Early spring marks the start of wildflower season in Iowa, but these natural buds are only available for a limited time. Visit them while you can.

This beauty has lance-shaped, bright-green leaves that emerge on a stem in spring and give way to one to three nodding 1.5-inch lemon-yellow flowers, which bloom in April and May.

Spring Wildflower Hikes. by AFL. Fri, May 9th 2025 at 3:03 PM. KATU - 38ebe39c-104d-4bd4-a177-d5f17aaa70cb.png. TOPICS: ... Adam Sawyer, shared when and where to go take in the beauty!

Many wildflowers, like trillium, mayapple, bloodroot, Jack-in-the-pulpit, Virginia bluebells and spring beauty, are also ephemerals. Spring beauty is a very early blooming, 5- to 6-inches tall ...

These wildflowers are known as spring ephemerals, he said, because “you only see them for a short time in spring before they go dormant and disappear for the rest of the year.” ...

The majority of wildflower species like spring beauty, bloodroot, squirrel-corn, Virginia bluebells, and trout lily likely won’t hit peak bloom until mid-April, ODNR said, while others like Jack ...

Fun fact: here’s a spring beauty mining bee that gathers the pink pollen. A similar flower, Carolina spring beauty, grows within 30 miles of Lake Superior, but the Minnesota Department of ...