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.
Crane-Fly Orchid
The Crane-fly Orchid (Tipularia discolor) is a perennial terrestrial woodland orchid, a member of the Orchidaceae. It is the only species of the genus Tipularia found in North America. This orchid grows a single leaf in September that disappears in the spring. The leaf is green with dark purple spots. The orchid blooms in mid-July to late August. The roots are a ...more ↓
Rose Pogonia
Pogonia ophioglossoides is a species of orchid occurring from central Canada to the east-central and eastern United States. It is the type species of the genus Pogonia. It is also known as the "Snake Mouth Orchid". It is pollinated by bees. This species occurs in wet habitats. In the north, the habitat is typically fens but sometimes also bogs. Further south, along the ...more ↓
Crane-Fly Orchid
The Crane-fly Orchid (Tipularia discolor) is a perennial terrestrial woodland orchid, a member of the Orchidaceae. It is the only species of the genus Tipularia found in North America. This orchid grows a single leaf in September that disappears in the spring. The leaf is green with dark purple spots. The orchid blooms in mid-July to late August. The roots are a ...more ↓
Lady's-slipper
Cypripedium calceolus is a lady's-slipper orchid, and the type species of the genus Cypripedium.
white-fringed orchid
Platanthera blephariglottis, commonly known as the White-fringed Orchid or White-fringed Orchis, is a species of orchid of the genus Platanthera. It is considered to be an endangered species in Connecticut and Ohio, a threatened species in Florida, Maryland and Rhode Island, exploitably vulnerable in New York, and susceptible to be threatened in Québec.
orange fringed orchid
Platanthera ciliaris, commonly known as the yellow fringed orchid yellow-fringed orchid, or orange-fringed orchid, is a large and showy species of orchid. It grows in "acid soil of hillside seepage bogs" in the longleaf pine landscapes of the Gulf Coast. Like many species in these habitats, including flatwoods, it is dependent upon recurring fire to create ...more ↓
southern rein orchid
Platanthera flava is a species of pale-flowered orchid. It has from 10-40 flowers in an inflorescence. In the north of its range, in Canada, this species is particularly associated with shorelines of lakes and rivers, in the seasonally flooded zone. In Nova Scotia, it occurs in wet meadows on seasonally flooded shorelines with rare shoreline species such as Plymouth Gentian. In ...more ↓
yellow fringeless orchid
Platanthera integra (yellow fringeless orchid) is a member of the orchid family with yellow flowers. It is native to the Southeastern United States.
Fall Coral-Root
Corallorhiza odontorhiza, common name Fall coral-root or small-flowered coral-root, is a species of orchid widespread across the eastern half of the United States, and reported also from Mexico, Central America, Quebec and Ontario. In North America, it occurs in forested areas up to an elevation of 2800 m (9300 feet).
Spring Coralroot
Spring coralroot (Corallorhiza wisteriana) — also called Arousing coralroot or Wister's Coralroot — is a species of coralroot orchid.
green adder's-mouth
Malaxis unifolia is a species of orchid occurring from eastern Canada, central and eastern US to Central America and the Caribbean.
Habenaria repens
Habenaria repens, commonly called the Waterspider bog orchid or the Floating orchid, is an orchid species in the genus Habenaria found on marshy shores in Southern United States (AL, AR, FL, GA, LA, MS, NC, OK, SC, TX + Puerto Rico) and in Mexico.
Rose Pogonia
Pogonia ophioglossoides is a species of orchid occurring from central Canada to the east-central and eastern United States. It is the type species of the genus Pogonia. It is also known as the "Snake Mouth Orchid". It is pollinated by bees. This species occurs in wet habitats. In the north, the habitat is typically fens but sometimes also bogs. Further south, along the ...more ↓
Epidendrum magnoliae
Epidendrum magnoliae, synonymous with Epidendrum conopseum is a species of orchid in the genus Epidendrum. It is the most northern-growing Epidendrum in nature, being found wild as far north as North Carolina. The diploid chromosome number of E. magnoliae has been determined as 2n = 40, the haploid chromosome number as n = 20.
