There is a large variety of

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s native to

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. The following list is an incomplete list of native perennial flowering plant species.

Wildflowers by scientific name

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Achillea millefolium ''Achillea millefolium'', commonly known as yarrow () or common yarrow, is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. Other common names include old man's pepper, devil's nettle, sanguinary, milfoil, soldier's woundwort, and thousand seal. The ...

'', common yarrow *'' Acorus calamus'', sweet flag *'' Actaea pachypoda'', white baneberry *''

Aquilegia canadensis ''Aquilegia canadensis'', the Canadian or Canada columbine, eastern red columbine, or wild columbine, is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae. It is an herbaceous perennial native to woodland and rocky slopes in east ...

'', eastern red columbine *''

Arisaema triphyllum ''Arisaema triphyllum'', the jack-in-the-pulpit, bog onion, brown dragon or Indian turnip, is a herbaceous perennial plant growing from a corm. It is a highly variable species typically growing in height with three-part leaves and flowers cont ...

'', jack-in-the-pulpit *''

Aruncus dioicus ''Aruncus dioicus'', known as goat's beard, buck's-beard or bride's feathers, is a flowering herbaceous perennial plant in the family Rosaceae, found in Europe, Asia, and eastern and western North America. It is the type species of the genus '' ...

'', goat's beard *''

Asarum canadense ''Asarum canadense'', commonly known as Canada wild ginger, Canadian snakeroot, and broad-leaved asarabacca, is a herbaceous, perennial plant which forms dense colonies in the understory of deciduous forests throughout its native range in easte ...

'', wild ginger *''

Asclepias tuberosa ''Asclepias tuberosa'', commonly known as butterfly weed, is a species of milkweed native to eastern and southwestern North America. It is commonly known as butterfly weed because of the butterflies that are attracted to the plant by its color a ...

'', butterfly weed *''

Asclepias syriaca ''Asclepias syriaca'', commonly called common milkweed, butterfly flower, silkweed, silky swallow-wort, and Virginia silkweed, is a species of flowering plant. It is native to southern Canada and much of the United States east of the Rocky Moun ...

'', common milkweed *'' Aster novae-angliae'', New England aster *'' Baptisia lactea'', white false indigo *''

Caltha palustris ''Caltha palustris'', known as marsh-marigold and kingcup, is a small to medium size perennial herbaceous plant of the buttercup family, native to marshes, fens, ditches and wet woodland in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. It flower ...

'', marsh-marigold *'' Caulophyllum thalictroides'', blue cohosh (barberry) *''

Chelone glabra ''Chelone glabra'', or white turtlehead, is a herbaceous species of plant native to North America. Its native range extends from Georgia to Newfoundland and Labrador and from Mississippi to Manitoba. Its common name comes from the appearance of i ...

'', white turtlehead *''

Cimicifuga racemosa ''Actaea racemosa'', the black cohosh, black bugbane, black snakeroot, rattle-top, or fairy candle ( syn. ''Cimicifuga racemosa''), is a species of flowering plant of the family Ranunculaceae. It is native to eastern North America from the extrem ...

'', black snakeroot *'' Dicentra cucullaria'', Dutchman's breeches *'' Dodecatheon meadia'', eastern shooting star *'' Eupatorium fistulosum'', Joe-Pye weed *'' Eupatorium perfoliatum'', boneset *''

Euphorbia corollata ''Euphorbia corollata'' is an herbaceous perennial plant in the family Euphorbiaceae that is native to North America. A common name for the species is flowering spurge. It has a milky sap that can cause skin and eye irritation in some people. It ...

'', flowering spurge *''

Filipendula rubra ''Filipendula rubra'', also known as queen-of-the-prairie, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rosaceae native to the northeastern and central United States and southeastern Canada. It prefers full sun or partial shade and moist soil, b ...

'', queen-of-the-prairie *'' Geranium maculatum'', wild geranium *''

Hypericum ''Hypericum'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Hypericaceae (formerly considered a subfamily of Clusiaceae). The genus has a nearly worldwide distribution, missing only from tropical lowlands, deserts and polar regions. Many ''Hype ...

'', goatweed *''

Iris cristata ''Iris cristata'' (also known as dwarf crested iris and crested iris) is a species in the genus ''Iris'', it is also in the subgenus of '' Limniris''. It is a rhizomatous perennial plant, endemic to the eastern United States. It has pale lavend ...

