Flora Photo Gallery

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.

Wetland plants and graminoids coming soon