flowers are moreover heat and drought-resistant, which ways they will thrive in harsh conditions. The only negative I have found is that rabbits LOVE nibbling and eating the leaves.
The tapering disc comprises several smaller flowers, which contain LOADS of nectar. The colorful blooms yank the sustentation of bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds.
Make sure to select an towardly place in your landscaping beds, as Purple Coneflower grows anywhere from two to four feet high. In addition, coneflowers grow in clumps or clusters up to two feet wide. So be sure to requite your plants plenty of room to thrive!
#17. Giant Ironweed
- Vernonia gigantea
Also known as Tall Ironweed.
Growing Information
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a-9a
- Life Cycle: Perennial
- Approximate mature size: 4-8′ (1.2-2.4 m)
- Bloom Time: Summer, Fall
- Sun Exposure: Sun to Partial Shade
Giant Ironweed is solid and tall with visionless purple blooms. This wildflower is wontedly found in meadows and woodlands in the United States.
This perennial is a fantastic wing to your yard garden, expressly if planted in a group. Giant Ironweed attracts many types of butterflies, including swallowtails and Monarchs!
#18. Heal-All
- Prunella vulgaris
Also known as Worldwide Self-heal, Woundwort, Heart-of-the-earth, Carpenter’s Herb, Brownwort, or Undecorous Curls.
Growing Information
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 4-9
- Life Cycle: Perennial
- Approximate mature size: 6-12″ (15-30cm)
- Bloom Time: Late Spring-Late Fall
- Sun Exposure: Sun to Partial Shade
This wildflower is one of the most worldwide in the United States.
You will find Heal-all in lawns, withal roadsides, and on the whet of woodlands. It’s expressly warlike in large grassy areas.
This plant attracts butterflies, bees, and other pollinators. As a result, it is often used as a ground imbricate on verge fronts, meadows, and naturalized landscapes.
PINK WILDFLOWERS:
#19. Swamp Milkweed
- Asclepias incarnata
Also known as Pink Milkweed.
Growing Information:
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 3-11
- Life Cycle: Perennial
- Approximate Mature Size: 24-72 in (61-183 cm) tall
- Bloom Time: Summer to Fall
- Sun Exposure: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Swamp Milkweed is a NATIVE wildflower in the United States.
It grows in wet meadows and withal lakeshores. Look for its clusters of deep pink flowers to identify it.
If you want a variety of pollinators to visit your garden, Swamp Milkweed is an platonic wildflower to plant. Its clusters of fragrant flowers are lulu to hummingbirds, bees, and butterflies. The leaves are an incredibly important supplies source for Monarch caterpillars.
#20. Spreading Dogbane
- Apocynum androsaemifolium
Also known as Fly-trap Dogbane, Bitterroot.
Growing Information:
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 2-9
- Life Cycle: Perennial
- Approximate Mature Size: 24-60 in (61-152 cm) tall
- Bloom Time: Summer
- Sun Exposure: Full Sun to Full Shade
As you might have guessed from its name, Spreading Dogbane is a prolific grower, which is why you’ll find it widespread wideness both North America and Europe. It’s tabbed “dogbane” considering it is highly poisonous to dogs (and humans too).
Spreading Dogbane has small, pink bell-shaped flowers and a scent similar to lilac. Look for this wildflower in the United States in the sandy soil of streambanks.
#21. Worldwide Milkweed
- Asclepias syriaca
Growing Information:
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 39a
- Life Cycle: Perennial
- Approximate Mature Size: 36-96 in (91-244 cm) tall
- Bloom Time: Summer
- Sun Exposure: Full Sun
If you’re looking for a fragrant wildflower to vamp pollinators in the United States, squint no remoter than the Worldwide Milkweed. Well-nigh 450 species of insects feed on the Worldwide Milkweed, including beetles, butterflies, moths, bees, wasps, ants, and flies.
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Interestingly, Worldwide Milkweed can push out and smother other plants.
If you decide to use it in your garden, plant it in an isolated spot where it has little to compete with. In the wild, Worldwide Milkweed grows in nearly every habitat. Look for its pinkish-purple blooms in x-rated fields, forest clearings, and roadside ditches.
#22. Joe Pye Weed
- Eutrochium
Growing Information:
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 3-9
- Life Cycle: Perennial
- Approximate Mature Size: 24-96 in (61-244 cm) tall
- Bloom Time: Summer to Fall
- Sun Exposure: Full Sun to Full Shade
Joe Pye Weed is the worldwide name for plants that are in the genus Eutrochium. These wildflowers are NATIVE to the United States and highly recommended to plant in your yard! It’s recognizable by the large pink flower clusters at the end of long stems, which vamp many types of pollinators!
Naturally, Joe Pye Weed grows naturally at the edges of woodlands and wet meadows. If you plant it in your yard, it does weightier when in partial shade. And one of my favorite things well-nigh this wildflower is that it’s deer resistant.
There are 5 species of wild Eutrochium found in North America:
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Eutrochium dubium: Also known as Coastal Plain Joe Pye Weed, its located in the eastern USA and Canada, and its range extends from Nova Scotia to Georgia.
