Clusters of tiny cup-shaped flowers that may be pink, lavender or white. Clusters of small pinkish-purple berries form a whorl around the stems in August through October.
Environments: Dry
Blackberry
Flowers are wrinkled. The flowers and fruit appear on last season’s branches, rarely on new shoots.
Blanket Flower
Daisy-like flowers with orange-red petals that have 3-toothed yellow tips. The center of the flower is red-brown.
Carolina Geranium
Pale pink to white flowers in clusters at the end of stalks.
Carolina Horse-Nettle
The flower is star-shaped with five white to light violet petals. There are large yellow anthers in the center. The small green-yellow fruit looks like a tomato.
Carolina Rose
Fragrant, rose pink flowers with bright yellow stamens.
Common Agalinis
Pink tubular flowers that have purple spots and white hairs in the throat. This flower has short stalks (compared to slenderleaf agalinis with long stalks).
Common Blue Curls
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.
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 Milkweed
Clusters of up to 100 rose pink 5 petaled flowers on long stalks.