Bluish purple flowers are fluffy and tubular. They appear in dense flat-topped clusters.
Environments: Wet
Cardinal Flower
Bright red, 2-lipped flowers in a tall spike. The upper lip has two spreading lobes and an upright gray-tipped filament tube. The lower lip is split into 3 lobes.
Common Cup Plant
Clusters of large, yellow, daisy-like flowers with 16-35 petals. The leaves surround the stem, forming a cup.
Creeping Water Primrose
Water plant with a 5 petaled yellow flower and red stems.
Dwarf St. John’s-wort
Flowers are in branching clusters at the end of the stem.
Frost Aster
Flowers with 16-35 white petals. The center is yellow to reddish.
Heartleaf Pickerelweed
Bright lavender-blue tubular flowers in a dense spike up to 5 inches long. Flowers bloom from the bottom up.
Hollow Joe-Pye-Weed
Clusters of light purple to pink flowers on a stem with a white, waxy coating.
Jack in the Pulpit
There are one to two leaves, each divided into 3 large leaflets, creating an umbrella for the flower. Under the leaves is the pulpit, which is a green, hooded cover surrounding the flower spike (or jack). The tiny flowers are hiding inside the pulpit and they are clustered on a green or yellow spike. The flower size mentioned here is the jack size.
Lizard’s-tail
White flowers in a tightly-packed spike that bends over at the end. The flower spike is 2-14 inches long. The leaves have a heart-shaped base.