Flowers are yellow or white, pink, magenta, or lavender. The yellow center has a purple or maroon ring.
Bloom Times: April
Beaked Cornsalad
Several tiny flowers form 0.5-1″ flat-topped clusters at the end of the stem. There are typically 2 flower clusters per stem, and each stem usually has 2 branches.
Bird’s Eye Speedwell
Flowers are blue-violet and turn white with dark lines toward the center. One petal is narrower than the others.
Blackberry
Flowers are wrinkled. The flowers and fruit appear on last season’s branches, rarely on new shoots.
Blanket Flower
Daisy-like flowers with orange-red petals that have 3-toothed yellow tips. The center of the flower is red-brown.
Bloodroot
Solitary white flowers with 6-18 petals surrounding a yellow center. Each plant has only one flower and one leaf. The leaf folds around the flower stalk.
Blue Eyed Grass
Flowers are blue, violet or white, with a yellow center. There are 5 types of blue-eyed grass that are common in NC. Annual blue eyed grass (S. rosulatum) can be distinguished by a maroon band at the base of the petals. The other 4 types are more difficult to distinguish: Narrowleaf blue-eyed grass (S. angustifolium) with leaves less than 1/8 in. wide and flowers less than 1/2 in. wide; Atlantic blue-eyed grass (S. atlanticum), with leaves pale bluish-green, and flowers (usually 2) 0.5-0.75 in. wide, ovaries and capsules are black; Needle-tip blue-eyed grass (S. mucronatum) with extremely narrow grasslike leaves and flowers 2-4 in a cluster, 0.5-0.75 in. wide overtopped by a sharp-tipped bract, spathe bracts purple; and Nash’s blue-eyed grass (S. nashii) with leaves to 12 in. long and flowers 0.5-1 in. wide.
Blue Field-Madder
Tiny cross-shaped pink to lavender flowers in clusters at the ends of branches.
Blue Toadflax
Blue to purple flowers with a 2-lobed upper lip and a larger, 3-lobed lower lip with a white center. The back of the flower has a long, downward pointing spur.
Bluet
Flowers are pale blue to violet with a yellow center. There is one flower per stem tip.