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Eutrochium fistulosum: This species is moreover referred to as Hollow Joe Pye Weed, Trumpetweed, or Purple Thoroughwort. It thrives from southern Canada to the eastern and southern USA, from Maine west to Ontario, Wisconsin, and Missouri, and south as far as Florida.
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Eutrochium maculatum: Commonly tabbed Spotted Joe Pye Weed, its found throughout much of the USA and Canada. Its the only wild Joe Pye species that is located west of the Unconfined Plains.
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Eutrochium purpureum: This species is native to eastern and inside North America. Its wontedly known as Purple Joe-Pye Weed, Kidney-root, Sweetscented Joe Pye Weed, and Sweet Joe Pye Weed.
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Eutrochium steelei: Found only in parts of the Appalachian Mountains. This Joe Pye Weed species is wontedly known as Steeles eupatorium.
When you go shopping for Joe Pye Weed at your local garden center, you probably wont find any of the wild species listed above. Thats OK, most of the options you will find at a store will be a cultivar of a wild variety.
#23. Springbeauty
- Claytonia virginica
Also known as Virginia Springbeauty.
Growing Information:
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 3-9
- Life Cycle: Perennial
- Approximate Mature Size: 2-16 in (5-41 cm) tall
- Bloom Time: Spring
- Sun Exposure: Full Sun to Partial Shade
This wildflower really explodes with color!
Springbeauty paints the landscape with patches of pink, white, and yellow blooms. Looking closely, you’ll notice that each star-shaped flower is intricately lined with visionless pink veins.
Springbeauty is expressly lulu to native bees, which love eating the nectar inside.
#24. Wild Mint
- Mentha arvensis
Growing Information:
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 4-8
- Life Cycle: Perennial
- Approximate Mature Size: 3.9-39 in (10-99 cm) tall
- Bloom Time: Late Spring to Early Summer
- Sun Exposure: Full Sun to Light Shade
Wild Mint has dumbo clusters of lavender, pink, or white bell-shaped flowers. Like other species of mint, the fragrance is most potent when the leaves are damaged.
Look for this native wildflower in the United States in wetlands with partial sunlight. It grows weightier on stream and river banks.
#25. Fireweed
- Chamerion angustifolium
Also known as Willow Herb.
Growing Information:
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 2-8
- Life Cycle: Annual or Perennial
- Approximate Mature Size: 18-120 in (46-305 cm) tall
- Bloom Time: Late Spring and Summer
- Sun Exposure: Full Sun to Partial Shade
True to its name, Fireweed is a resilient plant that will be the first to grow in clearings recently devastated by forest fires. For example, Fireweed was seen growing throughout Washington State one year without Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980.
To find Fireweed, squint for striking spikes of purplish-pink flowers tent a landscape. Hummingbirds, moths, and butterflies like to feed on this wildflower.
#26. Everlasting Pea
- Lathyrus latifolius
Also known as Perennial Pea, Perennial Peavine.
Growing Information:
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 4-9
- Life Cycle: Perennial
- Approximate Mature Size: 60-120 in (152-305 cm) tall
- Bloom Time: Summer to Fall
- Sun Exposure: Full Sun to Partial Shade
The Everlasting Pea is a frost-hardy vine that requires little superintendency and grows like a weed when not controlled. It is native to Europe but has been naturalized in North America since the 1700s. Look for this wildflower in the United States on sunny banks with clay-rich soil.
The long tendrils and purplish-pink flowers of the Everlasting Pea squint trappy when climbing trellises or fences in your garden. You can moreover use it as a sprawling groundcover for banks and slopes.
Butterflies and bees find the pea-shaped blooms attractive. The vibrant colors will fade to white as the Everlasting Pea matures.
#27. Crown Vetch
- Securigera varia
Also known as Purple Crownvetch, Crownvetch.
Growing Information:
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 3-9
- Life Cycle: Perennial
- Approximate Mature Size: 12-72 in (30-183 cm) tall
- Bloom Time: Summer to Fall
- Sun Exposure: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Even though the large, pink clover-like blooms of Crown Vetch are beautiful, this plant is invasive in North America. Native to Europe, Asia, and Africa, Crown Vetch was introduced locally to be used as a groundcover in executive soil erosion.
Look for this wildflower in the United States on sunny, sandy banks where it can push out less hardy plants.
If you plant Crown Vetch on your property, segregate an isolated location far yonder from flower gardens. Don’t forget to tenancy its growth so it doesn’t spread to other areas and invade native species and ecosystems.
YELLOW WILDFLOWERS:
#28. Birds-foot Trefoil
- Lotus corniculatus
Also known as Birdfoot Deervetch, Bloomfell, Cat’s Clover, and Crowtoes.
Growing Information:
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 3-8
- Life Cycle: Perennial
- Approximate Mature Size: 2-8 in (5-20 cm) tall
- Bloom Time: Late Spring to Early Summer
- Sun Exposure: Full Sun
Birds-foot Trefoil has yellow, orange, and sometimes red-streaked flowers atop long stalks. As trappy as the blooms are, this wildflower is considered invasive in many areas of the United States. It tends to wring out native plants and overtake unshortened gardens and fields.
