Tiny, fluffy, deep purple flower heads in a 3-4 inch wide terminal cluster.
Environments: Part Shade
Old Field Cinquefoil
Yellow flowers with five petals. The leaves are palmately divided (like fingers on a hand) into 5 leaflets. The largest leaflet is sharply toothed for more than half of its length. (Compare to running five-fingers, Potentilla canadensis, where the largest leaflet is toothed for less than half of its length.)
Opposite Leaf Dwarf Dandelion
Small, solitary dandelion-like flowers with 12-35 toothed petals.
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.
Pencil-flower
Clusters of 2-6 yellow pea-shaped flowers.
Periwinkle
Solitary purple flowers with a pinwheel shape. There is a white mark at the base of each petal.
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.
Pineywoods Goldenrod
Large clusters of small yellow flowers. The flowers are mostly on the upper side of each branch. The stem is often leaning over. The leaves bend downward or backward, and have smaller leaves alongside them.
Plantain Pussytoes
The flowers are fluffy white clusters at the end of the stem. The basal leaves are gray-green on the top and white on the bottom, very hairy.