Flowers have 5-8 yellow petals with a yellow center disk. The leaves have long stalks, are rough and opposite.
Locations: Indian Creek Greenway
Smooth Ground-cherry
Yellow, funnel-shaped flowers with a slightly darker center. The stamens are blue. The plant leaves are large and are irregularly toothed. The leaves that surround the fruit look like a paper lantern.
Southern Bluet
Solitary, tiny, four petaled white flowers
Swamp Rose-Mallow
Funnel-shaped flowers are white to pink with a maroon throat.
Tall Goldenrod
Flowers in a large pyramid-shaped cluster at the top of the stem. It is the most common goldenrod in this area. This goldenrod usually has stem ball galls.
Thymeleaf Speedwell
The four-petaled flower is white to pale blue with dark blue lines.
Tiny Bluet
Flowers are blue-lavender and have a darker, red center.
Trumpet Creeper
Clusters of orange-red trumpet-shaped flowers with 5 flared lobes.
Violet
Purple flower (deep violet to lavender, sometimes white) with darker veins and white throats. There are 5 unequal petals. The lowest petal points backward and the 2 petals on the side are hairy.
Violet Wood Sorrel
Violet to pink flowers with a white and green throat. Groups of 3-12 flowers on the stem.