This gallery was created from images provided by members of the Ontario Native Plant Gardening Facebook group, starting in late April of 2021. The goal was to show what plants and seedlings look like as they emerge in the spring.
Photos are used with the owner’s permission. No attempt has been made to verify the identifications provided by the owners, so if you see an error please email admin@monarchawardshamilton.org.
The locations and dates may be added at some point, but this is a start.
If you would like to contribute a photo to the gallery, please email admin@monarchawardshamilton.org
Achillea millefolium / White Yarrow (native?)
Agastache foeniculum / Anise Hyssop
Agastache nepetoides / Giant Yellow Hyssop
Allium cernuum / Nodding Wild Onion
Anaphalis margaritacea / Pearly Everlasting
Anemone multifida / Pacific anemone
Aquilegia canadensis / Wild Red Columbine
Aquilegia canadensis / Wild Red Columbine
Asarum canadense / Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense / Wild Ginger
Asclepias tuberosa / Butterfly milkweed
Astragalus canadensis / Canada Milk Vetch
Baptisia australis / Blue baptisia (near-native)
Bidens cernua / Nodding Beggarticks
Caltha palustris / Marsh Marigold
Campanula rotundifolia / Harebell
Campanula rotundifolia / Harebell
Chelone glabra / White Turtlehead
Circaea lutetiana / Broad-leaf Enchanters Nightshade
Clematis virginiana / Virgins bower
Eurybia divaricata / White Wood Aster
Gallium triflorum / Fragrant bedstraw
Geranium maculatum / Wild Geranium
Geum triflorum / Prairie Smoke
Geum triflorum / Prairie Smoke
Hydrophyllum canadense / Canada Waterleaf seedlings
Hydrophyllum canadense / Canada Waterleaf
Hydrophyllum virginiana / Virginia Waterleaf
Impatiens capensis / Spotted jewelweed / Spotted touch-me-not
Impatients pallida / Yellow Jewelweed
Liatris spicata / Gayfeather / Blazing Star
Lilium michiganense / Michigan Lily
Lupinus perenne / Sundial Lupin
Lysimachia ciliata / Fringed Loosestrife
Maianthemum stellatum / Starry False Solomons Seal
Mertensia virginica / Virginia Bluebells
Mertensia virginica / Virginia Bluebells
Mertensia virginica / Virginia bluebells
Mimulus ringens / Monkey Flower
Monarda fistulosa / Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa / Wild Bergamot
Monarda punctata / Spotted Bee Balm
Monarda punctata / Spotted Bee Balm
enothera biennis / Common Evening Primrose
Phlox pulchra / Mountain Phlox / Smooth Phlox
Cypripedium parviflorum / Silverweed
Potentilla norvegica / Rough Cinquefoil
Pycnanthemum virginiana / Virginia Mountain Mint
Rubus odorata / Flowering raspberry
Sanguinaria canadense / Bloodroot
Sanicula marilandica / Maryland Black Snakeroot (Sanicle)
Pycnanthemum virginiana / Strict Blue-Eyed Grass
Solidago flexicaulis / Zigzag Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides / Upland White Aster
Stylophorum diphyllum / Wood Poppy
Stylophorum diphyllum / Wood Poppy
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae / New England Aster
Thalictrum dioicum / Early Meadow Rue
Tradescantia ohiensis / Spiderwort
Trillium, species unknown
Verbena hastata / Blue Vervain
Veronicastrum virginicum / Culvers Root
Waldsteinia fragarioides / Barren Strawberry (near native) aka Geum fragaroides
Zigadenus elegans / White Camass