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Ontario Wildflowers Home Page |
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Nodding Trillium (Trillium cernuum)
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Welcome to the Ontario Wildflowers website!
Your "online field guide" to Ontario's wildflowers
This website is all about wildflowers and plants 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.
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.Please note
that this website is not complete
I have hundreds of wildflower photos & species that I am adding to the site |
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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
(265 species now on this site, 609 species still to come)
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Jul 02/09: Maximilian Sunflower (Helianthus maximilianii), Hercules' Club (Aralia elata)
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Jul 01/09: Indian Cucumber Root (Medeola virginiana) (updated), Clustered Bellflower (Campanula glomerata), Yellow Avens (Geum aleppicum) (updated), Bladder Campion (Silene vulgaris), Red Campion (Lychnis dioica), White Campion (Silene latifolia), Yellow Corydalis (Corydalis flavula), Ginseng (Panax quinquefolius), Night-flowering Catchfly (Silene noctiflora), Sand Jointweed (Polygonella articulata) (updated), Sweetflag (Acorus calamus), Downy Wood Mint (Blephilia ciliata), Golden Corydalis (Corydalis aurea ssp. aurea)
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Jun 28/09: Name Search: You can now search for a Common Name, Latin Name or French Name.
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Jun 24/09: You can now page through all wildflowers of a particular colour in order by Common Name. Try it out: go to the Colours page, click on a colour, and then follow the link on the next page.
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Jun 04/09: Calypso (Calypso bulbosa) (updated), Early Coralroot (Corallorhiza trifida)
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Jun 01/09: Tulip Tree (Liriodendron tulipifera)
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May 29/09: Bristly Crowfoot (Ranunculus pensylvanicus), Hooked Crowfoot (Ranunculus recurvatus var. recurvatus), Small-flowered Crowfoot (Ranunculus abortivus)
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May 28/09: Buckbean (Menyanthes trifoliata), Small Yellow Water Crowfoot (Ranunculus gmelinii), White Water Buttercup (Ranunculus aquatilis var. diffusus)
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May 27/09: Bird's-eye Speedwell (Veronica chamaedrys), Common Speedwell (Veronica officinalis), Marsh Speedwell (Veronica scutellata), Persian Speedwell (Veronica persica), Slender Speedwell (Veronica filiformis), Thyme-leaved Speedwell (Veronica serpyllifolia), Water Speedwell (Veronica anagallis-aquatica)
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May 26/09: NEW: Thumbnail views of flowers by colour!
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May 24/09: Redbud (Cercis canadensis) (updated)
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May 22/09: Marsh Marigold (Caltha palustris), Blue Curls (Trichostema dichotomum), Water Shield (Brasenia schreberi), Winter Aconite (Eranthis hyemalis), Yellow Archangel (Lamiastrum galeobdolon), Perfoliate Bellwort (Uvularia perfoliata)
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May 20/09: Painted Trillium (Trillium undulatum), Red Trillium (Trillium erectum), White Trillium (Trillium grandiflorum)
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May 19/09: Nodding Trillium (Trillium cernuum)
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May 17/09: Green Violet (Hybanthus concolor), Northern White Violet (Viola macloskeyi ssp. pallens), Field Pansy (Viola bicolor)
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May 16/09: Northern Bog Violet (Viola nephrophylla), Harbinger-of-Spring (Erigenia bulbosa)
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May 15/09: Pale Violet (Viola striata), Long-spurred Violet (Viola rostrata), Labrador Violet (Viola labradorica), Marsh Blue Violet (Viola cucullata), Palmate Violet (Viola palmata), Round-leaved Violet (Viola rotundifolia)
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May 14/09: Kidney-leaved Violet (Viola renifolia)
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May 13/09: Dog Violet (Viola conspersa), Canada Violet (Viola canadensis), Sand Violet (Viola adunca), Long-fruited Anemone (Anemone cylindrica), Arrow-leaved Violet (Viola sagittata), Birdfoot Violet (Viola pedata)
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May 10/09: Canada Anemone (Anemone canadensis), Rue Anemone (Anemonella thalictroides), Wood Anemone (Anemone quinquefolia)
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Dec 26/08: Site redesign
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