Project BudBurst has identified 24 native wildflowers that are easy to identify and widespread across the continental United States.
Click on the plant names below for a printable identification guide that includes pictures, identifying characteristics, phenological observations and distribution area. (*All downloadable materials require the free Adobe Reader.)
| Native Flowers | |
| Common Name | Scientific Name |
| American pasqueflower | Pulsatilla patens |
| Bigleaf lupine, Wyethís lupine | Lupinus polyphyllus |
| Bitter root | Lewisia rediviva |
| California poppy | Eschscholzia californica |
| Colorado blue columbine | Aquilegia caerulea |
| Common yarrow | Achillea millefolium |
| Darkthroat shooting star | Dodecatheon pulchellum |
| Eastern red columbine | Aquilegia canadensis |
| Indian pink | Spigelia marilandica |
| Jack in the pulpit | Arisaema triphyllum |
| Lanceleaf springbeauty | Claytonia lanceolata |
| Large flowered trillium | Trillium grandiflorum |
| Mayapple | Podophyllum peltatum |
| Pacific trillium | Trillium ovatum |
| Pink evening primrose | Oenothera speciosa |
| Purple passion flower | Passiflora incarnata |
| Saguaro | Carnegiea gigantea |
| Scarlet gilia | Ipomopsis aggregata |
| Silverleaf phacelia | Phacelia hastata |
| Soft green eyes | Berlandiera pumila |
| Spiderwort | Tradescatia ohiensis |
| Trout lily | Erythronium americanum |
| Virginia bluebells | Mertensia virginica |
| Woods strawberry | Fragaria virginiana |