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Wild Flowers Worth Knowing

GENERAL INDEX OF NAMES

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Aaron’s rod

Achillea Millefolium

Actaea alba

Adder’s tongue

Agrostemma Githago

Agueweed

Alismaceae

Alleluia

Alsine media

Althaea officinalis

Alum-root

Amaryllidaceae

Amaryllis family

American brooklime

American cowslip

American laurel

American rhododendron

American senna

American white hellebore

Amphicarpa monoica

Anagallis arvensis

Anaphalis margarilacea

Anemone, Star

Anemone, Wood

Anemonella thalictroides

Angel’s hair

Anthemis Cotula

Apios

Apocynaceae

Apocynum androsaemifolium

Apple, May or Hog

Apple, Thorn

Aquilegia canadensis

Araceae

Aralia

Araliaceae

Arbutus, Trailing

Arethusa

Arisaema triphyllum

Arrow-head, Broad-leaved

Arum family

Asclepiadaceae

Asclepias

Asters, Blue and Purple

Aster, Golden

Asters, White

Azalea, Clammy

Azalea, Pink, Purple, or Wild

Azalea, White

Balm, Bee or Fragrant

Balmony

Balsam, Wild

Balsaminaceae

Baneberry, White

Bank thistle

Baptisia tinctoria

Barberry

Barberry family

Bay

Beard-tongue, Hairy

Bee balm

Beech-drops

Beech-drops, False

Beefsteak plant

Belamcanda chinensis

Bell-bind

Bellflower, Clasping

Bell thistle

Berberidaceae

Berberis vulgaris

Bergamot, Wild

Berry, Scarlet or Snake

Betony, Paul’s

Betony, Wood

Bindweed, Blue

Bindweed, Hedge or Great

Bird’s-foot violet

Bird’s-nest

Bird’s-nest, Yellow

Birth-root

Bishop’s cap

Bitter-bloom

Bitter-buttons

Bitter-root

Bittersweet

Bitterweed

Blackberry, Highbush

Blackberry lily

Black-eyed Susan

Blind gentian

Blister-flower

Bloodroot

Blowball

Blue bells of Scotland

Blue Curls

Blue-devil

Blue-eyed grass, Pointed

Blue Mountain tea

Blue-sailors

Blue star

Blue-stemmed golden-rod

Blue-thistle

Blue-weed

Bluebell family

Bluets

Bokhara clover

Boneset

Boneset, Tall or Purple

Borage family

Boraginaceae

Bottle gentian

Bouncing Bet

Boxberry

Bramble

Branching aster

Brassica

Brideweed

Broad-leaved golden-rod

Broad-leaved aster

Broad-leaved kalmia

Brooklime, American

Broom, Yellow or Indigo

Broom-rape family

Bruisewort

Brunella

Buckthorn family

Buckwheat family

Bugbane, Tall

Bulbous buttercup

Bull thistle

Bunchberry

Bunk

Burnet rose

Burr thistle

Butter-and-eggs

Buttercups

Butter-flower

Butterfly-weed

Button-ball shrub

Button-bush

Button thistle

Calf-kill

Calico bush

Calmoun

Calopogon

Caltha palustris

Camomile, Dog’s or Foetid

Campanula rotundifolia

Campanulaceae

Campion, Corn or Red

Campion, Starry

Canada golden-rod

Canada lily

Canadian rockrose

Canker-root

Capsella Bursa-pastoris

Cardinal flower

Cardinal flower, Blue

Carduus

Carpenter weed

Carrion-flower

Carrot, Wild

Caryophyllaceae

Cassia marylandica

Castalia odorata

Castilleja coccinea

Catchfly

Ceanothus americanus

Celandine, Greater

Centaury, Rosy

Cephalanthus occidentalis

Chamaenerion angustifolium

Charlock

Checker-berry

Chelidonium majus

Chelone glabra

Cherokee rose

Chickweed, Common

Chickweed, Red

Chickweed wintergreen

Chicory

Chimaphila

Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum

Chrysopsis

Cichorium Intybus

Cimicifuga racemosa

Cinquefoil, Common

Cirsium

Cistaceae

Clammy Azalea

Clasping bell-flower

Claytonia

Clematis, Virginia

Clintonia

Closed gentian

Clover, Common red, Purple, Meadow or Honeysuckle

Clover, White or Dutch

Clover, White sweet, Bokhara, or Tree

Cocash

Cockle, Corn

Cod-head

Cohosh

Cohosh, Black

Columbine, Wild

Commelina virginica

Commelinaceae

Compositae

Composite family

Cone-flower, Purple

Convolvulaceae

Convolvulus family

Coolwort

Coptis trifolia

Corn campion

Corn cockle, rose or campion

Corn mustard

Corn, Squirrel

Cornaceae

Cornel, Low or Dwarf

Cornel, Silky

Cornus

Corpse-plant

Cottonweed

Cow lily

Cow vetch

Cowslip, American

Crane’s-bill

Crataegus coccinea

Creeping wintergreen

Crosswort

Crowfoot family

Crowfoot, Tall

Crown-of-the-field

Cruciferae

Cuckoo flower

Culver’s root or physic

Curls, Blue

Cuscuta gronovii

Cypripedium acaule

Cypripedium pubescens or hirsutum

Daisy, Blue spring

Daisy, Common

Daisy fleabane

Daisy-leaved fleabane

Daisy, Michaelmas

Daisy, Ox-eye

Daisy, Pig-sty

Daisy, Purple

Daisy, White or Ox-eye

Daisy, Yellow or Ox-eye

Dandelion, Common

Dasystoma flava

Daucus carota

Day-flower

Deer berry

Dense-flowered aster

Devil’s paint-brush

Devil’s trumpet

Dew-plant

Dicentra canadensis

Dicentra Cucuilaria

Dillweed

Dock, Mullein

Dodder, Gronovius’ or Common

Dodecathon Meadia

Dog-fennel

Dog-tooth “violet”

