Lavender to violet flowers with 3 small petals and 3 long sepals. The sepals have white patches that are tinged with yellow, and have dark veins.
Environments: Wet
Slender Goldentop
Hundreds of small flower heads in large, branched clusters. The leaves are very narrow.
Smooth Rose-Mallow
White to pink funnel-shaped flowers with a maroon center. Each flower lasts for a day.
Spotted Joe-Pye-Weed
Clusters of 8-20 light purple to pink flowers on a dark purple stem.
Swamp Rose-Mallow
Funnel-shaped flowers are white to pink with a maroon throat.
Swamp Sunflower
Flowers have 8-21 yellow petals with a reddish or purplish-brown center disk.
Trumpet Creeper
Clusters of orange-red trumpet-shaped flowers with 5 flared lobes.
Violet
Purple flower (deep violet to lavender, sometimes white) with darker veins and white throats. There are 5 unequal petals. The lowest petal points backward and the 2 petals on the side are hairy.
Virginia Dayflower
Flowers in crowded terminal clusters. They have 3 kidney-shaped petals. Flowers open in the morning and close in the afternoon.
Water Lily
Cup shaped flower with >20 petals and yellow stamens. Flowers open in the day and close at night.