Bloom Clock/Keys/Southeastern Pennsylvania/August/Yellow Flowers

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The plants pictured below have been recorded as blooming during the month of August in Southeastern Pennsylvania.


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): Mid Spring, Late Spring, Early Summer, Mid Summer, Early Fall, Mid Fall

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Helianthus annuus

Head

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Profile for Helianthus annuus (Sunflower)
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Tanacetum vulgare

Heads

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Profile for Tanacetum vulgare (Tansy)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: upright herbaceous plant
Flowers: Yellow heads, mostly discoid, on branched inflorescences
Life Cycle: perennial
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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
Fruit: achene with a silky pappus
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Winter, Mid Winter, Late Winter, Early Spring, Mid Spring, Late Spring, Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall, Mid Fall, Late Fall

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Rudbeckia fulgida

Plant covered in flowers

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Profile for Rudbeckia fulgida (Blackeyed Susan, Orange Coneflower)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: colonizing herbaceous plant
Flowers: Heads with cone-shaped black disks and orange rays
Foliage: simple, rough to the touch
Stem: Freely branching
Life Cycle: perennial
Similar Plants: Sometimes confused with Rudbeckia hirta
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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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Verbascum blattaria

Panicle

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Profile for Verbascum blattaria (Moth Mullein)
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Temperate zone season(s): Late Spring, Early Summer, Mid Summer, Early Fall

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Hemerocallis

Flower of H. fulva, one of the most commonly encountered daylilies

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Profile for Hemerocallis (Daylily)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: clumping herbaceous plant
Flowers: 3 petals and 3 sepals nearly equal. Each flower lasts only one day.
Foliage: Basal, straplike
Life Cycle: Perennial
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Temperate zone season(s): Late Spring, Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer

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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): Early Spring, Mid Spring, Late Spring, Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall, Mid Fall

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Euthamia graminifolia

Flowering plant

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Profile for Euthamia graminifolia (Grass-leaves goldenrod)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: erect, clump-forming forb
Flowers: flat-topped terminal clusters of small yellow heads
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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): Late Spring, Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, Mid Fall

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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): Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall, Mid Fall

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Lactuca serriola

Inflorescence

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Profile for Lactuca serriola (Prickly Lettuce)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Upright herbaceous plant
Flowers: Heads
Foliage: Spined, simple
Stem: Spined
Life Cycle: Annual
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Impatiens capensis

Flowers and foliage

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Profile for Impatiens capensis (Jewelweed)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Erect
Growing Conditions: Moist soils
Fruit: Explosive capsules
Life Cycle: Annual
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Temperate zone season(s): Late Spring, Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer

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Chelidonium majus

Flowers, foliage, and buds

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Profile for Chelidonium majus (Greater Celandine)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Upright herbaceous plant
Flowers: 4 showy petals, many anthers, yellow.
Foliage: Pinnately compound with lobed leaflets.
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Spring, Mid Spring, Late Spring, Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer

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Miscanthus sinensis

Florets

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Sonchus asper

Head and foliage

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Profile for Sonchus asper (Spiny Sowthistle)
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Habit: erect herbaceous plant
Flowers: yellow heads
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Asclepias tuberosa

Inflorescence of a yellow-flowered form

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Profile for Asclepias tuberosa (Butterfly Weed)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Upright herbaceous plant
Stem: hairy
Life Cycle: Perennial
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Helianthus tuberosus

Heads

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Profile for Helianthus tuberosus (Jerusalem Artichoke)
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Rudbeckia triloba

Flowers covering plant

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Profile for Rudbeckia triloba (Browneyed Susan)
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Habit: upright forb, freely branching
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Pilea pumila

early flowers

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Acalypha rhomboidea

Flowering plant

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Profile for Acalypha rhomboidea (Common Three-seeded mercury)
Identifying Characteristics
Flowers: Tiny yellow flowers grow in leaf axils. Four sepals, female flowers are apetalous.
Foliage: Thin, lanceolate leaves with crenate margins. Dark green above, purplish below.
Stem: erect.
Life Cycle: Annual
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer

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Oxalis corniculata

Plant with flowers, showing the purple foliage

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Profile for Oxalis corniculata (Creeping Woodsorrel)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Creeping, rooting at the nodes
Flowers: Yellow, 5-petaled
Foliage: Trifoliate with heart-shaped leaflets, usually purple
Fruit: Explosive capsules
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Spring, Mid Spring, Late Spring, Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall

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Kirengeshoma koreana

Flower

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Coreopsis verticillata

Plant in full flower

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Profile for Coreopsis verticillata (Threadleaf Coreopsis)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Colonizing herbaceous perennial
Flowers: Heads
Foliage: Narrow
Life Cycle: Perennial
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Corydalis lutea

Flowers and foliage

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Profile for Corydalis lutea (Yellow Corydalis)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Mound-forming, colonizing herbaceous plant
Flowers: Tubular, spurred, yellow
Foliage: Pinnately compound, somewhat glaucus
Stem: Weak, sappy
Fruit: Explosive pods
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Spring, Mid Spring, Late Spring, Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall, Mid Fall, Late Fall

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Agrimonia

Flowers of A. eupatoria

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Lonicera japonica

Flowers and foliage

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Profile for Lonicera japonica (Japanese Honeysuckle)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Twining vine
Flowers: In terminal clusters, tubular, white or yellow (both colors often appearing on the same plant)
Foliage: Simple, opposite
Scent: Flowers are sweetly scented
Life Cycle: Woody perennial
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Temperate zone season(s): Late Spring, Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall, Mid Fall

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Cucumis sativus

Flower and foliage

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Profile for Cucumis sativus (Cucumber)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Trailing or climbing vine, tendrilled
Foliage: Palmately lobed
Fruit: A pepo (the cucumber)
Life Cycle: Annual
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Dahlia

Flower of cv. 'Autumn Fairy'

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Rudbeckia laciniata

Heads

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Profile for Rudbeckia laciniata (Greenheaded Coneflower)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Erect herbaceous plant
Flowers: heads
Foliage: deeply lobed on lover leaves, unlobed on upper leaves
Growing Conditions: most common in moist to wet soils
Life Cycle: perennial
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