August – Page 14 – Quiet Nature

Flowers in crowded terminal clusters. They have 3 kidney-shaped petals. Flowers open in the morning and close in the afternoon.

Cup shaped flower with >20 petals and yellow stamens. Flowers open in the day and close at night.

Clusters of bright yellow flowers with 8 petals. Leaves are opposite and divided into 3 leaflets, appearing to be 6 whorled leaves.

Flower heads in a flat-topped, branched cluster. Petals are very short with a white center disk.

White funnel-shaped flower with a pink to purple center. Clusters of 1-7 flowers on the stem. Flowers close quickly in direct sun.

Pale pink to nearly white solitary flowers that have two unequal lips. The upper lip has 2 folded lobes, the lower lip is spreading and has 3 lobes.

Large cluster of greenish-white flowers. The center leaf stalk has wings between the leaflets.

Bright yellow flowers in branching clusters of 3-15.

Greenish-yellow, 5 petaled flowers with a threadlike crown that is sometimes purple at the base.

Small flowers at the end of the stem, round leaves get bigger closer to the ground. The stem zigzags between the leaves.