I have decided to list some of the wildflowers, flowering plants, mosses, ferns, and trees that I have identified and when I have identified them, but after reading this list you say to yourself, "that's not possible!" Let me know if I couldn't possibly be right, due to time of year or simply the wrong part of the country for the plant. And help me identify the plant and I promise to correct this list. These were all found growing wild on walks near the house or hikes in the area, or on mountain bike rides in the woods.

The Goldfinch with the sunflower painting is just a bit of decoration here, but it does have a purpose. Birds and flowers go together, since birds do feed on various seeds and end up spreading different species of flowers to new areas. Though I haven't seen a Goldfinch hanging on a sunflower yet, the odds are good since I know where a lot of sunflowers are growing. I have seen Goldfinches on Thistles, trying to get the seeds. As far as spreading flowers goes, I know that we never used to have Jewelweed growing around the house until we had Hummingbirds feeding at the house. They like the nectar in Jewelweed and I no doubt believe they were the ones to spread the seeds here. Which is great, since they are a native species with pretty flowers and some folk medicinal use. The juice from the stems is supposed to be good for poison ivy rashes. Some people freeze the juice in ice cubes to use when they have an outbreak from the poison ivy. We have a lot of poison ivy growing around here, and I don't rely only on jewelweed, but it helps.

White Flowers
Carolina Vetch on 4/26/01	Chickweed on 4/23/01	Blue Violet (White Variety) on 4/21/01	Daisy Fleabane on 4/23/00	Toothwort on 4/20/08
Filmy Angelica on 8/24/03	Flowering Dogwood on 4/26/01	Flowering Spurge on 7/20/00	Galax with flower stalks on 10/7/03	Grass-of-Parnassus on 8/24/03
Horse Nettle on 7/03/05	Indian Pipes on 6/2/02	Japanese Honeysuckle	June Grass in the summer	Mayapple with bloom on 5/6/00
Mountain Laurel on 5/13/00	Multiflora Rose on 5/13/00	Nodding Trillium on 5/01/05	Oxeye Daisy on 7/04/02	Partridgeberry on 5/24/08
Pea (a variety) in spring	Queen Anne's Lace on 6/24/00	Rattlesnake Plantain on 6/29/00	Rosebay Rhododendron	Spotted Wintergreen on 6/25/05
Star Chickweed on 4/25/09	Swamp Dewberry on 4/26/01	Sweet Crab Apple on 4/26/01	Sweet White Violet on 5/01/05	Thimbleweed on 6/11/00
Wild Stonecrop on 5/19/01	Yucca on 7/03/05	Wood Anemone on 4/26/01	White Wood Aster on 8/24/03	White Milkweed in summer
White Snakeroot on 8/24/03	Sweet Cicely in spring	Painted Trillium on 4/20/08	White Wake Robin on 4/22/07	White Trillium on 4/20/08
Foamflower on 4/15/08	Umbrella Leaf on 5/15/08	Canada Mayflower on 5/15/08	Speckled Wood Lily on 5/15/08	Brook Lettuce on 5/15/08
Carolina Silverbell (tree) on 5/3/08	Lily-of-the-Valley on 4/29/08	Star-of-Bethlehem on 4/4/08 **	Bowman's Root on 5/26/07	White Phlox on 6/23/07
False Solomon's Seal on 4/26/01	Bloodroot on 4/01/06	Mouse-eared Chickweed in April	Foxglove on 6/23/06	Swamp Honeysuckle on 7/08/06
Wild Potato Vine on 7/8/06	Poke Milkweed on 6/22/08	Goat's Beard on 6/22/08	Yarrow on 6/22/08	Dog Hobble on 5/17/08
Calico Aster on 10/14/06	Round-lobed Hepatica in October	Sharp-lobed Hepatica 4/25/07	Rue Anemone on 03/06/08	Canada Violet on 04/25/07
Dwarf Ginseng on 4/20/08	Honewort on 6/24/07	Whorled Wild Yam on 4/26/09	Cutleaf Toothwort on 4/25/09	Virgin's Bower on 8/16/09
Wild Pansy on 3/24/09	Bishop's Cap on 4/25/09	Black Cohosh on 6/25/09	Fringed Phacelia on 4/30/10	One-flowered Cancer Root on 5/02/10
Fairy Wand on 5/02/10
Pink Flowers
Beach Pea on 6/17/00	Beach Pea (variety) on 4/27/00	Bull Thistle on 8/24/03	Daisy Fleabane on 4/23/00	Deptford Pink in June 2007
Lady's Thumb on 10/28/99	Nodding Thistle on 6/05/05	Pink Turtlehead on 8/24/03	Queen of the Prairie on 7/3/05	Red Clover on 6/24/00
