Different Kinds of Flowers
Identify flowers common names.
WATER-PLANTAIN FAMILY (Alismaceae)
Broad-leaved Arrow-head
ARUM FAMILY (Araceae)
Jack-in-the-Pulpit;
Skunk Cabbage
SPIDERWORT FAMILY (Commelinaceae)
Virginia or Common Day-flower
PICKEREL-WEED FAMILY (Pontederiaceae)
Pickerel Weed
LILY FAMILY (Liliaceae)
American White Hellebore;
Wild Yellow, Meadow,
Field or Canada Lily;
Red, Wood, Flame or Philadelphia Lily;
Yellow Adder's Tongue or Dog-tooth "Violet";
Yellow Clintonia;
Wild Spikenard or False Solomon's Seal;
Hairy, True or Twin-flowered Solomon's Seal;
Early or Dwarf Wake-Robin;
Purple Trillium;
Ill-scented Wake-Robin or Birth-root;
Carrion flower
AMARYLLIS FAMILY (Amaryllidaceae)
Yellow Star-grass
IRIS FAMILY (Iridaceae)
Larger Blue Flag, Blue Iris or Fleur-de-lis;
Blackberry Lily;
Pointed Blue-eyed Grass, Eye-bright or Blue Star
ORCHIS FAMILY (Orchidaceae)
Large Yellow Lady's Slipper, Whippoorwill's Shoe or Yellow Moccasin
Flower;
Moccasin Flower or Pink, Venus' or Stemless Lady's Slipper;
Showy, Gay or Spring Orchis;
Large, Early or Purple-fringed Orchis;
White-fringed Orchis;
Yellow-fringed Orchis;
Calopagon or Grass Pink;
Arethusa or Indian Pink;
Nodding Ladies' Tresses
BUCKWHEAT FAMILY (Polygonaceae)
Common Persicaria, Pink Knotweed or Jointweed or Smartweed
POKEWEED FAMILY (Phytolaccaceae)
Pokeweed, Scoke, Pigeon-berry, Ink-berry or Garget
PINK FAMILY (Caryophyllaceae)
Common Chickweed;
Corn Cockle, Corn Rose, Corn or Red Campion, or Crown-of-the-Field;
Starry Campion;
Wild Pink or Catchfly;
Soapwort, Bouncing Bet or Old Maid's Pink
PURSLANE FAMILY (Portulacaceae)
Spring Beauty or Claytonia
WATER-LILY FAMILY (Nymphaeaceae)
Large Yellow Pond or Water Lily, Cow Lily or Spatterdock;
Sweet-scented White Water or Pond Lily
CROWFOOT FAMILY (Ranunculaceae)
Common Meadow Buttercup, Tall Crowfoot or Cuckoo Flower;
Tall Meadow Rue; Liver-leaf, Hepatica, Liverwort or Squirrel Cup;
Wood Anemone or Wind Flower;
Virgin's Bower, Virginia Clematis or Old Man's Beard;
Marsh Marigold, Meadow-gowan or American Cowslip;
Gold-thread or Canker-root;
Wild Columbine;
Black Cohosh, Black Snakeroot or Tall Bugbane;
White Bane-berry or Cohosh
BARBERRY FAMILY (Berberidaceae)
May Apple, Hog Apple or Mandrake;
Barberry or Pepperidge-bush
POPPY FAMILY (Papaveraceae)
Bloodroot;
Greater Celandine or Swallow-wort
FUMITORY FAMILY (Fumariaceae)
Dutchman's Breeches;
Squirrel Corn
MUSTARD FAMILY (Cruciferae)
Shepherd's Purse;
Black Mustard
PITCHER-PLANT FAMILY (Sarraceniaceae)
Pitcher-plant, Side-saddle Flower or Indian Dipper
SUNDEW FAMILY (Dioseraceae)
Round-leaved Sundew or Dew-plant
SAXIFRAGE FAMILY (Saxifragaceae)
Early Saxifrage;
False Miterwort, Coolwort or Foam Flower;
Grass of Parnassus
WITCH-HAZEL FAMILY (Hamamelidaceae)
Witch-hazel
ROSE FAMILY (Rosaceae)
Hardhack or Steeple Bush;
Meadow-Sweet or Quaker Lady;
Common Hawthorn, White Thorn, Red Haw or Mayflower;
Five-finger or Common Cinquefoil;
High Bush Blackberry, or Bramble;
Purple-flowering or Virginia Raspberry;
Wild Roses
PULSE FAMILY (Leguminosae)
Wild or American Senna;
Wild Indigo, Yellow or Indigo Broom, or Horsefly-Weed;
Wild Lupine, Sun Dial or Wild Pea;
Common Red, Purple, Meadow or Honeysuckle Clover;
White Sweet, Bokhara or Tree Clover;
Blue, Tufted or Cow Vetch or Tare;
Ground-nut;
Wild or Hog Peanut
WOOD-SORREL FAMILY (Oxalidaceae)
White or True Wood-sorrel or Alleluia;
Violet Wood-sorrel
GERANIUM FAMILY (Geraniaceae)
Wild or Spotted Geranium or Crane's-Bill;
Herb Robert, Red Robin or Red Shanks
MILKWORT FAMILY (Polygalaceae)
Fringed Milkwort or Polygala or Flowering Wintergreen;
Common Field or Purple Milkwort
TOUCH-ME-NOT FAMILY (Balsaminaceae)
