Field notes from the author of 60 Hikes Madison and Hiking Wisconsin
bladder campion blue blue flower blue iris blue wildflowers colombine flower fall fuschia hiking invasive lilies of wisconsin may apple mayapple berries mayapple leaf native nonnative northern iris orange wildflowers perennial pink prairie pointers prairie smoke photo purple purple avens photo purple flowers purple shooting star purple wildflowers red red trillium red wildflower river spring strawberry flowers summer violet violets white white shooting star flowers white wildflowers wild strawberries wild violets wisconsin state flower wisconsin trillium yellow yellow wildflower
Hesperis matrinolis
Dame’s Rocket is about everywhere, along the edge of the woods and roads especially, but it is not native to Wisconsin. Some may mistake this four-petal flower for Phlox, but the latter has five petals of a different shape than Dame’s Rocket’s. According to conditions, some flowers may be white.
Appears spring, summer
Highly invasive
