Wildflowers of Starved Rock
This list contains many of the more common wildflowers at the park.
Others may be found.
Common Name
Skunk Cabbage
Hepatica
Dutchman's Breeches
Spring Beauty
Bloodroot
Marsh Marigold
Yellow Bellwort
Toothwort
Shadbush or Serviceberry
Ground Ivy
Pussy Toes
Red-Berried Elder
Long Bracted Orchid
Common Blue Violet
False Rue Anemone
Wild Blue Phlox
Birdsfoot Violet
Virginia Bluebells
Miterwort
Swamp Buttercup
Red Bud
Dandelion
Garlic Mustard
Wood Anemone
Trout Lily
Kidneyleaf Buttercup
Prairie Trillium
Jack-in-the-Pulpit
Chickweed
Columbine
Squirrel Corn
Drooping White Trillium
Lousewort or Wood Betony
Shooting Star
Wild Geranium
Mayapple
Golden Alexander
Bastard Toadflax
American Bladdernut
High Bush Cranberry
Color/Description
leaves purple-brown to yellow-green
white to lavender, 6-9 petals
white britches
white with purple veins
white, leaf curls around stem
shiny yellow, wet areas
yellow, dangling
white, 4 petals
white blossoms, small tree
purple, creeping vine
fuzzy white, like a cat's paw
small white, pyramidal cluster, shrub
green, bracts 2-6 times longer than flower
blue
white, 3 lobed leaflets
blue, "sweet william"
5 blue petals
buds pink, bell shaped flowers
white tiny and feather-like
bright yellow, waxy
pink, small tree
bright yellow
white cluster, triangular leaves, ALIEN
white, solitary stalk
white, dangling, brownish-mottled leaves
yellow with green center, tiny
maroon, 3 mottled leaves
green erect club
white, notched petals
red and yellow, nodding
white, heart shaped
white, 3 petals, 3 leaves
yellow, short and unusual
white to purple, nodding
pink, 5 deep lobed leaves
white, umbrella leaves
yellow, clustered
white, small, grass-like leaves
white; umbrella like; shrub
ALIEN, shrub, bright red berries in winter
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Blue Cohosh
Wild Strawberry
Swamp Saxifrage
Sweet Cicely
Yellow Wood Sorrel
Violet Wood Sorrel
Wild Ginger
Shagbark Hickory
Choke Cherry
Black Cherry
Hoary Puccoon
Carrion Flower
Green Briar
Winter Cress
Tway Blade Orchid
Wister's Coral Root
Yarrow
Shepherd's Purse
Virginia Waterleaf
Common Fleabane
Yellow Star Grass
Grove Sandwort
Early Meadow Rue
Black Snakeroot
White Baneberry
Red Baneberry
Pawpaw
Smooth Rock Cress
Huckleberry
Twinleaf
Wild Sarsaparilla
Yellow Violet
Smooth Solomon's Seal
False Solomon's Seal
Spiderwort
Yellow Lady's Slipper
Ellisia
Rue Anemone
Bedstraw
Pagoda Dogwood
Rough Fruited Cinquefoil
Ginseng
Pointed Blue-Eyed Grass
Yellow Pimpernel
Showy Orchis
Yellow Goats Beard
Sweet Clover
purplish-brown, dark berries
white, 3 leaflets
green on tail stem, wet areas
white, small, fern-like leaves
yellow, 3 leaves
purple, 3 leaves
maroon under heart shaped leaf
large salmon colored buds, tree
white clusters, shrub
white clusters, tree
yellow-orange
green, round, stinks
green, vine with thorns
small yellow clusters, open areas
many brown-green flowers, 2 large basal leaves
purplish-brown to yellowish flowers
white, fern-like
tiny white, purse-like seeds
lavender, watermarked leaves
pink to white, yellow center
yellow, 6 petals
small, white and round
white with yellow, drooping
green clusters
white oblong clusters
white, round clusters
maroon, small tree, large leaves
tiny white, smooth leaves
white bell shaped
white, leafless stalk
small white clusters under leaves
similar to blue, only yellow
flower green, hanging off stem
white cluster at end of stem
dark blue, 3 petals
yellow pouch, large leaves
white, tubular, tiny
white, several stalks
tiny, white, creeper
shrub, in layers
pale yellow
yellow-green, round cluster
blue, yellow center
large yellow clusters
pink hood over white lower petal
large yellow, many petals
yellow or white spikes, ALIEN
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Poison Ivy
Blue Flag Iris
Yellow Flag Iris
White Flag Iris
Bluets
Maryland Figwort
Rattlesnake Weed
Alumroot
Green Dragon
Hairy Beardtongue
Spreading Dogbane