Jewel-weed, Spotted Touch-me-not or Snap Weed
BUCKTHORN FAMILY (Rhamnaceae)
New Jersey Tea
MALLOW FAMILY (Malvaceae)
Swamp Rose-mallow or Mallow Rose
ST. JOHN'S-WORT FAMILY (Hypericaceae)
Common St. John's-wort
ROCKROSE FAMILY (Cistaceae)
Long-branched Frost-weed or Canadian Rockrose
VIOLET FAMILY (Violaceae)
Blue and Purple Violets;
Yellow Violets;
White Violets
EVENING PRIMROSE FAMILY (Onagraceae)
Great or Spiked Willow-herb or Fire-weed;
Evening Primrose or Night Willow-herb
GINSENG FAMILY (Araliaceae)
Spikenard or Indian Root
PARSLEY FAMILY (Umbelliferae)
Wild or Field Parsnip;
Wild Carrot or Queen Anne's Lace
DOGWOOD FAMILY (Cornaceae)
Flowering Dogwood
HEATH FAMILY (Ericaceae)
Pipsissewa or Prince's Pine;
Indian Pipe, Ice-plant, Ghost flower or Corpse-plant;
Pine Sap or False Beech-drops;
Wild Honeysuckle, Pink, Purple or Wild Azalea, or Pinxter-flower;
American or Great Rhododendron, Great Laurel, or Bay;
Mountain or American Laurel or Broad-leaved Kalmia;
Trailing Arbutus or Mayflower;
Creeping Wintergreen, Checker-berry or Partridge-berry
PRIMROSE FAMILY (Primulaceae)
Four-leaved or Whorled Loosestrife;
Star-flower;
Scarlet Pimpernel, Poor Man's Weatherglass or Shepherd's Clock;
Shooting Star or American Cowslip
GENTIAN FAMILY (Gentianaceae)
Bitter-bloom or Rose-Pink;
Fringed Gentian;
Closed or Blind Gentian
DOGBANE FAMILY (Apocynaceae)
Spreading or Fly-trap Dogbane
MILKWEED FAMILY (Asclepiadaceae)
Common Milkweed or Silkweed;
Butterfly-weed
CONVOLVULUS FAMILY (Convolvulaceae)
Hedge or Great Bindweed;
Gronovius' or Common Dodder or Strangle-weed
POLEMONIUM FAMILY (Polemoniaceae)
Ground or Moss Pink
BORAGE FAMILY (Boraginaceae)
Forget-me-not;
Viper's Bugloss or Snake-flower
VERVAIN FAMILY (Verbenaceae)
Blue Vervain, Wild Hyssop or Simpler's Joy
MINT FAMILY (Labiatae)
Mad-dog Skullcap or Madweed;
Self-heal, Heal-all, Blue Curls or Brunella;
Motherwort;
Oswego Tea, Bee Balm or Indian's Plume;
Wild Bergamot
NIGHTSHADE FAMILY (Solanaceae)
Nightshade, Blue Bindweed or Bittersweet;
Jamestown Weed, Thorn Apple or Jimson Weed
FIGWORT FAMILY (Scrophulariaceae)
Great Mullein, Velvet or Flannel Plant or Aaron's Rod;
Moth Mullein;
Butter-and-eggs or Yellow Toadflax;
Blue or Wild Toadflax or Blue Linaria;
Hairy Beard-tongue;
Snake-head, Turtle-head or Cod-head;
Monkey-flower;
Common Speedwell, Fluellin or Paul's Betony;
American Brooklime;
Culver's-root;
Downy False Foxglove;
Large Purple Gerardia;
Scarlet Painted Cup or Indian Paint-brush;
Wood Betony or Loosewort
BROOM-RAPE FAMILY (Orobanchaceae)
Beech-drops
MADDER FAMILY (Rubiaceae)
Partridge Vine or Squaw-berry;
Button-bush or Honey-balls;
Bluets, Innocence or Quaker Ladies
BLUEBELL FAMILY (Campanulaceae)
Harebell, Hairbell or Blue Bells of Scotland; Venus' Looking-glass
or Clasping Bellflower
LOBELIA FAMILY (Lobeliaceae)
Cardinal Flower;
Great Lobelia
COMPOSITE FAMILY (Compositae)
Iron-weed or Flat Top;
Joe Pye Weed, Trumpet Weed, or Tall or Purple Boneset or Thoroughwort;
Golden-rods;
Blue and Purple Asters or Starworts;
White Asters or Starworts;
Golden Aster;
Daisy Fleabane or Sweet Scabious;
Robin's or Robert's Plantain or Blue Spring Daisy;
Pearly or Large-flowered Everlasting or Immortelle, Elecampane
or Horseheal;
Black-eyed Susan or Yellow or Ox-eye Daisy;
Tall or Giant Sunflower;
Sneezeweed or Swamp Sunflower;
Yarrow or Milfoil;
Dog's or Fetid Camomile or Dog-fennel;
Common Daisy, Marguerite, or White Daisy;
Tansy or Bitter Buttons;
Thistles; Chicory or Succory;
Common Dandelion;
Tall or Wild Lettuce;
Orange or Tawny Hawkweed or Devil's Paint-brush
FLOWER COLOR KEY
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