List of wildflowers in Indiana

There is a large variety of wildflowers native to Indiana.^[1][2][3][4] The following list is an incomplete list of native perennial flowering plant species.

Wildflowers by scientific name

• Achillea millefolium, common yarrow
• Acorus calamus, sweet flag
• Actaea pachypoda, white baneberry
• Aquilegia canadensis, eastern red columbine
• Arisaema triphyllum, jack-in-the-pulpit
• Aruncus dioicus, goat's beard
• Asarum canadense, wild ginger
• Asclepias tuberosa, butterfly weed
• Asclepias syriaca, common milkweed
• Aster novae-angliae, New England aster
• Baptisia lactea, white false indigo
• Caltha palustris, marsh-marigold
• Caulophyllum thalictroides, blue cohosh (barberry)
• Chelone glabra, white turtlehead
• Cimicifuga racemosa, black snakeroot
• Dicentra cucullaria, Dutchman's breeches
• Dodecatheon meadia, eastern shooting star
• Eupatorium fistulosum, Joe-Pye weed
• Eupatorium perfoliatum, boneset
• Euphorbia corollata, flowering spurge
• Filipendula rubra, queen-of-the-prairie
• Geranium maculatum, wild geranium
• Hypericum, goatweed
• Iris cristata, crested iris
• Iris pseudacorus, yellow iris
• Helianthus tuberosus, Jerusalem artichoke
• Liatris spicata, prairie gay feather
• Lobelia siphilitica, great blue lobelia
• Lysimachia nummularia, moneywort
• Lysimachia punctata, large yellow loosestrife
• Mertensia virginica, Virginia bluebells
• Monarda didyma, crimson beebalm
• Phlox divaricata, wild blue phlox
• Polemonium reptans, Jacob's ladder
• Polygonatum biflorum, Solomon's seal
• Rudbeckia hirta, black-eyed Susan
• Rudbeckia triloba, brown-eyed susan
• Sanguinaria canadensis, bloodroot
• Sedum ternatum, woodland stonecrop
• Stylophorum diphyllum, woods-poppy
• Tiarella cordifolia, heartleaf foamflower
• Trillium, Trillium
• Vernonia noveboracensis, New York ironweed
• Viola papilionacea, blue violet
• Xanthorhiza simplicissima, yellowroot
• Yucca glauca, Great Plains yucca

Bibliography

• Homoya, Michael Allison. Orchids of Indiana. United States: Indiana University Press, 1993.
• Runkel, Sylvan T.., Bull, Alvin F.. Wildflowers of Indiana Woodlands. United States: Iowa State University Press, 1994.
• Wampler, Fred., Wampler, Maryrose. Wildflowers of Indiana. United States: Indiana University Press, 1988.
• Yatskievych, Kay. Field Guide to Indiana Wildflowers. United States: Indiana University Press, 2000.