wild flower

Other forms: wild flowers

Definitions of wild flower

1. noun

   wild or uncultivated flowering plant
   synonyms: wildflower

   types:

   Ranunculus glaberrimus, sagebrush buttercup

   small early-flowering buttercup with shiny yellow flowers of western North America

   pasque flower, pasqueflower

   any plant of the genus Pulsatilla; sometimes included in genus Anemone

   meadow rue

   any of various herbs of the genus Thalictrum; sometimes rhizomatous or tuberous perennials found in damp shady places and meadows or stream banks; have lacy foliage and clouds of small purple or yellow flowers

   sand verbena

   any of various plants of the genus Abronia of western North America and Mexico having flowers resembling verbena

   Allionia incarnata, trailing four o'clock, trailing windmills

   trailing plant having crowded clusters of 3 brilliant deep pink flowers resembling a single flower blooming near the ground; found in dry gravelly or sandy soil; southwestern United States and Mexico

   Calandrinia ciliata, red maids, redmaids

   succulent carpet-forming plant having small brilliant reddish-pink flowers; southwestern United States

   Lewisia cotyledon, siskiyou lewisia

   evergreen perennial having a dense basal rosette of long spatula-shaped leaves and panicles of pink or white-and-red-striped or pink-purple flowers; found on cliffs and in rock crevices in mountains of southwestern Oregon and northern California

   Lewisia rediviva, bitterroot

   showy succulent ground-hugging plant of Rocky Mountains regions having deep to pale pink flowers and fleshy farinaceous roots; the Montana state flower

   Calyptridium umbellatum, Spraguea umbellatum, pussy's-paw, pussy-paw, pussy-paws

   pink clusters of densely packed flowers on prostrate stems resemble upturned pads of cats' feet; grow in coniferous forests of western North America

   Talinum aurantiacum, flame flower, flame-flower, flameflower

   plant with fleshy roots and erect stems with narrow succulent leaves and one reddish-orange flower in each upper leaf axil; southwestern United States; Indians once cooked the fleshy roots

   Antheropeas wallacei, Eriophyllum wallacei, dwarf daisy, woolly daisy

   tiny grey woolly tufted annual with small golden-yellow flower heads; southeastern California to northwestern Arizona and southwestern Utah; sometimes placed in genus Eriophyllum

   Arnica cordifolia, heartleaf arnica

   wildflower with heart-shaped leaves and broad yellow flower heads; of alpine areas west of the Rockies from Alaska to southern California

   Arnica montana

   herb of pasture and open woodland throughout most of Europe and western Asia having orange-yellow daisylike flower heads that when dried are used as a stimulant and to treat bruises and swellings

   false chamomile

   any of various autumn-flowering perennials having white or pink to purple flowers that resemble asters; wild in moist soils from New Jersey to Florida and Texas

   oxeye

   Eurasian perennial herbs having daisylike flowers with yellow rays and dark centers

   golden aster

   any of several shrubby herbs or subshrubs of the genus Chrysopsis having bright golden-yellow flower heads that resemble asters; throughout much of United States and into Canada

   hawk's-beard, hawk's-beards

   any of various plants of the genus Crepis having loose heads of yellow flowers on top of a long branched leafy stem; northern hemisphere

   Encelia farinosa, brittle bush, brittlebush, incienso

   fragrant rounded shrub of southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico having brittle stems and small crowded blue-green leaves and yellow flowers; produces a resin used in incense and varnish and in folk medicine

   Enceliopsis nudicaulis, sunray

   herb having a basal cluster of grey-green leaves and leafless stalks each with a solitary broad yellow flower head; desert areas Idaho to Arizona

   engelmannia

   common erect hairy perennial of plains and prairies of southern and central United States having flowers that resemble sunflowers

   fleabane

   any of several North American plants of the genus Erigeron having daisylike flowers; formerly believed to repel fleas

   woolly sunflower

   any plant of the genus Eriophyllum

   gaillardia

   any plant of western America of the genus Gaillardia having hairy leaves and long-stalked flowers in hot vibrant colors from golden yellow and copper to rich burgundy

   Gerea canescens, desert sunflower

   slender hairy plant with few leaves and golden-yellow flower heads; sandy desert areas of southeastern California to southwestern Utah and western Arizona and northwestern Mexico

   goldenbush

   a plant of the genus Haplopappus

   heliopsis, oxeye

   any North American shrubby perennial herb of the genus Heliopsis having large yellow daisylike flowers

