Annual Blue Eyed Grass

Flowers are yellow or white, pink, magenta, or lavender. The yellow center has a purple or maroon ring.

Asiatic Dayflower

Flower has 2 large blue petals and one small white petal. Each flower blooms in the morning for a single day.

Bird’s Eye Speedwell

Flowers are blue-violet and turn white with dark lines toward the center. One petal is narrower than the others.

Bitterweed

Wedge-shaped petals with 3 lobes at the tip. The center is dome-shaped and yellow.

Black-eyed Susan

Single yellow, daisy-like flowers with a domed brownish-purple center.

Blackberry

Flowers are wrinkled. The flowers and fruit appear on last season’s branches, rarely on new shoots.

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 Field-Madder

Tiny cross-shaped pink to lavender flowers in clusters at the ends of branches.

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.