It’s expressly warlike in sandy soil, fields, parks, and roadsides. However, Birds-foot Trefoil is useful as long as you can tenancy its growth. Its flowers serve as an important supplies source for many pollinators, such as bees, butterflies, and moths.
#29. St. John’s Wort
- Hypericum perforatum
Also known as Klamath Weed, Tipton Weed, and Goat Weed.
Growing Information:
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 3-8
- Life Cycle: Perennial
- Approximate Mature Size: 11-35 in (28-89 cm) tall
- Bloom Time: Summer
- Sun Exposure: Full Sun to Partial Sun
St. John’s Wort has clusters of showy yellow flowers. It grows voluminously in prairies, pastures, disturbed fields, and sandy soils.
Unfortunately, this plant is an invasive species in North America. Not only does St. John’s Wort outcompete other plants, but it can moreover be fatal to horses, sheep, and other livestock when ingested.
Although some bees, butterflies, and beetles feed on the pollen of St. John’s Wort, you shouldn’t indulge this plant to spread in landscapes. It can do increasingly harm than good in ecosystems.
#30. Sneezeweed
- Helenium autumnale
Also known as False Sunflower, Bitterweed.
Growing Information:
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 3-8a
- Life Cycle: Perennial
- Approximate Mature Size: 24-60 in (90-150 cm) tall
- Bloom Time: Summer to Fall
- Sun Exposure: Full Sun to Partial Sun
To identify this wildflower in the United States, squint for pretty daisy-like flowers visculent in the fall. You can find Sneezeweed withal streams, ponds, swamps, and wetlands. Some cultivars are popularly grown in gardens and have showier flowers than ones in the wild.
Despite the name Sneezeweed, the pollen from this plant isn’t likely to rationalization allergic reactions. Its name comes from an old medicinal practice of drying and superincumbent its leaves to make snuff, a powder that causes sneezing. This practice was thought to remove evil spirits from the body!
Native bees, honey bees, wasps, butterflies, and beetles are attracted to the Sneezeweed. It will grow in most soil conditions and is resistant to worldwide diseases.
#31. Black-eyed Susan
- Rudbeckia hirta
Growing Information:
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 3-9
- Life Cycle: Biennial or short-lived Perennial
- Approximate Mature Size: 24-36 in (30-90 cm) tall
- Bloom Time: Summer to Fall
- Sun Exposure: Full Sun
Look for this native wildflower in the United States in unshut woods, prairies, fields, and roadsides.
Black-eyed Susans grow svelte flowers in shades of yellow, orange, red, and brown. It owes its worldwide name to the fact that each flower has a striking visionless “eye” in the center. You can expect to see many species of bees, birds, and butterflies visiting the trappy blooms. Goldfinches moreover occasionally eat the seeds.
Black-eyed Susans are a prod favorite in gardens and parks everywhere. It will squint spanking-new in mixed borders, wildflower gardens, and container pots. Best of all, it blooms within a year without you sow the seeds.
#32. Green-headed Coneflower
- Rudbeckia laciniata
Also known as Wild Goldenglow, Cutleaf Coneflower, and Thimbleweed.
Growing Information:
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 3-9
- Life Cycle: Perennial
- Approximate Mature Size: 36-108 in (90-270 cm) tall
- Bloom Time: Summer to Fall
- Sun Exposure: Full Sun to Partial Sun
You’re likely to find Green-headed Coneflower growing near woods, stream banks, swamps, and roadside ditches. The large, tall, and unexceptionable yellow flowers are difficult to miss.
You can grow this wildflower in the United States in prairies and meadows to vamp bees, butterflies, and other pollinators. Then, in the fall, leave some flowerheads for songbirds like goldfinches that like to eat the seeds.
Keep in mind that the rhizomes of the Green-headed Coneflower will spread quickly underground, so this wildflower needs space to grow. The tall blooms are largest suited for larger landscapes.
#33. Wild Parsnip
- Pastinaca sativa
Growing Information:
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 4-8
- Life Cycle: Biennial or Perennial
- Approximate Mature Size: 48-59 in (122-150 cm) tall
- Bloom Time: Early Summer
- Sun Exposure: Full Sun to Partial Sun
You might be familiar with parsnip as a succulent root vegetable, but its relative that grows in the wild is dangerous to your health! Wild Parsnips smell and taste like cultivated parsnips, except their leaves and stems cause severe blisters and burns. (see below!)
To identify this wildflower in the United States, squint for its grooved stems and flat-topped flower clusters of yellow blooms.
Wild Parsnip is an invasive species in North America. It spreads rapidly, threatening to wring native plants and poisoning livestock that eats it. You can spot its vivid yellow blooms in ditches, roadsides, and x-rated fields in early spring.
#34. Goldenrod
- Solidago
Growing Information:
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 3-9
- Life Cycle: Perennial
- Approximate Mature Size: 36-60 in (90-150 cm) tall
- Bloom Time: Late Summer to Fall
- Sun Exposure: Full Sun
There are over 120 species of Goldenrod native to North America!
The blooms of Goldenrod may be tiny, but they make up for their small size with their vibrant verisimilitude in the summer and fall. They grow in clusters on top of branched stems with stiff leaves.
