Carolina Elephant’s Foot or Leafy Elephantfoot Elephantopus carolinianus Take a look at this late summer/early fall wildflower. It is a very unusual aster! Notice how each stem is terminated by three leafy bracts and a cluster of tiny blossoms? From a distance, it looks like each cluster is one circle of tiny white or lavender ray flowers, but…
Category: lavender flowers
American Germander
Teucrium canadense Often observed in large, showy colonies, American Germander is a tall perennial (2-3 ft) in the mint family that blooms in mid-summer. Like all mints, it has a 4-sided stem. The leaves have strong venation and are opposite, ovate to lanceolate, and serrated. The large leaves can grow 2-5 inches in length. The…
Purple Phacelia
Phacelia bipinnatifida Purple phacelia is a native, biennial wildflower that blooms in spring and bears clusters of lavender-blue flowers. At a distance, the flowers resemble wild geranium—delicate, cup-shaped flowers dangling loosely from the top of a 1-2 ft. plant. But in this case, the flower color is more purple than pink—more like the flower color…
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