Late summer flower thumbnails of the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden

Late Summer Wildflowers

of Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden

Thumbnails of some of the late summer flowering plants that are not white, yellow or Yellow-Green that you may encounter on a visit between mid-July and Sept. 1st. Not all will be in bloom during this entire period of time; some are just ending their early summer bloom and some will just be starting in late August. See the separate page of thumbnails of white, yellow and yellow-green flowers. Also a separate page of thumbnails of easily noticed late summer fruits and seeds of selected plants. 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	Canadian Clearweed	Common Ragweed	Curly Dock	Interrupted Fern
Dioscorea villosa	Pilea pumila	Ambrosia artemisiifolia	Rumex crispus	Osmunda claytoniana


Northern Maidenhair Fern	Stinging Nettle (California Nettle)	Wood Nettle (Canadian Wood Nettle)	Blue Vervain (Swamp Vervain)	Bottle Gentian (Closed Gentian)
Adiantum pedatum	Urtica dioica	Laportea canadensis	Verbena hastata	Gentiana clausa and Gentiana andrewsii


Chicory - blue flower type	Downy Gentian	Eastern Red Cedar*	Giant Hyssop (Blue Giant Hyssop)	Heart-leaved Aster (Common Blue Wood Aster)
Cichorium intybus	Gentiana puberulenta	Juniperus virginiana	Agastache foeniculum	Symphyotrichum cordifolium


Hoary Vervain	Mad-dog Skullcap	Marsh Skullcap	Marsh Skullcap -leaf	Silvery Scurf Pea
Verbena stricta	Scutellaria lateriflora	Scutellaria galericulata	Flowers mostly solidary from leaf axils. Leaves barely stalked	Pediomelum argophyllum


Tall Bellflower (American Bellflower)	True Forget-me-not	Western Silver Aster (Silky Aster)	Western Silver Aster -leaf (Silky Aster)	Climbing Nightshade (Bittersweet Nightshade)
Campanula americana	Myosotis scorpioides	Symphyotrichum sericeum	Leaves pale green, silky, silver tint, smooth edges.	Solanum dulcamara


Downy Wood Mint	European Bellflower (Rampion Bellflower)	Leadplant	Northern Willowherb (American Willowherb)	Willowherb
Blephilia cilata	Campanula rapunculoides	Amorpha canescens	Epilobium ciliatum	Epilobium coloratum


Dense Blazing Star (Spiked Blazing Star)	Large-headed Blazing Star (Rocky Mt. Blazing Star)	Ontario Blazing Star (Cylindrical Blazing Star)	Prairie Blazing Star	Northern Blazing Star (New England Blazing Star)
Liatris spicata	Liatris ligulistylis	Liatris cylindracea	Liatris pycnostachya	Liatris scariosa var. novae-angliae


Shaggy Blazing Star	Hellborine (Broad-leaved Hellborine)	Ironweed (Prairie Ironweed)	Lesser Burdock	Pale Purple Coneflower
Liatris pilosa	Epipactis helleborine	Vernonia fasciculata	Arctium minus	Echinacea pallida


Purple Bergamot	Eastern Purple Coneflower	Purple Giant Hyssop	Purple Prairie Clover	Swamp Beggartick (Purple-stem Beggartick)
Monarda media	Echinacea purpurea	Agastache scrophulariifolia	Dalea purpurea	Bidens connata


White Rattlesnake Root	Wild Bergamot	Purple Loosestrife	Bouncing Bet -pink flower (Soapwort -pink flower)	Coralberry*
Prenanthes alba	Monarda fistulosa	Lythrum salicaria	Saponaria officinalis	Symphoricarpos orbiculatus


Fireweed	Grecian Foxglove	Groundnut (Wild Bean)	Heal-all	Live Forever (Witch's Moneybags)
Chamerion angustifolium	Digitalis lanata	Apios americana	Prunella vulgaris	Hylotelephium telephium


Lopseed	Motherwort	Obedient Plant (False Dragonhead)	Pointed-leaved Tick-trefoil	Pointed-leaved Tick-trefoil
Phryma leptostachya	Leonurus cardiaca	Physostegia virginiana	Desmodium glutinosum	Basal 3-part leaves, center leaflet with pointed tip


Queen of the Prairie	Red Clover	Red Turtlehead	Showy Tick-trefoil (Canada Tick-trefoil)	Showy Tick-trefoil (Canada Tick-trefoil)
Filipendula rubra	Trifolium pratense	Chelone obliqua	Desmodium canadense	3-part stem leaves on stalks


Spotted Joe-Pye Weed	Spotted Joe-Pye Weed	Spotted Knapweed	Swamp Milkweed	Trailing Wild Bean
Eupatoriadelphus maculatus	Stem is purple or purple spotted	Centaurea biebersteinii	Asclepias incarnata	Strophostyles helvola


Sweet Scented Joe-Pye Weed	Sweet Scented Joe-Pye Weed	Canada Thistle	Field Thistle	Thistle - Identification
Eupatorium purpureum	Greenish stem, purple only at stem nodes	Cirsium arvense	Cirsium discolor	Field - heads to 1.5” wide, leaves white fuzz under. Canada - Heads 1/2” wide


Wild Garlic	Wild Poinsettia	Wild Roses*	Cardinal Flower	Wild Columbine (Red Columbine)
Allium canadense	Euphorbia cyathophora	6 species - see information sheet for details	Lobelia cardinalis	Aquilegia canadensis


Blackberry Lily	Butterfly Weed (Butterfly Milkweed)	Orange Day Lily	Turk's-cap Lily & Michigan Lily	Common Cattail (Broadleaf Cattail)
Belamcanda chinensis	Asclepias tuberosa	Hemerocallis fulva	Lilium superbum and Lilium michiganense	Typha latifolia


Narrow-leaved Cattail	Lanceleaf Figwort	Lanceleaf Figwort -leaf
Typha angustifolia	Scrophularia lanceolata	Stems with flat sides. Stalked leaves.


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