Although Goldenrod is often blamed for hay fever, pollen grains from similar-looking plants like ragweed are likely the culprit. Enjoying the uniquely-shaped blooms is perfectly safe, but this wildflower can spread aggressively in gardens. You can contain its growth by planting it in pots and pruning it regularly.
A wide variety of bees, butterflies, and beetles rely on this native wildflower in the United States.
#35. Worldwide Sunflower
- Helianthus annuus
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Growing Information:
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 2-11
- Life Cycle: Annual
- Approximate Mature Size: 36-120 in (91-304 cm) tall
- Bloom Time: Summer
- Sun Exposure: Full Sun
The Worldwide Sunflower is one of the most popular flowers all over the world, and rightfully so. The impressively large yellow petals and lulu visionless centers are a archetype sight in the late summer and early fall.
In the wild, squint for sunflowers in prairies, grasslands, old fields, roadsides, and forest edges. But, of course, you will moreover find sunflowers in gardens where they’re enjoyed by people and animals alike.
Aside from their stimulating value, Worldwide Sunflowers moreover feed populations of bees, butterflies, and insect pollinators. Birds and mammals enjoy the seeds, and the weightier part is that you can eat them too for a tasty snack!
#36. Worldwide Mullein
- Verbascum thapsus
Also known as Flannel Plant, Big Taper, Velvet Dock.
Growing Information:
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 3-9
- Life Cycle: Annual or Biennial
- Approximate Mature Size: 24-84 in (60-213 cm) tall
- Bloom Time: Summer
- Sun Exposure: Full Sun
Common Mullein is native to Europe, Asia, and Africa, but this wildflower is now considered a naturalized species in the United States. It grows so well that it can take over roadsides, meadows, and pasture lands.
You can recognize it by its small yellow blooms densely grouped on a tall stem and the velvety, dumbo leaves at the wiring of the plant. As the stems shoot upwards from a wiring of large leaves, the overall visitation of this plant might remind you of corn.
Common Mullein is a valuable medicinal plant. In warmed-over times, it was used to treat pulmonary diseases, inflammations, and various ailments. Today, you can find its zestless leaves, flowers, and oil extracts in health stores.
#37. Buttercups
- Ranunculus
Growing Information:
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 4-10
- Life Cycle: Annual or Biennial
- Approximate Mature Size: 8-18 in (20-45 cm) tall
- Bloom Time: Early Spring to Summer
- Sun Exposure: Full Sun to Partial Sun
You may be familiar with the well-loved Buttercup, but you might not know that it is a genus of flowers with 600 unique species worldwide. Buttercups are most wontedly known for their yellow flowers, but they moreover come in trappy shades of orange, pink, red, purple, and cream. You can cut the flowers for arrangements and grow them in gardens to vamp pollinators.
In the United States, squint for this wildflower growing in moist habitats, fields, meadows, and roadsides. They usually viridity in the spring and summer.
#38. Spiny Sow-thistle
- Sonchus asper
Also known as Rough Milk Thistle.
Growing Information:
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 6b-9a
- Life Cycle: Annual or Biennial
- Approximate Mature Size: 11-43 in (30-110 cm) tall
- Bloom Time: Spring to Summer
- Sun Exposure: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Spiny Sow-thistle is an invasive wildflower that grows throughout the United States. It can be found in pastures, roadsides, vacant lots, construction sites, grasslands, and waste areas. It’s native to Europe, North Africa, and Asia.
Don’t let Spiny Sow-thistle spread if you see it growing near your yard. It can overwhelm native plants and host diseases and pests that stupefy garden plants and crops. To identify Spiny Sow-thistle, squint for spiky leaves and dandelion-like yellow flowers on tall stems.
#39. Dandelion
- Taraxacum officinale
Also known as Common Dandelion, Lion’s Tooth, Blowball.
Growing Information:
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 3-10
- Life Cycle: Perennial
- Approximate Mature Size: 6-12 in (15-30 cm) tall
- Bloom Time: Spring to Fall
- Sun Exposure: Full Sun
The unexceptionable yellow flowers that turn into balls of silver-tufted seed heads make Dandelions easy to recognize. Look for these worldwide wildflowers in the United States in meadows, fields, river shores, lakes, and disturbed habitats. Honeybees and other salubrious insects are attracted to Dandelions.
Dandelions tend to grow like weeds on lawns and roadsides. This species is native to Europe and Asia but has spread worldwide considering of how resilient it is in most soil conditions.
You can eat the leaves, roots, and flowers of the Dandelion! They taste like honey when fresh but turn stormy as the plant ages. Use them to make jam, salad, wine, or tea.
WHITE WILDFLOWERS:
#40. Fleabane
- Erigeron annuus
Also known as Daisy Fleabane, Dependable Daisy, Vergerettes.
Growing Information
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 2-8a
- Life Cycle: Annual, Biennial, or Perennial
- Approximate Mature Size: 4-24 in (10-61 cm) tall
- Bloom Time: Spring to Fall
- Sun Exposure: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Fleabane is a genus of at least 400 species, many of which are native wildflowers that can be found in the United States. They’re often a favorite of gardeners! It boasts thin, soft-hued petals tying to yellow disc centers.
