Early summer flower thumbnails Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden

Early Summer Wildflowers of Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden

Thumbnails of some of the early summer flowering plants that are not white, yellow or yellow-green that you may encounter on a visit in June through mid-July. See the separate page for white, yellow and yellow-green flowers. Alternate common names for plant are shown in ( ), woody plants designated by "*".
Plant names with web links lead to a separate page of plant information and photos on that plant.

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Wild Yamroot	American Alumroot	American Alumroot -plant	Broadleaf Burweed	Curly Dock
Dioscorea villosa	Heuchera americana	Stalked basal leaves only	Sparganium eurycarpum	Rumex crispus


Eastern Swamp Saxifrage	Great Solomon's Seal (Smooth Solomon's Seal)	Interrupted Fern	Jack-in-the-pulpit	Missouri Gooseberry* Fruit
Saxifraga pensylvanica	Polygonatum biflorum var. commutatum	Osmunda claytoniana	Arisaema triphyllum	Ribes missouriense


Virginia Waterleaf (Eastern Waterleaf)	Arrowleaf Violet	Blue Flag Iris	Blue Vervain (Swamp Vervain)	Bluejacket (Ohio Spiderwort)
Hydrophyllum virginianum	Viola sagittata	Iris versicolor	Verbena hastata	Tradescantia ohiensis


Chicory - blue flower type	Clustered Bellflower (Dane's Blood)	Eastern Bluestar (Willow Amsonia)	Eastern Red Cedar*	False Blue Indigo (Blue Wild Indigo)
Cichorium intybus	Campanula glomerata	Amsonia tabernaemontana	Juniperus virginiana	Baptisia australis


Blue Giant Hyssop (Giant Hyssop)	Hoary Vervain	Jacob's Ladder (Greek Valerian)	Mad-dog Skullcap	Marsh Skullcap
Agastache foeniculum	Verbena stricta	Polemonium reptans	Scutellaria lateriflora	Scutellaria galericulata


Marsh Skullcap	Prairie Birdsfoot Violet	Silvery Scurf Pea	True Forget-me-not	Wild Blue Phlox
Flowers mostly solidary from leaf axils. Leaves barely stalked	Viola pedatifida	Pediomelum argophyllum	Myosotis scorpioides	Phlox divaricata


American Vetch	Climbing Nightshade (Bittersweet Nightshade)	Downy Wood Mint	European Bellflower (Rampion Bellflower)	Hairy Wood Mint (Hoary Wood Mint)
Vicia americana	Solanum dulcamara	Blephilia cilata	Campanula rapunculoides	Blephilia hirsuta


Leadplant	Northern Willowherb (American Willowherb)	Willowherb	Eastern Wahoo*	Eastern Wahoo* stem
Amorpha canescens	Epilobium ciliatum ssp. glandulosum	Epilobium coloratum	Euonymus atropurpurea var. atropurpurea	Euonymus atropurpurea var. atropurpurea


Lesser Burdock	Purple Bergamot	Purple Prairie Clover	Swamp Beggartick (Purple-stem Beggartick)	Wild Geranium (Spotted Geranium)
Arctium minus	Monarda media	Dalea purpurea	Bidens connata	Geranium maculatum


Bouncing Bet -Pink flower type (Soapwort)	Bracted Spiderwort	Common Milkweed	Coralberry*	Dame's Rocket (Sweet Rocket)
Saponaria officinalis	Tradescantia bracteata	Asclepias syriaca	Symphoricarpos orbiculatus	Hesperis matronalis


Downy Phlox	Fireweed	Grecian Foxglove	Heart-leaved Four O'clock (Wild Four O'clock)	Queen of the Prairie
Phlox pilosa	Chamerion angustifolium	Digitalis lanata	Mirabilis nyctaginea	Filipendula rubra


Pointed-leaved Tick-trefoil	Pointed-leaved Tick-trefoil	Red Clover	Showy Beardtongue (Large-flowered Beardtongue)	Showy Lady's-slipper
Desmodium glutinosum	Basal 3-part leaves, center leaflet with pointed tip	Trifolium pratense	Penstemon grandiflorus	Cypripedium reginae


Spotted Knapweed	Swamp Milkweed	Canada Thistle	Veiny Pea (Veiny Vetchling)	Wild Garlic
Centaurea biebersteinii	Asclepias incarnata	Cirsium arvense	Lathyrus venosus	Allium canadense


Wild Ginger (Canadian Wild Ginger)	Wild Roses*	Garden Currant* Fruit	Horse Gentian	Running Strawberry Bush Fruit
Asarum canadense	6 species - see information sheet for details	Ribes rubrum	Triosteum aurantiacum	Euonymus obovata


Common Strawberry - fruit	Downy Juneberry*	Flame Azalea*	Orange Day Lily	Orange Hawkweed
Fragaria virginiana	Amelanchier arborea	Rhododendron calendulaceum	Hemerocallis fulva	Hieracium aurantiacum


Turk's-cap Lily & Michigan Lily	Wood Lily	Lanceleaf Figwort	Lanceleaf Figwort leaves	Wild Columbine (Red Columbine)
Lilium superbum and Lilium michiganense	Lilium philadelphicum	Scrophularia lanceolata	Stems with flat sides. Stalked leaves.	Aquilegia canadensis

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