Early summer flower thumbnails of the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden

Early Summer Wildflowers

of Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden

Thumbnails of some of the early summer flowering plants (white and yellow to yello-green) that you may encounter on a visit in June through mid-July. See the separate page for thumbnails of other colors. 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.

Photo credits page..........................................Printable PDF File


Allegheny Blackberry*	Anise Root (Smooth Sweet Cicely)	Arrowwood* (Southern Arrowwood)	Bastard Toadflax	Fragrant Bedstraw
Rubus allegheniensis	Osmorhiza longistylis	Viburnum dentatum	Comandra umbellata	Galium triflorum


Rough Bedstraw	Rough Bedstraw - stems	Shining Bedstraw	Shining Bedstraw - leaves	Fragrant Bedstraw -leaf
Galium asprellum	Many branches, stems prickly on the 4 angles, leaves whorl of 6 -rough. Flower cluster much branched.	Galium concinnum	Leaves whorls of 6, rough edged, sharply pointed, many branches, sprawling	Leaves whorls of 6, vanilla odor, 3-flower clusters. Stem nodes smooth.


Threepetal Bedstraw	Black Bugbane	Black Nightshade	Black Raspberry*	Bouncing Bet -white flower (Soapwort -white flower)
Galium trifidum	Actaea racemosa	Solanum nigrum	Rubus occidentalis	Saponaria officinalis


Broadleaf Arrowhead	Buttonbush*	Canada Anemone	Canada Elderberry* (American Black Elderberry)	Canada Moonseed (Common Moonseed)
Sagittaria latifolia	Cephalanthus occidentalis	Anemone canadensis	Sambucus nigra ssp. canadensis	Menispermum canadense


Blunt-leaved Sandwort	Cleavers (Stickwilly)	Cow Parsnip	Chicory - white flower type	Culver's Root
Moehringia lateriflora	Galium aparine [Weak stems, few branches, fine clinging hooks, flowers in leaf axils. Leaves whorl 6]	Heracleum maximum	Cichorium intybus	Veronicastrum virginicum


Dewberry* (Northern Dewberry)	Dotted Smartweed	Dwarf Red Raspberry	Enchanter's Nightshade (Broadleaf Enchanter's Nightshade)	Foamflower (Heartleaf Foamflower)
Rubus flagellaris	Polygonum punctatum	Rubus pubescens	Circaea lutetiana ssp. canadensis	Tiarella cordifolia


Foxglove Beardtongue (Talus Slope Penstemon)	Fringed Black Bindweed	Galax (Beetleweed)	Garlic Mustard	Gray Dogwood* (Graybark Dogwood)
Penstemon digitalis	Polygonum cilinode	Galax urceolata	Alliaria petiolata	Cornus racemosa


Daisy Fleabane (Eastern Daisy Fleabane)	Daisy Fleabane (Eastern Daisy Fleabane)	Lesser Daisy Fleabane (Prairie Fleabane)	Lesser Daisy Fleabane (Prairie Fleabane)	Japanese Knotweed
Erigeron annuus	Leaf toothed, not clasping, stem hair standing out	Erigeron strigosus	Leaf- few teeth, not clasping, stem hair close to stem	Polygonum cuspidatum


Philadelphia Fleabane (Common Fleabane)	Philadelphia Fleabane (Common Fleabane)	Long-leaved Chickweed (Water chickweed	Mouse-ear Chickweed	New Jersey Tea*
Erigeron philadelphicus	Upper leaves clasping stem, stem hairy.	Stellaria longifolia	Cerastium fontanum ssp. vulgare	Ceanothus americanus


Ninebark* (Common Ninebark)	Northern Bedstraw	Northern Bedstraw -leaf	Northern Bugleweed	Oxeye Daisy
Physocarpus opulifolius	Galium boreale	Many brances, flowers in showy branched terminal cluster. Leaves whorls of 4	Lycopus uniflorus	Leucanthemum vulgare


Pale Indian Plantain	Partridge Berry	Peppermint	Polk Milkweed	Prairie Dogbane (Indianhemp)
Arnoglossum atriplicifolium	Mitchella repens	Mentha aquatica-spicata	Asclepias exaltata	Apocynum cannabinum


Queen of the Meadow	Smooth Rockcress	Spreading Dogbane (Common Dogbane)	Star Chickweed	Starflower
Filipendula ulmaria	Arabis laevigata	Apocynum androsaemifolium	Stellaria pubera	Trientalis borealis


Swamp Blackberry	Twoleaf Miterwort (Bishop's Cap)	Twoleaf Miterwort (Bishop's Cap)	Virgin's Bower	Virginia Mountain Mint
Rubus semisetosus	Mitella diphylla	Single pair of almost stalkless 3 to 5 lobed leaves at mid stem	Clematis virginiana	Pycnanthemum virginianum