Rose Pink on 7/20/00	Herb Robert on 7/08/05	Showy Tick-Trefoil on 8/2/00	Spring Beauty on 4/18/07	Common Wood Sorrel on 6/01/03
Sweet Joe-pye-weed on 8/24/03	Virginia Rose on 6/9/02	Virginia Mountain Mint	Pink Lady's Slipper on 5/15/08	Leatherflower in June 2007
Pink Phlox on 6/23/07	Storksbill on 3/18/06	Gill-over-the-ground on 4/28/00	Naked-Flowered Tick-Trefoil	Showy Orchis on 5/27/06
Trailing Arbutus on 4/01/06	Dame's Rocket on 5/6/06	Purple-flowering Raspberry in June	Catawba Rhododendron	Morning Glory on 7/25/09
Red Flowers
Bee Balm on 6/26/05	Fire Pink on 4/27/00	Indian Blanket on 5/26/05 **	Pinesap on 10/07/03	Toadshade (Red Trillium) on 4/12/01
Trumpet Honeysuckle on 4/22/01	Wild Columbine on 4/23/01	Purple Trillium on 4/20/08	Carolina Allspice on 5/3/08	Vasey's Trillium on 5/15/08
Indian Pink on 6/15/08	Wild Ginger on 4/25/09
Orange Flowers
Butterfly Weed on 7/03/05	Daylily in summer	Spotted Touch-Me-Not (or Jewelweed)	Turk's-cap Lily on 8/24/03	Flame Azalea on 6/22/08
Yellow Flowers
Common Dandelion on 4/23/01	Common St. Johns Wort	Black-eyed Susan on 6/24/00	Dwarf Cinquefoil on 4/27/00	Common Winter Cress on 4/27/00
Evening Primrose on 6/25/05	Golden Alexanders on 4/21/01	Coneflower on 4/16/05	Halberd-leaved Violet on 5/01/05	Hop Clover on 5/13/00
Pale Touch-Me-Not (or Pale Jewelweed)	Rattlesnake Weed on 4/26/01	Goldenrod on 9/24/00	Squawroot on 4/23/01	Trout Lily on 4/20/08
Yellow Star Grass on 7/24/05	Whorled Loosestrife on 5/27/00	Wild Indigo in summer	Large-flowered Bellwort on 4/20/08	Mountain Bellwort on 4/30/09
Blue Cohosh on 4/20/08	Puttyroot or Adam-and-Eve Orchid	Early Yellow Violet on 4/01/06	Lance-leaved Goldenrod	Yellow Wood Sorrel on 6/24/07
Meadow Parsnip on 6/23/08	Early Meadow Rue on 6/23/08	Swamp Buttercup on 4/17/07	Yellow Trillium on 4/25/09	Yellow Flag on 5/18/09
Yellow Pondlily on 5/24/09	Wide-leaf Sunflower 8/16/09	Common Mullein on 7/7/00	Striped Maple tree (Moosewood) 4/09	Yellow Mandarin on 4/30/09
Kidneyleaf Buttercup on 4/25/09
Green Flowers
Indian Cucumber on 5/17/08	Jack-in-the-pulpit on 5/6/00	Solomon's Seal on 4/26/09	Solomon's Seal (large var.)	Tulip Poplar (flower on tree)
Arrow Arum on 5/08/09	False Hellebore on 4/25/10			<
Blue Flowers
Asiatic Dayflower on 7/4/02	Common Speedwell on 5/12/01	Lyre-Leaved Sage in May 2007	Pointed Blue-eyed Grass on 5/21/01	Spiked Lobelia on 8/18/00
Thyme-leaved Bluets on 4/30/09	Wild Blue Phlox on 4/20/08	Cornflower Knapweed on 6/4/07	Birdseye Speedwell in May 2007
Purple Flowers
Birdfoot Violet on 4/26/01	Bottle Gentian on 10/19/06	Chicory on 7/19/00	Common Blue Violet on 4/21/01	Cow Vetch on 6/25/05
Downy Skullcap on 6/9/02	Hairy Beardtongue on 6/25/05	Heal-all on 10/7/03	Spiderwort on 5/24/04	Morning Glory on 6/30/06
Venus's Looking Glass on 5/25/00	Wild Geranium on 4/18/07	Crested Dwarf Iris on 4/20/08	Wisteria on 4/2/08 **	Periwinkle on 4/28/07
Bittersweet Nightshade 5/8/09
Fungi
False Puffball in summer	Pear Shape Puffball on 10/7/03	Cone-shaped Hygrophorus	Honey Mushroom on 10/5/06	Glistening Inky Cap in June 2007
Bleeding Mycena on 6/21/09	Bitter Bolete on 6/25/09
Ferns, Mosses, and Lichens
Christmas Fern on 5/25/00	Rattlesnake Fern on 5/12/01	Running Cedar Moss on 6/25/05	Shining Clubmoss on 4/20/08	Ground Moss on 11/11/06
Toadskin Lichen on 10/5/06	Yellow Lichen on 10/5/06	Reindeer Moss on 10/19/06	British Soldiers on 10/19/06	Maidenhair Fern on 10/19/06
Unknown Lichen ? in June 2007

References

• "Field Guide to North American Wildflowers" Eastern Region published by the National Audubon Society
• "North American Wildlife" published by Reader's Digest
• "Eastern Forests" published by the National Audubon Society
• "Medicinal Plants and Herbs" Eastern/Central by Steven Foster and James A. Duke (Peterson Field Guide)
• "Wildflowers of the Smokies" published by Great Smoky Mountains Association

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