Dogbane family

Dogbane, Spreading or Fly-trap

Dog’s Camomile

Dogwood family

Dogwood, Flowering

Dogwood, Swamp

Downy false foxglove

Downy yellow violet

Dragon’s blood

Droseraceae

Dutch clover

Dutchman’s breeches

Dwarf cornel

Dwarf wake-robin

Dyer’s weed

Ear-drops

Early hawkweed

Early purple aster

Early saxifrage

Eggs-and-bacon

Elecampane

English violet

Epifagus virginiana

Epigaea repens

Epilobium angustifolium

Ericaceae

Erigeron

Erythronium americanum

Eupatorium

Evening primrose

Evening primrose family

Everlasting, Pearly or Large-flowered

Eye-bright

Falcata comosa

False beech-drops

False foxglove, Downy

False miterwort

False sarsaparilla

False Solomon’s seal

Farewell summer

Felonwort

Field golden-rod

Field lily

Field milkwort

Field mustard or kale

Field parsnip

Figwort family

Fire-weed

Five-finger

Flag, Larger blue

Flame lily

Flannel plant

Flat top

Flaxweed

Fleabane, Daisy

Fleabane, Daisy-leaved

Fleabane, Salt-marsh

Fleur-de-lis

Flower-de-luce

Flowering dogwood

Flowering wintergreen

Fluellin

Fly-trap dogbane

Foam-flower

Foetid camomile

Forget-me-not

Four-leaved loosestrife

Foxglove, Downy false

Fragrant balm

Fragrant thistle

Fringed gentian

Fringed milkwort

Frost-flower or Frost-wort

Frost-weed

Frost-weed, Hoary

Frost-weed, Long-branched

Fuller’s herb

Fumariaceae

Fumitory family

Garget

Gaultheria procumbens

Gay orchis

Gay wings

Gentian, Closed, Blind, or Bottle

Gentian family

Gentian, Fringed

Gentiana

Gentianaceae

Geraniaceae

Geranium family

Geranium Robertianum

Geranium, Wild or Spotted

Gerardia

Gerardia, Large purple

Ghost-flower

Giant St. John’s-wort

Giant sunflower

Ginseng family

Globe-flower

Gold-thread

Goldcups

Golden Jerusalem

Golden mouse-ear hawkweed

Golden-rods

Grass of Parnassus

Grass pink

Gravel-root

Great bindweed

Great laurel

Great lobelia

Great mullein

Great rhododendron

Great St. John’s-wort

Great willow-herb

Greater celandine

Gronovius’ dodder

Ground laurel

Ground-nut

Ground pink

Groundhele

Gulf orchis

Habenaria blephariglottisHabenaria ciliaris

Habenaria fimbriata or grandiflora

Habenaria flava

Hairbell

Hairy beard-tongue

Hairy golden aster

Hamamelidaceae

Hardhack

Harebell

Haw, Red

Hawkweed, Early or Vein leaf

Hawkweed, Golden mouse-ear

Hawkweed, Orange or Tawny

Hawthorn

Heal-all

Heal-all, High

Heart-leaved aster

Heart-of-the-earth

Hearts, White

Heath aster, White

Heath family

Hedge bindweed

Hedge mustard

Hedge pink

Helenium autumnale

Helianthemum

Helianthus giganteus

Hellebore

Helmet-flower

Hepatica

Herb Robert

Hibiscus Moscheutos

Hieracium

Highbush blackberry

High heal-all

Hoary frost-weed

Hog apple

Hog peanut

Honey-balls

Honey-bloom

