Wildflowers

Early Flowering Dates for 167 Species of Wildflowers
Found at White Memorial
By Keith Cudworth (December 1994)

March
15- Skunk Cabbage

April
1-   Coltsfoot
5-   Myrtle
10- Trailing Arbutus
       Dandelion
       Creeping Charley
       Round-lobed Hepatica
       Violets (Misc.)
16- Bloodroot
       Yellow Trout Lily
       Bluets
18- Wood Anemone
       Field Pussytoes
       Dwarf Ginseng
       Marsh Marigold
20- Dutchman's Breeches
       Red Trillium
23- Rue Anemone
       Miterwort

May
1-    Spring Beauty
       Common Strawberry
       Common Cinquefoil
       White Trillium
       Sessile Bellwort
       Kidneyleaf Buttercup
       Cuckoo Flower
3-   Wintercrewss
       Wild Ginger
       Shepard's Purse
       Jack-in-the-Pulpit
5-   Goldthread
7-   Nodding Trillium
       Common Buttercup
8-   Wild Lily-of-the-Valley
       Toothwort
       Garlic Mustard
10- Wood Strawberry
       Celandine
       Starflower
11- Golden Alexanders
       Wild Geranium
       Baneberry
       Thyme-leaved Speedwell
13-  Clintonia
       Robin-Plantain
       Bird's-eye Speedwell
14-  Bunchberry
       Painted Trillium
       Mouse-ear Chickweed
       Wild Calla
17-  Meadow Parsnip
       Wild Sarsaparilla
19-  Foamflower
        Gaywings
21-  Solomon's-seal
       Stargrass
23- Maccasin-flower
       Ragged-robin
       False Hellebore
       Iris (Larger Blue Flag)
25- Bame's Rocket
       Grove Sandwort
       Flase Solomon's-seal
       Heal-all
       Lesser Stitchwort
       Blue-eyed Grass
       Daisy
       Bullhead-lily (yellow)
       Red Clover
       Yellow Iris
       Birdfoot Trefoil
       Silvery Cinquefoil
28- Columbine
30- Deptfort Pink
       Crown-vetch
       Indian Cucumber-root

June
1-  Maiden Pink
     True Forget-me-not
3-  Filed Scabious
      White Water-buttercup
4-  King Devil
      Golden Goatsbeard
      Orange Hawkweed
      Wild Madder
8-  Rough-fruited Cinquefoil
      Bladder Campion
      Hop Clover
9-  Tall Meadow-rue
      Evening Lychis
      Fragrant Water-lily
      Yellow Wood-sorrel
      Patridgeberry
      Whorled Loosestrife
14- Northern Bedstraw
       Blue Toadflax
       Leafy Spurge
       Yarrow
       Moneywort
17- Smaller Forget-me-not
       Black-eyed Susan
20- Day-lily
25- Jewelweed
       Shinleaf
       Canada Lily
       Pale St. Johnswort
       Nightshade
       Yellow Loosestrife
       Pale-spiked Lobelia
       Common St. Johnswort
       Yellow Sweet Clover
       White Sweet Clover       
       Common Milkweed
       Common Mullein
       Chicory
27- Purple Loosestrife
       Steeplebush
       Common Skullcap
29- Spotted Wintergreen
30- Meadowsweet
       Pale Green Orchis

July
4-   Pickerelweed
6-   Evening-primrose
       Common Mallow
       Nigh-flowering Catchfly
10-  Wild Carrot
        Canada Thistle
        Early Goldenrod
13- Borad-leaved Arrowhead
14- Creeping Bellflower
       Indian-pipe
       Blue Vervain
16- Spotted Joe-Pye-weed
       Bull Thistle
       Butter-and-eggs
18- Wild Leek
20- Sweet Joe-Pye-Weed
       Pokeweed
22- Fringed Loosestrife
       Cardinal Flower
       Showy Tick-trefoil
25- Agrimony
       Square-stemmed Monkey-flower
27- Garden Phlow
30- Small Purple Fringed Orchis

August
1-   Boneset
       Tall Goldenrod
       Water-hemlock
       Bulb-bearing Water-hemlock
       Water-parsnip (sium)
9-   Lance-leaved Goldenrod
12- Green-headed Coneflower
       Turtulehead
14-  Canada Goldenrod
18-  Late Goldenrod
       Rough-steamed Goldenrod
26- Sneezeweed

September
1-   Blue-stemmed Goldenrod
5-   Closed Gentian
6-   Bur-marigold
10-  Slender Gerardia
       Nodding Ladies'-tresses
       Beggar-ticks
       Leafy-bracted Begger-ticks
13- Fringed Gentian
17- White Snakeroot