Gray’s Sedge

Ornamental grass (sedge) with green seed heads that look like spiked clubs.

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.

Little Brown Jug

Jug-shaped flowers growing at the base of the plant, often under the heart-shaped leaves.

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.

Maryland Senna

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

Morning Glory

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.

Narrowleaf Cattail

Cylindrical flower with female flowers below the male flowers on the stalk. There is a gap of 1/2 inch to several inches between the two sections of flowers.

Ox-eye Daisy

White ray petals with flattened yellow center disk flowers. Each stem has a single flower.

Pokeweed

A tall plant with large leaves and dark red stems. The small white flowers give way to berries that mature to a shiny dark purple.