Other Wildflowers Families

Other Wildflowers Families Other Wildflowers Families

Flowers on this page are in smaller family groups or belong in larger groups as subgroups. They will be moved when I find a home for them.

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Minnesota Montana Indiana Alien Multiple

Birthwort

Wild Ginger Wild Ginger
Asurum canadense
Birthwort Family
Common in Indiana and Minnesota. Root taste like ginger.

Bluebells

Virginia Bluebell Virginia Bluebell
Mertensia virginica
Common throughout. The flower blooms in the spring. Easy to grow in most locations. Because of the small flowers, they are hard to photograph.

Buckwheat

Cushion Buckwheat Cushion Buckwheat
Eriogonum chrysops
Alpine Plant in the Rockies. Low growing.

Swamp Smartweed Swamp Smartweed
Polygonum coccineum
Grows throughout region near swamps. Peterson's wildflower book identifies this as the terrestrial form. Another form is aquatic. Smartweed is very weedy.

Campanula

Harebell
Campanula rotundafolia
Campanula Family
Harebells grow out of rocks. This one was on a cliff along the Mississippi in St. Paul.

Tall Bellflower
Campanula americana
Campanula Family
The gardener's scourge. Once bellflowers get in a garden, they are hard to eradicate. The good news is that they are pretty. A poor gardener loves them for they are easy to grow.

Dogwood

Bunchberry Bunchberry
Cornus canadensis
Four white petals on the flower. This groundcover covers large patches under evergreens along the North Shore. This plant requires acid soil.

Evening Primrose

Fireweed Fireweed
Epilobium angustifolium
Evening Primrose Family
These flowers are found at higher elevations in Montana. The bottom picture was taken in Glacier National Park near Granite Chalet.

Common Evening Primrose
Oenathera biennis
Evening Primrose Family
Didn't know this was native. July bloomer. I have had these in my garden before. They live by a rosette one year and bloom the next. Great garden plant. Notice 4 petals on Evening Primrose Family.

Heath

Fools Huckleberry Fool's Huckleberry
Menziesia ferruginea
Urn shaped flowers. The plant is more of a shrub, 3-4 feet tall. The huckleberry has similar flower but is much shorter. Mountains of the West.

Honeysuckle

Twinflower Twinflower
Linnaea borealis
The twinflower was in bloom on the North Shore at the end of June. Very small flower. Dainty you might say.

Loosestrife

Purple Loosestrife Purple Loosestrife
Lythrum salicaria
This junk plant is filling the swamps of Minnesota. Brought in by gardeners this plant has very little wildlife value and chokes out plants that do. The flowers are on purple spikes.

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Birthwort
	Wild Ginger Asurum canadense Birthwort Family Common in Indiana and Minnesota. Root taste like ginger.
Bluebells
	Virginia Bluebell Mertensia virginica Common throughout. The flower blooms in the spring. Easy to grow in most locations. Because of the small flowers, they are hard to photograph.
Buckwheat
	Cushion Buckwheat Eriogonum chrysops Alpine Plant in the Rockies. Low growing.
	Swamp Smartweed Polygonum coccineum Grows throughout region near swamps. Peterson's wildflower book identifies this as the terrestrial form. Another form is aquatic. Smartweed is very weedy.
Campanula
	Harebell Campanula rotundafolia Campanula Family Harebells grow out of rocks. This one was on a cliff along the Mississippi in St. Paul.
	Tall Bellflower Campanula americana Campanula Family The gardener's scourge. Once bellflowers get in a garden, they are hard to eradicate. The good news is that they are pretty. A poor gardener loves them for they are easy to grow.
Dogwood
	Bunchberry Cornus canadensis Four white petals on the flower. This groundcover covers large patches under evergreens along the North Shore. This plant requires acid soil.
Evening Primrose
	Fireweed Epilobium angustifolium Evening Primrose Family These flowers are found at higher elevations in Montana. The bottom picture was taken in Glacier National Park near Granite Chalet.

	Common Evening Primrose Oenathera biennis Evening Primrose Family Didn't know this was native. July bloomer. I have had these in my garden before. They live by a rosette one year and bloom the next. Great garden plant. Notice 4 petals on Evening Primrose Family.
Heath
	Fool's Huckleberry Menziesia ferruginea Urn shaped flowers. The plant is more of a shrub, 3-4 feet tall. The huckleberry has similar flower but is much shorter. Mountains of the West.
Honeysuckle
	Twinflower Linnaea borealis The twinflower was in bloom on the North Shore at the end of June. Very small flower. Dainty you might say.
Loosestrife
	Purple Loosestrife Lythrum salicaria This junk plant is filling the swamps of Minnesota. Brought in by gardeners this plant has very little wildlife value and chokes out plants that do. The flowers are on purple spikes.