Plants with White Flowers
Plants with white flowers can be found in many plant families; in the spring they are commonly found in the chickweed and mouse-ear family, small to very small plants that can be obvious as early as late February or early March. Later in the year, shrubs with white flowers are common - especially in the viburnum group and in the rose family.
If you are struggling to identify a white flower, it is always worth bearing in mind that white color forms of normally red or blue-flowered species occur from time to time; where we have pictures of these, they are included here.
Within the color sections, the pictures are grouped so that similar-looking (though not necessarily closely-related) plants will be near each other. This should help to reduce your search time. Also, in cases where there are a number of very similar species, a representative species is shown here, but clicking on it will take you to a page that tells you how to tell the more difficult species apart.
If you still can't find your plant, you either have something very interesting that you may wish to tell us about, or we just haven't got a picture of it yet - we're still working on the latter!!
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| Brookweed |
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Horsenettle |
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Sweetspire |
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