Stems: Branched

Periwinkle

Solitary purple flowers with a pinwheel shape. There is a white mark at the base of each petal.

Piedmont St. Johnswort

Yellow flowers with five petals growing in dense clumps. Leaves are linear and needle-like.

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.

Sicklepod

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 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.

Small-headed Sunflower

Flowers have 5-8 yellow petals with a yellow center disk. The leaves have long stalks, are rough and opposite.

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 Crownbeard

Flower heads in a large, open, branching cluster. Flowers have a domed center disk of greenish-yellow tubular florets. The flowers are sparse and are not evenly arranged around the head of the flower. This makes the plant look like it is uneven or off balance.