About Bloomipedia

Bloomipedia is a small, independent guide to the official flowers of the U.S. states and the wildflowers that grow around them. We want flower facts to be easy and fun, whether you're planning a garden, out on a spring walk, or hunting for the perfect flower-themed gift.

Where our facts come from

• USDA PLANTS Database: growth habit, life cycle, native or introduced status, and the states where each plant is recorded.
• iNaturalist: research-grade community observations, which we use to pick each state's flowers, for sighting counts, and for bloom charts built from observations marked “Flowering.”
• Wikipedia: background facts, either restated in our own words or quoted with credit under CC BY-SA.
• Conservation: USFWS ECOS (federal Endangered Species Act), each state's official endangered and threatened plant list where one exists, and NatureServe ranks.
• Invasive plants: each state's official invasive or noxious plant list where one exists.
• Edibility and safety: NC State Extension's Plant Toolbox and the ASPCA's plant list. If no good source exists, we say “not well documented.”
• State law: official state flower designations, citing the statute when we can.

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