Mammoth Cave Area Flora
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  • Find a Plant
    • Ferns
    • Shrubs, bushes, vines
    • Grasses, rushes, sedges
    • Trees
    • Aquatics and other plant types
    • Weeds
    • All wildflowers >
      • SPRING Yellow-Orange Fls
      • SPRING Blue/purple fls
      • SPRING White Flowers
      • SUM-Fall blue, purple
      • SUM-FALL yel. orange
      • SUM-FALL white fls
      • ALL Red, pink fls
      • ALL Other colored fls
    • Invasive species
  • Families and Common names
    • Family Traits
  • Group ID guides
    • Agrimony
    • Asters
    • Blazing stars
    • Goldenrods
    • Knotweeds & smartweeds
    • Ruellia
    • St John's Wort
    • Sunflowers and similar
    • Tick-trefoils
    • Violets
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   This site is designed to become a photographic record of all the known plant species found in and around Mammoth Cave National Park, in Kentucky. At present, there are 776 plant species depicted in these pages. To find individual species, click on the Find a Plant link to get started. Once you select a species page, you may click on individual photos to enlarge them.   

For visitors to Mammoth Cave National Park:

    PLEASE remember that picking flowers or collecting plants is illegal; we        host hundreds of thousands of visitors each year, and our mission is one      of preservation.  
    
    Species which have been documented within the national park are                designated "MC" on their respective pages.

    To see a list of top park locations for wildflower viewing, click here.
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    To see when wildflowers bloom and where they can be found within the        park, check Randy Seymour's book, found in this list of resources.

To see which species are included in this flora, go to this sortable excel file which allows you to search by common name, family, genus, and species.

  
​To see our companion site for Mammoth Cave area birds, take a look here.
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Contributors and References
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Glossary of Botanical Terms



​This site is sponsored by Friends of Mammoth Cave National Park.

​More information about this group can be found at
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https://mammothfriends.org/

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To comment or contribute, contact Steve Kistler at kistlers76@gmail.com