Flowers are yellow or white, pink, magenta, or lavender. The yellow center has a purple or maroon ring.
Petals: 6
Bitterweed
Wedge-shaped petals with 3 lobes at the tip. The center is dome-shaped and yellow.
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.
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.
Elderberry
Dense clusters of small white flowers.
Heartleaf Pickerelweed
Bright lavender-blue tubular flowers in a dense spike up to 5 inches long. Flowers bloom from the bottom up.
Poplar
Tulip-like flowers with yellow-green petals, an orange band at the base, and an orange center.
Rain Lily
Fragrant white trumpet flowers that turn pink after pollination.
Slender Blue Iris
Lavender to violet flowers with 3 small petals and 3 long sepals. The sepals have white patches that are tinged with yellow, and have dark veins.
Southern Magnolia
Tree with large, fragrant, creamy white flowers with 6-12 petals.