Thumbnails of some of the late spring flowering plants you may encounter on a visit - Early May to Mid-June. This page should keep you going until mid-June, then everything in the Upland breaks loose. Alternate common names for plant are shown in ( ), woody plants designated by "*". Timing of spring bloom will vary with each year's weather pattern.
Plant names with web links lead to a separate page of plant information and photos on that plant.

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American Bladdernut*

Anise Root
(Smooth Sweet Cicely)

Bittercress
(Pennsylvania Bittercress)

Black Raspberry*

Cleavers
(Stickwilly)

Cleavers
(Stickwilly)

Weak stems, few branches, fine clinging hooks, flowers in leaf axils. Leaves whorl 6

Daisy Fleabane
(Eastern Daisy Fleabane)

Red Osier Dogwood*

Dwarf Red Raspberry

Galax
(Beetleweed)

Goldenseal

Lesser Daisy Fleabane
(Prairie Fleabane)

May Apple leaf

Mock Orange*

Mouse-ear Chickweed

Nannyberry*

Flowering plants have two leaves. Flower under the leaf.

Cerastium fontanum ssp. vulgare

Mountain Laurel*

Partridge Berry

Pepper Grass

Philadelphia Fleabane (Common Fleabane)

Philadelphia Fleabane (Common Fleabane)

Pin Cherry*

Red Elderberry*

Smooth Rockcress

Snowberry*

Star Chickweed

Starflower

Strawberry - Woodland: Flower stalk above leaves.
Leaflets often stalkless

Common: Flower stalk shorter than leaves. Leaflets stalked. End tooth shorter

Starry False Solomon's Seal

Swamp Blackberry

Tatarian Honeysuckle*
(flowers white to pink)

Cut-leaved Toothwort

Stem leaves divided into 3 deeply lobed toothed leaflets such that they appear to be 5 parted leaflets.

Two-leaved Toothwort

Twoleaf Miterwort - leaf

Stems have two leaf stalks, opposite, leaves with 3 part lobes, not so deeply cut.

Single pair of almost stalkless 3 to 5 lobed leaves at mid stem

Wolfberry*

Plains Wild Indigo
(Cream Wild Indigo)

Common Cinquefoil

Missouri Gooseberry*

Tall Buttercup

Lower leaves divided into 3 to 7 parts with deep clefts

Kidneyleaf Buttercup
Littleleaf Buttercup

Cypripedium parviflorum var. pubescens

Ranunculus abortivus

Unique basal leaves

Carrion Flower - closeup

Carrion Flower - vine

Catbrier
(Bristly Greenbrier)

No prickles, flowers in ball like umbrel from the leaf axils. Stalks very long

Eastern Prickly Gooseberry*

Mountain Maple*

Striped Maple*

Ohio Buckeye* - flower raceme

Ohio Buckeye* - single flower

Fragrant Sumac*

Smooth Sumac*

Staghorn Sumac*

Wild Sarsaparilla

Broadleaf Burweed

Skunk Cabbage - during leaf-out

Blue Squill

Arrowleaf Violet

Prairie Birdsfoot Violet

Running Strawberry Bush

Red Trillium
(Furrowed Wakerobin)

Toadshade &
Sweet Betsy

Similar. No leaf stalks T-shade has to 3” leaf & 1.5” flower, Betsy to 6” and 3”

Climbing Honeysuckle*
(Limber Honeysuckle)

Pinkshell Azalea*

Darkthroat Shooting Star

Prairie Smoke
seed head stage

Flame Azalea*

Lanceleaf Figwort

American Vetch

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