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A guide to the flora that grows all around Great Falls Park

A flower guide in case you ever visit Great Falls Park

Japanese honeysuckle 1
Lonicera japonica
dwarf plantain 2
Plantago virginica
bulbous buttercup 3
Ranunculus bulbosus
multiflora rose 4
Rosa multiflora
bottlebrush grass 5
Elymus hystrix
blue phlox 6
Phlox divaricata
violet woodsorrel 7
Oxalis violacea
Hooked buttercup 8
Ranunculus recurvatus
flowering spurge 9
Euphorbia corollata
Pigeonwings 10
Clitoria mariana
Broad-leaf Waterleaf 11
Hydrophyllum canadense
Amur honeysuckle 12
Lonicera maackii
spotted wintergreen 13
Chimaphila maculata
Japanese Hops 14
Humulus japonicus
common blue violet 15
Viola sororia
trailing arbutus 16
Epigaea repens
strawberry bush 17
Euonymus americanus
golden Alexander 18
Zizia aurea
American persimmon 19
Diospyros virginiana
partridgeberry 20
Mitchella repens
woodland sunflower 21
Helianthus divaricatus
wineberry 22
Rubus phoenicolasius
Green Dragon 23
Arisaema dracontium
American black elderberry 24
Sambucus canadensis
inland sea oats 25
Chasmanthium latifolium
obedient plant 26
Physostegia virginiana
white avens 4
Geum canadense
American hog-peanut 27
Amphicarpaea bracteata
golden ragwort 28
Packera aurea
toadshade 29
Trillium sessile
Japanese stiltgrass 30
Microstegium vimineum
harbinger of spring 10
Erigenia bulbosa
Virginia spring beauty 31
Claytonia virginica
wingstem 32
Verbesina alternifolia
rue anemone 20
Thalictrum thalictroides
white snakeroot 33
Ageratina altissima
blue mistflower 34
Conoclinium coelestinum
beefsteak plant 35
Perilla frutescens
post oak 36
Quercus stellata
wild potato vine 37
Ipomoea pandurata
princess tree 38
Paulownia tomentosa
great blue lobelia 39
Lobelia siphilitica
plantain-leaved pussytoes 40
Antennaria plantaginifolia
willow oak 41
Quercus phellos
bluestem goldenrod 4
Solidago caesia
crane-fly orchid 42
Tipularia discolor
Little Sweet Betsy 43
Trillium cuneatum
Carolina laurelcherry 44
Prunus caroliniana
small-flowered buttercup 45
Ranunculus abortivus
Japanese mazus 46
Mazus pumilus
wild garlic 47
Allium canadense
star chickweed 48
Stellaria pubera
cream violet 49
Viola striata
clustered black snakeroot 50
Sanicula odorata
American alumroot 51
Heuchera americana
woodland stonecrop 52
Sedum ternatum
White Wood Aster 53
Eurybia divaricata
Carolina ruellia 54
Ruellia caroliniensis
chestnut oak 42
Quercus montana
Wild Pink 54
Silene caroliniana
coralberry 41
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
starry campion 43
Silene stellata
honewort 4
Cryptotaenia canadensis
Carolina rose 55
Rosa carolina
Green-and-gold 52
Chrysogonum virginianum
wild yam 56
Dioscorea villosa
smooth blue aster 18
Symphyotrichum laeve
Blackhaw 57
Viburnum prunifolium
hairy sweet cicely 21
Osmorhiza claytonii
aniseroot 58
Osmorhiza longistylis
late purple aster 59
Symphyotrichum patens
moonseed 33
Menispermum canadense
Virginia spiderwort 60
Tradescantia virginiana
deertongue 61
Dichanthelium clandestinum
mile-a-minute weed 62
Persicaria perfoliata
White Morning-glory 63
Ipomoea lacunosa
Climbing Milkvine 64
Matelea obliqua
low smartweed 65
Persicaria longiseta
American jumpseed 66
Persicaria virginiana
silverrod 67
Solidago bicolor
eastern woodland sedge 68
Carex blanda
Manyflower Flatsedge 69
Cyperus lancastriensis
Chinese bushclover 27
Lespedeza cuneata
heath wood-rush 70
Luzula multiflora
bigleaf magnolia 71
Magnolia macrophylla
perfoliate bellwort 20
Uvularia perfoliata
arrowleaf violet 72
Viola sagittata
Swamp Saxifrage 73
Micranthes pensylvanica
Virginia saxifrage 10
Micranthes virginiensis
Porcelain Berry 74
Ampelopsis glandulosa
broadleaf enchanter's nightshade 75
Circaea canadensis
lesser celandine 76
Ficaria verna
mock strawberry 77
Potentilla indica
wavyleaf basketgrass 78
Oplismenus undulatifolius
round-lobed hepatica 54
Hepatica americana
wood anemone
Anemonoides quinquefolia

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