Wildflower Checklist
July Bloomers Cont.:
__ Butterfly weed
__ Canada lettuce
__ Common cotton-weed
__ Common evening-primrose
__ Common yarrow
__ Deptford pink*
__ Dotted horsemint
__ Grass-leaved goldenrod
__ Handsome-harry
__ Monkey-flower
__ Naked-stemmed sunflower
__ Narrow-leaved cow-wheat
__ Orange-grass
__ Ox-eye sunflower
__ Prairie blazing-star
__ Showy tick-trefoil
__ Spotted joe-pye weed
__ Spotted touch-me-not
__ Steeplebush
__ Swamp milkweed
__ Virginia ground cherry
__ Wintergreen
August Bloomers:
__ Rough blazing-star
__ Showy goldenrod
__ Small-flowered false foxglove
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June Bloomers Cont.:
__ Northern bedstraw
__ Orange daylily
__ Orange hawkweed*
__ Ox-eye daisy*
__ Pale purple coneflower
__ Pale-spike lobelia
__ Purple milkwort
__ Queen Anne’s lace
__ Round-leaved sundew
__ Slender beard-tongue
__ Spotted knapweed*
__ Spreading dogbane
__ Sulphur cinquefoil*
__ Swamp-candles
__ Tall hawkweed*
__ Three-toothed cinquefoil
__ Water smartweed
__ White campion/white cockle*
__ White clover*
__ White larkspur
__ White meadowsweet
__ White wild indigo
__ Whorled loosestrife
__ Wood lily
__ Woolly plantain*
__ Yellow water lily
July Bloomers:
__ American white water-lily
__ Bee balm
__ Blood milkwort
__ Blue vervain
__ Boneset
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The large diversity of habi-
tats at the Necedah National
Wildlife Refuge allows for a wide
variety of wildflowers. Overall,
there are more than 1700 differ-
ent species of wildflowers found
in Wisconsin. This is a checklist
of the known species that can be
found on the Refuge. Bloom
times are estimations, the actual
bloom time varies based on
weather conditions.
Bring your flower photos to
the Nature’s Discovery Area! Lo-
cated by the Visitors Center on
Headquarters road.
*Denotes non-natives.
Checklist by bloom month
April Bloomers:
__ Arrow-leaved violet
__ Bird’s foot violet
__ Common cinquefoil
__ Common dandelion*
__ Common spiderwort
__ Hoary puccoon
__ Pink lady’s slippers
__ Prairie smoke
May Bloomers:
__ American starflower
__ Black medick*
__ Blue toadflax
__ Bristly buttercup
__ Butter-and-eggs*
__ Canada anemone
__ Canada mayflower
__ Common blackberry
__ Common cat-tail
__ Common dewberry
__ Common yellow-cress
__ Creeping vervain
__ Drummond’s rock cress
__ Greater sand goat’s beard*
__ Hoary-alyssum*
__ Orange dwarf-dandelion
__ Rabbit-Foot clover
__ Red clover*
__ Slender yellow-eyed grass
__ Smooth solomon’s seal
__ Starwort*
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May Bloomers Cont.:
__ Tower rock cress
__ White sweet clover*
__ Wild columbine
__ Wild lupine
__ Yellow sweet clover*
June Bloomers:
__ Alfalfa*
__ Bird’s-foot trefoil*
__ Black-eyed susan
__ Bladder-campion*
__ Bristly sarsaparilla
__ Bull thistle
__ Common milkweed
__ Common mullein*
__ Common plantain*
__ Common skullcap
__ Common St. John’s-wort*
__ Common yellow oxalis
__Dalmatian toadflax*
__ Early wild rose
__ Eastern daisy fleabane
__ Elderberry
__ Fireweed
__ Flowering spurge
__ Fringed loosestrife
__ Goat’s-rue
__ Grass pink
__Heal-all
__ Hoary frostweed
__ Low bindweed
__ Marsh cinquefoil
__ Narrow-leaved hedge-nettle
__ New jersey tea
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