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.
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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 Mistflower
Bluish purple flowers are fluffy and tubular. They appear in dense flat-topped clusters.
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.
Broadleaf Arrowhead
White, 3 petaled flowers. Male and female flowers are on the same scape, the male flowers on the upper portion, the female flowers on the lower portion. Male flowers have bushy yellow centers, female flowers have mounded green centers. The leaves are 12 inches long, held above water, and are shaped like arrowheads.
Bulltongue Arrowhead
White, 3 petaled flowers. Male and female flowers are on the same scape, the male flowers on the upper portion, the female flowers on the lower portion. Male flowers have bushy yellow centers, female flowers have mounded green centers. The leaves are 4-16 inches long, rising out of the water.
Butterfly Milkweed
Orange or reddish-orange 5 petal flowers in clusters at the end of the stem.
Buttonbush
1.5 inch round flower heads packed with tiny white flowers. It looks like a pincushion.
Camellia
Evergreen shrub with large flowers that bloom in the late fall to early spring.