   Chrysopsis villosa, Heterotheca villosa, hairy golden aster, prairie golden aster

   hairy perennial with yellow flower heads in branched clusters; found almost everywhere in dry places from Canada to west central and western United States; sometimes placed in genus Chrysopsis

   Hulsea algida, alpine gold, alpine hulsea

   low tufted plant having hairy stems each topped by a flower head with short narrow yellow rays; northwestern United States

   Hulsea nana, dwarf hulsea

   similar to but smaller than alpine hulsea

   Lasthenia chrysostoma, goldfields

   small slender woolly annual with very narrow opposite leaves and branches bearing solitary golden-yellow flower heads; southwestern Oregon to Baja California and Arizona; often cultivated

   hawkbit

   any of various common wildflowers of the genus Leontodon; of temperate Eurasia to Mediterranean regions

   Leontopodium alpinum, edelweiss

   alpine perennial plant native to Europe having leaves covered with whitish down and small flower heads held in stars of glistening whitish bracts

   Leucogenes leontopodium, north island edelweiss

   perennial herb closely resembling European edelweiss; New Zealand

   blazing star, button snakeroot, gay-feather, gayfeather, snakeroot

   any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads

   Machaeranthera tanacetifolia, tahoka daisy, tansy leaf aster

   wild aster with fernlike leaves and flower heads with very narrow bright purple rays; Alberta to Texas and Mexico

   Machaeranthera bigelovii, sticky aster

   wild aster having leafy stems and flower heads with narrow bright reddish-lavender or purple rays; western Colorado to Arizona

   Machaeranthera tortifoloia, Mojave aster

   wild aster having greyish leafy stems and flower heads with narrow pale lavender or violet rays; of rocky desert slopes California to Arizona and Utah

   Madia elegans, common madia, common tarweed

   California annual having red-brown spots near the base of its yellow flower rays

   Melampodium leucanthum, blackfoot daisy

   bushy subshrub having flower heads that resemble asters with broad white rays; found in desert areas of Arizona east to Kansas and south to Mexico

   coneflower

   a wildflower of the genus Ratibida

   Senecio bigelovii, nodding groundsel

   plant with erect leafy stems bearing clusters of rayless yellow flower heads on bent individual stalks; moist regions of southwestern United States

   Senecio glabellus, butterweed, ragwort

   American ragwort with yellow flowers

   Senecio triangularis, arrowleaf groundsel

   perennial with sharply toothed triangular leaves on leafy stems bearing a cluster of yellow flower heads; moist places in mountains of western North America

   goldenrod

   any of numerous chiefly summer-blooming and fall-blooming North American plants especially of the genus Solidago

   Haplopappus acaulis, Stenotus acaulis, stemless golden weed

   dark green erect herb of northwestern United States and southwestern Canada having stiff leaves in dense tufts and yellow flower heads; sometimes placed in genus Haplopappus

   Tanacetum douglasii, northern dune tansy

   lightly hairy rhizomatous perennial having aromatic feathery leaves and stems bearing open clusters of small buttonlike yellow flowers; sand dunes of Pacific coast of North America

   Hymenoxys acaulis, Tetraneuris acaulis, stemless hymenoxys

   perennial having tufted basal leaves and short leafless stalks each bearing a solitary yellow flower head; dry hillsides and plains of west central North America

   Hymenoxys grandiflora, Tetraneuris grandiflora, alpine sunflower, old man of the mountain

   whitish hairy plant with featherlike leaves and a few stout stems each bearing an especially handsome solitary large yellow flower head; mountainous regions north central United States

   Tragopogon dubius, yellow salsify

   European perennial naturalized throughout United States having hollow stems with a few long narrow tapered leaves and each bearing a solitary pale yellow flower

   Tragopogon pratensis, goatsbeard, meadow salsify, shepherd's clock

   weedy European annual with yellow flowers; naturalized in United States

   Wyethia amplexicaulis, mule's ears

   balsamic-resinous herb with clumps of lanceolate leaves and stout leafy stems ending in large deep yellow flowers on long stalks; northwestern United States

   Wyethia helianthoides, white-rayed mule's ears

   herb with basal leaves and leafy hairy stems bearing solitary flower heads with white or pale cream-colored rays; northwestern United States

