Leatherleaf Mahonia

3-6 inch spikes of yellow flowers. The leaves resemble holly leaves. There are 9-13 large leaflets, making the entire leaf 1-2 feet long. Fruit is a blue berry.

Maryland Senna

Bright yellow flowers with dark brown anthers. The compound leaves have 6-12 pairs of leaflets.

Mock Strawberry

The flower has 5 blunt-tipped oval petals and a yellow center.

Old Field Cinquefoil

Yellow flowers with five petals. The leaves are palmately divided (like fingers on a hand) into 5 leaflets. The largest leaflet is sharply toothed for more than half of its length. (Compare to running five-fingers, Potentilla canadensis, where the largest leaflet is toothed for less than half of its length.)

Piedmont St. Johnswort

Yellow flowers with five petals growing in dense clumps. Leaves are linear and needle-like.