Flowers Seen 2025

November 2025
Grey Cloud Dunes SNA

Stiff goldenrod 11/8
Tall goldenrod 11/8
Partridge pea 11/8
Common evening primrose 11/8
Little bluestem 11/8

October 2025
Jensen Lake Trail, Lebanon Hills Regional Park, Helen Allison SNA

Shining aster 10/4
Short’s aster 10/5
Stiff gentian 10/11
Oak leaves, 10/24
Round-headed bush clover 10/24
Hoary frostweed 10/24
Hoary frostweed 10/24
Hoary frostweed ice 10/24
Spotted bee balm 10/24
Spotted bee balm 10/24
Rough blazing star 10/24
Thimbleweed 10/24

September 2025
River Road, Whitewater WMA, Whitewater State Park, Schueler WMA, Magelssen Bluff Park, Great River Bluffs State Park, King’s and Queen’s Bluff SNA, Crow Wing County roadsides

Blue wood aster 9/6
Drummond’s aster 9/6
Crooked aster 9/6
White panicled aster 9/6
Stiff goldenrod 9/6
Zigzag goldenrod 9/6
Common evening primrose 9/6
Turtlehead 9/6
Early horse gentian 9/6
Cream gentian 9/6
Woodland sunflower 9/6
Lindley’s aster 9/27

August 2025
Grey Cloud Dunes SNA, Lost Valley Prairie SNA, McKnight Prairie, Roscoe Prairie SNA, Morton Outcrops SNA, Schaefer Prairie, Spring Lake Park Preserve, Whitetail Woods Regional Park, Lebanon Hills, Bluestem Prairie SNA, Twin Valley Prairie SNA, Sandpiper Prairie, Burnham WMA, Pembina Trail WMA, Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge, Yellow Bank Hills SNA

Velvety goldenrod 8/30
Gray goldenrod 8/30
Dotted blazing star 8/30
Aromatic aster 8/30
Curlycup gummed 8/30
Common sunflower 8/30
Sawtooth sunflower 8/30
Stiff sunflower 8/30
Maximilian sunflower 8/30
Northern blazing star 8/30

Nuttall’s sunflower (maybe?) 8/29
Riddle’s goldenrod 8/29
Bottle gentian 8/29
White heath aster 8/29
White-panicled aster 8/29
Greater fringed gentian 8/29
Pleated gentian 8/29
Great Plains ladies’-tresses 8/29
American grass of parnassus 8/29

New England aster 8/24
Skyblue aster 8/24
Turtlehead 8/24
Stiff goldenrod 8/24
Spotted touch-me-not 8/24
Pale touch-me-not 8/24
Jerusalem artichoke 8/24
Hairy sunflower 8/24

Rough blazing star 8/10
Blue lobelia 8/10
Slender false foxglove 8/10
Grass-leaved goldenrod 8/10
Spotted Joe-pye weed 8/10
Heath aster 8/10
Pale-spike lobelia 8/10
Sawtooth sunflower 8/10
Purple prairie clover 8/10
Stiff goldenrod 8/10
Swamp thistle 8/10
Purple rattlesnake root 8/10
Sky blue aster 8/10
Hill’s thistle 8/10
Tall goldenrod 8/10
Grey-headed coneflower 8/10
Swamp smartweed 8/10
Sneezeweed 8/10
Ironweed 8/10
Giant goldenrod 8/10
Canada goldenrod 8/10
Rough false pennyroyal 8/10
Showy goldenrod 8/10
Butterfly weed 8/10
Lesser fringed gentian 8/10

Round-headed bush clover 8/3
Spotted bee balm 8/3
Prairie onion 8/3
Bergamot 8/3
Whorled milkweed 8/3
Cleland’s evening primrose 8/3
Prairie blazing star 8/3
Cylindric blazing star 8/3
Rough blazing star 8/3
Hairy false golden aster 8/3
Flowering spurge 8/3
Hoary vervain 8/3
Silky prairie clover 8/3
Prairie cottonweed 8/3
Partridge pea 8/3
Prairie sunflower 8/3
Stiff sunflower 8/3
False sunflower 8/3
Curlycup gumweed 8/3
Great Plains goldenrod 8/3
Giant goldenrod 8/3

July 2025
Woods Creek Trail, Icelandite Coastal Fen SNA, Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve, Blue Lake, Alma, WI

