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. Most of 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	Common 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 10/07/03
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 5/01/05	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	Dwarf Ginseng on 4/20/08	White Trillium on 4/20/08
Foamflower on 4/20/08
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 on 6/15/00
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 4/21/01	Wood Sorrel on 6/01/03
Sweet Joe-pye-weed on 8/24/03	Virginia Rose on 6/9/02	Virginia Mountain Mint
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 (Wake Robin) on 4/20/08
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
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	Common Mullein on 7/7/00
Blue Cohosh on 4/20/08
Green Flowers
False Solomon's Seal on 4/26/01	Indian Cucumber on 10/7/03	Jack-in-the-pulpit on 5/6/00	Solomon's Seal on 4/26/01	Tulip Poplar (flower on tree)
Blue Flowers
Asiatic Dayflower on 7/4/02	Common Speedwell on 5/12/01	Lyre-Leaved Sage on 5/12/01	Pointed Blue-eyed Grass on 5/21/01	Spiked Lobelia on 8/18/00
Thyme-leaved Bluets on 4/20/08	Wild Blue Phlox on 4/20/08
Purple Flowers
Birdfoot Violet on 4/26/01	Bottle Gentian on 8/31/03	Chicory on 7/19/00	Common Blue Violet on 4/21/01	Cowvetch on 6/25/05
Downy Skullcap on 6/9/02	Gill-over-the-ground on 4/28/00	Hairy Beardtongue on 6/25/05	Heal-all on 10/7/03	Spiderwort on 5/24/04
Venus's Looking Glass on 5/25/00	Wild Geranium on 4/27/00	Crested Dwarf Iris on 4/20/08
Fungi
False Puffball in summer	Pear Shape Puffball on 10/7/03
Ferns and Mosses
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

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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