Wildflowers @ SkyRidge Trails
Wildflowers play a vital role in ecosystems, supporting pollinators, providing food for wildlife, and contributing to soil health.
Wildflowers can also be indicators of environmental health and play a role in human well-being.
Wallflower
This plant thrives in rocky and clay soils, and is often found growing on rock walls. It is a favorite of local pollinators, such as honeybees.
Cosmos
This self-sowing annual flower comes in many shades of pink and has become so popular it is now often grown ornamentally!
Garlic Mustard
This garlic scented plant has attractive clusters of white flowers and its leaves can be used for cooking to impart a garlicy taste and aroma.
Chicory
This highly adaptive and widespread wildflower, and its parts, are commonly used as an additive to coffee and can even be used as a coffee substitute!
Black-Eyed Susan
This eye-catching black and yellow flower is widespread and is culturally important in the American South. It is the state flower of Maryland!
Fleabane
sometimes called Daisey Fleabane due to the blossom's similarity to the Common Daisey. A single plant can have as many as 200 flower heads!
Queen Anne's Lace
This plant grows quite tall and has clusters of white flowers with a very small blood-red dot in the center. It is a wild member of the carrot family!
Mungwort (aka Yamogi)
This plant is highly invasive and has established itself world-wide Never the less, it is a valuable plant for pollinators and is commonly eaten in Asia!
Lupine
This stunning wildflower is easily identified by its magnificent blooms and wonderful scent! It is now grown worldwide as an ornamental flower too!