Wildflowers 4-H Project Area

This 4-H project provides opportunities for you to develop an inquiring mind, an eagerness to learn, and the ability to apply science. Learn to identify wildflowers by their color, fruit, seeds, leaves, and where they grow. Discover which plants are edible and how to protect rare and unusual plants.

Learning to know and like wildflowers will help you to know more about the great beauty of the outdoors. You can see these flowers along roads, in pastures, woods, swamps, and even in your own lawns and gardens. You may have been passing these summer beauties all your life without really seeing them. 

Spring Wildflowers – First Year (Intermediate)

Collect 20 spring wildflowers; make a study of 10 of these wildflowers; learn parts of a flower; label, dry, press and prepare 15 plants; learn five plants that can be used for food; use a photo for rare plants; make a seed and/or fruit collection of five spring wildflowers; and make a fresh or dried wildflower arrangement.

Spring Wildflowers – Second and Third Year (Intermediate and Advanced). 

Expand on the first year’s activities. The exhibits are similar. 

• Make a list of 15 wildflowers that should not be picked or can be picked sparingly. 
• Learn 3 plants that are poisonous to people or animals. 
• Give at least one talk or demonstration about wildflowers

Summer and Fall Wildflowers – First Year (Intermediate). 

Collect and identify 20 summer and fall wildflowers; study 10 of these wildflowers, answering questions found in the project book; learn parts of a flower; label, dry and press 15 plants; collect seeds and/or fruits of five summer and fall wildflowers; learn five plants that can be used for food; and make a fresh or dried flower arrangement. 

Scoresheets

Exhibit Ideas

How Do I Sign Up?

The first step is to create an enrollment in our ZSuite website.

When you get to the CLUBS tab of the enrollment, you will want to ADD PROJECT.

For Wildflowers, you should search for:

 Wildflower Conservation Pledge

I Promise...

Not to pick wildflowers in quantity unless abundant or weedy. 

Not to pick more than one out of five from other groups so as to leave plenty to go to seed. 

Not to pull them up by the roots unless weedy. 

To cut woody stems and not tear or break them off. 

Not to set fires in woods or fields. 

Not to pick flowers or break plants in parks. 

The Wildflower Preservation Society, Inc. | Junior Chapter Pledge

Project Videos

Learn about milkweed, a native wildflower to West Virginia, from the WV Department of Commerce. This video teaches the importance of wildflowers and milkweed for supporting pollinator gardens.

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