Native Canadian wildflower meets Dandelion

These informal images demonstrate how wildflowers and Dandelions meet on protected land such as provincial parks across Canada. I use basic field guides to identify plants.

Submit your photo! If you spot a native Canadian wildflower growing near a Dandelion, please send me your photo. Submit to nandyheule@gmail.com with the subject line: Dandelion photo.

Nootka Lupine (Lupinus nootkatensis) – Yukon
Sea Blush (Plectritis congesta) – BC
Wake Robin (Trillium ovatum) – BC
Common Stream Violet (Viola glabella) -BC
Western Bleeding Heart (Dicentra formosa) – BC
Dwarf Raspberry (Rubus arcticus) – Yukon
Pink Fawn Lily (Erythronium revolutum) – BC
Western Bleeding Heart (Dicentra formosa) – BC
Fawn Lilies, BC

Red Osier Dogwood (Cornus sericea). Submission S. Pope. near Corner Brook, NFL
Common Sainfoin (Onobrychis viciifolia) – two introduced species, both edible, in SK. Submission G. Overduin

Forget-Me-Not (Myosotis laxa) – BC
Herb Robert (Geranium robertianum) – BC
Western Spring Beauty (Claytonia lanceolata) – BC

Pacific Star Flower (Lysimachia latifolia) and Woodland Strawberry – BC
Fragaria vesca (Woodland Strawberry) – BC
Yukon Territorial Park

Wake Robin (turns pink when aging) – BC
Colony of White Fawn Lilies – BC

Colony of Trilliums (Trillium grandiflorum) – ON

Early Meadow Rue (Thalictrum dioicum) – ON
Sharp-Loped Hepatica (Hepatica acutiloba) – ON
Yellow Trout Lily (Erythronium americanum) – ON

Downy Yellow Violet (Viola pubescens) – ON
Early Saxifrage (Saxifraga virginiensis) – ON
Blue Phlox (Phlox divaricata)- ON

Spring Beauty (Claytonia virginica) – ON
Wood Anemone (Anemone canadensis) ON
Star Flower. (Lysimachia borealis) Submission L. Hamilton. Lanark Highlands, ON.

Salomon Seal – Submission J. Suk. ON
Purple Violet. Submission T. Petrovicz, ON
Jeju Island, S. Korea where the Common Dandelion may be considered a native plant. Submission T. Roer

Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) with a Dandelion cousin: Yellow Goat’s Beard (Tragopogon pratentis), ON
Spreading Dogbane (Apocynum androsaemifolium), ON, with Dandelion cousin.
Woodcut image from Gerarde’s Herball, London, 1597. Yellow Goat’s Beard, Handwritten notation by unknown author.

Buttercups (yellow aliens band together!). Submitted by J. Booy, Northern ON
Ox-Eyed Daisies (Also an introduced species). Submitted by J. Booy, Northern ON.
Columbine (Aguilegia canadensis). Submitted by J. Booy, Northern ON

Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca), ON
Likely Smooth Rose (Rosa Blanda), Northern ON. Submitted by J. Booy
Dandelions, Yarrow and Daisies (Aliens band together!). Along the route from Ituna SK to Woodstock ON. Submitted by G. Overduin.

Skunk Cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus), ON
Great Ragweed (Ambrosia trifida), ON
Bird’s foot Trefoil (Lotus corniculatus) – two introduced species. Submission J. Booy.
Tall Meadow Rue (Thalictrum pubescens) pulled down by the aggressively invasive Dog Strangling Vine (Vincetoxicum rossicum – An Eurasian cousin of our native Milkweeds) near the Rideau River, Ottawa, ON