Eastern US Native Wildflowers – Page 04

Bursting into bloom in Spring, the flowers on this wildflower really take off....

This perennial beauty may take a few years to flower from seed, but it’s worth the wait....

Drooping pink petals surround coppery-orange center cones on this perennial wildflower....

These lovely wildflowers will naturalize and self-seed, creating masses of purple blooms drooping from copper cones....

This beautiful wildflower blooms with bright rays of rose colored flowers....

Igniting the prairie with blooms of bright pink, Fireweed is a glowing wildflower specimen....

A very unique and prickly wildflower, Rattlesnake Master adds a special texture and form to your prairie or wildflower garden....

Closely related to the California poppy, this Tufted Poppy carpets whole hillsides up and down the Pacific coast...

Wonderful for your wetlands, this wild ageratum closely resembles the domesticated variety so popular in gardens today...

Named for a Native American who used it to treat fevers, “Joe Pye Weed” is very showy in mass wildflower plantings in wet areas....

This wildflower was a favorite medicine of early Americans, and its name comes from its use in treating an outbreak of influenza known as ‘break-bone’ fever....

Reminding some of dusty rose phlox, this beautiful plant's showy colors are displayed during late summer when most plant's flowers are dying away...

Looking for a winsome perennial wildflower with lots of snow white flowers? Flowering Spurge is similar to baby's breath in appearance; dainty and sweet....

Queen-of-the-Prairie is a fitting name for this stunning wildflower...

The bi-colored flowers appearing in yellows, reds, burgundys, and browns remind many of the blankets woven by Native Americans...

An annual version of the famous native "Firewheel," this wildflower can add brilliant color to any meadow...

A giant of the prairie....

Naturalizing over time, this perennial wildflower would be lovely in a shade garden or along a stream or pond....

Sometimes called the "Fringed Gentian", this name comes from the ruffled outer edges of the showy blooms...

Perhaps you will have the privilege of witnessing a bumblebee squeeze into this delicate wildflower....