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    A Goldfinch perched on a glade coneflower
    A picture of the Ozarkedge property

    Ozarkedge Wildflowers

    Native wildflowers of northeastern Arkansas

    See what's blooming in October →

    Welcome

    A field guide to our corner of the Ozarks

    Ozarkedge Wildflowers is a photographic record of the native plants of northeastern Arkansas. We track what’s in bloom across the property through the seasons — putting a name to each flower, noting where it grows, and learning how it fits into the Ozark landscape.

    The plant index is the heart of it: a growing library of profiles, each paired with original field photography and notes on bloom time, habitat, and the pollinators that depend on it.

    Our native plant index →
    Native wildflowers in Ozarkedge glade
    Glade flowers in Spring

    Where we are

    Rooted in the Ozark Highlands

    Ozarkedge sits along the eastern edge of the Ozark Plateaus, where the Salem and Springfield plateaus and the Boston Mountains break apart into the lowlands of the Mississippi Delta. That meeting of highland and bottomland makes our corner of Arkansas unusually rich in native plant life.

    Read our story →
    Map of Salem plateau
    The Ozark Plateaus of northern Arkansas & southern Missouri — our corner sits along the southeastern edge, where highland meets delta.

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    Blooming in October

    • Unique pinkish-purple flowers of Pluchea camphorata
      Pluchea camphorata
    • Bright purple flowers of Vernonia arkansana
      Vernonia arkansana
    • Palafoxia callosa
      Palafoxia callosa
    • Pink flower of Fame flower
      Phemeranthus calycinus
    • Rudbeckia missouriensis flowers
      Rudbeckia missouriensis
    • Whitish leaves and flowers of Pycnanthemum albescens
      Pycnanthemum albescens
    • Golden flowers
      Helianthus silphioides

    Autumn heralds the end of the wildflower season and it does it with spectacular color combinations of blue, purple, pink and yellow.