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Bloom Clock/Keys/New Hampshire/October/Yellow Flowers

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The plants pictured below have been recorded as blooming during the month of October in New Hampshire.


Linaria vulgaris

Inflorescences

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Profile for Linaria vulgaris (Butter and Eggs)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit:spreading herbaceous plant
Flowers:Snapdragon-like, yellow
Foliage:Simple, covered in a white, waxy bloom
Stem:Weak
Scent:None
Fruit:Dry capsules
Life Cycle: Perennial
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Temperate zone season(s): Late Spring, Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, Mid Fall, Late Fall


Oxalis stricta

Flowers and foliage

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Profile for Oxalis stricta (Common Yellow Woodsorrel)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit:Upright
Flowers:5 petals, yellow
Foliage:Trifoliate, leaflets heart-shaped
Stem:Slender, green
Fruit:Explosive capsules
Life Cycle: Annual
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Temperate zone season(s): Mid Spring, Late Spring, Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall, Mid Fall, Late Fall


Taraxacum officinale

Head

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Profile for Taraxacum officinale (Common Dandelion)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit:rosette-forming herbaceous plant with a long taproot
Flowers:Head, flowers are all ray-like
Foliage:Basal only, pinnately lobed
Stem:flower stems are hollow with a milky sap
Scent:mild, "sunny"
Growing Conditions:sunny and partly-shaded, well drained soils, drought intolerant
Fruit:achene with a silky pappus
Similar Plants:Hypochoeris radicata, Sonchus
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Temperate zone season(s): Mid Winter, Late Winter, Early Spring, Mid Spring, Late Spring, Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall, Mid Fall, Late Fall, Early Winter


Solidago canadensis

Inflorescence and habit

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Profile for Solidago canadensis (Canada Goldenrod)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit:Erect, colonizing herbaceous plant
Flowers:Yellow heads held on compound panicles
Foliage:Simple
Life Cycle: Perennial
Similar Plants:Solidago gigantea (shoot axis without hairs)
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Lycopersicon

Inflorescence

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Profile for Lycopersicon (Tomato)
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Summer, Mid Summer, Mid Fall, Late Fall


Rudbeckia hirta

Flowering plant

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Profile for Rudbeckia hirta (Gloriosa Daisy)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit:Upright herbaceous plant
Flowers:Heads with brown disk florets and yellow or orange rays
Stem:Hairy
Life Cycle: Perennial
Similar Plants:easily confused with Rudbeckia fulgida
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall, Late Fall


Viola tricolor

Flowers

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Profile for Viola tricolor (Heartsease, Johnny-jump-up)
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall, Mid Fall


Hypericum perforatum

Closeup of flowers

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Profile for Hypericum perforatum (St. John's wort)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit:Erect
Flowers:Yellow, five petaled flowers approximately 20mm across occur between late Spring and early to mid Summer. The flowers appear in in broad cymes at the ends of the upper branches. The sepals are pointed, with glandular dots in the tissue. There are many stamens, which are united at the base into three bundles.
Foliage:Leaves exhibit obvious translucent dots when held up to the light, giving them a ‘perforated’ appearance, hence the plant's Latin name. The yellow-green leaves are sessile (having no stem), narrow, oblong leaves which are 12mm long or slightly larger.
Stem:Erect, branched in the upper section, and can grow to 1m high.
Life Cycle: Perennial
Similar Plants:Oenothera biennis which has four petals rather than five.
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall, Mid Fall


Oenothera

Flower of O. macrocarpa

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Profile for Oenothera (Evening Primrose)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit:Erect
Flowers:Yellow, 4 petals
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Temperate zone season(s): Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall, Mid Fall, Late Fall


Hamamelis virginiana

Hamamelis virginiana

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Profile for Hamamelis virginiana (Autumn Witch Hazel)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit:Shrub
Flowers:The bright yellow flowers grow in clusters, have four parts, and have ribbon-shaped petals about one inch long. H. virginiana blooms in about mid fall and continues until late fall.
Foliage:Alternate, simple, obovate or oval, four to six inches long, unequal at base, wavy-toothed, acute or rounded at apex. Feather-veined; midrib stout with six to seven pairs of primary veins. They come out of the bud involute, covered with stellate rusty down; when full grown, are dark green above, paler beneath; midrib and veins more or less hairy. In autumn they turn yellow with rusty spots. Petioles stout, half an inch to an inch long. Stipules lanceolate, acute, infolding the buds.
Fruit:The fruit is a hard woody capsule about ½ an inch long, which explodes and launches two shiny black seeds up to 30 feet when it is mature.
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Chrysanthemum x morifolium

Flowering plants

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Profile for Chrysanthemum x morifolium (Hardy Chrysanthemum, Mum)
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Temperate zone season(s): Mid Fall, Late Fall, Early Winter


Rosa

Flowers

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Profile for Rosa (Rose)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit:Thorny shrubs
Foliage:alternate, pinnately compound
Stem:thorned
Fruit:small pomes (hips)
Life Cycle: perennial shrub
Subclass plants:Rosa canina

Rosa multiflora
Rosa palustris
Rosa rugosa

Rosa 'Peace'

Rosa 'Pink Knockout'
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Temperate zone season(s): Late Spring, Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall Mid Fall, Late Fall



last updated 11:42, 31 October 2007 (UTC) with 12 plants