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 white and yellow to 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 other colors. Also shown on that page are thumbnails of easily noticed 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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Arrow-leaved Tearthumb	Fragrant Bedstraw	Fragrant Bedstraw -leaf	Rough Bedstraw	Rough Bedstraw Stem
Polygonum sagittatum	Galium triflorum	Leaves whorls of 6, vanilla odor, 3-flower clusters. Stem nodes smooth.	Galium asprellum	Many branches, stems prickly on the 4 angles, leaves whorl of 6 -rough. Flower cluster much branched.


Shining Bedstraw	Shining Bedstraw leaves	Threepetal Bedstraw	Black Bugbane	Black Nightshade
Galium concinnum	Leaves whorls of 6, rough edged, sharply pointed, many branches, sprawlin	Galium trifidum	Actaea racemosa	Solanum nigrum


Boneset	Boneset	Bouncing Bet -white flower (Soapwort -white flower)	Burnweed	Buttonbush*
Eupatorium perfoliatum	Leaf- surrounds stem	Saponaria officinalis	Erechtites hieracifolia	Cephalanthus occidentalis


Canada Germander	Chicory - white flower type	Cow Parsnip	Cow Parsnip Leaf	Culver's Root
Teucrium canadense	Cichorium intybus	Heracleum maximum	3-parted toothed leaflets, forming a sheath at the base	Veronicastrum virginicum


Daisy Fleabane (Eastern Daisy Fleabane)	Daisy Fleabane (Eastern Daisy Fleabane)	Dotted Smartweed	Enchanter's Nightshade (Broadleaf Enchanter's Nightshade)	Flat-topped Aster
Erigeron annuus	Leaf toothed, not clasping, stem hair standing out	Polygonum punctatum	Circaea lutetiana ssp. canadensis	Doellingeria umbellata var. pubens


Flowering Spurge	Flowering Spurge - leaves	Foamflower (Heartleaf Foamflower)	Garden Phlox	Hedge Bindweed
Euphorbia corollata	Main stem unbranched, many flowering branches above the upper stem whorl	Tiarella cordifolia	Phlox paniculata	Calystegia sepium


Hog Peanut	Japanese Knotweed	Large-leaved Aster (Bigleaf Aster)	Large-leaved Aster (Bigleaf Aster)	Long-leaved Chickweed (Water Chickweed)
Amphicarpaea bracteata	Polygonum cuspidatum	Eurybia macrophylla	Basal leaves large, broadly oval, long stalked, heart shape bases	Stellaria longifolia


Lesser Daisy Fleabane	Lesser Daisy Fleabane	New Jersey Tea*	Nodding Wild Onion	Northern Bugleweed
Erigeron strigosus	Leaf- few teeth, not clasping, stem hair close to stem	Ceanothus americanus	Allium cernuum	Lycopus uniflorus


Oxeye Daisy	Peppermint	Philadelphia Fleabane (Common Fleabane)	Philadelphia Fleabane (Common Fleabane)	Plain Gentian (Yellowish Gentian)
Leucanthemum vulgare	Mentha aquatica-spicata	Erigeron philadelphicus	Upper leaves clasping stem, stem hairy.	Gentiana alba


Queen of the Meadow	Round-headed Bushclover (Round-headed Lespedeza)	Side-flowering Aster (Calico Aster)	Side-flowering Aster leaf	Virgin's Bower
Filipendula ulmaria	Lespedeza capitata	Symphyotrichum lateriflorum	Leaves oval to rounded, upper mostly stalkless, lower stalked, few sharp teeth	Clematis virginiana


Virginia Mountain Mint	Virginia Stickseed (Beggar's Lice)	Water Horehound	White Arrowleaf Aster	White Arrowleaf Aster- leaf
Pycnanthemum virginianum	Hackelia virginiana	Lycopus americanus	Symphyotrichum urophyllum	Middle leaves arrow shape base, Lower - heart shaped base, often winged stalk


White Heath Aster (Many-flowered Aster)	White Heath Aster -leaf	White Panicle Aster	White Prairie Clover	White Snakeroot
Symphyotrichum ericoides	Leaves small, narrow .5 to 1.5” long, rough edge	Symphyotrichum lanceolatum	Dalea candida	Ageratina altissima


White Sweet Clover	White Wood Aster	White Wood Aster	Whorled Milkweed	Wild Mint
Melilotus alba	Eurybia divaricata	Large, toothed, long stalk, heart base. Flowers in branched cluster.	Asclepias verticillata	Mentha arvensis


Wild Onion (Autumn Onion)	Wintergreen (Eastern Teaberry)	Yarrow	White Sagebrush (Prairie Sage)	Agrimony
Allium stellatum	Gaultheria procumbens	Achillea millefolium	Artemisia ludoviciana	Agrimonia pubescens


