Illinois Wildflowers
Wildflower Search Education
Identify Wildflowers and other plants that grow in Illinois
- Rating
- 4.7
- 25 ratings
- Downloads
- 2.8K+
- on Google Play
- Price
- Free
- No in-app purchases
- Updated
- Apr 16
- 2026 · v9.750
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About Illinois Wildflowers
This App helps find and identify plants. When you give the App information about a plant, such as its location, flower color and the time of year, the App will quickly show you which plants match your selections.
The App includes 3,000 species of plants found in Illinois. Overall, 1,565 are "Wildflowers", 244 are shrubs, 213 are broadleaf trees, 32 are conifers, 75 are vines, 493 are grass-like, 71 are fern-like, 211 are moss-like, and 207 are lichen.
The App includes 3,000 species of plants found in Illinois. Overall, 1,565 are "Wildflowers", 244 are shrubs, 213 are broadleaf trees, 32 are conifers, 75 are vines, 493 are grass-like, 71 are fern-like, 211 are moss-like, and 207 are lichen.
What’s new
Version 9.750 · Updated April 16, 2026
Added more species, plant photos and plant descriptions.
User reviews
Key is easy to use and is accurate
it's good. i wish the the entire description of each plant was within the app, like in the older version of the app. now you have to open the Illinois wildflowers website on a browser to see the entire description and photos. glad there are more plants though. i mainly like the description of habitat types and the c...
Nice filtering system. Excellent details and photos.
This app and website are probably my most frequently opened; however, I usually find myself looking up the plant on the app and then following the links back to the website. I wish the app would include the full plant bio, especially the faunal associations. For a free app, it's incredible though
most useful innovative app ever for plant identification. thank you to all the people who worked on this
I love the Illinois Wildflowers app! I'm into natural medicine from the plans that grow around us every day and this app helps me not poison myself. However always always have servel different forms of identifing every thing you even touch in the plant world. It'll probably save your life and those you are trying to...
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois Wildflowers | 4.7 / 5 | Free | 1,000+ | Apr 16, 2026 | |
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| Safeco Mobile | 4.3 / 5 | Free | 1,000,000+ | Sep 2, 2026 | Compare |
| TLC: Sobriety Support | – | Free | 1,000+ | Oct 28, 2026 | Compare |
| ReadyRefresh® | 4.5 / 5 | Free | 100,000+ | Sep 25, 2026 | Compare |
| Washington Post Select | 4.6 / 5 | Free | 1,000,000+ | Jun 29, 2020 | Compare |
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