🌸 State flowers
Connecticut in bloom
Connecticut's official flowers are the mountain laurel (1907) and Michaela Petit's Four-O'Clocks (2015). Meet them, then explore 111 Connecticut wildflowers and garden favorites by bloom month.
Mountain laurel
Kalmia latifolia
Named Connecticut's official state flower in 1907 (Conn. Gen. Stat. § 3-108). In Connecticut, most flowering sightings come in May–June.
Meet the mountain laurel →
Michaela Petit's Four-O'Clocks
Mirabilis jalapa
Named Connecticut's official children's state flower in 2015 (Conn. Gen. Stat. § 3-108a).
Meet the marvel of peru →Sources: Conn. Gen. Stat. § 3-108; Conn. Gen. Stat. § 3-108a; iNaturalist flowering records.
Connecticut flower gifts
State flower gifts for anyone who loves Connecticut.
🌱 Sample spot. Handmade gift picks from independent shops will appear here once our shop partnership is approved. These cards are placeholders, not real products.
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Mountain laurel print
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Michaela Petit's Four-O'Clocks print
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Connecticut wildflower map
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Connecticut mug
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Pressed-flower bookmark
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Wildflower seed favors
Explore 111 Connecticut flowers
101 wildflowers and flowering shrubs, picked from Connecticut's most-observed flowering plants on iNaturalist, plus 10 garden favorites. Filter by bloom month or type.
Showing 109 flowers
Striped wintergreen
Chimaphila maculata
🌼 Blooms in CT: June–July
5,308 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Roses (genus Rosa)
Rosa
🌼 Blooms in CT: May–July
3,853 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Garlic mustard
Alliaria petiolata
🌼 Blooms in CT: April–May
3,497 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Eastern skunk cabbage
Symplocarpus foetidus
🌼 Blooms in CT: February–April
3,419 CT sightings on iNaturalist
American wintergreen
Pyrola americana
🌼 Blooms in CT: June–July
3,288 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Ghost pipe
Monotropa uniflora
🌼 Blooms in CT: June–October
2,935 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Multiflora rose
Rosa multiflora
🌼 Blooms in CT: May–June
2,747 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Canada mayflower
Maianthemum canadense
🌼 Blooms in CT: May
2,528 CT sightings on iNaturalist
American pokeweed
Phytolacca americana
🌼 Blooms in CT: June–October
2,520 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Mapleleaf viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
🌼 Blooms in CT: May–June
2,349 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Common milkweed
Asclepias syriaca
🌼 Blooms in CT: June–July
2,149 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Partridgeberry
Mitchella repens
🌼 Blooms in CT: June
2,135 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Japanese barberry
Berberis thunbergii
🌼 Blooms in CT: April–May
2,124 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Yellow trout lily
Erythronium americanum
🌼 Blooms in CT: April–May
1,910 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Wineberry
Rubus phoenicolasius
🌼 Few flowering records in CT
1,837 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Azure bluet
Houstonia caerulea
🌼 Blooms in CT: April–June
1,774 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Wild geranium
Geranium maculatum
🌼 Blooms in CT: May–June
1,767 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Great mullein
Verbascum thapsus
🌼 Blooms in CT: May–August
1,730 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Wood anemone
Anemonoides quinquefolia
🌼 Blooms in CT: April–May
1,718 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Red clover
Trifolium pratense
🌼 Blooms in CT: May–October
1,709 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Queen Anne's lace (wild carrot)
Daucus carota
🌼 Blooms in CT: June–September
1,628 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Pink lady's slipper
Cypripedium acaule
🌼 Blooms in CT: May–June
1,575 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Jack-in-the-pulpit
Arisaema triphyllum
🌼 Blooms in CT: April–June
1,564 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Black cherry
Prunus serotina
🌼 Blooms in CT: May
1,564 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Ground-ivy
Glechoma hederacea
🌼 Blooms in CT: April–June
1,542 CT sightings on iNaturalist
American witch-hazel
Hamamelis virginiana
🌼 Blooms in CT: October–December
1,458 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Red trillium
Trillium erectum
🌼 Blooms in CT: April–May
1,441 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Greater celandine
Chelidonium majus
🌼 Blooms in CT: April–June
1,421 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Bloodroot
Sanguinaria canadensis
🌼 Blooms in CT: April
1,413 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Common selfheal
Prunella vulgaris
🌼 Blooms in CT: June–September
1,330 CT sightings on iNaturalist
White clover
Trifolium repens
