Autumn seed and fruit thumbnails from the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden

Autumn Wildflower Seedheads and Fruits of Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden
Thumbnails of some of the autumn seedheads and fruits that you may encounter on a visit between Sept. 1st and mid-October. See the separate page of thumbnails of autumn flowers. Click on the plant name link for more photos and information on each plant.


Big Blue stem	Indian Grass	Blackberry (late season)	Climbing Nightshade (Bittersweet Nightshade)	American Bladdernut
Andropogon gerardii Vitman	Sorghastrum nutans (L.) Nash	Rubus allegheniensis Porter	Solanum dulcamara L.	Staphylea trifolia L.


Blue Cohosh	American Black Elderberry	American Cranberrybush	Common Buttonbush	Canadian Milkvetch
Caulophyllum thalictroides (L.) Michx.	Sambucus nigra L. ssp. canadensis (L.) R. Bolli	Viburnum opulus L. var. americanum Aiton.	Cephalanthus occidentalis L.	Astragalus canadensis L.


Cattails - two species	Common Milkweed	Curly Dock	Ninebark	Feathery False Lily of the Valley (False Solomon's Seal)
Typha latifolia L. and Typha angustifolia L.	Asclepias syriaca L.	Rumex crispus L.	Physocarpus opulifolius (L.) Maxim.	Maianthemum racemosum (L.) Link ssp. racemosum


American Bittersweet (early fall)	American Bittersweet (late fall)	Sweet Joe-Pye Weed	Fireweed	Nannyberry
Celastrus scandens L.	Celastrus scandens L.	Eupatorium purpureum L.	Chamerion angustifolium (L.)	Viburnum lentago L.


Orangefruit Horse Gentian	Hophornbeam (Ironwood)	Jack-in-the-pulpit	Ohio Buckeye	Silky Dogwood (Pale Dogwood)
Triosteum aurantiacum E.P. Bicknell	Ostrya virginiana (Mill.) Koch	Arisaema triphyllum (L.) Schott	Aesculus glabra Willd.	Cornus obliqua Raf.


American Senna (Wild Senna)	American Red Raspberry	Thimbleweed	Kentucky Coffeetree	Pagoda Dogwood
Senna hebecarpa (Fernald) Irwin & Barneby	Rubus idaeus L.	Anemone virginiana L.	Gymnocladus dioicus (L.) K. Koch	Cornus alternifolia L.f.


Prickly Gooseberry	Red Baneberry	Gray Dogwood	Red Osier Dogwood	Red Baneberry-White Berry Type
Ribes cynosbati L.	Actaea rubra Willd.	Cornus racemosa Lam.	Cornus sericea L.	Actaea rubra Willd.


Lead Plant	Autumn (Wild) Onion	Swamp Milkweed	Showy Ticktrefoil (Canada Ticktrefoil)	Virgin's Bower
Amorpha canescens Pursh	Allium stellatum Fraser ex Ker Gawl.	Asclepias incarnata L.	Desmodium canadense (L.) DC.	Clematis virginiana L.


Blue Wild Indigo	White Wild Indigo	Smooth Rose (Wild Rose)	Winterberry	Field thistle
Baptisia australis (L.) R. Br.	Baptisia alba (L) Vent.	Rosa blanda Aiton	Ilex verticillata (L.) A. Gray	Cirsium discolor (Muhl. ex Willd.) Spreng.


Common Evening Primrose
Oenothera biennis L.
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