Flower has 2 large blue petals and one small white petal. Each flower blooms in the morning for a single day.
Flower Colors: Blue
Bird’s Eye Speedwell
Flowers are blue-violet and turn white with dark lines toward the center. One petal is narrower than the others.
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.
Bluet
Flowers are pale blue to violet with a yellow center. There is one flower per stem tip.
Field Pansy
Solitary flowers with pale to medium blue-violet petals with dark purple lines. Petals are unequal. The lowest petal is the largest and has a yellow patch close to the center of the flower. The two side petals have white hairs near the throat.
Tiny Bluet
Flowers are blue-lavender and have a darker, red center.
Virginia Dayflower
Flowers in crowded terminal clusters. They have 3 kidney-shaped petals. Flowers open in the morning and close in the afternoon.