🌼 Blooms in CT: May–October
1,323 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Japanese knotweed
Reynoutria japonica
🌼 Blooms in CT: August–October
1,293 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Common yarrow
Achillea millefolium
🌼 Blooms in CT: May–September
1,211 CT sightings on iNaturalist
White snakeroot
Ageratina altissima
🌼 Blooms in CT: August–October
1,190 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Solomon's plume (false Solomon's seal)
Maianthemum racemosum
🌼 Blooms in CT: May–June
1,167 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Bittersweet nightshade
Solanum dulcamara
🌼 Blooms in CT: May–August
1,121 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Purple loosestrife
Lythrum salicaria
🌼 Blooms in CT: July–September
1,113 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Green false hellebore
Veratrum viride
🌼 Blooms in CT: May–June
1,052 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Lesser periwinkle
Vinca minor
🌼 Blooms in CT: March–May
1,030 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Red deadnettle
Lamium purpureum
🌼 Blooms in CT: March–May
1,025 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Cardinal flower
Lobelia cardinalis
🌼 Blooms in CT: July–September
1,018 CT sightings on iNaturalist
American jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
🌼 Few flowering records in CT
1,015 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Butter-and-eggs (common toadflax)
Linaria vulgaris
🌼 Blooms in CT: June–October
975 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Low smartweed
Persicaria longiseta
🌼 Blooms in CT: June–October
963 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Asiatic dayflower
Commelina communis
🌼 Blooms in CT: June–September
949 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Dame's rocket
Hesperis matronalis
🌼 Blooms in CT: May–June
934 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Northern starflower
Lysimachia borealis
🌼 Blooms in CT: May
912 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Cucumber root
Medeola virginiana
🌼 Blooms in CT: May–July
910 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Carolina horsenettle
Solanum carolinense
🌼 Blooms in CT: June–September
894 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Buttonbush
Cephalanthus occidentalis
🌼 Blooms in CT: July–August
882 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Chicory
Cichorium intybus
🌼 Blooms in CT: June–October
875 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Carpet bugle
Ajuga reptans
🌼 Blooms in CT: April–May
862 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Downy rattlesnake plantain
Goodyera pubescens
🌼 Blooms in CT: July–August
861 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Lesser celandine
Ficaria verna
🌼 Blooms in CT: March–May
859 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Rugosa rose
Rosa rugosa
🌼 Blooms in CT: May–October
850 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Bird's-foot trefoil
Lotus corniculatus
🌼 Blooms in CT: June–September
831 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Purple crownvetch
Securigera varia
🌼 Blooms in CT: June–September
825 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Indian tobacco
Lobelia inflata
🌼 Blooms in CT: July–September
819 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Narrow-leaved bittercress
Cardamine impatiens
🌼 Blooms in CT: May–June
813 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Japanese honeysuckle
Lonicera japonica
🌼 Blooms in CT: June–October
794 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Heath speedwell
Veronica officinalis
🌼 Blooms in CT: May–June
794 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Pinesap
Monotropa hypopitys
🌼 Blooms in CT: August–September
787 CT sightings on iNaturalist
White campion
Silene latifolia
🌼 Blooms in CT: May–August
786 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Black raspberry
Rubus occidentalis
🌼 Few flowering records in CT
771 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Common dandelion
Taraxacum officinale
🌼 Blooms in CT: April–June
750 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Red columbine
Aquilegia canadensis
🌼 Blooms in CT: April–June
750 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Whorled loosestrife
Lysimachia quadrifolia
🌼 Blooms in CT: June–July
702 CT sightings on iNaturalist
American black elderberry
Sambucus canadensis
🌼 Blooms in CT: June–July
697 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Pickerelweed
Pontederia cordata
🌼 Blooms in CT: June–September
696 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Eastern teaberry (wintergreen)
Gaultheria procumbens
🌼 Few flowering records in CT
694 CT sightings on iNaturalist
White wood aster
Eurybia divaricata
🌼 Blooms in CT: August–October
694 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Marsh marigold
Caltha palustris
🌼 Blooms in CT: April–May
688 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Rue anemone
Thalictrum thalictroides
🌼 Blooms in CT: April–May
678 CT sightings on iNaturalist
White meadowsweet
Spiraea alba
🌼 Blooms in CT: June–September
671 CT sightings on iNaturalist
