These plants are among the first to bring life back to PEI’s landscape after winter, signalling the arrival of a new growing season. Spring this year is Mar 20, 2025 – Fri, Jun 20, 2025
Prince Edward Island’s Spring Flowers
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Skunk Cabbage
It thrives in moist regions, including marshes, wet forests, and stream banks.
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Coltsfoot
Coltsfoot is often found along roadsides, in waste areas, and gardens. It thrives in moist, open fields.
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Mayflower
Often almost hidden by grass and fallen leaves, the mayflower is a low, woody evergreen that grows from long trailing stems with shallow, fragile roots.
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Bloodroot
Also known as Canada puccoon. This perennial grows in partly sunny sites and in moist to dry, acidic soils of nutrient-rich, deciduous hardwood forests.
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Hepatica
Round-lobed Hepaticas are found throughout eastern North America in both dry to moist upland forests, on rich wooded slopes, ravines, in well drained floodplains and on mossy banks.
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Snowdrops
Snowdrops are often found in deciduous woodlands, particularly under the canopy of trees. They can also be seen along riverbanks and in areas with damp soil.
Snowdrops are popular in gardens, especially in northern Europe and parts of North America, where they have naturalized.
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Crocus
Crocuses grow in various conditions, including woodlands, coastal gardens, and suburban lawns.
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Daffodils
They can naturalize, and the shoots start to break the soil surface; there is little you will need to do for those in the lawn or border
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Tulips
They are one of the most popular and admired spring-flowering bulbous.
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Grape Hyacinth
Grape hyacinth grows best when planted in the fall in a location with full sun or partial shade, offering beautiful spring blooms that grow slowly and emerge with flowers in April or May that last for up to four weeks.
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Pussy Willow
Willows are ridiculously easy to grow and do well from cuttings. They're also easy to find and familiar along roadsides, trails, streams, and field edges across the Island.
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Speckled Alder
On Prince Edward Island (PEI), alders, particularly the speckled alder, grow in moist, low-lying areas near rivers, streams, and wetlands. They often line stream channels.
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Serviceberry
Serviceberry is a native species to eastern North America, including PEI.
It's also known as Juneberry, Saskatoon berry, Shadbush, Chuckley Pear, Sugarplum, Wild Pear, Wild Plum
Serviceberry is a small tree or shrub with smooth gray bark and produces showy, star-shaped white flowers in the spring.
You can find serviceberry along roadsides, trails, and in forested areas, including along the Confederation Trail.
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Red Maple