Late summer flower thumbnails of the Eloise butler Wildflower Garden

Late Summer Wildflowers

of Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden

Thumbnails of some of the late summer flowering plants that are not white or yellow that you may encounter on a visit between mid-July and Sept. 1st. Not all will be in bloom during this entire period of time; some are just ending their early summer bloom and some will just be starting in late August. Also shown here are thumbnails of easily noticed fruits and seeds of selected plants. See the separate page of thumbnails of white and Yellow flowers. Click on the plant name link for more photos and information on each plant.


Orange Hawkweed	Turk's-cap Lily	Orange Daylily	Butterfly Weed	Jewelweed (Spotted Jewelweed)
Hieracium aurantiacum L.	Lilium superbum L. and Lilium michiganense L.	Hemerocallis fulva L.	Asclepias tuberosa L.	Impatiens capensis Meerb.


Blackberry Lily	Maltesecross (Scarlet Lychnis)	Cardinal Flower	Climbing Nightshade Bittersweet Nightshade	Blue Giant Hyssop
Belamcanda chinensis (L.) DC.	Lychnis chalcedonica L.	Lobelia cardinalis L.	Solanum dulcamara L.	Agastache foeniculum (Pursh) Kuntze


Showy Ticktrefoil	Pointedleaf Tick-trefoil	Obedient Plant (False Dragonhead)	Foxglove - Grecian	Field Thistle
Desmodium canadense (L.) DC.	Desmodium glutinosum (Muhl. ex Willd.)	Physostegia virginiana (L.) Benth.	Digitalis lanata Ehrh.	Cirsium discolor (Muhl. ex Willd.) Spreng.


Groundnut (Wild Bean)	Purple Prairie Clover	Eastern Purple Coneflower	Witch's Moneybags (Live Forever)	Swamp Milkweed
Apios americana Medik.	Dalea purpurea Vent.	Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench	Hylotelephium telephium L.	Asclepias incarnata L.


Red Turtlehead	Bouncing Bet (Soapwort) (Pinkish flower type)	Spotted Joe-Pye Weed	Wild Bergamot	Sweet Joe-Pye Weed
Chelone obliqua L.	Saponaria officinalis L.	Eupatoriadelphus maculatus (L.) King & H. Rob.	Monarda fistulosa L.	Eupatorium purpureum L.


New England Blazing Star	Dense Blazing Star	White Rattlesnake Root	Leadplant	American Bellflower (Tall Bellflower)
Liatris scariosa (L.) Willd. var. novae-angliae Lunell	Liatris spicata (L.) Willd. var. spicata	Prenanthes alba L.	Amorpha canescens Pursh	Campanula americana L.


True Forget-me-not	Chicory (blue flower)	Bottle Gentian	Rampion Bellflower (European Bellflower)	Water Horsetail
Myosotis scorpioides L.	Cichorium intybus L.	Gentiana clausa Raf. and Gentiana andrewsii	Campanula rapunculoides L.	Equisetum fluviatile L.


Canadian Woodnettle	King of the Meadow (Tall Meadow Rue)	American Alumroot	Canadian Milkvetch	Curly Dock
Laportea canadensis L.	Thalictrum pubescens Pursh	Heuchera americana L.	Astragalus canadensis L.	Rumex crispus L.

			The following are easily noticed fruits and seed pods of late summer. Some will change color in Autumn.
California Nettle (Stinging Nettle)	Canadian Clearweed	Cattails (Two species)		Curly Dock
Urtica dioica L. ssp. gracilis (Aiton) Seland.	Pilea pumila (L.) A.Gray	Typha latifolia L. and Typha angustifolia L.		Rumex crispus L.


Blue Cohosh	American Black Elderberry	American Cranberrybush	Eastern Redcedar	Feathery False Lily of the Valley (False Solomon's Seal)
Caulophyllum thalictroides (L.) Michx.	Sambucus nigra L. ssp. canadensis (L.) R. Bolli	Viburnum opulus L. var. americanum Aiton.	Juniperus virginiana L.	Maianthemum racemosum (L.) Link ssp. racemosum


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.


Prickly Gooseberry	Red Baneberry	Red Elderberry	Red Osier Dogwood	Red Baneberry-White Berry Type
Ribes cynosbati L.	Actaea rubra Willd.	Sambucus racemosa L. var. racemosa	Cornus sericea L. ssp. sericea	Actaea rubra Willd.


Blue Wild Indigo	White False Indigo (Wild White Indigo)	Smooth Rose (Wild Rose)	Winterberry	American Bladdernut
Baptisia australis (L.) R. Br.	Baptisia alba (L) Vent.	Rosa blanda Aiton	Ilex verticillata (L.) A. Gray	Staphylea trifolia L.


Common Milkweed	American Bittersweet (early fall fruit)	Blackberry	Black Raspberry	Purple Trillium (Red Trillium)
Asclepias syriaca L.	Celastrus scandens L.	Rubus allegheniensis Porter	Rubus occidentalis L.	Trillium erectum L.
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