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Ontario Wildflowers Website
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Welcome to the Ontario Wildflowers website
Your "online field guide" to Ontario's wildflowers
This website is all about wildflowers that grow
in Ontario (Canada). If you're not from Ontario, don't go away! Most of the plants featured on this
website grow elsewhere in eastern North America, and many grow elsewhere in the
world.
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Nodding Trillium (Trillium cernuum)
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For trees & shrubs, please visit the
Ontario Trees & Shrubs website. For ferns, please visit the
Ontario Ferns website. And for
grasses, sedges, and rushes, please visit the
Ontario Grasses website. |
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Where to go from here |
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| The main body of this site consists of
descriptions and photographs of numerous species of
wildflowers. You can look up
wildflowers by common name,
scientific name,
French name,
family,
flower colour,
number of petals,
habitat,
season,
trees & shrubs,
edible/poisonous plants,
native/alien
plants, groups of species, or by page in
Newcombe's,
Peterson's, or
the ROM wildflower field
guide books. CLICK HERE.
Participate in discussions about Wildflowers in the
Forums.
Get some help learning to identify wildflowers
here.
The study of wildflowers is an ongoing process. To
help me identify some plants I haven't yet figured out, please see
Mystery Plants.
I am maintaining a Plant List for some sites in my
Site Inventories
A booklist
of useful wildflower books is
HERE, that you can buy at the
BOOKSTORE.
There's a number of
articles about wildflowers from
The Monday Garden.
Find out about
Naturalization using wildflowers.
Please also see
What's New |
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What's New
(475 species now on this site, 466 species still to come)
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Jan 09/12: Sweet-scented Bedstraw (Galium triflorum)
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Jan 08/12: Wild Basil (Clinopodium vulgare), Beechdrops (Epifagus virginiana), Creeping Bellflower (Campanula rapunculoides), Marsh Bellflower (Campanula aparinoides), Yellow Bedstraw (Galium verum), Labrador Bedstraw (Galium labradoricum), Small Bedstraw (Galium trifidum), Bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi)
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Jan 07/12: Alfalfa (Medicago sativa), Common Arrowhead (Sagittaria latifolia), Water Arum (Calla palustris), Asparagus (Asparagus officinalis), Himalayan Balsam (Impatiens glandulifera), White Wood Aster (Eurybia divaricata), Shreber's Aster (Eurybia schreberi), Willow Aster (Symphyotrichum praealtum), Ontario Aster (Symphyotrichum ontarione), Rayless Annual Aster (Symphyotrichum ciliatum), Small Salt Marsh Aster (Symphyotrichum subulatum), Great Angelica (Angelica atropurpurea), Hoary Alyssum (Berteroa incana), Yellow Bartonia (Bartonia virginica)
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Dec 20/11: Northern Slender Ladies' Tresses (Spiranthes lacera), Round Leaf Orchid (Platanthera orbiculata)
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Nov 29/11: Small Round-leaved Orchis (Amerorchis rotundifolia), Long-bracted Green Orchid (Coeloglossum viride)
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Nov 23/11: Auricled Twayblade (Listera auriculata)
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Nov 10/11: Lesser Celandine (Ranunculus ficaria), Celandine (Chelidonium majus), Clearweed (Pilea pumila), Colicroot (Aletris farinosa), Centaury (Centaurium erythraea), Showy Blanket Flower (Gaillardia pulchella), Branching Centaury (Centaurium pulchellum)
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Nov 09/11: Jerusalem Artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus), Pale Touch-me-not (Impatiens pallida) (updated)
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Oct 15/11: Some tree/shrub species removed from this site as they more properly belong solely on the Ontario Trees & Shrubs website.
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Oct 15/11: Slideshow now online.
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Jun 23/11: Helleborine (Epipactis helleborine) (updated), Grass Pink (Calopogon tuberosus) (updated), Early Coralroot (Corallorhiza trifida) (updated), Hooker's Orchis (Platanthera hookeri)
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Jun 22/11: Striped Coralroot (Corallorhiza striata) (updated), Alaska Orchid (Piperia unalascensis) (updated), Blunt Leaf Rein Orchid (Platanthera obtusata) (updated)
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Jun 20/11: Lesser Bur Reed (Sparganium americanum)
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Jan 11/11: Tall White Lettuce (Prenanthes altissima), Glaucous White Rattlesnake Root (Prenanthes racemosa)
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Jan 10/11: Tall Rattlesnake Root (Prenanthes trifoliata)
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Jan 01/11: NEW: Revamped Mystery Plants section. Get your botany fix in the middle of winter!
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Jan 01/11: NEW: Now you can watch a slideshow of randomly selected photographs.
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Jan 01/11: White Lettuce (Prenanthes alba)
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Dec 27/10: Garlic Mustard (Alliaria officinalis), Hill's Thistle (Cirsium hillii) (updated), Pitcher's Thistle (Cirsium pitcheri) (updated)
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Dec 26/10: Sessile-leaved Bellwort (Uvularia sessilifolia)
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Dec 21/10: Large-flowered Bellwort (Uvularia grandiflora)
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Dec 20/10: Hound's Tongue (Cynoglossum officinale)
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Dec 15/10: Pinesap (Monotropa hypopithys), Shinleaf (Pyrola elliptica), Silverweed (Argentia anserina)
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Dec 14/10: Shepherd's Purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris)
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Dec 12/10: Sharp-lobed Hepatica (Anemone acutiloba), Round-lobed Hepatica (Anemone americana), Snow in Summer (Cerastium tomentosum), Scheuchzeria (Scheuchzeria palustris)
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Dec 01/10: Swamp Rose (Rosa palustris) (updated)
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Nov 30/10: Indian Pipe (Monotropa uniflora), Seaside Arrow Grass (Triglochin maritima), Indian Tobacco (Lobelia inflata)
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Nov 29/10: Bicknell's Cranesbill (Geranium bicknellii), American Columbo (Frasera caroliniensis), Chicory (Cichorium intybus)
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Nov 28/10: Linear-leaved Sundew (Drosera linearis)
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Nov 27/10: Starflower (Trientalis borealis), Cypress Spurge (Euphorbia cyparissias), One-sided Pyrola (Orthilia secunda), Prairie Rose (Rosa setigera)
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Nov 25/10: False Pennyroyal (Isanthus brachiatus), Mossy Stonecrop (Sedum acre), Purslane (Portulaca oleracea), Alpine Bistort (Polygonum viviparum), Grass-of-Parnassus (Parnassia glauca), One-seeded Bur Cucumber (Sicyos angulatus), Herb Robert (Geranium robertianum)
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Aug 02/10: Hairy Mountain Mint (Pycnanthemum verticillatum)
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