All 35 Wildflower Species I Found on the Alabama Pinhoti Trail
Between March 9 and 21 I hiked the Alabama Pinhoti Trail from Flagg Mountain to the Georgia border. This is all the species of spring wildflowers I found on those 175 miles.
(Disclaimer: I’m an amateur at plant identification and some of these may be inaccurate. I welcome any corrections or increased level of detail in comments.)
March 9
1. Red Buckeye

Leaves with 5 flowers with red clusters of racemose flowers. Can grow in any size from a bush to a small tree.
2. Quaker Ladies

Small blue flowers with a yellow, depressed center. Typically grows in clusters. Leaves are club shaped and very low to the ground, often unnoticeable without moving leaves off of them.
3. Early Buttercup
4. Birdfoot Violet

Purple flowers with a small streak of white. As they reach the end of their lifespan, they start to lose all purple color. Can be identified by their leaves, which resemble footprints of small birds.
5. Rue Anemone
6. Wood Sorrel
7. Redbud
8. Dogwood

Flowering shrub with numerous white blossoms on its branches. With sufficient space can grow to be as large as a tree.
9. Bog White Violet
10. Narcissus Daffodil
March 10
11. Pennywort
12. Star Chickweed
13. White Violet
14. Decumbent Trillium
15. Heart-leaf Foamflower
March 11
16. Horrid Thistle
17. Common Dandelion
18. Wisteria
19. Plantainleaf Pussytoes
March 12
20. Yellow Stargrass
21. Spiderwort
22. Short-leaved Spiderwort
March 13
23. Fire Pink
March 16
24. Virginia Dwarf Dandelion
25. Sweet Little Betsy
26. Bashful Trillium
27. Spotted Geranium
28. Halberd-leaf Violet
29. Robin’s Plantain

Pastel purple to white flowers with a yellow center. Flowers contain a large amount of sometimes overlapping petals.
March 17
30. Golden Ragwort
March 18
31. Woodland Phlox
32. Bloodroot

White flowers with a singular, large leaf. The name comes from a red juice that can be squeezed out of the roots that Native Americans would use to dye things red.
March 19
33. Mountain Spurge
March 20
34. Perfoliate Bellwort
March 21
35. Common Blue Violet
And that’s all I noticed in Alabama! Join me back in a few weeks for the Georgia wildflower update. What were some of your favorites of these flowers?
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