   Indian pipe, Monotropa uniflora, waxflower

   small waxy white or pinkish-white saprophytic woodland plant having scalelike leaves and a nodding flower; turns black with age

   Monotropa hypopithys, false beachdrops, pinesap

   fleshy tawny or reddish saprophytic herb resembling the Indian pipe and growing in woodland humus of eastern North America; in some classifications placed in a separate genus Hypopitys

   Sarcodes sanguinea, snow plant

   a fleshy bright red saprophytic plant of the mountains of western North America that appears in early spring while snow is on the ground

   Eustoma grandiflorum, bluebell, prairie gentian, tulip gentian

   one of the most handsome prairie wildflowers having large erect bell-shaped bluish flowers; of moist places in prairies and fields from eastern Colorado and Nebraska south to New Mexico and Texas

   Boykinia elata, Boykinia occidentalis, coast boykinia

   plant with leaves mostly at the base and openly branched clusters of small white flowers; western North America

   Leptarrhena pyrolifolia, leatherleaf saxifrage

   plant with basal leathery elliptic leaves and erect leafless flower stalks each bearing a dense roundish cluster of tiny white flowers; moist places of northwestern North America to Oregon and Idaho

   Lithophragma parviflorum, prairie star

   plant with mostly basal leaves and slender open racemes of white or pale pink flowers; prairies and open forest of northwestern United States to British Columbia and Alberta

   Parnassia fimbriata, fringed grass of Parnassus

   bog plant with broadly heart-shaped basal leaves and cream-colored or white saucer-shaped flowers with fringed petals; west of Rocky Mountains from Alaska to New Mexico

   Tellima grandiflora, false alumroot, fringe cups

   plant growing in clumps with mostly basal leaves and cream-colored or pale pink fringed flowers in several long racemes; Alaska to coastal central California and east to Idaho

   Tiarella unifoliata, false miterwort, false mitrewort

   plant with tiny white flowers hanging in loose clusters on leafy stems; moist woods from Alaska to central California and east to Montana

   kitten-tails

   a plant of the genus Besseya having fluffy spikes of flowers

   Indian paintbrush, painted cup

   any of various plants of the genus Castilleja having dense spikes of hooded flowers with brightly colored bracts

   Collinsia bicolor, Collinsia heterophylla, innocense, purple chinese houses

   white and lavender to pale-blue flowers grow in perfect rings of widely spaced bands around the stems forming a kind of pagoda; California

   Collinsia parviflora, maiden blue-eyed Mary

   small widely branching western plant with tiny blue-and-white flowers; British Columbia to Ontario and south to California and Colorado

   Collinsia verna, blue-eyed Mary

   eastern United States plant with whorls of blue-and-white flowers

   Penstemon barbatus, golden-beard penstemon

   plant of southwestern United States having long open clusters of scarlet flowers with yellow hairs on lower lip

   Penstemon centranthifolius, scarlet bugler

   plant with bright red tubular flowers in long narrow clusters near tips of erect stems; coastal ranges from central California southward

   Penstemon cyananthus, Platte River penstemon

   erect plant with blue-violet flowers in rings near tips of stems; Idaho to Utah and Wyoming

   Davidson's penstemon, Penstemon davidsonii

   mat-forming plant with blue and lavender flowers clustered on short erect stems; British Columbia to northern California

   Penstemon deustus, hot-rock penstemon

   stems in clumps with cream-colored flowers; found from Washington to Wyoming and southward to California and Utah

   Jones' penstemon, Penstemon dolius

   low plant with light blue and violet flowers in short clusters near tips of stems; Nevada to Utah

   Penstemon fruticosus, lowbush penstemon, shrubby penstemon

   low bushy plant with large showy pale lavender or blue-violet flowers in narrow clusters at ends of stems

   Penstemon linarioides, narrow-leaf penstemon

   plant having small narrow leaves and blue-violet flowers in long open clusters; Utah and Colorado to New Mexico and Arizona

   Penstemon newberryi, mountain pride

   mat-forming plant with deep pink flowers on short erect leafy stems; rocky places at high elevations from Oregon to California

   Penstemon palmeri, balloon flower, scented penstemon

   fragrant puffed-up white to reddish-pink flowers in long narrow clusters on erect stems; Arizona to New Mexico and Utah

