Bloom Times: October

Mock Strawberry

The flower has 5 blunt-tipped oval petals and a yellow center.

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.

Pokeweed

A tall plant with large leaves and dark red stems. The small white flowers give way to berries that mature to a shiny dark purple.

Purple Coneflower

Solitary dark pink to purple flowers with 8-21 drooping petals surrounding a purplish-brown center dome.

Purpledisc Sunflower

Clusters of large yellow flowers with a purple/brown center. The leaves are mostly at the base of the stem.

Ragweed

Green male flowers are cup shaped and arranged in a spike. The tiny female flowers are in clusters between the leaves.

Rough-leaf Goldenrod

Bending spikes of yellow flowers, often on one side of the branch. The leaves are wrinkled.