Oval-leaf milkweed 7/15
Racemed milkwort 7/11
Scarlet paintbrush 7/11
Tubercled rein orchid 7/11
Ragged fringed orchid 7/11
Leadplant 7/11
Swamp milkweed, 7/27

Floating marsh marigold 7/4
Small white water lily 7/4
Yellow spotless variant of Western spotted coralroot 7/5
Early coralroot in seed 7/5
Platanthera clavellata 7/5
Northern bluebells 7/5
Auricled twayblade 7/5
Evening primrose 7/5
Beach pea 7/5
One-flowered pyrola 7/5
Pipsissewa in bud 7/5
Green-flowered pyrola 7/5
One-sided pyrola 7/5
Shinleaf 7/5
Pink pyrola 7/5
Platanthera huronensis 7/5
Spotted coralroot 7/5
Western spotted coralroot 7/5
Ragged fringed orchid 7/5
Tall meadow-rue 7/5
Spotted Joe-pye weed 7/5

June 2025
Crow Wing County Roadsides, Long Lake Conservation Center, Helen Allison SNA, Falls Creek SNA, Kissick Swamp Wildlife Area in WI, Black Creek Nature Sanctuary, Redwyn Dunes Nature Sanctuary, George Hite Dunes and Marshes Preserve, Cliff Mine Roadsides in the Keweenaw, Keweenaw Shores, Upson Lake, Mary Macdonald Preserve at Horseshoe Harbor, Hunters Point Trail in Copper Harbor, Blue Lake in Emily, Weaver Dunes Preserve

Black-eyed Susan 6/29
Carolina larkspur 6/29
Western spiderwort 6/29
Carolina puccoon 6/29
Lead plant 6/29
Goat’s-rue past bloom 6/29

Rannoch rush 6/27
Rose pogonia 6/27
Bastard toadflax 6/26

Bird’s-eye primrose 6/25
Creeping juniper 6/25
Giant rattlesnake plantain 6/25
Ram’s-head Lady’s-slipper
Pink pyrola 6/25
Barren strawberry 6/25
Dwarf raspberry 6/25
Labrador tea 6/26
Bunchberry 6/26
Butterwort 6/26
Spoon-leaf sundew 6/26
Velvet-leaf blueberry 6/26
Spotted coralroot 6/26
American cancer-root 6/26
Round-leaved sundew 6/26
Bladder sedge 6/26
Ontario goldenrod 6/26
Heart-leaved arnica with seeds 6/26

Gaywings 6/24
Three-toothed cinquefoil 6/24
Heart-leaved arnica 6/24
Shinleaf, Pyrola Elliptica 6/24
Twinflower 6/24

Yarrow 6/23
Bluebead lily 6/23
Beach heather 6/23
Tesselated rattlesnake plantain 6/23
Giant rattlesnake plantain 6/23
Platanthera huronensis 6/23
Meadow buttercup 6/23
False Solomon’s seal 6/23
Thimbleberry 6/23
Pipsissewa 6/23
Northern blue flag 6/23
Canada anemone 6/23

Purple pitcher plant bloom 6/22
Stemless Lady’s-slipper 6/22
Downy rattlesnake plantain 6/22
Lily-leaved twayblade 6/22
Platanthera dilatata 6/22
Rose pogonia
Tuberous grass pink 6/22
Dragon’s mouth 6/22
Showy Lady’s-slipper 6/22

Flatleaf bladderwort 6/19
Tufted loosestrife 6/19
Wild calla 6/19
Cotton grass 6/19
Northern blue flag 6/19
Southern blue flag 6/19
Carolina puccoon 6/19
Prairie junegrass 6/19
Large-flowered penstemon 6/19

May 2025
Helen Allison SNA, River Terrace Prairie SNA, Whitewater State Park, Carley State Park, Magelssen Bluff Park, Mound Prairie SNA, Wisconsin Rustic Road 51, Coolridge Creek Aquatic Management Area, Hayden Prairie, Iron Spring Bog SNA, Badoura Jack Pine SNA

Heart-leaved twayblade 5/30
Ram’s-head Lady’s-slipper 5/30
Early coralroot 5/30
Labrador tea 5/30
Marsh marigold 5/30
Showy Lady’s-slipper 5/30
Bog buckbean 5/30
Large yellow Lady’s-slipper 5/30
Stemless Lady’s-slipper 5/30
Hoary Puccoon 5/30
Lowbush blueberry 5/30
Wintergrreen 5/30

