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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.

round-headed bush clover 1
Lespedeza capitata
Groundnut 2
Apios americana
Hairypod Cowpea 3
Vigna luteola
Butterfly Pea 4
Centrosema virginianum
Yellow Puff
Neptunia lutea
Illinois bundleflower
Desmanthus illinoensis
Sandy Land Bluebonnet
Lupinus subcarnosus
Texas Bluebonnet
Lupinus texensis
Lupinus villosus
Powder Puff 5
Mimosa strigillosa
Mimosa quadrivalvis floridana
Sweet Acacia
Acacia farnesiana
Eastern Redbud 6
Cercis canadensis
Soxman's milkvetch
Astragalus soxmaniorum
Japanese Wisteria 7
Wisteria floribunda
American wisteria 8
Wisteria frutescens
Baptisia nuttalliana
Baptisia sphaerocarpa
Rabbitfoot Clover 9
Trifolium arvense
alsike clover 10
Trifolium hybridum
crimson clover 11
Trifolium incarnatum
Red Clover 12
Trifolium pratense
Trifolium reflexum 13
White Clover 14
Trifolium repens
reversed clover 15
Trifolium resupinatum
purple vetch 16
Vicia benghalensis
Narrow-leaved Vetch 14
Vicia sativa nigra
Spotted Medick 17
Medicago arabica
Partridge pea 18
Chamaecrista fasciculata
Black Locust 19
Robinia pseudoacacia
sweet clover 20
Melilotus indicus
Desert False Indigo 21
Amorpha fruticosa
kudzu vine 22
Pueraria lobata
Mexican Palo Verde 23
Parkinsonia aculeata
Rhynchosia latifolia
Least Snoutbean
Rhynchosia minima
Rattlebush 24
Sesbania drummondii
goat's rue 25
Tephrosia virginiana
Stylosanthes biflora
Cherokee bean 26
Erythrina herbacea
Shrubby Indigo 27
Indigofera suffruticosa

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