Black Medic	Black-eyed Susan	Butter and Eggs	Canadian Hawkweed (Yellow Hawkweed)	Canadian Hawkweed (Yellow Hawkweed)
Medicago lupulina	Rudbeckia hirta	Linaria vulgaris	Hieracium canadense	Flowers- long stalked heads in loose branched clusters. Leaves -a few sharp teeth


Rough-fruited Cinquefoil	Rough-fruited Cinquefoil	Silver Cinquefoil	Silver Cinquefoil -leaves	Clammy Ground Cherry
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.	Physalis heterophylla


Common Evening Primrose	Common Mullein	Common Yellow Oxalis	Compass Plant	Cup Plant
Oenothera biennis	Verbascum thapsus	Oxalis stricta	Silphium laciniatum	Silphium perfoliatum


Devil's Beggartick	Green-headed Coneflower (Goldenglow)	Green-headed Coneflower (Goldenglow)	Gray-headed Coneflower	Gray-headed Coneflower
Bidens frondosa	Rudbeckia laciniata	lower leaves are pinnately divided into wide lobed leaflets	Ratibida pinnata	larger lower leaves are pinnately divided into 3 to 7 narrow leaflets


Canada Goldenrod	Grassleaf Goldenrod	Gray Goldenrod (Old Field Goldenrod)	Late Goldenrod (Giant Goldenrod)	Stiff Goldenrod
Solidago canadensis	Euthamia graminifolia	Solidago nemoralis	Solidago gigantea	Oligoneuron rigidum var. rigidum


Zigzag Goldenrod	Narrowleaf Hawksbeard	Jerusalem Artichoke	Jerusalem Artichoke Leaf	Long-headed Coneflower (Prairie Coneflower)
Solidago flexicaulis	Crepis tectorum	Helianthus tuberosus	Stout plant. Leaves - upper 2/3rds alternate, rough on top with long winged stalks	Ratibida columnifera


Fringed Loosestrife	Fringed Loosestrife	Whorled Loosestrife	Whorled Loosestrife	Northern Bush Honeysuckle*
Lysimachia ciliata	Leaves opposite-not in whorl	Lysimachia quadrifolia	Leaves in whorl of 4 or 5	Diervilla lonicera


Pale Touch-me-not (Pale Jewelweed)	Paleleaf Woodland Sunflower	Partridge Pea	Prairie Dock (Prairie Rosinweed)	Prairie Dock (Prairie Rosinweed)
Impatiens pallida	Helianthus strumosus	Chamaecrista fasciculata	Silphium terebinthinaceum	Large arrow-shape basal leaves only. Very tall stems


Prairie Sundrops (Meadow Evening Primrose)	Prickly Lettuce	Smooth Oxeye	Smooth Oxeye	Spotted Touch-me-not (Spotted Jewelweed)
Oenothera pilosella	Lactuca serriola	Heliopsis helianthoides	Flowers from axils of stalked toothed leaves	Impatiens capensis


Common St. Johnswort	Great St. Johnswort	Great St. Johnswort	Stiff Tickseed (Stiff Coreopsis)	Stiff Tickseed (Stiff Coreopsis)
Hypericum perforatum	Hypericum ascyron	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.


Stiff-haired Sunflower (Hairy Sunflower)	Stiff-haired Sunflower (Hairy Sunflower)	Thin-leaved Coneflower (Brown-eyed Susan)	Wholeleaf Rosinweed) (Rosin-weed)	Wholeleaf Rosinweed) (Rosin-weed)
Helianthus hirsutus	Leaves opposite, rounded bases on very short stalks. Flowers few & on thick stalks	Rudbeckia triloba	Silphium integrifolium	Leaf-opposite, tiny teeth, no stalk


Wild Lettuce	Wild Lettuce - leaf	Yellow Sweet Clover	Yellow Wood Sorrel	Canadian Milk Vetch
Lactuca canadensis	Leaves vary from entire, toothed, to pinnately divided, but edges NOT spiny	Meliotus officinalis	Oxalis dilenii	Astragalus canadensis


Common Dodder	Tall Meadow Rue (Purple Meadow Rue)	Tall Meadow Rue (Purple Meadow Rue)	Thimbleweed	Tall Thimbleweed
Cuscuta gronovii	Thalictrum dasycarpum	3 to 5’ tall, stem leaves stalkless & hairy beneath & longer than wide.	Anemone cylindrica	Anemone virginiana


Water Horsetail	Turtlehead (White Turtlehead)	Elm-leaved Goldenrod
Equisetum fluviatile	Chelone glabra	Solidago ulmifolia

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