Wildflowers of Kentucky
Photos by Starr

Over the last years I, along with my wife; have enjoyed searching out the various flowers that bloom along the highways, in the state parks, woods and fields of our home state.  As our interest grew I began to take pictures and place them in an album.  With the aid of some good field guide books, we were able to learn the common names of each plant.

 It has been amazing to study this part of God's creation.  To see the large variety of flowers that grow here and how each one is unique to its survival.  The beauty God has given us tells me of his love, and each time we find a flower in bloom its like a little note from God saying, "I love You".

 While most of these flowers were photographed in my home state of Kentucky, a few were found in the nearby states, but all  can be found in the Ohio River Valley and Appallacian Mountain area.

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American Pennyroyal American Lotus Amsonia Amsonia White Baneberry Bellflower Bellflower Bellworts Bent Trillum Bergamont Blackberry Lily Wild Sennia Blazing Star Blazing Star Bloobroot Blue Bell blue-eyed Grass Blue-eyed Mary Black-eyed Susan Butter-and-eggs Butterfly Weed Butter Weed Button-Snakeroot White Sweet Violet Woodland Sunflower Wood Plox Trumpet Creeper Turks Cap Lily Wood Pansy Wistera Wild Geranium Cardinal Flower

Butterfly.--Picture of a Zebra Longwing Butterfly.--Picture Butterfly.--Butterfly on Thistle Butterfly.--I will be a butterfly too Butterfly.--Moth Butterfly.--Picture Butterfly.--Picture Butterfly.--Butterfly on a Orange Milkweed Butterfly.--Picture Butterfly.--buttrefly on a Button Bush flower Butterfly.--buttrefly on a Button Bush flower Butterfly.--Butterfly on Iron weed Woods Poppy Star Chickweed Chicory Chicory Comon Milkweed Common Morning-glory Cream Indigo Crown Vetch and Ruella Culvers Root Curkoo Flower Day Flower Dutchman's Breeches False Aloe Fome Flower Wild Ginger Goldenglo Tall Goldenrod Green Milkweed Heal-all Heart's Angel Blue curls Halberd-leaved Violet Henbit Hoary Mountain-ment Indianpipe Crested Dwarf Iris Beech Drops Jack-in-the-pulpit Jacob's Ladder

Spotted Jewelweed Jimsonweed Joe-pye Weed Spotted Knapweed Ladies' Tressel Yellow Lady's Slipper Yellow Lady's Slipper Pink Lady's Slipper Larkspur Lavender Waterleaf Mayapple Parie Coneflower Passion Flower Periwinkle Phicelia Potato Vine Prickley Pear Cactus Prickley Pear Cactus Evening Primrose Pussy-toes Queen Anne's Lace Fire Pink Fire Pink Rose Gentian Rose Vervain Ruellia Early Saxifrage Sedum Goldenchain

Sessel Trillum Shooting Star Shooting Star Showy Evening Primrose Showy Orchis Downy Skullcap Downey Skullcap Smooth Yellow Violet Spearmit Spider Lily Early Spiderwort Squirrel-corn Squawroot Squawroot Stargrass St. John's Wort Stonecrop Swamp Milkweed Swamp Rosemallow Tickseed Sunflower Lily-Leaved Twayblade Field Thistel Violet Woodsorrel Virginia Bluebell Virginia Meadowbeauty Hairy Angleica Wakerobin White Trout Lily Whorled Milkweed Wild Quinine Wood Betony Wood Bitney Yellow Trout Lily unknown Yucca Plant Large Flowr Trilium Large Flowr Trilium Florida Sunset.

Field Guide References:
A Guide To The Wildflowers & Ferns Of Kentucky
Wildflowers of Mammoth Cave National Park
The Audubon Society Field Guide To North American Wildflowers
And Others

Genesis 1:11-12 (NIV)
  11.  Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it.  According to their various kinds." And it was so.
  12.  The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds.  And God saw that it was good.

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