This list of 122 flowers of Thurston Nature Center was compiled by Mr. Mike Conboy in the Spring of 1996 and revised in 1997. Mike has labelled and positioned about 150 small signs to identify representative plants. A map is available showing the location of these species in the Nature Center.

Adder's Tongue Alyssum, Hoary Anemone, Wood Aster, New England Aster, Smooth Bean, Bog Beard-tongue Bedstraw Bee Balm Bellflower, Tall Bellwort Bergamot Bindweed Black-eyed Susan Bloodroot Bluebell, Virginia Bluestem, Big Bluestem, Little Boneset Bouncing Bet Brown-eyed Susan Butterfly Weed Buttonbush Campion, Bladder Canada Wild Rye Cattail Chicory Cinquefoil Clover, Red Clover, White Columbine

Coneflower, Purple Coneflower, Yellow Coreopsis Creeper, Trumpet Daisy, Ox-eye Dame's Rocket Dock, Curly Dock, Prairie Dogbane Dutchman's Breeches Fleabane Forget-me-not Geranium, Wild Giant Reed Ginger, Wild Goatsbeard Goldenrod Goldenrod, Showy Gooseberry Hawkweed Hawkweed, Orange Heal-all Hemlock, Water Hyacinth Indian Grass Indian Pipe Iris, Wild Ironweed Ivy, Ground Jack-in-the-Pulpit Jacob's Ladder

Jerusalem Artichoke Joe-Pye Weed Knapweed, Spotted Lady's Slipper Lily-of-the-valley Loosestrife, Purple Lovegrass, Purple Lupine Marigold, Marsh Mayapple Meadow-rue Meadowsweet Milkweed, Common Milkweed, Swamp Mint, Mountain Motherwort Mullein Partridgeberry Periwinkle Phlox Poison Ivy Polygala Pondlily, Yellow Prairie Smoke Primrose, Evening Queen Anne's Lace Rattlesnake Master Rose, Multiflora Rose, Prairie Skunk Cabbage Smoke, Prairie

Snakeroot, Black Soft Rush Solomon's Seal, Smooth Solomon's Seal, False Spring Beauty St. John's-wort Strawberry Sunflower Sweet Cicely Switchgrass Thimbleberry Thimbleweed Thistle, Bull Thistle, Canada Timothy Toothwort, Cutleaf Touch-me-not Trefoil, Birdsfoot Trillium, Red Trillium, White Trillium, Yellow Trumpet Vine Twinleaf Vetch, Crown Viburnum, Mapleleaf Water Lily, White Willow Herb, Hairy Willow, Pussy Yarrow

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