Conservation
Wildflower of the Year
The NC Botanical Garden and the Garden Club of NC are co-sponsors of the North Carolina Wildflower of the Year program. This conservation project was initiated in 1982. The project's aim is to actively promote throughout the state and region an attractive plant that is native to the southeastern United States.
Over the years literally tens of thousands of gardeners have received the seeds and read the strong conservation message in the North Carolina Wildflower of the Year brochure.
To receive a brochure and seeds of the current North Carolina Wildflower of the Year, send a self-adressed, stamped envelope to:
2010 NCWFOY
North Carolina Botanical Garden
CB 3375 Totten Center, UNC-CH
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3375
The distribution of seeds is limited to within a 12-state region of the Southeast, from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Gulf of Mexico north to Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland and Delaware.
| Year | Common Name | Scientific Name |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Spiked wild indigo | Baptisia albescens |
| 2010 | Atamasco Lily | Zephyranthes atamasca |
| 2009 | Piedmont Barbara's-buttons | Marshallia obovata var. obovata |
| 2008 | White Wood Aster, Heart Leaved | Eurybia divaricata |
| 2007 | Swamp Sunflower | Helianthus angustifolius |
| 2006 | Eastern Bluestar | Amsonia tabernaemontana |
| 2005 | Swamp Milkweed | Asclepias incarnata |
| 2004 | New York Ironweed | Vernonia noveboracensis |
| 2003 | Boneset | Eupatorium perfoliatum |
| 2002 | Eastern Smooth Beardtongue | Penstemon laevigatus |
| 2001 | Cardinal Flower | Lobelia cardinalis (20th Anniversary) |
| 2000 | Eastern Aromatic Aster | Aster oblongifolius var. angustatus |
| 1999 | American Alumroot | Heuchera americana |
| 1998 | Southern Blazing Star | Liatris squarrulosa |
| 1997 | Crimson-eyed Rose-mallow | Hibiscus moscheutos |
| 1996 | Eastern Silvery Aster | Aster concolor |
| 1995 | Green-head Coneflower | Rudbeckia laciniata |
| 1994 | River-oats | Chasmanthium latifolium |
| 1993 | Great Blue Lobelia | Lobelia siphilitica |
| 1992 | Blue Wild Indigo | Baptisia australis |
| 1991 | Coreopsis | Coreopsis auriculata |
| 1990 | Seashore-mallow | Kosteletzkya virginica |
| 1989 | Southern Sundrops | Oenothera fruticosa |
| 1988 | Black-eyed Susan | Rudbeckia fulgida var. sullivantii |
| 1987 | Eastern Columbine | Aquilegia canadensis |
| 1986 | Foamflower | Tiarella cordifolia var. collina |
| 1985 | Butterfly Milkweed | Asclepias tuberosa |
| 1984 | Small's Beardtongue | Penstemon smallii |
| 1983 | Cardinal Flower | Lobelia cardinalis |
| 1982 | Cardinal Flower | Lobelia cardinalis |
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