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Plant Profiles

There are so many amazing plants out there, some you'll find just outside your door, others you find while exploring new and interesting places and ecosystems. 
Below you'll find a variety of common (and a few unique) plants with their common & Latin names.  
I hope this easy to use guide will help you with identifying and learning more about the plants around you!

Spring

Spring wildflower season begins in March with the first hepatica and spring beauties begin blooming, the season continues on through April or May until the Bloodroot & Wild Ginger get crowded out by the Cleavers. 

Summer

In summer, the wildflowers are less common in the forest (as the canopy fills out there's not enough light for the plants), and are more common in the open fields, prairies, and meadows. Summer wildflowers, for the purpose of putting a time frame on things, end when the goldenrod begins to burst into bloom (September/October).
Black Locust
Heal All
Button Bush
Broadleaf Arrowhead
Whorled Loosestrife
Motherwort
Orange Day Lily (Hemerocallis fulva)
Milkweed
Jewelweed (Touch-me-not)
Buttercup
Ohio Spiderwort
White Avens
Narrowleaf Evening Primrose
Yarrow
Fleabane
Bird's Foot Trefoil
Crown Vetch
Pineapple Weed
Purple Coneflower
Purple Pitcher Plant
Rattlesnake Master
Oxeye Daisy
Teasle
Chicory
Queen Anne's Lace
Enchanter's Nightshade
Bee Balm
Dogbane
Arrow Arum
Bindweed
Blazing Star
Bouncing Bet
Club Spur Orchid
Great Blue Lobelia
Grey Headed Coneflower
Foxglove Beardtongue
Lanceleaf Coreopsis
Moth Mullin
Oxeye Sunflower
Pokeweed
Purple Loosestrife
Common Ragweed
Groundsel
Roundleaf Sundew
Swamp Candles
Swamp Rose
Thistle
Vervain
Joe Pye Weed
English Plantain
Rough Fruited Cinquefoil
Deptford Pink
Curly Dock
Velvetleaf

Fall

Fall is not necessarily the time period we think about flowers, I mean the trees are doing a great job of catching our attention, but everywhere from the forest to the meadow there are unique flowers and blooms that can be found only in the fall.
Aster Family
Beechdrops
Beggar's Ticks
Boneset
Goldenrods
Great Lobelia
Great Ragweed
Jimsonweed
Lamb's Quarters
Mallow
Smartweeds
Snakeroot
Sneezeweed
Velvetleaf
Virginia Knotweed
White Lettuce

Winter

Although we might not have traditional flowers blooming, there are still things growing, living, and even flourishing in the cold winter months.
Skunk Cabbage
Lichen
Lichen
Eastern Hemlock
Ironweed dried pods
Oriental Bittersweet
Multiflora rose hips
Witchhazel
Draba verna
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  • A Hiker's Guide
  • Plant Profiles
  • One Year Studies
    • Johnson's Woods >
      • Johnson's Woods
    • Barnes Preserve >
      • Barnes Short Loop
      • Barnes Long Loop
      • BP Pond Overlook
    • Walton Woods Wildflower Sanctuary >
      • Walton Woods Lower Trail
      • Walton Woods Burning Bush
    • Brown's Lake Bog >
      • Bog Boardwalk
      • Bog Loop
    • Wooster Memorial Park >
      • Sycamore Tree
      • Trillium Hill
      • WMP Prairie
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