Honey lotus

Honeysuckle clover

Honeysuckle, Swamp

Honeysuckle, Wild

Hooded blue violet

Hoodwort

Horse thistle

Horse-weed

Horsefly-weed

Horseheal

Houstonia

Huntsman’s cup

Hypericaceae

Hypericum

Hypoxis hirsuta or erecta

Hyssop, Wild

Ice-plant

Ill-scented wake-robin

Immortelle

Impatiens aurea or pallida

Impatiens biflora or fulva

Indian dipper

Indian paint

Indian paint-brush

Indian pink

Indian pipe

Indian poke

Indian root

Indian sage

Indian turnip

Indian’s plume

Indigo broom

Indigo, Wild

Ink-berry

Innocence

Inula Helenium

Iridaceae

Iris, Blue

Iris family

Iris versicolor

Iron-weed

Itch-weed

Jack-in-the-pulpit

Jamestown weed

Jewel-weed

Jimson weed

Joe-Pye weed

Jointweed, Pink

Kalmia

Kalmia, Broad-leaved

Kidney liver-leaf

Kidney-root

Kingcup

Kinnikinnick

Knotweed, Pink

Labiatae

Lactuca canadensis

Lady’s eardrops

Lady’s nightcap

Lady’s slippers

Lady’s thimble

Lady’s tresses or traces, Nodding

Lamb-kill

Lance-leaved violet

Large aster

Larger blue flag

Large-flowered everlasting

Large-flowered wake-robin

Large purple gerardia

Large yellow lady’s slipper

Large yellow pond or water lily

Late purple aster

Laurel, Great

Laurel, Ground

Laurel, Mountain or American

Laurel, Narrow-leaved

Legouzia perfoliata

Leguminosae

Lemon, Wild

Leonurus Cardiaca

Leptandra virginica

Lettuce, Tall or Wild

Liliaceae

Lilium canadense

Lilium philadelphicum

Lilium superbum

Lily, Cow

Lily family

Lily, Large yellow pond or water

Lily, Pond

Lily, Sweet-scented white water

Limodorum tuberosum

Linaria

Lion’s Tooth

Liver-leaf

Liverwort

Lobelia family

Lobelia, Great

Lobelia, Red

Lobeliaceae

Long-branched frost-weed

Loosestrife, Four-leaved or Whorled

Lotus, Honey

Lousewort

Love-me, love-me-not

Love me

Love vine

Low cornel

Low purple aster

Lupine, Wild

Lupinus perennis

Lysimachia quadrifolia

Mad-dog skullcap

Madder family

Madnep

Madweed

Mallow family

Mallow, Marsh

Mallow rose

Malvaceae

Mandrake

March violet

Marguerite

Marigold, Marsh

Marsh buttercup

Marsh mallow

Marsh marigold

Marsh pink

Maruta Cotula

May apple

May weed

Mayflower

Meadow buttercup, Common

Meadow clover

Meadow-gowan

Meadow lily

Meadow rose

Meadow-rues

Meadow scabish

Meadow-sweet

Meadow violet

Melilot, White

Melilotus alba

Michaelmas daisy

Milfoil

Milkweed, Common

Milkweed family

Milkweed, Orange

Milkweed, Purple

Milkwort, Common, Field, or Purple

Milkwort family

Milkwort, Fringed

Mimulus ringens

Mint family

Mitchella vine

Miterwort

Miterwort, False

Mitella diphylla

Moccasin flowers

Monarda

Monkey-flower

Monotropa Hypopitis

Monotropa uniflora

Moonshine

Morning-glory, Wild

Moss pink

Moth mullein

Mother’s heart

Motherwort

