Flowers are blue-violet and turn white with dark lines toward the center. One petal is narrower than the others.
Bloom Times: March
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.
Camellia
Evergreen shrub with large flowers that bloom in the late fall to early spring.
Carolina False Dandelion
Pale yellow, dandelion-like flowers.
Carolina Geranium
Pale pink to white flowers in clusters at the end of stalks.
Carolina Jessamine
Fragrant, bright yellow funnel shaped flowers. This is a twining vine that is commonly seen on trees.