Flowers have 4 round petals that curve inward, with 4 green sepals as long as the petals. Flowers last less than one day.
Locations: Indian Creek Greenway
American Burnweed
Cylindrical flowers cluster at the end of stems. There are no petals, but there are bud-like dull yellow or white disk florets.
Annual Blue Eyed Grass
Flowers are yellow or white, pink, magenta, or lavender. The yellow center has a purple or maroon ring.
Asiatic Dayflower
Flower has 2 large blue petals and one small white petal. Each flower blooms in the morning for a single day.
Beefsteak-plant
Small bell-shaped pink to pale purple flowers on 4 inch spikes. The flowers have notched upper and lower lips, and 2 short lateral lobes.
Bird’s Eye Speedwell
Flowers are blue-violet and turn white with dark lines toward the center. One petal is narrower than the others.
Black-eyed Susan
Single yellow, daisy-like flowers with a domed brownish-purple center.
Blackberry
Flowers are wrinkled. The flowers and fruit appear on last season’s branches, rarely on new shoots.
Blue Eyed Grass
Flowers are blue, violet or white, with a yellow center. There are 5 types of blue-eyed grass that are common in NC. Annual blue eyed grass (S. rosulatum) can be distinguished by a maroon band at the base of the petals. The other 4 types are more difficult to distinguish: Narrowleaf blue-eyed grass (S. angustifolium) with leaves less than 1/8 in. wide and flowers less than 1/2 in. wide; Atlantic blue-eyed grass (S. atlanticum), with leaves pale bluish-green, and flowers (usually 2) 0.5-0.75 in. wide, ovaries and capsules are black; Needle-tip blue-eyed grass (S. mucronatum) with extremely narrow grasslike leaves and flowers 2-4 in a cluster, 0.5-0.75 in. wide overtopped by a sharp-tipped bract, spathe bracts purple; and Nash’s blue-eyed grass (S. nashii) with leaves to 12 in. long and flowers 0.5-1 in. wide.
Blue Field-Madder
Tiny cross-shaped pink to lavender flowers in clusters at the ends of branches.