Dark blue to purple flowers with 5 lobes and curved stamens. Four lobes point up, and one large lobe points down. This large lobe has a white patch with purple spots.
Bloom Times: October
Common Chickweed
Small white flowers with 5 deeply divided petals, giving the appearance of 10 petals.
Common Elephant’s Foot
Small pink or purple flowers with three green, triangular bracts behind them. The hairy leaves lay flat on the ground.
Common Honeysuckle
Fragrant flowers in whorls clustered at the end of branches.
Common Roundleaf Eupatorium
Small white flowers in branched clusters at the top of the plant. This plant is distinguished from other eupatorium species by the paired, round leaves with round teeth.
Common Sneezeweed
Yellow flowers with a ball-shaped center. The rays have 3 teeth and droop away from the center.
Common Sunflower
Long yellow ray flowers surround a 3-6 inch center disc. The leaves are up to 12 inches long.
Common Vervain
Purple flowers in spikes, blooming from bottom to top.
Common Yarrow
Clusters of small white flowers. The leaves are fern-like.
Consumption Weed
Large bush with feathery white seeds in the late fall. The flowers are white in the female plant, and cream in the male plant.