Flowers can be white, pink, red, purple, or blue. They are funnel-shaped and grow in clusters of 1 to 5. Each flower opens once in the morning and lasts a few hours.
Flower Colors: Purple
Narrowleaf Skullcap
Hairy purple flower with a hooded upper lip. The spreading lower lip has two white bands. The upper leaves are lance-shaped and have smooth edges, while the lower leaves are oval-shaped with toothed edges.
New York Ironweed
Tiny, fluffy, deep purple flower heads in a 3-4 inch wide terminal cluster.
Periwinkle
Solitary purple flowers with a pinwheel shape. There is a white mark at the base of each petal.
Purple Coneflower
Solitary dark pink to purple flowers with 8-21 drooping petals surrounding a purplish-brown center dome.
Slender Blue Iris
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.
Small Venus’ Looking Glass
Flowers range in color from blue-violet to pink-purple to lavender. They are star-shaped and have 5 white stamens. Flowers open one at a time.
Venus’ Looking Glass
Star-shaped flowers in groups of 1-3 on the top half of the stem.
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.