Flowers can be white, pink, red, purple, or blue. They are funnel-shaped and grow in clusters of 1 to 5. Each flower opens once in the morning and lasts a few hours.
Bloom Times: July
Narrow-leaf Evening Primrose
Cup-shaped flower with notched petals. Flowers close at night (compared to other primroses that open at night).
Narrowleaf Cattail
Cylindrical flower with female flowers below the male flowers on the stalk. There is a gap of 1/2 inch to several inches between the two sections of flowers.
Narrowleaf Skullcap
Hairy purple flower with a hooded upper lip. The spreading lower lip has two white bands. The upper leaves are lance-shaped and have smooth edges, while the lower leaves are oval-shaped with toothed edges.
New York Ironweed
Tiny, fluffy, deep purple flower heads in a 3-4 inch wide terminal cluster.
Orange Jewelweed
Cornucopia-shaped, orange to orange-yellow flowers with reddish-brown spotting. Flower has a backward-pointing spur and two lips. The lower lip is larger and is split into two lobes.
Ox-eye Daisy
White ray petals with flattened yellow center disk flowers. Each stem has a single flower.
Pale Spiked Lobelia
Small pale-purple or white flowers growing in a spike. The flowers have 2 lips. The upper lips has 2 lobes, the lower lip is divided into 3 wider lobes.
Pencil-flower
Clusters of 2-6 yellow pea-shaped flowers.
Philadelphia Fleabane
One hundred or more white (sometimes pink or lavender) threadlike petals surrounding a yellow center. The leaves and stem are shaggy-hairy. The leaves are oval and clasp the stem.