Bees, butterflies, moths, and hummingbirds love to visit Fleabane’s daisy-like flowers. They viridity enthusiastically from spring to fall in pastures, roadsides, dry mountains, and grasslands.
Fleabane is a walkover to superintendency for in the garden considering it’s drought-resistant, self-seeding, and not fussy with soil type. You can plant it as a groundcover or use it to soften the edges of nonflexible landscapes. Fleabane flowers squint good in mixed borders, rock, or coastal gardens.
#41. Indian Hemp
- Apocynum cannabinum
Also known as Dogbane, Hemp Dogbane, Prairie Dogbane, Amy Root, Rheumatism Root, Wild Cotton.
Growing Information
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 3b-11
- Life Cycle: Perennial
- Approximate Mature Size: 24-60 in (61-152 cm) tall
- Bloom Time: Spring to Summer
- Sun Exposure: Partial Shade to Full Sun
Despite stuff native to North America, this wildflower is considered an warlike weed in the United States.
You’ll likely find it in dry, rocky woods, meadows, and prairies. Unfortunately, it moreover thrives on farms where it’s known to reduce the yield of corn, soybeans, and other crops.
In wing to its invasive nature, all parts of Indian Hemp are highly toxic to humans, dogs, and livestock. Stave touching the milky sap, which can rationalization blisters on your skin. Its stiff, reddish stems and bushy lance-shaped leaves will help you identify this plant.
The small white flowers are rich with nectar, so don’t be surprised to see lots of butterflies and moths where Indian Hemp grows.
#42. English Plantain
- Plantago lanceolata
Also known as Ribwort Plantain, Lanceleaf Indianwheat, Ribgrass.
Growing Information
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 5-9a
- Life Cycle: Perennial
- Approximate Mature Size: 4-20 in (10-51 cm) tall
- Bloom Time: Spring to Fall
- Sun Exposure: Full Sun
The English Plantain is an introduced wildflower in the United States, originally native to Europe and Asia.
It’s one of the most recognizable lawn weeds with its long, hairy, flowering spikes. These spikes contain small and inconspicuous white flowers. You can spot English Plantain growing in disturbed habitats, dry meadows, grazing pastures, and roadsides. Its flowers are pollinated by flies and beetles, while songbirds eat their seeds.
Interestingly, English Plantain can transmute to variegated conditions depending on how humans try to eradicate it! For example, this plant naturally grows in tall stalks, but if the zone where it grows is wontedly mowed, it will grow low to the ground to stave stuff cut.
#43. Yarrow
- Achillea millefolium
Also known as Bloodwort, Carpenter’s Weed, Devil’s Nettle.
Growing Information
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 3-9
- Life Cycle: Perennial
- Approximate Mature Size: 24-36 in (61-91 cm) tall
- Bloom Time: Summer
Planting Yarrow in your garden will reward you with well-healed flowers that grow in clusters. They have small feathery leaves that squint like ferns, and their scent might remind you of chrysanthemums (mums).
Some Yarrow plants were introduced from Europe in colonial times. However, there are many native subspecies of this wildflower in the United States. Together, they form colorful hybrids that will vamp bees, wasps, beetles, moths, and butterflies to your garden.
Yarrow plants naturally occur in disturbed areas, grasslands, unshut forests, and roadsides. They can tolerate drought and survive in less than perfect conditions.
#44. Catnip
- Nepeta cataria
Also known as Catswort, Catmint, Field Balm.
Growing Information
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 3-9a
- Life Cycle: Perennial
- Approximate Mature Size: 24-36 in (61-91 cm) tall
- Bloom Time: Spring to Fall
- Sun Exposure: Partial Shade to Full Sun
Catnip is a famous plant with a long history of medicinal and culinary uses. Of course, you might know of Catnip as a recreational stimulant for cats. As a member of the Mint family, it has whiffy leaves that can repel mosquitoes, cockroaches, and termites.
Catnip is native to Europe and Asia, but this wildflower is naturalized in the United States. You can find it growing on roadsides, streams, waste grounds, dry banks, and fields. The triangular, veiny leaves and the small white or purple spotted flowers will help you recognize this plant.
Bees, butterflies, wasps, flies, and many pollinators love the nectar-laden flowers of Catnip. In addition, you can expect goldfinches and other birds to eat the seeds in the fall. Catnip grows weightier in full sun and well-drained soils.
#45. Queen Anne’s Lace
- Daucus carota
Also known as Wild Carrot, Bird’s Nest, Bishop’s Lace.
Growing Information
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 4-11a
- Life Cycle: Annual or Biennial
- Approximate Mature Size: 12-48 in (30-122 cm) tall
- Bloom Time: Summer to Fall
- Sun Exposure: Partial Shade to Full Sun
Queen Anne’s Lace was introduced to North America by early European settlers. This wildflower is an warlike weed in many areas, invading grasslands, meadows, roadsides, and degraded prairies.
Interestingly, this wildflower is the prototype of domesticated carrots that we cultivate and eat. Also known as the Wild Carrot, it is edible when young, but the roots quickly wilt woody and stringy as they age.