Water Horehound	White Avens	White False Indigo (Wild White Indigo)	White Prairie Clover	White Sweet Clover
Lycopus americanus	Geum canadense	Baptisia alba var. macrophylla	Dalea candida	Melilotus alba


White Vervain	Whorled Milkweed	Wild Leek (Ramp)	Wild Mint	Wild Quinine (American Feverfew)
Verbena urticifolia	Asclepias verticillata	Allium tricoccum	Mentha arvensis	Parthenium integrifolium


Winterberry* (Black Alder)	Wolfberry*	Yarrow	Plains Wild Indigo (Cream Wild Indigo)	Black Medic
Ilex verticillata	Symphoricarpos occidentalis	Achillea millefolium	Baptisia bracteata	Medicago lupulina


Common Cinquefoil	Rough-fruited Cinquefoil	Rough-fruited Cinquefoil	Silver Cinquefoil	Silver Cinquefoil - leaves
Potentilla simplex	Potentilla recta	Stem unbranched below flattened flower cluster. Leaves of 5-7 leaflets.	Potentilla argentea	Flower petals same size as sepals. Leaves under silvery from fine hairs.


Canada Lily	Clammy Ground Cherry	Common Mullein	Common Yellow Oxalis	Devil's Beggartick
Lilium canadense	Physalis heterophylla	Verbascum thapsus	Oxalis stricta	Bidens frondosa


Fringed Loosestrife	Fringed Loosestrife -leaves	Garden Loosestrife	Golden Alexanders (Golden Zizia)	Long-headed Coneflower (Prairie Coneflower)
Lysimachia ciliata	Leaves opposite-not in whorl	Lysmachia vulgaris	Zizia aurea	Ratibida columnifera


Meadow Goatsbeard (Yellow Salsify)	Moneywort (Creeping Jenny)	Narrowleaf Hawksbeard	Northern Bush Honeysuckle*	Prairie Sundrops (Meadow Evening Primrose)
Tragopogon dubius	Lysimachia nummularia	Crepis tectorum	Diervilla lonicera	Oenothera pilosella


Prickly Lettuce	Smooth Oxeye	Smooth Oxeye	Common St. Johnswort	Great St.Johnswort
Lactuca serriola	Heliopsis helianthoides	Flowers from axils of stalked toothed leaves	Hypericum perforatum	Hypericum ascyron


Great St. Johnswort	Stiff Tickseed (Stiff Coreopsis)	Stiff Tickseed -leaf (Stiff Coreopsis)	Swamp Buttercup (Bristly Buttercup)	Swamp Candles (Yellow Loosestrife)
Erect, 2-5’ tall, flowers 1.5” to 2.3” wide, long stalked and usually solitary.	Coreopsis palmata	Stem stiff; leaf- opposite, stalkless, 3 elongated lobes that divide above the base.	Ranunculus hispidus var. nitidus	Lysmachia terrestis


Tall Buttercup	Tall Buttercup	Tufted Loosestrife
Ranunculus acris	Lower leaves divided into 3 to 7 parts with deep clef	Lysimachia thyrsiflora


		Wholeleaf Rosinweed (Rosin-weed)	Wholeleaf Rosinweed -leaf (Rosin-weed)	Whorled Loosestrife
		Silphium integrifolium	Leaves opposite, not surrounding the stem, upper & lower same size.	Lysimachia quadrifolia


Whorled Loosestrife-leaf	Wild Lettuce	Wild Lettuce - leaf	Yellow Day Lily	Yellow Flag Iris (Pale Yellow Iris)
Leaves in whorl of 4 or 5	Lactuca canadensis	Leaves vary from entire, toothed, to pinnately divided, but edges NOT spiny	Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus	Iris pseudacorus


Yellow Goatsbeard	Yellow Goatsbeard	Yellow Sweet Clover	Yellow Wood Sorrel	Black-eyed Susan
Tragopogon pratensis	Distinctive Tragopogon seed cluster	Meliotus officinalis	Oxalis dilenii	Rudbeckia hirta


Climbing Bittersweet* (American Bittersweet)	Common Dodder	Early Meadow Rue	Leafy Spurge	Fragrant Sumac*
Celastrus scandens	Cuscuta gronovii	Thalictrum dioicum	Euphorbia esula	Rhus aromatica


Thimbleberry (Flowering Raspberry)	Tall Meadow Rue (Purple Meadow Rue)	Tall Meadow Rue (Purple Meadow Rue)	Smooth Sumac*	Staghorn Sumac*
Rubus parviflorus	Thalictrum dasycarpum	3 to 5’ tall, stem leaves stalkless & hairy beneath & longer than wide.	Rhus glabra	Rhus hirta


Thimbleberry - leaf (Flowering Raspberry)	Thimbleweed	Tall Thimbleweed	Water Horsetail	Wild Sarsaparilla
No prickles, leaves large and maple-like	Anemone cylindrica	Anemone virginiana	Equisetum fluviatile	Aralia nudicaulis


Canadian Milk Vetch
Astragalus canadensis

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