The following is an alphabetical list of some of the wild flowers that can be found in the Big South Fork NRRA. They are categorized by the month you are most likely to find them in bloom.

March, Early Spring

Bloodroot
Coltsfoot (introduced)
Dandelion (introduced)
Early Saxifrage
Harbinger-of-Spring
Hepatica
Purple Cress
Purslane Speedwell
Rue-Anemone
Spring Beauty
Star Chickweed
Trout Lily
Twinleaf
Smooth Yellow Violet

April, Mid-Spring

Blue Phlox
Bluets
Buttercup
Common Cinquefoil
Cut-leaved Toothwort
Dogwood Tree
Dutchmans Breeches
Dwarf iris
Fire Pink
Foamflower
Golden Ragwort
Little Brown Jug
Mountain Spurge
Pennywort
Periwinkle
Pussy Toes
Slender Toothwort
Spiderwort
Spring Cress
Squirrel Corn
Stone Crop
Trillium

May, Late Spring

Bind weed
Chickweed
Chrysogonum
Coreopsis
Dwarf Ginsing
Horse-Nettle
Indian Cucumber-Root
Jack-in-the-Pulpit
Lady's Slipper
Large-flowered Bellwort
May Apple
Mountain Laurel
Queen Anne's Lace
Showy Orchis
Sweet Cicely
Trailing Arbutus
Vetch sp. (introduced)
Violet sp.
Violet Wood-Sorrel
Virginia Bluebells
White Baneberry
Wild Columbine
Wild Geranium
Wild Ginger
Wild Sweet-William
Wild Yam
Yellow Lady's Slippers
Yellowroot

June, Early Summer

Beard-Tounge
Black Cohosh
Butterfly-Weed
Common Milkweed
Common Mullein (introduced)
Common Skullcap
Day-lily (introduced)
Evening Primrose
Flame Azalea
Hop Clover
Indian-Pipe
Lamb's Quarters
Orange Hawkweed
Ox-Eye Daisy
Ragwort
Rosebay Rhododendron
Ruellia
Sneezeweed
Spotted Wintergreen
St. Johnswort
Teaberry
Venus Looking Glass
Vipers bugloss
Waterleaf
Yellow Wood-Sorrel

July, Mid-Summer

Bedstraw
Black-Eyed Susan
Cardinal Flower
Chickory
Dodder
Flowering Spurge
Hoary Mountain Mint
Jewelweed; Touch-Me-Not
Nodding Wild Onion
Partridgeberry
Pipsisiwa
Pokeweed
Purple Coneflower
Rattlesnake Plantain
Rose Pink
Rosebud Orchis
Sensitive Brier
Smartweed
Spotted Joe-Pye-weed
Tick-Trefoil
Virginia Dayflower
White Snakeroot

August, Late Summer

Beggar-Ticks
Bee-Balm
Bergamot
Blazing Star
Common Thistle
False Foxglove
Golden-Aster
Great Lobelia
Harebell
Hog-Peanut
Horse-Balm
Jerusalem Artichoke
New England Aster
New York Ironweed
Sweet Everlasting
Tickseed
Turtlehead
White Lettuce
Wood Sunflower

September-October, Autumn

Autumn Sneezeweed
Calico Aster
Gall-of-the-Earth
Goldenrod
Lion's-Foot
Mistflower
Purple Gerardia
White Snakeroot
White Wood Aster

All Photo's Above By Todd Ratermann Copyright ©