Eight petaled flower with a yellow center disc.
Locations: Crabtree Creek Greenway
Mimosa Tree
Tree with fern-like leaves and clusters of pink, fluffy, powder puff flowers.
Mock Strawberry
The flower has 5 blunt-tipped oval petals and a yellow center.
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.
Multiflora Rose
Showy, fragrant, white five petaled flowers.
New York Ironweed
Tiny, fluffy, deep purple flower heads in a 3-4 inch wide terminal cluster.
Opposite Leaf Dwarf Dandelion
Small, solitary dandelion-like flowers with 12-35 toothed petals.
Orange Jewelweed
Cornucopia-shaped, orange to orange-yellow flowers with reddish-brown spotting. Flower has a backward-pointing spur and two lips. The lower lip is larger and is split into two lobes.
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.
Prickly Sow-thistle
Yellow, dandelion-like flowers with an urn-shaped base. The spiny leaves wrap around the stem.