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BREC's Wildflower Park Guide

Ever wonder what the name of that beautiful flower on the trail is? Use this guide to help you decipher the blues from the purples and yellows from the golds. Spring and early Fall are the best seasons to go wildflowers exploring in BREC's Conservation Areas.

Spring Spiderlily 1
Hymenocallis liriosme
azucena de agua
Hymenocallis littoralis
Hymenocallis occidentalis
Evening Rainlilly
Cooperia drummondii
Crinum americanum americanum
swamp star grass
Hypoxis curtissii
yellow star grass 2
Hypoxis hirsuta
savanna star grass
Hypoxis rigida
glossy-seeded star grass
Hypoxis sessilis
bristleseed star grass 3
Hypoxis wrightii
Carolina lily 4
Lilium michauxii
Lilium catesbaei catesbaei
Trillium foetidissimum 5
Trillium gracile
Trillium ludovicianum
toadshade 6
Trillium sessile
Ozark trillium 7
Trillium viridescens
Sandbog Death Camas 8
Zigadenus glaberrimus
Zigadenus leimanthoides
Stenanthium gramineum
Greenbriars 9
Smilax
Saw Greenbrier
Smilax bona-nox
laurel-leaf greenbrier 10
Smilax laurifolia
Coral Greenbrier 10
Smilax walteri
Perfoliate Bellwort 2
Uvularia perfoliata
Grass-leaved Arrowhead 11
Sagittaria graminea
Sagittaria graminea graminea
lirio 12
Sagittaria lancifolia
Bull Tongue Arrowhead 13
Sagittaria lancifolia media
Duck-potato 2
Sagittaria latifolia
Elephant Ears 14
Colocasia
Aquequexquic
Xanthosoma robustum
Dragon Arum 15
Arisaema dracontium
Jack-in-the-pulpit 16
Arisaema triphyllum
Golden Club 17
Orontium aquaticum
Peltandra sagittifolia
Green Arrow Arum 18
Peltandra virginica
Water Lettuce 19
Pistia stratiotes
duck-lettuce
Ottelia alismoides
False Asphodel 20
Tofieldia calyculata
Golden Canna 21
Canna flaccida
Dwarf Palmetto
Sabal minor
Murdannia nudiflora 22
spiderwort 23
Tradescantia virginiana
Widow's Tears 24
Commelina erecta
pickerelweed 25
Pontederia cordata
Common Water Hyacinth 26
Eichhornia crassipes
Carolina redroot
Lachnanthes caroliana
Aletris aurea
Aletris lutea

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