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A Guide to the Wildflowers
of Twin Swamps Nature Preserve

Low, Wet Woods 


Flower photos
By season
By habitat
By color

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EARLY SPRING (March-April)

Common violet
Viola papilionacea

Swamp buttercup
Ranunculus septentrionalis

Poison ivy
Toxicodendron radicans

Spring cress
Cardamine bulbosa

LATE SPRING (May-June)

Green dragon
Arisaema dracontium

Houstonia
Hedyotis purpurea
var. calycosum

Spotted
jewelweed
Impatiens capensis

False dandelion
Krigia biflora

Yellow
wood sorrel
Oxalis sp.

Smooth phlox
Phlox glaberrima

Cinquefoil
Potentilla simplex

Slender
mountain mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium

Lowland beardstongue
Penstemon alluviorum

SUMMER (Late June-July)

Smooth phlox
Phlox glaberrima

Water hemlock
Cicuta maculata

Spotted jewelweed
Impatiens capensis

Seedbox
Ludwigia alternifolia

Yellow
wood sorrel

Oxalis
sp.

Slender
mountain mint

Pycnanthemum tenuifolium

Stickseed
Hackelia virginiana

Wood nettle
Laportea canadensis

False nettle
Boehmeria cylindrica

LATE SUMMER (August-October)

Cardinal flower
Lobelia cardinalis

Water hemlock
Cicuta maculata

Panicled tick trefoil
Desmodium paniculatum

Flowering spurge
Euphorbia corollata

Spotted jewelwed
Impatiens capensis

Monkeyflower
Mimulus alatus

Yellow wood sorrel
Oxalis
sp.

Ditch stonecrop
Penthorum sedoides

Smooth phlox
Phlox glaberrima

Mild water pepper
Polygonum hydropiperoides

Wood nettle
Laportea canadensis

False nettle
Boehmeria cylindrica

Ironweed
Vernonia fasciculata

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