To identify this plant, squint for two-foot-tall umbels with small white flowers and hairy stems. Queen Anne’s Lace adapts to most soils and can be difficult to pull up from the ground. It produces and spreads seeds prolifically, so it’s weightier to prevent them from taking root in your planned garden.
#46. Whorled Milkweed
- Asclepias verticillata
Also known as Eastern Whorled Milkweed, Horsetail Milkweed.
Growing Information
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 4-9a
- Life Cycle: Perennial
- Approximate Mature Size: 12-36 in (30-91 cm) tall
- Bloom Time: Summer
- Sun Exposure: Partial Shade to Full Sun
Whorled Milkweed is a single-stemmed perennial wildflower with flat-topped clusters of 7-20 small flowers. The fragrant white blooms are worldwide in dry prairies, unshut woods, fields, and roadsides.
If you find this native wildflower in the United States, you’re likely to moreover see hummingbirds, bees, wasps, butterflies, flies, skippers, and beetles. In addition, it’s an expressly important supplies source for Monarch butterflies and their caterpillars.
Although Whorled Milkweed spreads quickly through underground rhizomes, it’s not considered invasive, so it’s a perfect nomination for your garden! It stands well versus drought, hands self-seeds, and tolerates most soil types.
#47. Oxeye Daisy
- Leucanthemum vulgare
Also known as Dog Daisy, Marguerite, White Weed.
Growing Information
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 3-8a
- Life Cycle: Perennial
- Approximate Mature Size: 12-24 in (30-61 cm) tall
- Bloom Time: Spring to Summer
- Sun Exposure: Partial Shade to Full Sun
Oxeye Daisy has trappy white petals surrounding yellow disc-shaped centers. Unfortunately, this wildflower is from Europe and is an invasive species in the United States. Its seeds and underground rhizomes spread aggressively, colonizing native ecosystems. Today, you can find it growing in grassy fields, meadows, disturbed sites, and unshut woodlands.
Although it can self-fertilize, the Oxeye Daisy gets help with pollination from bees, flies, beetles, moths, and butterflies.
#48. Boneset
- Eupatorium perfoliatum
Also known as Feverwort, Thoroughwort, Sweating-plant.
Growing Information
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 3-8a
- Life Cycle: Perennial
- Approximate Mature Size: 48-72 in (122-183 cm) tall
- Bloom Time: Summer to Fall
- Sun Exposure: Partial Shade to Full Sun
Boneset has a cluster of small, fuzzy white flowers whilom its dumbo foliage. It has a long visculent season, with flowers seeming continuously from midsummer through fall.
It earned its worldwide names “Feverwort” and “Sweating-plant” from its traditional use of inducing heavy sweating to unravel a fever. However, despite this plant’s popularity in traditional medicine, it is listed in the Poisonous Plants Database of the US Supplies and Drug Administration. Therefore, be cautious with holistic medicine products that use Boneset!
This wildflower is an essential nectar source for many butterfly species in the United States It’s mostly found in low, wet areas such as floodplain forests, marshes, bogs, seeps, and edges of rivers.
#49. White Clover
- Trifolium repens
Also known as Dutch Clover, Shamrock, Honeysuckle Grass.
Growing Information
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 3-10a
- Life Cycle: Perennial
- Approximate Mature Size: 4-6 in (10-15 cm) tall
- Bloom Time: Spring to Fall
- Sun Exposure: Partial Shade to Full Sun
White Clover is native to Europe and Asia, but this wildflower is considered a naturalized species in the United States. It grows so well that it can take over lawns, roadsides, pastures, and waste areas. Fortunately, however, White Clover doesn’t usually compete with native vegetation!
From spring to fall, White Clover blooms with an zillions of linty white, rounded flowers. You might be familiar with its untried leaves, which typically have three leaflets. But if you find one with four, you can consider yourself lucky!
Interestingly, all parts of the White Clover are edible. You can use the zestless flowers to make tea or the young leaves in a salad. You can moreover grind the flowers and seed pods to be sprinkled as a seasoning on cooked food. It has a subtle vanilla-like flavor.
RED & ORANGE WILDFLOWERS:
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View a well-constructed list of RED wildflowers in the United States HERE
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View a well-constructed list of ORANGE wildflowers in the United States HERE
#50. Indian Paintbrush
- Castilleja coccinea
Also known as Scarlet Indian Paintbrush, Scarlet Paintbrush, Scarlet Painted-cup.
Growing Information:
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 4-8
- Life Cycle: Biennial or Annual
- Approximate Mature Size: 4-36 in (10-91 cm) tall
- Bloom Time: Spring
- Sun Exposure: Full Sun
Indian Paintbrush is a hemiparasite, which ways it feeds on the nutrients of other plants instead of creating nutrients through photosynthesis. Its most worldwide hosts are grasses and sagebrush. To collect the nutrients, this wildflower must nail its roots to the roots of its host.
Because of its parasitic nature, Indian Paintbrush can be nonflexible to grow in home gardens and doesn’t transplant well. As a result, it’s commonly found in unshut fields with other wildflowers and grasses.
Interestingly, if you squint closely, the red coloring on Indian Paintbrush isn’t the flower, but a part of its leaves tabbed bracts.
