Flowers are pale blue to violet with a yellow center. There is one flower per stem tip.
Locations: Crabtree Creek Greenway
Carolina Horse-Nettle
The flower is star-shaped with five white to light violet petals. There are large yellow anthers in the center. The small green-yellow fruit looks like a tomato.
Clematis terniflora
A weedy vine with clusters of white, cross-shaped flowers. Often climbing on top of trees and shrubs. Fruit is a cluster with feather-like tails.
Clematis virginiana
A vine covered in white, cross-shaped flowers. Fruit is a cluster with feather-like tails.
Common Chickweed
Small white flowers with 5 deeply divided petals, giving the appearance of 10 petals.
Common Elephant’s Foot
Small pink or purple flowers with three green, triangular bracts behind them. The hairy leaves lay flat on the ground.
Common Groundsel
Clusters of yellow, cylindrical flower heads at the top of each stem. It looks like a dandelion, but there are no petals.
Consumption Weed
Large bush with feathery white seeds in the late fall. The flowers are white in the female plant, and cream in the male plant.
Crossvine
A vine with trumpet-shaped flowers. The flowers have an orange or reddish-orange base and a yellow opening.
Curly Dock
A tall plant with long, wavy leaves. Long flower stalks are covered with tear-drop shaped green or yellow flowers surrounding a seed.