im also in NE wisconsin. the term isnt natural wildflowers but prolly more like naturalized wildflowers, there is a difference.

a nice picture place on the web = uwmadison's botany herbarium.

froggy

Here is a link that might be useful: wisflora

check out the following books: (in no particular order)

Wildflowers of North America field guide by Readers Digest (has lots of good photographs for amatuers).

The bible of Wildflower identification is "Newcomb's Wildflower Guide" (lots of drawings, many in black & white, some in color, but lots of key botany terms to accurately identify plants - some amatuers may find it too technical, but after using it enough and learning the key terms (which is explained in the book)its probably the best book for identifying wildflowers.

another book that i dont have, but a friend of mine has is:
"Tall Grass Prairie Wildflowers" by Ladd

i have seen other books specific to Wisconsin, but i couldn't name them right now.

you also have very active wild ones members up there in north east Wisconsin. you may want to check out www.for-wild.org to look for a local chapter in your area. you may find some members willing to help you learn what you have. they always like to look at wildflowers too.

of course the uw madisons herbarium website is good, i actually have some of my own photographs on that site... but i think its easier to use if you know the name of the flower first.

or you could take some pics and post them on garden web, members often help people id plants here.

Thanks Froggy z4/5 WI and joepyeweed 5b IL.
Not being a flower person per say without having a picture to look at would have made it difficult to ID since I had no clue to common or scientific name. I was able to find some of the so-called praire plants (devils paint brush - yess it is invasive, balsum groundsel, false foxglove. most found at the WISFLORA website. Was unable to find some of the blue ones as when you click on the name it went to a blank page. Perhaps they are still putting together the page for those plants. I will research elsewhere.

Thanks again.

Woody

Playground Picture Dictionary ==> http://picdic.hasfind.net
English is easy to learn.

Here is a link that might be useful: Playground Picture Dictionary