#51. Columbine
- Aquilegia canadensis
Also known as Red Columbine, Wild Columbine, Canadian Columbine, Jack-In-Trousers, Meeting Houses.
Growing Information:
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 3b-8
- Life Cycle: Perennial or Biennial
- Approximate Mature Size: 6-48 in (15-122 cm) tall
- Bloom Time: Spring
- Sun Exposure: Partial Shade to Full Sun
You might be increasingly familiar with Columbine varieties from Europe that are purple and blue. However, Red Columbine is a native wildflower in the United States! You’re probably looking at Columbine if you spot drooping, bell-like red wildflowers near woodlands.
Columbine grows particularly well in gardens or plane as a potted plant. Aside from painting your garden with a myriad of colors, the Columbine can vamp hummingbirds, bumblebees, and butterflies, which help to pollinate these beauties.
#52. Fire Pink
- Silene virginica
Also known as Scarlet Catchfly, Cliff Pink, Indian Pink.
Growing Information:
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 4-8a
- Life Cycle: Perennial
- Approximate Mature Size: 8-36 in (20-91 cm) tall
- Bloom Time: Mid Spring to Mid Summer
- Sun Exposure: Partial Shade
Fire Pink is a wildflower in the United States that is carnivorous.
Carnivorous plants that trap and eat insects sound like something from a tropical jungle, but we have tons of them in North America! The sticky hairs on its leaves trap prey and discourage ants and other pests from eating the leaves.
Fire Pink has five unexceptionable red petals that flare out into long tubes. Although this plant is pollinated primarily by hummingbirds, many small songbirds eat its seeds. Juncos, Pine Siskins, and sparrows are all worldwide birds attracted to it.
#53. Cardinal Flower
- Lobelia cardinalis
Also known as Red Bay, Scarlet Lobelia, Indian Pink, Water Gladiole, Slinkweed, Bog Sage, Hog’s Physic.
Growing Information:
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 3-9a
- Life Cycle: Perennial
- Approximate Mature Size: 3.6-72 in (9-183 cm) tall
- Bloom Time: Mid-Summer to Early Fall
- Sun Exposure: Full Sun to Partial Shade
The blooms on this wildflower cluster on the end of a long stalk. The Cardinal Flower has visionless untried leaves with purple undersides.
If you’re expressly fond of hummingbirds, you can use the Cardinal Flower to vamp them to your neighborhood. While other insects might find it nonflexible to reach the sweet nectar inside, the tubular flowers are perfect for the long beaks of hummingbirds.
Cardinal Flowers grow well in a garden setting. Plant it in an zone with partial sun for a trappy pop of red that will vamp hummingbirds!
#54. Spotted Coralroot
- Corallorhiza maculata
Also known as Summer Coralroot, Speckled Coral Root, and Many-flowered Coral Root.
Growing Information:
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 3-8
- Life Cycle: Perennial
- Approximate Mature Size: 3.9-31 in (10-79 cm) tall
- Bloom Time: Early Summer
- Sun Exposure: Partial Shade to Full Shade
This wildflower is found in wooded areas in the United States.
The most interesting full-length of Spotted Coralroot is that it doesn’t have any leaves! Instead, the yellowish stalks produce clusters of flowers. Since this plant isn’t capable of photosynthesis, it siphons nutrients from mycorrhizal fungi, which is a natural slime that occurs in its roots.
Mining bees are expressly attracted to Spotted Coralroot. Although they pollinate this native orchid, it can moreover self-pollinate by transferring its pollen as its flower opens.
#55. Trumpet Honeysuckle
- Lonicera sempervirens
Also known as Scarlet Honeysuckle, Coral Honeysuckle, Honeysuckle, and Woodbine.
Growing Information:
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 4b-9a
- Life Cycle: Perennial
- Approximate Mature Size: 10-20 ft (3-6 m) tall
- Bloom Time: Mid-Spring to Summer
- Sun Exposure: Full Sun to Partial Shade
The red, trumpet-shaped flowers of Trumpet Honeysuckle are expressly lulu to hummingbirds.
In wing to pollinators, birds are attracted to this wildflower in the United States considering they eat its unexceptionable red berries. Purple Finches, goldfinches, Hermit Thrushes, American Robins, and quails are frequent visitors to Trumpet Honeysuckle vines.
It has similar features to the Trumpet Creeper, and many people get the two mixed up. However, a goody of the Trumpet Honeysuckle is that it’s not as warlike and does not get as big as the Trumpet Creeper. Because of this, Trumpet Honeysuckle may fit largest in your garden.
#56. Scarlet Bee Balm
- Monarda didyma
Also known as Scarlet Honeysuckle, Coral Honeysuckle, Honeysuckle, and Woodbine.
Growing Information:
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 4-9a
- Life Cycle: Perennial
- Approximate Mature Size: 24-72 in (61-183 cm) tall
- Bloom Time: Summer to Fall
- Sun Exposure: Full Sun to Partial Shade
A native wildflower in the United States, Scarlet Bee Unruffle attracts bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds. It can grow up to 4′ (1.2 m) tall and produces unexceptionable red tubular blooms that are a fantastic nectar source. Deadheading flowers will encourage a second round of blooms.
