A visual tour of the floral diversity of the Quad Cities Region. All photos taken by Grant Fessler.
Forest and Woodland Wildflowers

Mertensia virginica – Virginia Bluebells 
Cardamine concatenata – Cut-leaved Toothwort 
Erythronium albidum – White Trout Lily 
Thalictrum thalictroides – Rue Anemone 
Enemion biternatum – False Rue Anemone 
Anemone quinquefolia – Wood Anemone 
Arisaema triphyllum – Jack-in-the-pulpit 
Actaea pachypoda – White Baneberry 
Asarum canadense – Canada wild ginger 
Caulophyllum thalictroides – Blue Cohosh 
Claytonia virginica – Virginia Spring Beauty 
Dicentra canadensis – Squirrel corn 
Dicentra cucullaria – Dutchman’s breeches 
A lush carpet of wild geranium growing in a level upland forest at Wild Cat Den. 
Hepatica acutiloba – Sharp-lobed hepatica 
Phlox divaricata – Woodland Phlox 
Sanguinaria canadensis – Bloodroot 
Podophyllum peltatum – Mayapple 
Dodecatheon meadia – Eastern Shooting Star 
Trillium recurvatum – Prairie Trillium 
Uvularia grandiflora – Large-flowered bellwort 
Viola eriocarpa – Smooth Yellow Violet 
Viola sororia – Common Blue Violet 
Helianthus strumosus – Pale woodland sunflower 
Impatiens capensis – Spotted Jewelweed 
Lobelia siphilitica – Great blue lobelia 
Aralia racemosa – American Spikenard 
Actaea pachypoda – White Baneberry 
Impatiens pallida – Pale jewelweed 
Triphora trianthophoros – Three birds orchid 
Triphora trianthophoros – Three birds orchid 
Mimulus alatus – winged monkey flower 
Scrophularia marilandica – Late figwort 
Asclepias quadrifolia – Four-leaved milkweed 
Hydrastis canadensis – Goldenseal 
Lespedeza frutescens – violet bushclover 
Eurybia schreberi – Schreber’s wood aster 
Aureolaria grandiflora var. pulchra – Large flowered false foxglove 
Trillium grandiflorum – Large white trillium 
Asclepias exaltata – Poke milkweed 
Panax quinquefolius – American ginseng 
Goodyera pubescens – Downy rattlesnake plantain
Ferns

Dryopteris cristata – Crested Wood Fern 
Onoclea sensibilis – Sensitive Fern 
Spring fronds of Polystichum acrostichoides – Christmas Fern 
Phegopteris hexagonoptera – Broad Beech Fern 
Adiantum pedatum – Maidenhair Fern 
Woodsia obtusa – Blunt Cliff Fern 
Asplenium platyneuron – Ebony Spleenwort 
Homalosorus pycnocarpos – Narrow-leaved Glade Fern 
Polypodium virginianum – Rock Polypody 
Deparia acrostichoides – Silvery Glade Fern 
Dryopteris goldiana – Goldie’s Wood Fern 
Dryopteris carthusiana – Spinulose wood fern
Prairie Wildflowers

Asclepias amplexicaulis – Blunt-leaved milkweed 
Asclepias amplexicaulis – Blunt-leaved milkweed 
Opuntia sp. – Prickly pear 

Tephrosia virginiana – Goat’s rue 
Monarda punctata – Spotted beebalm 
Lithospermum caroliniense – Hairy puccoon 
Eryngium yuccifolium – Rattlesnake master 
Ratibida pinnata – Grey-headed coneflower 
Gentianella quinquefolius occidentalis – Western Agueweed 
Silphium laciniatum – Compass plant 
Erythronium mesochoreum – Prairie trout lily 
Phlox bifida – Cleft phlox 
Baptisia bracteata – Long-bracted wild indigo 
Sisyrinchium sp. – Blue-eyed grass 
Castilleja sessiliflora – Downy painted cup 
Viola pedatifida – Birds foot violet
Habitats and Landscapes

Rocky, mesic woodland slope in early May with christmas fern, bloodroot, woodland jumpseed, white trout lily, smooth solomon’s seal, lowland brittlefern, and broad-leaved goldenrod growing amongst the roots of a mature sugar maple. Scott Co., IA. 
Dry-mesic white oak woodland in early May with white trout lily, smooth solomon’s seal, false solomon’s seal, common blue violet. Scott Co., IA. 
Fire-managed open white oak woodland with pale woodland sunflower, culvers root, perfoliate tinkerswort, riverbank grape, smooth sumac, bottlebrush grass, and purple joe pye weed. Rock Island Co., IL. 
Dry sand prairie carpeting sand dunes in the Mississippi river valley. 
Mesic and dry-mesic tallgrass cemetery prairie with compass plant, rattlesnake master, black eyed susans, lead plant, pale purple coneflower, big blue stem, little blue stem, and flowering spurge. 
Receding shoreline in Rock River greening up with annual vegetation. Rock Island Co., IL. 
Sandstone cliff with seep at base and dry woodland on top. Rock Island Co., IL. 
Dry sand savanna with black oak, prickly pear cactus, clustered poppy mallow, and rough blazing star. Whiteside Co., IL. 
Seep along the Green River with skunk cabbage, purple Angelica, Jewelweed, spotted joe pye weed, dogwood, and ricecut grass. Henry Co., IL. 
Floodplain marsh along the Rock River with arrowhead, bur reed, hibiscus, ricecut grass, river bulrush, and duckweed. Rock Island Co., IL. 
Rich, rocky forest growing along East-facing Mississippi River bluff with sugar maple, pawpaw, Jewelweed, bladdernut, and Canada wild ginger. Clinton Co., IA. 
Mesic sand prairie with compass plant, rattlesnake master, pale purple coneflower, wild quinine, big bluestem, smooth sumac, and golden Alexanders. Henry Co., IL. 
Mesic dolomite outcrop along spring-fed stream with bulblet fern, fragile fern, Jewelweed, and Missouri gooseberry. Clinton Co., IA. 
Dry loess hill prairie in early summer with leadplant, flowering spurge, little blue stem, dogwood. Rock Island Co., IL. 
Dry dolomite prairie with pale purple coneflower, flowering spurge, sky blue aster, and little bluestem. Clinton Co., IA. 
Rich mesic alluvial woodland abloom with woodland phlox, prairie trillium, honewort, bedstraw, black walnut, and American elm. Whiteside Co., IL. 
Mesic forest and sandstone cliff at Wild Cat Den State Park with sugar maple, red oak, Goldie’s Woodfern, and pale Jewelweed. Muscatine Co., IA.