Mountain laurel

Mountain mint

Mountain tea

Mouse-ear

Mouse-ear hawkweed, Golden

Mullein dock

Mullein, Great

Mullein, Moth

Mustard family

Mustards

Myosotis scorpioides or palustris

Nancy-over-the-ground

Narrow-leaved laurel

New England aster

New Jersey tea

Nigger-head

Night willow-herb

Nightshade

Nightshade family

Noble liverwort

Nodding ladies’ tresses or traces

Nodding wake-robin

None-so-pretty

Nosebleed

Nuphar advena

Nymphaea advena

Nymphaea odorata

Nymphaeaceae

Oenothera biennis

Old maid’s bonnets

Old maid’s pink

Old man’s beard

Old man’s pepper

Onagraceae

Opium, Wild

Orange-root

Orchidaceae

Orchis family

Orchis, Gulf, Tubercled, or Small pale green

Orchis, Large or Early purple-fringed

Orchis spectabilis

Orchis, White-fringed

Orchis, Yellow-fringed

Orobanchaceae

Oswego tea

Ox-eye daisy

Oxalidaceae

Oxalis acetosella

Oxalis violacea

Paint-brush, Devil’s

Paint-brush, Indian

Paint, Indian

Painted cup, Scarlet

Painted trillium

Pale touch-me-not

Papaveraceae

Pardanthus chinensis

Parnassia

Parnassus, Grass of

Partridge-berry

Partridge vine

Parsley family

Parsnip, Wild or Field

Pastinaca sativa

Pasture thistle

Paul’s betony

Pea, Wild

Peanut, Wild or Hog

Pearly everlasting

Peasant’s clock

Pedicularis canadensis

Pentstemon hirsutus or pubescens

Pepperidge-bush

Persicaria, Common

Philadelphia lily

Phlox subulata

Physic, Culver’s

Phytolaccaceae

Pickerel-weed

Pig-sty daisy

Pigeon-berry

Pimpernel, Scarlet

Pine, Prince’s

Pine sap

Pink family

Pink, Grass

Pink, Ground or Moss

Pink, Hedge or Old maid’s

Pink, Indian

Pink, Sea or Marsh

Pink, Swamp

Pink, Wild

Pinxter flower

Pipe, Indian

Pipsissewa

Pipsissewa, Spotted

Pitcher-plant

Pitcher-plant family

Plantain, Snake or Poor Robin’s

Pleurisy-root

Plume golden-rod

Plume thistle

Plumed thistle

Podophyllum peltatum

Pointed blue-eyed grass

Poison-flower

Pokeweed family

Polemoniaceae

Polemonium family

Polygala, Fringed

Polygala, Purple

Polygala sanguinea or viridescens

Polygalaceae

Polygonaceae

Polygonatum biflorum

Polygonum pennsylvanicum

Pond lily

Pontederia cordata

Poor man’s weatherglass

Poor Robin’s plantain

Poppy family

Portulacaceae

Potentilla canadensis

Pride of Ohio

Primrose, Evening

Primrose family

Primrose-leaved violet

Primulaceae

Prince’s pine

Prunella vulgaris

Puccoon, Red

Pulse family

Purple-flowering raspberry

Purple-fringed orchis, Large or Early

Purple-stemmed aster

Purslane family

Quaker bonnets

Quaker ladies

Quaker lady

Queen Anne’s lace

Queen-of-the-meadow

Ranunculaceae

Ranunculus acris

Raspberry, Purple-flowering or Virginia

Rattlesnake-weed

Red-root

Red-stalked aster

Rhamnaceae

Rhododendron, American or Great

