Wildflowers for Shade

Wood Sorrel growing in cool, damp spot under conifers in the woods at Beaux Arbres.

Ferns, Grasses and Sedges:

More flowers for light shade:

Additionally, there are some moisture-loving flowers which will grow in full sun if the situation is moist enough which also thrive in light shade:

  • Virginia Waterleaf
  • violette pubescente
    Downy Yellow Violet
  • mitrelle à deux feuilles
    Mitrewort and mossy logs
  • Allegheny Fringe – first year foliage
  • Broad-leaved Sedge
  • American Spikenard fruit
  • asaret du Canada, snicroûte
    Wild Ginger growing in the wild on the Niagara Escarpment.
  • Purple Clematis
  • Canada Moonseed
  • Foam Flower
  • Bloodroot
  • Bloodroot foliage with flowers of Virginia Bluebells
  • Allegheny Fringe
  • Blue Cohosh
  • Wood Poppy
  • Creeping Jacob’s Ladder with foliage of Wild Ginger
  • Creeping Jacob’s Ladder
  • Virginia Waterleaf
  • Jack-in-the-Pulpit
  • Early meadow-rue
  • Jack-in-the-Pulpit
  • pigamon dioïque
    Early Meadow-rue
  • Foamflower in the garden at Beaux Arbres
  • Goldthread flowers
  • White Snakeroot
  • Wild Geranium – fall foliage colour
  • Fruit of Jack-in-the-Pulpit.
  • Tall Meadow-rue
  • Broad-leaved Sedge after a rain
  • Wild Geranium
  • Fall leaves of Wild Geranium
  • Creeping Snowberry on mossy log
  • Wintergreen – pot in nursery
  • séneçon doré
    Golden Ragwort in the garden at Beaux Arbres.
  • Virginia Bluebells
  • Red Baneberry
  • Wood Poppy
  • Maidenhair Fern
  • Blue-stemmed Goldenrod
  • Golden Ragwort
  • Dog Violet
  • Rose Twisted Stalk
  • Bloodroot
  • Bowman’s Root
  • Canada Mayflower
  • Bunchberry
  • Rose Twisted Stalk
  • Wild Ginger