Corn Speedwell
Oyster Plant
Honewort
Wafer Ash
Dewberry
Stonecrop
Moonseed
Nodding Ladies Tresses
Black Raspberry
Thimble Weed
Deptford Pink
Black Eyed Susan
Bowman's Foot
Crown Vetch
Harebell
Leadplant
Day Lily
Common Mullien
Wild Parsnip
St. Johnswort
Prairie Coneflower
Purple Coneflower
Curly Dock
Prairie Rose
Michigan Lily
Heart Leaved Skullcap
Hedge Bindweed
Bittersweet Nightshade
Heal All
Goats Rue
Tick Trefoil
Goatsbeard
Wild Hydrangea
Pale Jewelweed
Spotted Jewelweed
Daisy Fleabane
small green; vine or shrub
blue, wet areas
yellow, wet areas, ALIEN
white, wet areas
white, 4 petals
greenish-brown, sac shaped
yellow, leafless stem
yellow-green, bell shaped
green club, similar to Jack-in-the-Pulpit
white, 2 tipped
pink bell-like
tiny violet-blue, hairy
pinkish-purple
tiny white, toothed leaflets
greenish white, shrub
white, 3 leaflets
yellow-green in mats
small greenish-white clusters, vine
small white spiral spike
white, red chalky stem, shrub
large white
pink, grass-like leaves
large yellow with dark center
white lanceolate petals
pink & white, resembles crown, ALIEN
blue, bell-shaped
blue & yellow spike
orange, roadsides
large yellow spike
yellow clusters
bright yellow in clusters
yellow dropping, dark center
pink drooping, dark center
dark red spike, wavy leaves
large pinkish-white
recurving orange, dark spots
blue with white lower lip
white or pink, bell shaped
purple with yellow center
purple hooded in short spike
pink & yellow, pea-like
white or purple, pea-like
green spike
white, large clusters
yellow, funnel shaped
orange, funnel shaped spots
white, yellow center
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Common Milkweed
Bottlebrush Grass
Monkey Flower
Chicory
Wild Bergamot
Evening Primrose
Flowering Spurge
Purple Loosestrife
Bouncing Bet
Blue Vervain
Tall Bellflower
Starry Campion
Culvers Root
Jerusalem Artichoke
Joe Pye Weed
Smooth Sumac
White Snakeroot
Partridge Pea
Downy False Foxglove
Great Lobelia
Green Headed Coneflower
Rough Blazing Star
True Forget-Me-Not
Woodland Sunflower
Pale-Leaved Sunflower
Forked Aster
False Sunflower
Stiff Sunflower
Broad-Leaved Arrowhead
Swamp Loosestrife
Tickseed Sunflower
Swamp Smartweed
Purple Gerardia
Indian Pipes
Ironweed
Sweet Goldenrod
White Lettuce
Tall Goldenrod
Yellow Giant Hyssop
Prairie Dock
Wood Nettle
Pokeweed
Wild Onion
Smooth Aster
Tall Bellflower
Stiff Aster
Green-headed Coneflower
purplish to pink
green-brown spikelets
small, blue, yellow center
larger blue, roadsides
pink tubular cluster
large yellow
small white, long oval leaves
blue spike, wet areas, ALIEN
white to pink
purple candelabra-like spikes
light blue
white, fringed petals
large white spike
large yellow, yellow cluster
pinkish, flat-topped
yellow-white clusters
small white fuzzy clusters
light yellow
large yellow, funnel shaped
blue spike
large yellow, green center
fuzzy pink clusters
blue clusters, yellow center
yellow; leaf rough upperside
yellow, leaf rough both sides
white
yellow, leaves in pairs, prairie
yellow, dark center, prairie
white, 3 rounded petals
lavender flower at base of leaves
yellow, toothed leaves, prairie
pink
pink to purple, funnel shaped
white, pipe-like
purple, reddish stem
yellow, leaves lance shaped & not toothed
creamy white
yellow, leaves lance shaped and toothed
pale yellow "candles", square stem
yellow, tall, huge leaves
small green, clusters, alternate leaves
purple stem with black berries
lavender cluster
lavender-blue, smooth leaves
blue, alternate leaves
blue, yellow center, stiff stalk
greenish-yellow knob, disk
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New England Aster
Sawtooth Sunflower
Heath Aster
Zig Zag Goldenrod
Arrow-Leaved Aster
Late Goldenrod
Small White Aster
deep purple, yellow center
yellow, smooth stem, prairie
small white clusters
yellow
pale blue
yellow, smooth stem, same size leaf
white, leaves narrowly-lanced shaped
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