Rhododendron maximum

Rhododendron nudiflorum

Rhododendron viscosum

River-bush

Roadside thistle

Robert, Herb

Robert’s plantain

Robin, Red

Robin’s plantain

Rockrose, Canadian

Rockrose family

Root, Indian

Rosa

Rosaceae

Rose, Burnet

Rose, Corn

Rose family

Rose, Mallow

Rose mallow, Swamp

Rose of Plymouth

Rose-pink

Rose-tree

Rose, Wild

Rosemary, White

Rosy centaury

Round-leaved sundew

Round-lobed liver-leaf

Rubiaceae

Rubus odoratus

Rubus villosus

Rudbeckia hirta

Rue anemone

Rutland beauty

Sabbatia

Sabbatia, Square-stemmed

Sagittaria latifolia

Sagittaria variabilis

Sailors, Blue

St. John’s-wort family

St. John’s-worts

Salt-marsh fleabane

Sanguinaria canadensis

Saponaria officinalis

Sarracenaceae

Sarsaparilla, Wild or False

Saxifragaceae

Saxifrage family

Scabious, Sweet

Scabish, Meadow

Scoke

Scorpion grass

Scrophularaceae

Scutellaria laterifolia

Sea pink

Seaside purple aster

Self-heal

Senna, Wild or American

Sessile-flowered wake-robin

Shanks, Red

Sharp-toothed golden-rod

Sheep-laurel

Sheep-poison

Shellflower

Shepherd’s purse

Shepherd’s weatherglass or clock

Shooting star

Showy orchis

Showy purple aster

Shrubby St. John’s-wort

Side-saddle flower

Silene pennsylvanica or caroliniana

Silene stellata

Silkweed

Silky cornel

Silver cap

Silver leaf

Simpler’s joy

Sisymbrium officinale

Sisyrinchium angustifolium

Skullcap, Mad-dog

Skunk cabbage

Small pale green orchis

Smartweed

Smilacina racemosa

Smilax herbacea

Smooth aster

Smooth yellow violet

Smoother rose

Snake berry

Snake-flower

Snake grass

Snake-head

Snake plantain

Snakeroot, Black

Snap weed

Sneezeweed

Snowball, Wild

Soapwort

Solanaceae

Soldier’s cap

Solidago

Solomon’s seal

Solomon’s seal, False

Solomon’s zig-zag

Spatterdock

Spear thistle

Specularia perfoliata

Speedwell, Common

Spice berry

Spiderwort family

Spignet

Spiked willow-herb

Spikenard

Spikenard, Wild

Spiraea salicifolia

Spiraea tomentosa

Spiranthes cernua

Spoonwood

Spotted geranium

Spotted touch-me-not

Spotted wintergreen or pipsissewa

Spreading dogbane

Spring beauty

Spring daisy, Blue

Spring orchis

Square-stemmed sabbatia

Squaw-berry

Squirrel corn

Squirrel cup

Star anemone

Star, Blue

Star-flower

Star-grass, Yellow

Star, Shooting

Starry aster

Starry campion

Starwort

Starwort, Yellow

Starworts

Starworts, Blue and Purple

Steeple bush

Stellaria media

Stemless lady’s slipper

Stramonium

Strangle-weed

Succory

Sundew family

Sundial

Sunflower, Swamp

Sunflower, Tall or Giant

Swallow-wort

Swamp buttercup

Swamp cabbage

Swamp dogwood

Swamp pink or honeysuckle

Swamp rose

Swamp rose-mallow

Swamp sunflower

Swanweed

Sweet clover, White

Sweet golden-rod

Sweet scabious