Small white Lady’s-slipper 5/26
Small yellow Lady’s-slipper 5/26
Northern bog violet 5/26
Primrose-leaved violet 5/25
Thimbleberry 5/25
Canada mayflower 5/25
Fringed puccoon 5/25
Mayapple 5/25
Columbine 5/25
Showy orchis 5/25
False Solomon’s seal 5/25
Western Canadian violet 5/24
Lance-leaved violet 5/24
Starflower 5/24
Arrowleaf violet 5/19
Sand violet 5/19
Kidney-leaved violet 5/19
Dog violet 5/19
Sweet white violet 5/19
Great spurred violet 5/17
Marsh violet 5/17
Great Lakes violet 5/17
Carolina spring beauty 5/17

Marsh marigold 5/10
Early meadow rue 5/10
Red baneberry 5/10
Swamp saxifrage 5/10
Robin’s plantain 5/10
Plains wild indigo 5/10
Prairie shooting star 5/10
Jeweled shooting star 5/10
Wild blue phlox 5/10
False mermaid 5/10
Drooping trillium 5/10

Western Canada white violet 5/3
Northern white violet 5/3
Arrowleaf violet 5/3
Birdfoot violet 5/4
Prairie violet 5/4
Lousewort 5/4
Hoary puccoon 5/4
Plains wild indigo 5/4
Bellwort 5/4
Virginia bluebells 5/4
Mayapple 5/4
Yellow trout lily 5/4
White trout lily 5/4
Large-flowered trillium 5/4
Bristly buttercup 5/4
Twinleaf 5/4
Wood anemone 5/4
Common blue violet 5/4
Common blue violet 5/4
Common blue violet 5/4
Dutchman’s breeches 5/4
Two-leaf miterwort 5/4
Goldenseal 5/4
Squirrel corn 5/4
Moschatel 5/4
Cutleaf toothwort 5/4
Showy orchis 5/4
Violet wood sorrel 5/4
Jeweled shooting star 5/4
False rue anemone 5/4
Virginia spring beauty 5/4
Yellow star-grass 5/4
Prairie blue-eyed grass 5/4
Downy painted cup 5/4

April 2025
Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge, Wisconsin Rustic Road, Red Jacket Trail, Ottawa Bluffs Preserve, Banning State Park, Taconite Harbor

Pasqueflower 4/27
Pennsylvania sedge 4/27
Prairie smoke 4/27
Ground plum 4/27
Kittentails 4/27
Birdfoot violet 4/27

Spreading Jacob’s ladder 4/21
Walking fern 4/21
Plantain-leaved sedge 4/21
Prairie smoke 4/21
Mayapple 4/21
Dutchmann’s breeches 4/21
White trout lily 4/21
Yellow trout lily 4/21
Canadian wild ginger 4/21
Lyre-leaved rock cress 4/21
Prairie buttercup 4/21

Wintergreen 4/18
Rock polypody 4/18
Early saxifrage, 4/18
Snow trillium 4/13
Sharp-lobed hepatica 4/13
Dutchmans breeches 4/13
White trout lily 4/13
Virginia waterleaf 4/13
Pasqueflower 4/13

Snow trillium 4/12
Dutchman’s breeches 4/12
Elf cup 4/12
Putty-root 4/12
Wild leeks 4/12
Virginia spring beauty 4/12
False rue anemone 4/12
Bloodroot 4/12
Sharp-lobed hepatica 4/12
Snow trillium 4/2/25

March 2025
Minnehaha Regional Park, River Terrace Prairie SNA, Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge, McKnight Prairie

Snow trillium 3/29/25
River Terrace Prairie, after the fire, 3/27/25
Pasqueflower, after the fire, 3/27/25
Plains prickly pear cactus, after the fire, 3/27/25
River Terrace Prairie SNA, after the fire, 3/27/25
Pasqueflower, McKnight Prairie, 3/27/25
Pasqueflower, Mcknight Prairie, 3/27/25
Snow trillium, 3/14/25
Pasqueflower, 3/14/25
Pasqueflower, 3/14/25
Kittentails in seed, 3/14/25
Skunk cabbage, 3/9/25
Skunk cabbage, 3/9/25
Skunk cabbage, 3/9/25