Southern twayblade
Neottia bifolia (syn. Listera australis), the southern twayblade, is a species of terrestrial orchid found in eastern North America.
many-flowered grasspink
The Many-flowered Grass-pink, Calopogon multiflorus, is a species of orchid. It is a perennial forb that requires recurring ground fires to maintain its habitat. It falls under the genus Calopogon, meaning "beautiful beard" in Greek, referring to the stamen-like bristles or beard on the lip.
tuberous grasspink
Calopogon tuberosus, the tuberous grasspink, is an orchid native to eastern North America. In the United States it occurs from as far southwest as Texas and Oklahoma and southeast to the Florida Everglades to as far northeast as Maine and as far northwest as Minnesota. In Canada it is found in the provinces of Nova Scotia, Ontario and Quebec. It also is found in Cuba and ...more ↓
Crowpoison
Nothoscordum bivalve is a species of flowering plant in the Amaryllidaceae known by the common names crowpoison and false garlic. It is native to North America, where it can be found in the southcentral and southeastern United States.
Nemastylis
Nemastylis is a genus of seven species of flowering plants in the iris family distributed in North America. The genus name is derived from the Greek words nema, meaning "thread", and stylos, meaning "pillar" or "rod".
Nemastylis geminiflora
Nemastylis geminiflora is a perennial herb also known as the Prairie Celestial and Prairie Pleatleaf. It is found on the black soil prairies in Texas. It has an inflorescence on stems 8-11 centimeters long, arising from a subterranean stem and bulb that is 2-3 cm in diameter.
giant blue iris
Iris giganticaerulea (giant blue iris or giant blue flag) is a species of iris native to Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi in the United States.
Yellow Flag
Iris pseudacorus (yellow flag, yellow iris, water flag) is a species in the genus Iris, of the family Iridaceae. It is native to Europe, western Asia and northwest Africa. Its specific epithet, meaning "false acorus," refers to the similarity of its leaves to those of Acorus calamus, as they have a prominently veined mid-rib and sword-like shape.
Aloe Yucca
Yucca aloifolia L. is the type species for the genus Yucca. Common names include "Spanish bayonet," "dagger plant," etc. It grows in sandy soils, especially on sand dunes along the coast from North Carolina to Mexico, and on islands in the Caribbean. It can sometimes be found inland in sandy pine forests. It is also naturalized elsewhere.
Adam's needle
Yucca filamentosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceaenative to the southeastern United States as far west as Louisiana and as far north as Virginia. Its common names include Adam's needle, common yucca, Spanish bayonet,bear-grass, needle-palm, silk-grass, and spoon-leaf yucca.
Yucca louisianensis
Yucca arkansana is a plant in the family Asparagaceae, native to Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas. It generally grows in gravelly, sunlit locations such as rocky outcrops, prairies, etc.
Atlantic camas
Camassia scilloides is a perennial herb known commonly as Atlantic camas, wild hyacinth, and eastern camas. It is native to the eastern half of North America, including Ontario and the eastern United States.
Zephyranthes atamasco
Zephyranthes atamasco, commonly known as the Atamasco Lily or more generally a Rain Lily, is native to the southeastern United States. It grows in swampy forests and coastal prairies, preferring acid boggy soils rich with leaf mold. Following the appearance of broad, grassy leaves in early winter, they bloom in March or April. It has several narrow, linear basal ...more ↓
Zephyranthes candida
Zephyranthes candida, commonly known as the white rain lily, is a species of rain lily native to the Rio de la Plata region of South America including Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Chile.
Spring Spiderlily
Hymenocallis liriosme (Raf.) Shinners is a bulb-forming herb native to Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi and Alabama. It grows in ditches and along the edges of marshes,swamps and ponds. Common names include "Texas spider-lily," "Western marsh spider-lily" and "Louisiana marsh spider-lily." It is distinguished by a prominent yellow-green eye in the center of the ...more ↓
azucena de agua
Hymenocallis littoralis or the Beach Spider Lily is a plant species of the genus Hymenocallis, with large white flowers.
yellow star grass
Hypoxis hirsuta (common goldstar, common star-grass, eastern yellow stargrass, yellow star grass) is an ornamental plant native to the United States and Canada in the Hypoxidaceae family. Sometimes this plant is placed in the Amaryllidaceae family or the Liliaceae family.