Sweet-scented white water-lily

Sweet violet

Sweet white violet

Sweetbrier

Symplocarpus foetidus

Syndesmon thalictroides

Tall boneset

Tall bugbane

Tall crowfoot

Tall hairy golden-rod

Tall lettuce

Tall meadow-rue

Tall sunflower

Tanacetum vulgare

Tank

Tansy

Tare, Blue, Tufted, or Cow

Tawny hawkweed

Tea, Mountain or Ground

Tea, Oswego

Thalictrum

Thistle, Burr, Spear, Plume, Bank, Common, Horse, Bull, Blue, Button, Bell, or Roadside

Thistle, Common or Plumed

Thistle, Pasture or Fragrant

Thorn apple

Thorn, White or Scarlet fruited

Thoroughwort, Common

Thoroughwort, Purple

Tiarella cordifolia

Tinegrass

Toadflax, Blue or Wild

Toadflax, Yellow

Touch-me-not family

Trailing arbutus

Traveller’s joy

Tree clover

Trientalis americana

Trifolium pratense

Trifolium repens

Trilliums

Trout lily

True wood-sorrel

Trumpet-leaf

Trumpet weed

Tubercled orchis

Tufted buttercup

Tufted vetch

Turban lily

Turk’s cap

Turtle-head

Twin-berry

Umbelliferae

Vein-leaf hawkweed

Velvet plant

Venus’ lady’s slipper

Venus’ looking-glass

Venus’ pride

Veratrum viride

Verbascum

Verbenaceae

Vernonia noveboracensis

Veronica

Vervain, Blue

Vervain family

Vetch, Blue, Tufted, or Cow

Vicia Cracea

Viola

Violaceae

Violet, Bird’s-foot

Violet, Common purole, Meadow, or Hooded blue

“Violet,” Dog-tooth

Violet, Downy yellow

Violet, English, March or Sweet

Violet family

Violet, Lance-leaved

Violet, Primrose-leaved

Violet, Smooth yellow

Violet, Sweet white

Violet wood-sorrel

Viper’s bugloss

Viper’s herb or grass

Virginia clematis

Virginia day-flower

Virginia raspberry

Virgin’s bower

Wake-robin

Water cabbage

Water-lily family

Water nymph

Water-plantain family

Weatherglass, Poor Man’s or Shepherd’s

Whippoorwill’s shoe

White-fringed orchis

White-weed

White-wreathed aster

Whorled loosestrife

Wicky

Wild azalea

Wild balsam

Wild bergamot

Wild carrot

Wild columbine

Wild geranium

Wild honeysuckle

Wild hyssop

Wild indigo

Wild lady’s slipper

Wild lemon

Wild lettuce

Wild lupine

Wild morning-glory

Wild opium

Wild parsnip

Wild pea

Wild peanut

Wild pink

Wild rose

Wild sarsaparilla

Wild senna

Wild snowball

Wild toadflax

Wild yellow lily

Willow-herb, Creator Spiked

Willow-herb, Night

Wind-flower

Wintergreen, Chickweed

Wintergreen, Creeping

Wintergreen, Flowering

Wintergreen, Spotted

Witch-hazel family

Wood anemone

Wood aster

Wood aster, White

Wood betony

Wood lily

Wood lily, White

Woodland golden-rod

Wood-sorrel family

Wood-sorrel, Violet

Wood-sorrel, White or True

Woody nightshade

Wreath golden-rod

Wrinkle-leaved golden-rod

Yarrow

Yellow-fringed orchis

Yellow-top

Yellow-weed

Zig-zag golden-rod

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