Late summer fruit and seed thumbnails of the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden

Late Summer Fruits and Seedpods

of Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden

Thumbnails of some of the easily noticed late summer fruits and seedpods of selected plants that you may encounter on a visit between mid-July and Sept. 1st. Alternate common names for plant are shown in ( ), woody plants designated by "*".
Plant names with web links lead to a separate page of plant information and photos on that plant.

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The following are easily noticed fruits and seed pods of late summer. Some will change color in Autumn.

Hophornbeam* (Ironwood)	Red Baneberry-White Berry Type	White Baneberry	Red Osier Dogwood*	Snowberry*
Ostrya virginiana	Actaea rubra	Actaea pachypoda	Cornus sericea	Symphoricarpos albus


Wolfberry*	Ninebark*	Ohio Buckeye*	Yellow Goatsbeard	Blackberry Lily
Symphoricarpos occidentalis	Physocarpus opulifolius	Aesculus glabra	Tragopogon pratensis	Belamcanda chinensis


Turk's-cap Lily & Michigan Lily	Thimbleweed & Tall Thimbleweed	White False Indigo (Wild White Indigo)	American Bladdernut*	Canada Violet (Canadian White Violet)
Lilium superbum and Lilium michiganense	Anemone cylindrica & Anemone virginiana	Baptisia alba var. macrophylla	Staphylea trifolia	Viola canadensis


Nannyberry*	Garlic Mustard	Jack-in-the-pulpit	Mayapple	Missouri Gooseberry*
Viburnum lentago	Alliaria petiolata	Arisaema triphyllum	Podophyllum peltatum	Ribes missouriense


Butterfly Milkweed	Common Milkweed	Swamp Milkweed	Poke Milkweed	Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias tuberosa	Asclepias syriaca	Asclepias incarnata	Asclepias exaltata	Asclepias verticillata


White Avens	Wood Poppy (Celadine Poppy)	Blue Cohosh	Pagoda Dogwood* (Alternate-leaf Dogwood)	Pale Dogwood* (Silky Dogwood)
Geum canadense	Stylophorum diphyllum	Caulophyllum thalictroides	Cornus alternifolia	Cornus obliqua


Eastern Red Cedar*	Allegheny Blackberry*	Black Cherry*	Black Raspberry*	Eastern Prickly Gooseberry*
Juniperus virginiana	Rubus allegheniensis	Prunus serotina	Rubus occidentalis	Ribes cynosbati


Purple Trillium	Prickly Ash*	Wild Roses*	Canada Elderberry* (American Black Elderberry)	Choke Cherry*
Trillium erectum	Zanthoxylum americanum	6 species - information sheet for details	Sambucus nigra ssp. canadensis	Prunus virginiana


Climbing Nightshade (Bittersweet Nightshade)	Dewberry* - July Fruit	False Solomon's Seal (Feathery False Lily of the Valley)	Hawthorn* Early Berry	Garden Currant*
Solanum dulcamara	Rubus flagellaris	Maianthemum racemosum	Crataegus chrysocarpa	Ribes rubrum


Goldenseal	Highbush Cranberry* (American Cranberrybush)	Pin Cherry*	Red Baneberry -Red Berry Type	Red Elderberry*
Hydrastis canadensis	Viburnum opulus var. americanum	Prunus pensylvanica	Actaea rubra	Sambucus racemosa


Dwarf Red Raspberry	Wild Red Raspberrry* (American Red Raspberry)	Fragrant Sumac*	Smooth Sumac*	Staghorn Sumac*
Rubus pubescens	Rubus idaeus	Rhus aromatica	Rhus glabra	Rhus hirta


Tatarian Honeysuckle*	Thimbleberry (Flowering Raspberry)	Winterberry* (Black Alder)	Climbing Bittersweet (American Bittersweet)	Horse Gentian
Lonicera tatarica	Rubus parviflorus	Ilex verticillata	Celastrus scandens	Triosteum aurantiacum


Canadian Milk Vetch	Curly Dock	Leadplant	Sweet Fern*	Cow Parsnip
Astragalus canadensis	Rumex crispus	Amorpha canescens	Comptonia peregrina	Heracleum maximum


Glossy Buckthorn*	Common Buckthorn*	False Blue Indigo	American Black Current*	White False Indigo (Wild White Indigo)
Frangula alnus	Rhamnus cathartica	Baptisia australis	Ribes americanum	Baptisia alba var. macrophylla

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