Flowers have shiny yellow petals.
Locations: Hatcher Creek Greenway
Bulltongue Arrowhead
White, 3 petaled flowers. Male and female flowers are on the same scape, the male flowers on the upper portion, the female flowers on the lower portion. Male flowers have bushy yellow centers, female flowers have mounded green centers. The leaves are 4-16 inches long, rising out of the water.
Butterfly Milkweed
Orange or reddish-orange 5 petal flowers in clusters at the end of the stem.
Buttonbush
1.5 inch round flower heads packed with tiny white flowers. It looks like a pincushion.
Camphorweed
Flower heads in clusters at the end of stems. Fuzzy rosy-pink flowers with no petals.
Cardinal Flower
Bright red, 2-lipped flowers in a tall spike. The upper lip has two spreading lobes and an upright gray-tipped filament tube. The lower lip is split into 3 lobes.
Carolina Geranium
Pale pink to white flowers in clusters at the end of stalks.
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.
Carolina Mallow
Low, creeping plant with small, reddish-orange flowers.
Carolina Wild Petunia
Clusters of 2-4 unstalked, light purple, funnel-shaped flowers. The petals are wrinkled or creased.