Plants of early spring in the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden

Spring Flowers of Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden

Thumbnails of many early spring flowering plants - April to early May. Alternate common names for plant are shown in ( ), woody plants designated by "*". Timing of early spring bloom can vary a much as 3 to 4 weeks depending on 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*	Bittercress (Pennsylvania Bitter Cress)	Black Chokeberry*	Bloodroot	Blunt-leaved Sandwort
Staphylea trifolia	Cardamine pensylvanica	Photinia melanocarpa	Sanguinaria canadensis	Moehringia lateriflora


Canada Violet (Canadian White Violet)	Chokecherry*	Cleavers (Stickywilly)	Cleavers -leaf (Stickywilly)	Red Osier Dogwood*
Viola canadensis	Prunus virginiana	Galium aparine	Weak stems, few branches, fine clinging hooks, flowers in leaf axils. Leaves whorl 6	Cornus sericea


Drooping Trillium (Nodding Wakerobin)	Dutchman's Breeches	False Rue Anemone	False Solomon's Seal	Field Pussytoes
Trillium flexipes	Dicentra cucullaria	Enemion biternatum	Maianthemum racemosum	Antennaria neglecta


Fireberry Hawthorn*	Foamflower (Heartleaf Foamflower)	Hepatica	Sharp-lobed Hepatica	Round-lobed Hepatica
Crataegus chrysocarpa	Tiarella cordifolia	flowers the same, leaves different	Hepatica nobilis var. acuta	Hepatica nobilis var. obtusa


Garlic Mustard	Highbush Cranberry* (American Cranberrybush)	Downy Juneberry*	Large-flowered Trillium (White Trillium)	Mountain Laurel*
Alliaria petiolata	Viburnum opulus var. americanum	Amelanchier arborea	Trillium grandiflorum	Kalmia latifolia


Mouse-ear Chickweed	Nannyberry*	Nodding Trillium	Peppergrass	Pin cherry*
Cerastium fontanum	Viburnum lentago	Trillium cernuum L.	Lepidium densiflorum	Prunus pensylvanica


Wild Plum* (American Plum)	Prairie Willow*	Prairie Willow* leaf	Red Baneberry (White Baneberry similar)	Red Elderberry*
Prunus americana	Salix humilis		Actaea rubra	Sambucus racemosa


Smooth Rockcress	Snow Trillium	Common Strawberry	Tatarian Honeysuckle* (flowers white to pink)	White Trout Lily (White Fawn Lily)
Arabis laevigata	Trillium nivale	Fragaria virginiana	Lonicera tatarica	Erythronium albidum


Cut-leaved Toothwort	Cut-leaved Toothwort	Two-leaved Toothwort	Two-leaved Toothwort	Twinleaf
Cardamine concatenata	Stem leaves divided into 3 deeply lobed toothed leaflets such that they appear to be 5 parted leaflets.	Cardamine diphylla	Stems have two leaf stalks, opposite, leaves with 3 part lobes, not so deeply cut.	Jeffersonia diphylla


Twoleaf Miterwort (Bishop's Cap)	Twoleaf Miterwort (Bishop's Cap)	Wild Calla (Water Arum)	Wood Anemone	Pussy Willow*
Mitella diphylla	Single pair of almost stalkless 3 to 5 lobed leaves at mid stem	Calla palustris	Anemone quinquefolia	Salix discolor


Asparagus	White Baneberry	Wild Oats	Eastern Leatherwood*	Hooked Crowfoot (Blisterwort)
Asparagus officinalis	Actaea pachypoda	Uvularia sessilifolia	Dirca palustris	Ranunculus recurvatus


Large-flowered Bellwort	Marsh Marigold (Cowslip)	Downy Yellow Violet	Yellow Trout Lily (Dogtooth Violet)	Golden Alexanders (Golden Zizia)
Uvularia grandiflora	Caltha palustris	Viola pubescens	Erythronium americanum	Zizia aurea


Kidneyleaf Buttercup Littleleaf Buttercup	Kidneyleaf Buttercup Littleleaf Buttercup	Swamp Buttercup (Bristly Buttercup)	Wood Poppy (Celandine Poppy)	Sweet Fern*
Ranunculus abortivus	Unique basal leaves	Ranunculus hispidus* var. nitidus*	Stylophorum diphyllum	Comptonia peregrina


Garden Currant*	American Black Currant* (Wild Black Currant)	American Hazelnut*	Carrion Flower	Carrion Flower Vine
Ribes rubrum	Ribes americanum	Corylus americana	Smilax herbacea	No prickles, flowers in ball like umbrel from the leaf axils. Stalks very long


Early Meadow Rue	Mountain Maple*	Striped Maple*	Ohio Buckeye*- flower cluster	Ohio Buckeye* - single flower
Thalictrum dioicum	Acer spicatum	Acer pensylvanicum	Aesculus glabra	Aesculus glabra


Fragrant Sumac*	Yellow Sedge (Pennsylvania Sedge)	Yellow Trillium (Yellow Wakerobin)	Eastern Swamp Saxifrage	Jack-in-the-pulpit
Rhus aromatica	Carex pensylvanica	Trillium luteum	Saxifraga pensylvanica	Arisaema triphyllum


Skunk Cabbage -early, before leaf-out	Skunk Cabbage during leaf-out	Common Blue Violet	Common Periwinkle (Running Myrtle)	Jacob's Ladder (Greek Valerian)
Symplocarpus foetidus	Symplocarpus foetidus	Viola sororia	Vinca Minor	Polemonium reptans


Virginia Bluebells	Virginia Waterleaf (Eastern Waterleaf)	Wild Blue Phlox	Blue Squill	Fumewort (Spring Fumewort)
Mertensia virginica	Hydrophyllum virginianum	Phlox divaricata	Scilla siberica	Corydalis solida


Purple Trillium	Red Trillium (Furrowed Wakerobin)	Sweet Betsy	Toadshade	Toadshade & Sweet Betsy
Trillium erectum	Trillium sulcatum	Trillium cuneatum	Trillium sessile	Similar. No leaf stalks T-shade has to 3” leaf & 1.5” flower, Betsy to 6” and 3”


Prairie Trillium	Wild Geranium (Spotted Geranium)	Blue Cohosh	Dame's Rocket (Sweet Rocket)
Trillium recurvatum	Geranium maculatum	Caulophyllum thalictroides	Hesperis matronalis


Minnesota Dwarf Trout Lily	Rue Anemone	Shooting Star (Pride of Ohio)	Wild Ginger (Canadian Wild Ginger)	Wild Oats (Sissileleaf Bellwort)
Erythronium propullans	Thalictrum thalictroides	Dodecatheon meadia	Asarum canadense	Uvularia sessilifolia


Darkthroat Shooting Star	Prairie Smoke (Old Man's Whiskers)	Prairie Smoke (Seed-head stage)	Wild Columbine (Red Columbine)	Climbing Honeysuckle* (Limber Honeysuckle)
Dodecatheon pulchellum ssp. pulchellum	Geum triflorum	Geum triflorum	Aquilegia canadensis	Lonicera dioica

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