A tall plant with long, wavy leaves. Long flower stalks are covered with tear-drop shaped green or yellow flowers surrounding a seed.
Locations: Crabtree Creek Greenway
Daisy Fleabane
More than 20 white (sometimes light pink) threadlike petals with a yellow center.
Dandelion
Single, bright yellow flowers at the ends of smooth, hollow stalks.
Dead Nettle
Purple-pink flowers. The top petal is hairy and hooded. The 2 lower lip petals are lighter in color and have purple spots. There are 3-6 flowers on end of the stem.
Downy Beardtongue
Flowers are pink on the outside, white on the inside, and have 2 lips. The upper lip has 2 lobes and is shorter than the lower lip with 3 lobes.
Dwarf St. John’s-wort
Flowers are in branching clusters at the end of the stem.
Early Goldenrod
Flowers are mostly on one side of the stem. The rays around the center disk are unevenly spaced and do not open at the same time. It is one of the earliest blooming goldenrods, beginning in July.
Eastern Anglepod
Star-shaped green or yellowish green flowers with a purple center.
Eastern Oxeye
Yellow flower petals have slightly notched tips. The flower has a brownish-yellow center cone.
Elderberry
Dense clusters of small white flowers.