Need To Know Which Plants Are Considered Wildflowers In The U.S?

I want to know ASAP to be able to submit pics to the ATP Wildflowers Category Photo Contest.

Can y'all help please?

Thanks!

I would think the name says it. Wild Flower as in any flower that grows naturally in the wild.

how about this site, Marilyn:

http://www.wildflowerinformati...

Jay and Catmint,

Thanks for your help and thanks for a link for a list.

You're right, Jay, I should've thought of that way: "Wild Flower as in any flower that grows naturally in the wild."

Well, the list that Catmint provided is very nice, but it includes plants such as African daisy and many others not native to the U.S.
I guess that a plant doesn't need to be native to our area to be able to grow in the wild, but maybe we should be sticking to natives.
You can find the plants native to Kentucky here,
http://www.wildflower.org/plan...

The photo contest category is "Wildflowers and Natives" so any wildflower would be acceptable.

Yes, I agree, I guess I got carried away, sorry.

frostweed said:Yes, I agree, I guess I got carried away, sorry.

I certainly understand your point of view.Natives are all I have submitted, even in other categories.

Thank you Jay,

frostweed said:Well, the list that Catmint provided is very nice, but it includes plants such as African daisy and many others not native to the U.S.

I know, I was noticing that as well! On the other hand, if you pick up a 'wildflower' seed mix, a lot of these same flowers are in it!

Prairie Moon has some nice *native* wildflower offerings.
http://www.prairiemoon.com/

I like this site even though it is a UK site it has tons on wildflowers
http://www.thewildflowersociet...

Thanks Josephine & everyone!

You are welcome Marilyn

For telling whats native or introduced/exotic in North America I tend to use the USDA site: http://plants.usda.gov/java/

But yes, for the contest, since it says "Wildflowers and Natives" I think they are open to naturalized exotics.

I think BONAP is much better than USDA.
http://bonap.net/NAPA/Genus/Tr...

I think all sites have something good and interesting to offer

(Except probably for the one I posted from the UK as I had missed the part of the question that said 'in the U.S.')

The tricky thing to remember when planting is not all wildflowers are native. pick flowes native to your zone when planting otherwise it could do more harm then good .


many many terrible plants were brought over and planted because they looked pretty or had some value at the time, purple loosestrife, common buckthorn and garlic mustard are primie examples in MN..

You are right, we do need to be careful