White baneberry
Actaea pachypoda
🌼 Blooms in CT: May
661 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Black-eyed Susan
Rudbeckia hirta
🌼 Blooms in CT: June–August
661 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Bull thistle
Cirsium vulgare
🌼 Blooms in CT: July–September
649 CT sightings on iNaturalist
American hog-peanut
Amphicarpaea bracteata
🌼 Blooms in CT: August–September
641 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Butterfly milkweed
Asclepias tuberosa
🌼 Blooms in CT: June–September
631 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Deptford pink
Dianthus armeria
🌼 Blooms in CT: June–September
627 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Sessile bellwort
Uvularia sessilifolia
🌼 Blooms in CT: April–May
612 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Common star-of-Bethlehem
Ornithogalum umbellatum
🌼 Blooms in CT: May
601 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Common boneset
Eupatorium perfoliatum
🌼 Blooms in CT: August–September
582 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Yellow star grass
Hypoxis hirsuta
🌼 Blooms in CT: May–August
577 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Common wrinkle-leaved goldenrod
Solidago rugosa
🌼 Blooms in CT: August–October
575 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Canada toadflax
Linaria canadensis
🌼 Blooms in CT: May–July
555 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Silverrod
Solidago bicolor
🌼 Blooms in CT: August–October
546 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Japanese pachysandra
Pachysandra terminalis
🌼 Few flowering records in CT
540 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Dutchman's breeches
Dicentra cucullaria
🌼 Blooms in CT: April
538 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Broadleaf enchanter's nightshade
Circaea canadensis
🌼 Blooms in CT: June–August
529 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Common soapwort
Saponaria officinalis
🌼 Blooms in CT: June–September
524 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Wide leek
Allium tricoccum
🌼 Blooms in CT: June–July
506 CT sightings on iNaturalist
American groundnut
Apios americana
🌼 Blooms in CT: July–September
506 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Bluestem goldenrod
Solidago caesia
🌼 Blooms in CT: September–October
498 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Virginia saxifrage
Micranthes virginiensis
🌼 Blooms in CT: April–May
489 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Mayapple
Podophyllum peltatum
🌼 Few flowering records in CT
484 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Blue vervain
Verbena hastata
🌼 Blooms in CT: July–September
480 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Round-lobed hepatica
Hepatica americana
🌼 Blooms in CT: March–April
479 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Fringed loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
🌼 Blooms in CT: June–August
476 CT sightings on iNaturalist
White turtlehead
Chelone glabra
🌼 Blooms in CT: August–September
469 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Virgin's bower
Clematis virginiana
🌼 Few flowering records in CT
466 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Orange daylily
Hemerocallis fulva
🌷 Grown in Connecticut gardens
208 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Common sunflower
Helianthus annuus
🌷 Grown in Connecticut gardens
42 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Purple coneflower
Echinacea purpurea
🌷 Grown in Connecticut gardens
38 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Daffodil
Narcissus pseudonarcissus
🌷 Grown in Connecticut gardens
19 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Garden peony
Paeonia lactiflora
🌷 Grown in Connecticut gardens
2 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Garden tulip
Tulipa gesneriana
🌷 Grown in Connecticut gardens
1 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Purple lilac
Syringa vulgaris
🌷 Grown in Connecticut gardens
0 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Bigleaf hydrangea
Hydrangea macrophylla
🌷 Grown in Connecticut gardens
0 CT sightings on iNaturalist
Connecticut bloom calendar
Show the full bloom calendar (flowers with 15+ Connecticut flowering records, earliest bloomers first)
Darker = more flowering sightings that month. Based on iNaturalist research-grade observations in Connecticut marked “Flowering,” as of October 17, 2026. Garden flowers have few records because research-grade data leaves out planted ones.
How we picked these flowers
We started from iNaturalist's research-grade sightings in Connecticut, most-observed first, left out grasses, sedges, trees and other plants with tiny or wind-pollinated flowers (plus poison ivy), kept at most three species per genus, and added Connecticut's official flowers and popular garden flowers that iNaturalist users record growing in Connecticut. Every flower needs a CC0 or CC BY photo.
Rare plant list: Connecticut Endangered, Threatened and Special Concern Plants (RCSA 26-306; 2015 list)
Invasive plant list: Connecticut prohibited invasive plants (Conn. Gen. Stat. § 22a-381d)