Plants – Page 19 – Quiet Nature

Scarlet Creeper

Red funnel-shaped flowers with a yellow throat.

Scarlet Rose Mallow

There is one funnel-shaped flower per stalk. Flower petals are spoon-shaped and slightly creased.

Sericea Lespedeza

White to pale yellow pea-shaped flowers with purple spots in the center. One to four flowers cluster in between the leaves.

Nodding yellow flowers with 5 unequal petals. The leaves are pale underneath and have a slightly unpleasant smell. There is a small brown spike-like nectar gland close to the lowest pair of leaflets. The fruit is a long, thin bean pod that is curved into a sickle shape.

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.

Slender Goldenrod

Flowers in interrupted clusters on the end of the stem. This goldenrod has smooth leaves and stems. The individual flowers are large compared to other goldenrods.

Slender Goldentop

Hundreds of small flower heads in large, branched clusters. The leaves are very narrow.

Slender Mountain-Mint

Flower is white to pale pink. It has a tubular opening spreading into two lips, the lower lip having three lobes. Each flower has 2 purple anthers. The flowers are crowded in dense, branching, flat-topped heads.