'', crested iris *'' Iris pseudacorus'', yellow iris *''

Helianthus tuberosus The Jerusalem artichoke (''Helianthus tuberosus''), also called sunroot, sunchoke, wild sunflower, topinambur, or earth apple, is a species of sunflower native to central North America. It is cultivated widely across the temperate zone for its ...

'', Jerusalem artichoke *''

Liatris spicata ''Liatris spicata'', the dense blazing star or prairie feather, is a herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to eastern North America where it grows in moist prairies and sedge meadows. The plants have tall ...

'', prairie gay feather *'' Lobelia siphilitica'', great blue lobelia *''

Lysimachia nummularia ''Lysimachia nummularia'' is a species of flowering plant in the primrose family (biology), family Primulaceae. Its common names include moneywort, creeping jenny, herb twopence and twopenny grass. Description It is a vigorous, prostrate, everg ...

'', moneywort *''

Lysimachia punctata ''Lysimachia punctata'', the dotted loosestrife, large yellow loosestrife, circle flower, or spotted loosestrife, is a flowering plant species in the family Primulaceae. Description ''Lysimachia punctata'' is a rhizome, rhizomatous perennial ...

'', large yellow loosestrife *''

Mertensia virginica ''Mertensia virginica'' ( common names Virginia bluebells, Virginia cowslip, lungwort oysterleaf, Roanoke bells) is a spring ephemeral plant in the Boraginaceae (borage) family with bell-shaped sky-blue flowers, native to eastern North America. ...

'', Virginia bluebells *'' Monarda didyma'', crimson beebalm *'' Phlox divaricata'', wild blue phlox *'' Polemonium reptans'', Jacob's ladder *''

Polygonatum biflorum ''Polygonatum biflorum'' (smooth Solomon's-seal, great Solomon's-seal, Solomon's seal) is an herbaceous flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosper ...

'', Solomon's seal *'' Rudbeckia hirta'', black-eyed Susan *''

Rudbeckia triloba ''Rudbeckia triloba'', the browneyed or brown-eyed susan, thin-leaved coneflower or three-leaved coneflower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae with numerous, yellow, daisy-like flowers. It is native to the central and easte ...

'', brown-eyed susan *'' Sanguinaria canadensis'', bloodroot *''

Sedum ternatum ''Sedum ternatum'' is the most widespread native ''Sedum'' species in eastern North America, commonly known as woodland stonecrop. It has white flowers, blooming April to May. This shade-tolerant species is often found in the forest understory, ...

'', woodland stonecrop *''

Stylophorum diphyllum ''Stylophorum diphyllum'', commonly called the celandine poppy or wood poppy, is an herbaceous plant in the poppy family (Papaveraceae). It is native to North America, where it is found in the eastern United States and Ontario. Its typical natur ...

'', woods-poppy *''

Tiarella cordifolia ''Tiarella cordifolia'', the heart-leaved foamflower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Saxifragaceae. The specific name ''cordifolia'' means "with heart-shaped leaves", a characteristic shared by all taxa of ''Tiarella'' in eastern N ...

'', heartleaf foamflower *'' Trillium'', Trillium *''

Vernonia noveboracensis ''Vernonia noveboracensis'', the New York ironweed or vein-leaf hawkweed, is a plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to the eastern United States, from Florida to Massachusetts and west to Tennessee, Alabama, and West Virginia and to sout ...

'', New York ironweed *''

Viola papilionacea ''Viola sororia'', known commonly as the common blue violet, is a short-stemmed herbaceous perennial plant that is native to eastern North America. It is known by a number of common names, including common meadow violet, purple violet, woolly b ...

'', blue violet *''

Xanthorhiza simplicissima ''Xanthorhiza simplicissima'' (yellowroot) is the only member of the genus ''Xanthorhiza'', and one of very few genera in the family Ranunculaceae with a woody stem (the other notable example being ''Clematis''). It is native to the eastern Uni ...

'', yellowroot *'' Yucca glauca'', Great Plains yucca

Bibliography

*Homoya, Michael Allison. Orchids of Indiana. United States: Indiana University Press, 1993. *Runkel, Sylvan T.., Bull, Alvin F.. Wildflowers of Indiana Woodlands. United States: Iowa State University Press, 1994. *Wampler, Fred., Wampler, Maryrose. Wildflowers of Indiana. United States: Indiana University Press, 1988. *Yatskievych, Kay. Field Guide to Indiana Wildflowers. United States: Indiana University Press, 2000.

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Wildflowers of Indiana