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Welcome to the Ontario Wildflowers website
Your "online field guide" to Ontario's wildflowers
This website is all about wildflowers that grow
in Ontario (Canada). If you're not from Ontario, don't go away! Most of the plants featured on this
website grow elsewhere in eastern North America, and many grow elsewhere in the
world.
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Small White Lady's Slipper (Cypripedium candidum)
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For trees & shrubs, please visit the
Ontario Trees & Shrubs website. For ferns, please visit the
Ontario Ferns website. And for
grasses, sedges, and rushes, please visit the
Ontario Grasses website. |
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Where to go from here |
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| The main body of this site consists of
descriptions and photographs of numerous species of
wildflowers. You can look up
wildflowers by common name,
scientific name,
French name,
family,
flower colour,
number of petals,
habitat,
season,
trees & shrubs,
edible/poisonous plants,
native/alien
plants, groups of species, or by page in
Newcombe's,
Peterson's, or
the ROM wildflower field
guide books. CLICK HERE.
Participate in discussions about Wildflowers in the
Forums.
Get some help learning to identify wildflowers
here.
The study of wildflowers is an ongoing process. To
help me identify some plants I haven't yet figured out, please see
Mystery Plants.
I am maintaining a Plant List for some sites in my
Site Inventories
A booklist
of useful wildflower books is
HERE, that you can buy at the
BOOKSTORE.
There's a number of
articles about wildflowers from
The Monday Garden.
Find out about
Naturalization using wildflowers.
Please also see
What's New |
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What's New
(527 species now on this site, 466 species still to come)
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Jun 21/15: Ragged Robin (Silene flos-cuculi)
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Jan 29/15: Common Burdock (Arctium minus), Japanese Knotweed (Fallopia japonica), Northern Bluebells (Mertensia paniculata), Lesser Duckweed (Lemna minor), Round Leaf Orchid (Platanthera orbiculata) (updated)
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Dec 21/14: Viper's Bugloss (Echium vulgare), Butterbur (Petasites japonicus), Butterwort (Pinguicula vulgaris), Elecampane (Inula helenium), Birdsfoot Trefoil (Lotus corniculatus), Small Burnet (Poterium sanguisorba), Ground Ivy (Glechoma hederacea), Jumpseed (Persicaria virginiana), Nipplewort (Lapsana communis), Oswego Tea (Monarda didyma), Rose Twisted Stalk (Streptopus lanceolatus), Sneezeweed (Helenium autumnale), Sticky Tofieldia (Triantha glutinosa), Common Saltwort (Salsola tragus), Cowslip (Primula veris), Low Calamint (Clinopodium arkansanum), Tulip (Tulipa sylvestris), Green-flowered Pyrola (Pyrola chlorantha), Small-flowered Anemone (Anemone parviflora), River Beauty (Chamerion latifolium), Yellow Vetchling (Lathyrus pratensis), Marsh Arrowgrass (Triglochin palustris)
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Nov 19/14: Purple Twayblade (Liparis liliifolia)
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Nov 18/14: Species names are being updated to conform to VASCAN.
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Mar 22/14: Sweet Coltsfoot (Petasites frigidus) (updated), Jack-in-the-Pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum) (updated), Early Meadow Rue (Thalictrum dioicum) (updated), Parlin's Pussytoes (Antennaria parlinii) (updated), Robin's Plantain (Erigeron pulchellus) (updated), False Solomon's Seal (Maianthemum racemosum) (updated), Star-flowered Solomon's Seal (Maianthemum stellatum) (updated), Leatherleaf (Chamaedaphne calyculata) (updated), Poison Ivy (Toxicodendron rydbergii) (updated)
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Mar 07/14: Some shrub species have been removed from this site to avoid duplications with the Ontario Trees and Shrubs website
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Mar 07/14: Downy Yellow Violet (Viola pubescens), Cylindric Blazing Star (Liatris cylindracea) (updated), Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis) (updated), Star-of-Bethlehem (Ornithogalum umbellatum), Virginia Waterleaf (Hydrophyllum virginianum) (updated), Wild Ginger (Asarum canadense) (updated), Thyme-leaved Sandwort (Arenaria serpyllifolia), Snowdrops (Galanthus nivalis), White Mountain Avens (Dryas integrifolia), Purple Bedstraw (Galium latifolium), Spring Cress (Cardamine bulbosa)
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Feb 08/14: Common Blue-eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium montanum) (updated), Slender Blue-eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium mucronatum) (updated), Scilla (Scilla siberica), Hairy Puccoon (Lithospermum caroliniense), Spring Avens (Geum vernum), Pale Vetchling (Lathyrus ochroleucus), False Heather (Hudsonia tomentosa)
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Jan 02/14: Site redesign - New look, same great content!
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Apr 01/13: Wild Senna (Senna hebecarpa), Pale Purple Coneflower (Echinacea pallida)
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Mar 29/13: Horsemint (Monarda punctata), Hairy Solomon's Seal (Polygonatum pubescens), Wild Strawberry (Fragaria virginiana), Woolly Blue Violet (Viola sororia), Nodding Wild Onion (Allium cernuum)
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Mar 28/13: Virginia Creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia), Spiked Blazing Star (Liatris spicata), Yellow Giant Hyssop (Agastache nepetoides)
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