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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.
SPRING WILDFLOWERS !
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Nodding Trillium (Trillium cernuum)
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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
(509 species now on this site, 477 species still to come)
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Apr 01/13: Wild Senna (Cassia 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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Aug 30/12: Many thumbnails are being added
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Aug 30/12: Black Bindweed (Polygonum convolvulus) (updated), Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta) (updated), Humped Bladderwort (Utricularia gibba)
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Aug 29/12: Families updated per Field Manual of Michigan Flora
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Apr 22/12: Violet ID pointers
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Mar 08/12: Celandine Poppy (Stylophorum diphyllum), Indian Paintbrush (Castilleja coccinea), Periwinkle (Vinca minor), Yellow Rocket (Barbarea vulgaris), Early Saxifrage (Saxifraga virginiensis), Common Wood Sorrel (Oxalis montana), Prairie Ragwort (Packera plattensis), Bog Rosemary (Andromeda polifolia), Narrow-leaved New Jersey Tea (Ceanothus herbaceus)
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Mar 07/12: Trailing Arbutus (Epigaea repens) (updated), Miterwort (Mitella diphylla), Naked Miterwort (Mitella nuda), Twinleaf (Jeffersonia diphylla), Fringed Puccoon (Lithospermum incisum), Creeping Snowberry (Gaultheria hispidula)
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Mar 06/12: Canada Mayflower (Maianthemum canadense), Common Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale)
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Feb 08/12: Hispid Buttercup (Ranunculus hispidus), Purple Cress (Cardamine douglassii), Crocus (Crocus vernus), Cuckooflower (Cardamine pratensis), Foamflower (Tiarella cordifolia), Dwarf Ginseng (Panax trifolius), Green Dragon (Arisaema dracontium), Grape Hyacinth (Muscari botryoides), Dwarf Canadian Primrose (Primula mistassinica)
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Jan 09/12: Sweet-scented Bedstraw (Galium triflorum)
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Jan 08/12: Wild Basil (Clinopodium vulgare), Beechdrops (Epifagus virginiana), Creeping Bellflower (Campanula rapunculoides), Marsh Bellflower (Campanula aparinoides), Yellow Bedstraw (Galium verum), Labrador Bedstraw (Galium labradoricum), Small Bedstraw (Galium trifidum), Bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi)
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Jan 07/12: Alfalfa (Medicago sativa), Common Arrowhead (Sagittaria latifolia), Water Arum (Calla palustris), Asparagus (Asparagus officinalis), Himalayan Balsam (Impatiens glandulifera), White Wood Aster (Eurybia divaricata), Shreber's Aster (Eurybia schreberi), Willow Aster (Symphyotrichum praealtum), Ontario Aster (Symphyotrichum ontarione), Rayless Annual Aster (Symphyotrichum ciliatum), Small Salt Marsh Aster (Symphyotrichum subulatum), Great Angelica (Angelica atropurpurea), Hoary Alyssum (Berteroa incana), Yellow Bartonia (Bartonia virginica)
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Dec 20/11: Northern Slender Ladies' Tresses (Spiranthes lacera), Round Leaf Orchid (Platanthera orbiculata)
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Nov 29/11: Small Round-leaved Orchid (Amerorchis rotundifolia), Long-bracted Green Orchid (Coeloglossum viride)
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Nov 23/11: Auricled Twayblade (Listera auriculata)
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Nov 10/11: Lesser Celandine (Ranunculus ficaria), Celandine (Chelidonium majus), Clearweed (Pilea pumila), Colicroot (Aletris farinosa), Centaury (Centaurium erythraea), Showy Blanket Flower (Gaillardia pulchella), Branching Centaury (Centaurium pulchellum)
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Nov 09/11: Jerusalem Artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus), Pale Touch-me-not (Impatiens pallida) (updated)
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Oct 15/11: Some tree/shrub species removed from this site as they more properly belong solely on the Ontario Trees & Shrubs website.
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Oct 15/11: Slideshow now online.
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Jun 23/11: Helleborine (Epipactis helleborine) (updated), Grass Pink (Calopogon tuberosus) (updated), Early Coralroot (Corallorhiza trifida) (updated), Hooker's Orchid (Platanthera hookeri)
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Jun 22/11: Striped Coralroot (Corallorhiza striata) (updated), Alaska Orchid (Piperia unalascensis) (updated), Blunt Leaf Rein Orchid (Platanthera obtusata) (updated)
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Jun 20/11: Lesser Bur Reed (Sparganium americanum)
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Jan 11/11: Tall White Lettuce (Prenanthes altissima), Glaucous White Rattlesnake Root (Prenanthes racemosa)
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Jan 10/11: Tall Rattlesnake Root (Prenanthes trifoliata)
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Jan 01/11: NEW: Revamped Mystery Plants section. Get your botany fix in the middle of winter!
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Jan 01/11: NEW: Now you can watch a slideshow of randomly selected photographs.
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Jan 01/11: White Lettuce (Prenanthes alba)
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