Although it’s most wontedly grown in gardens as an ornamental plant, you may spot Scarlet Bee Unruffle on the whet of forests in full sun.
#57. Orange Hawkweed
- Hieracium aurantiacum (synonymous with Pilosella aurantiaca)
Also known as Orange Hawkbit, Orange Aster, Devils Paintbrush, King Devil Hawkweed, Devils Weed, Tawny Hawkweed, Red Daisy Flameweed, Grim-the-collier, Fox, and Cubs.
Growing Information
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 5-10
- Life Cycle: Perennial
- Approximate Mature Size: 10-24 in (25-61 cm) tall
- Bloom Time: Summer to Early Fall
- Sun Exposure: Full Sun or Partial Shade
Orange Hawkweed is a favorite of many gardeners for its coppery, orange-red to yellow flowers with woebegone tips that vamp many pollinators. Did you know the warmed-over Greeks believed that the milky sap of hawkweeds gave hawks their sharp eyesight?
This wildflower was introduced to the United States in the 1800s. Interestingly, research in 2009 revealed that most Orange Hawkweed populations placid in North America are genetic clones of one another. This reveals that they all came from the same original plant!
Beware! Orange Hawkweed grows aggressively fast!
#58. Spotted Touch-Me-Not
- Impatiens capensis (formerly known as Impatiens biflora)
Also known as Orange Balsam, Orange Jewelweed, Jewelweed, Worldwide Jewelweed, Spotted Jewelweed, Snapweed, Spotted Snap Weed, Silver Leaf, and Silver-cap.
Growing Information:
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 2-11
- Life Cycle: Annual
- Approximate Mature Size: 24-60 in (61-152 cm) tall
- Bloom Time: Summer
- Sun Exposure: Shade to Partial Sun
Spotted Touch-Me-Not is famous for its yellowish-orange flowers with brown spots. As the name suggests, its seed pods will explode if you touch them!
Plant this wildflower in your yard if you want to vamp birds!
The Spotted Touch-Me-Not comprises approximately one-tenth of the Ruby-throated Hummingbirds diet. The long tubular flowers of the Spotted Touch-Me-Not are expressly lulu to hummingbirds who use their slender beaks to collect the nectar. In wing to hummingbirds feasting on the nectar, the seeds are eaten by birds such as grouse and pheasants.
#59. Butterfly Weed
- Asclepias tuberosa
Also known as Orange Milkweed, Butterfly Milkweed, Chieger Flower, and Chiggerflower.
Growing Information:
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 3-9
- Life Cycle: Perennial
- Approximate Mature Size: 18-36 in (46-91 cm) tall
- Bloom Time: Summer
- Sun Exposure: Full Sun or Partial Shade
You will find Butterfly Weed in many home gardens in the United States.
Look for a flat-topped, unexceptionable orange cluster of flowers. Butterflies and hummingbirds are particularly attracted to the Butterfly Weed considering of its well-healed nectar production.
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Traditionally, Native Americans have chewed Butterfly Weed root to cure pleurisy, bronchitis, and other pulmonary ailments. In fact, its genus name Asclepias is a reference to Asklepios the Greek god of medicine.
#60. Wood Lily
- Lilium philadelphicum
Also known as Red Lily, Prairie Lily, Western Red Lily, Northern Red Lily, and Philadelphia Lily.
Growing Information
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 4-8
- Life Cycle: Perennial
- Approximate Mature Size: 12-36 in (30-91 cm) tall
- Bloom Time: Mid-Summer to Late Summer
- Sun Exposure: Full Sun or Partial Shade
Wood Lily has upward-facing petals to reservation the sustentation of passing hummingbirds and butterflies. This helps aid in cross-pollinatin, which is essential for its reproduction. Its striking red-orange flowers with purplish freckles reservation the sustentation of gardeners as well!
Each flower of the Wood Lily remains unshut for 8-11 days. Unlike many wildflowers in the United States, the petals dont immediately tropical or wither without theyre pollinated.
You can eat the bulbs of the Wood Lily! Their savor is similar to turnips. Unfortunately, Wood Lilies are often picked from their natural habitat by visitors, so this species is not as worldwide as it used to be.
#61. Blanket Flower
- Gaillardia pulchella
Also known as Indian Blanketflower, Beach Blanket-flower, Indian Blanket Flower, Firewheel, Sundance, Girasol Rojo, and Gaillardia.
Growing Information:
- USDA Hardiness Zone: 2-11
- Life Cycle: Annual
- Approximate Mature Size: 12-24 in (30-61cm) tall
- Bloom Time: Summer to Early Fall; Year-round in some areas
- Sun Exposure: Full Sun or Light Shade
Blanket Flower is a type of sunflower with an impressive exhibit of red, orange, and yellow petals. Dont be surprised if you spot many bees and birds where these flowers grow!
Many beekeepers use Blanket Flower in the production of honey. The honey made from this wildflower is mild, buttery, and amber-colored.
Goldfinches enjoy the seeds of Blanket Flower, so dont forget to leave some seedheads without the flowering season!
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