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Appears: Spring and summer, perennial
Non-native to Wisconsin
About 2-3 feet tall
This flower likes to be by the water. It is a European transplant that managed to get out of someone’s garden one day and now can be found along swampy areas, lakes, and rivers here in Wisconsin.
Photo taken on the Lower Wolf River from a canoe with a Canon PowerShot S100 12.1 MP Digital Camera
with an underwater housing
Indian Lake is good from spring through fall for wildflowers and offers a good variety. There is a nice meadow with walking trails throughout plus an abundance of wooded trails. The soggy area around the lake offers yet another variety of flowers and cattails accessible by hiking trails.
Appears: Summer, perennial
Native to Wisconsin
Up to 4 feet tall
Likes sun and as the name indicates, wet areas. The flowers cluster at top and have a set of petals bending up and another bending down. The stem up to the clusters sometimes turns red also.
Photo taken at Turtle-Flambeau Flowage from a kayak.
Season: Summer
Not native to Wisconsin
Find it in generally dry places, fields, roadsides and the like.
Male and female flowers are on different plants. These are harder to pick out during the day because the flower tucks into the tube at its base (which gives its other name, Bladder Campion). The flower comes out then at night to attract insects. The whole plant stands about 1-3 feet high, and the flower itself is maybe an inch across.
Appears: Summer
Native to Wisconsin
Likes dry woods in the shade
Can reach up to about 10″ and is usually found in clumps
This is a really unusual plant as it has no chlorophyll. It might be as thick as your finger like a tube and the single flower, which you have to see close up because it is also white, sort of dangles over at the top like someone nodding their head. When the plant pollinates that will straighten up. It gets its food from a fungus that lives with it which breaks down other plant matter so it can be absorbed by both.
Also known as Devil’s Paintbrush
Not native to Wisconsin
This flower is said to be blue, but I see purple when I look at it.