   Parry's penstemon, Penstemon parryi

   erect stems with pinkish-lavender flowers in long interrupted clusters; Arizona

   Penstemon rupicola, cliff penstemon, rock penstemon

   one of the West's most beautiful wildflowers; large brilliant pink or rose flowers in many racemes above thick mats of stems and leaves; ledges and cliffs from Washington to California

   Penstemon rydbergii, Rydberg's penstemon

   plant with whorls of small dark blue-violet flowers; Washington to Wyoming and south to California and Colorado

   Penstemon serrulatus, cascade penstemon

   whorls of deep blue to dark purple flowers at tips of erect leafy stems; moist places from British Columbia to Oregon

   Penstemon whippleanus, Whipple's penstemon

   wine and lavender to purple and black flowers in several clusters on the upper half of leafy stems; Montana south through the Rocky Mountains to Arizona and New Mexico

   Daucus carota, Queen Anne's lace, wild carrot

   a widely naturalized Eurasian herb with finely cut foliage and white compound umbels of small white or yellowish flowers and thin yellowish roots

   American pasqueflower, American pulsatilla, Anemone ludoviciana, Eastern pasque flower, Pulsatilla patens, blue tulip, lion's beard, prairie anemone, wild crocus

   short hairy perennial with early spring blue-violet or lilac flowers; North America and Siberia

   Anemone occidentalis, Pulsatilla occidentalis, Western pasqueflower

   of western North America

   Anemone pulsatilla, European pasqueflower, Pulsatilla vulgaris

   European perennial having usually violet or white spring flowers

   Abronia elliptica, snowball, sweet sand verbena

   plant having heads of fragrant white trumpet-shaped flowers; grows in sandy arid regions

   Abronia fragrans, sweet sand verbena

   taller than Abronia elliptica and having night-blooming flowers

   Abronia latifolia, yellow sand verbena

   plant having hemispherical heads of yellow trumpet-shaped flowers; found in coastal dunes from California to British Columbia

   Abronia maritima, beach pancake

   plant having hemispherical heads of wine-red flowers; found in coastal dunes from California to Mexico

   Abronia umbellata, beach sand verbena, pink sand verbena

   prostrate herb having heads of deep pink to white flowers; found in coastal dunes from British Columbia to Baja California

   Abronia villosa, desert sand verbena

   soft-haired sticky plant with heads of bright pink trumpet-shaped flowers; found in sandy desert soil; after ample rains may carpet miles of desert with pink from the southwestern United States to northern Mexico

   Talinum augustissimum, narrow-leaved flame flower

   similar to Talinum aurantiacum but with narrower leaves and yellow-orange flowers; southwestern United States

   Talinum brevifolium, pigmy talinum

   low plant with crowded narrow succulent leaves and fairly large deep pink axillary flowers that seem to sit on the ground; southwestern United States

   Talinum calycinum, rock pink

   pink-flowered perennial of rocky regions of western United States

   Talinum paniculatum, jewels-of-opar

   erect plant with tuberous roots and terminal panicles of red to yellow flowers; southwestern North America to Central America; widely introduced elsewhere

   Talinum spinescens, spiny talinum

   low cushion-forming plant with rose to crimson-magenta flowers and leaf midribs that persist as spines when the leaves die; southwestern United States

   Buphthalmum salicifolium, woodland oxeye

   hairy Eurasian perennial having deep yellow daisies on lax willowy stems; found in the wild in open woodland and on rocky slopes

   Chrysopsis mariana, Maryland golden aster

   perennial golden aster of southeastern United States

   grass-leaved golden aster

   a variety of golden aster

   sickleweed golden aster

   a variety of golden aster

   Erigeron acer, blue fleabane

   widespread weed with pale purple-blue flowers

   Erigeron annuus, daisy fleabane

   widely naturalized white-flowered North American herb

   Erigeron aurantiacus, orange daisy, orange fleabane

   mat-forming herb of Turkestan with nearly double orange-yellow flowers

   Erigeron divergens, spreading fleabane

   well-branched plant with hairy leaves and stems each with a solitary flower head with narrow white or pink or lavender rays; western North America

   Erigeron glaucous, beach aster, seaside daisy

   slightly succulent perennial with basal leaves and hairy sticky stems each bearing a solitary flower head with narrow pink or lavender rays; coastal bluffs Oregon to southern California

   Erigeron philadelphicus, Philadelphia fleabane

   especially pretty plant having a delicate fringe of threadlike rays around flower heads having very slender white or pink rays; United States and Canada

   Erigeron pulchellus, robin's plantain

   common perennial of eastern North America having flowers with usually violet-purple rays

   Erigeron speciosus, showy daisy

   plant having branching leafy stems each branch with an especially showy solitary flower head with many narrow pink or lavender or white rays; northwestern United States mountains

   Eriophyllum lanatum, golden yarrow

   greyish woolly leafy perennial with branched stems ending in leafless stalks bearing golden-yellow flower heads; dry areas western North America

   Gaillardia pulchella, Indian blanket, blanket flower, fire wheel, fire-wheel

   annual of central United States having showy long-stalked yellow flower heads marked with scarlet or purple in the center

   Haplopappus phyllocephalus, camphor daisy

   annual of southern United States and Mexico having bristly leaves and pale yellow flowers

   Haplopappus spinulosus, yellow spiny daisy

   slender perennial of western North America having weakly bristly leaves and yellow flower heads

   Leontodon autumnalis, arnica bud, fall dandelion

   fall-blooming European herb with a yellow flower; naturalized in the United States

   Liatris punctata, dotted gayfeather

   herb with many stems bearing narrow slender wands of crowded rose-lavender flowers; central United States and Canada to Texas and northern Mexico

   Liatris pycnostachya, dense blazing star

   perennial of southeastern and central United States having very dense spikes of purple flowers; often cultivated for cut flowers

   Mexican hat, Ratibida columnaris

   coneflower with flower heads resembling a Mexican hat with a tall red-brown disk and drooping yellow or yellow and red-brown rays; grows in the great plains along base of Rocky Mountains

   Ratibida columnifera, long-head coneflower, prairie coneflower

   plant similar to the Mexican hat coneflower; from British Columbia to New Mexico

   Ratibida tagetes, prairie coneflower

   coneflower of central to southwestern United States

   Solidago bicolor, silverrod

   plant of eastern North America having creamy white flowers

   Canadian goldenrod, Solidago canadensis, meadow goldenrod

   large North American goldenrod having showy clusters of yellow flowers on arching branches; often a weed

   Missouri goldenrod, Solidago missouriensis

   similar to meadow goldenrod but usually smaller

   Solidago multiradiata, alpine goldenrod

   goldenrod similar to narrow goldenrod but having bristly hairs on edges of leaf stalks; mountainous regions of western America

   Solidago nemoralis, gray goldenrod, grey goldenrod

   a dyer's weed of Canada and the eastern United States having yellow flowers sometimes used in dyeing

   Blue Mountain tea, Solidago odora, sweet goldenrod

   goldenrod of eastern America having aromatic leaves from which a medicinal tea is made

   Solidago rugosa, dyer's weed

   eastern North American herb whose yellow flowers are (or were) used in dyeing

   Solidago sempervirens, beach goldenrod, seaside goldenrod

   vigorous showy goldenrod common along eastern coast and Gulf Coast of North America

   Solidago spathulata, narrow goldenrod

   western American goldenrod with long narrow clusters of small yellow flowers

   Boott's goldenrod

   a variety of goldenrod

   Elliott's goldenrod

   a variety of goldenrod

   Ohio goldenrod

   a variety of goldenrod

   rough-stemmed goldenrod

   a variety of goldenrod

   showy goldenrod

   a variety of goldenrod

   tall goldenrod

   a variety of goldenrod

   broad leaved goldenrod, zigzag goldenrod

   a variety of goldenrod

   Alpine besseya, Besseya alpina

   small pale plant with dense spikes of pale bluish-violet flowers; of high cold meadows from Wyoming and Utah to New Mexico

   Castilleja chromosa, desert paintbrush

   most common paintbrush of western United States dry lands; having erect stems ending in dense spikes of bright orange to red flowers

   Castilleja miniata, giant red paintbrush

   wildflower of western North America having ragged clusters of crimson or scarlet flowers

   Castilleja sessiliflora, great plains paintbrush

   hairy plant with pinkish flowers; Great Plains to northern Mexico

   Castilleja sulphurea, sulfur paintbrush

   plant of moist highland meadows having ragged clusters of pale yellow flowers

   type of:

   wilding

   a wild uncultivated plant (especially a wild apple or crabapple tree)

   angiosperm, flowering plant

   plants having seeds in a closed ovary