Bloom Clock/Keys/Southeastern Pennsylvania/July/Pink Flowers

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


Spiraea japonica

Inflorescence

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Profile for Spiraea japonica (Japanese Spiraea)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Dense shrub
Foliage: simple, alternate, often yellow in cultivated varieties
Life Cycle: perennial shrub
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall, Mid Fall

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Buddleja davidii

Inflorescence

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Profile for Buddleja davidii (Butterfly Bush)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Arching shrub
Foliage: Simple, rough, opposite
Stem: Hollow pith
Scent: Flowers are sweetly scented
Fruit: Dry capsules
Life Cycle: Perennial shrub
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Temperate zone season(s): Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall, Mid Fall, Late Fall

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Persicaria maculosa

Inflorescence

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Profile for Persicaria maculosa (Lady's Thumb)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Erect herbaceous plant
Flowers: On dense terminal spikes with a pink calyx and white corolla
Foliage: Simple
Life Cycle: Annual
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall, Mid Fall, Late Fall

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Securigera varia

Inflorescence

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Profile for Securigera varia (Crown Vetch)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Spreading semi-herbaceous plant
Flowers: Small, pea-like flowers on a crown-like head
Foliage: Pinnately compound
Stem: Thin, wire-like
Life Cycle: Perennial
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall, Mid Fall, Late Fall

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Lagerstroemia indica

Inflorescences and foliage

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Profile for Lagerstroemia indica (Crape Myrtle)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Large shrub or small tree
Foliage: simple
Fruit: Dry, persistent capsule
Life Cycle: perennial shrub or tree
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Temperate zone season(s): Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall, Mid Fall

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Trifolium pratense

Inflorescence

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Profile for Trifolium pratense (Red Clover)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Spreading herbaceous plant
Foliage: trifoliate with pale zones on the leaflets
Fruit: tiny legumes
Life Cycle: perennial
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Temperate zone season(s): Late Spring, Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall, Mid Fall, Late Fall

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Echinacea purpurea

Plants in bloom

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Profile for Echinacea purpurea (Purple Coneflower)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Upright, clump forming
Flowers: Heads with raised disks
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall, Mid Fall, Late Fall

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Begonia

Hybrid begonias

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Temperate zone season(s): Early Summer, Mid Summer, Mid Fall, Late Fall

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Hydrangea macrophylla

Lacecap flower type

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Profile for Hydrangea macrophylla (Bigleaf Hydrangea)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Multistemmed shrub
Foliage: Opposite, simple
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall, Mid Fall

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Sedum spurium

Inflorescence

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Profile for Sedum spurium (Stonecrop)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Creeping forb
Foliage: Succulent
Stem: waxy, fragile
Life Cycle: perennial
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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): Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, Mid 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): Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall

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Dianthus armeria

Inflorescence

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Profile for Dianthus armeria (Deptford Pink)
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall, Mid Fall

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Trifolium arvense

Inflorescences and foliage

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Profile for Trifolium arvense (Rabbit's-foot Clover)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Low, spreading herb
Foliage: Trifoliate
Growing Conditions: Gritty, acidic soils
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Summer, Mid Summer, Mid Fall

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Monarda didyma

Head of a pink-flowered variety

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Profile for Monarda didyma (Bee Balm)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: erect, spreading herb
Flowers: Heads of tubular flowers
Life Cycle: perennial
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Lythrum salicaria

Flowering plant

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Profile for Lythrum salicaria (Purple Loosestrife)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: bushy herbaceous plant
Growing Conditions: Most frequent in wet soils, though also widely cultivated in gardens
Life Cycle: perennial
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall

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Asclepias incarnata

Inflorescence and foliage

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Profile for Asclepias incarnata (Swamp Milkweed)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Upright herbaceous plant
Flowers: Corymbs of pink flowers
Foliage: Simple
Growing Conditions: Moist meadows and gardens
Life Cycle: Perennial
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer

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Gladiolus

Flowers of cv. 'Red Crusade'

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Mandevilla x amabilis

cv. 'Best Red'

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Profile for Mandevilla x amabilis (Mandevilla)
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Viola x wittrockiana

A Purple-flowered variety

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Profile for Viola x wittrockiana (Pansy)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Short-lived, low-growing perennial, with mostly cool season blooms
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Spring, Mid Spring, Mid Summer, Early Fall, Mid Fall, Late Fall, Early Winter

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Weigela

Flowering branches of Weigelia florida

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Profile for Weigela (Weigela)
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Temperate zone season(s): Late Spring, Early Summer, Mid Summer

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Lilium orientale

Flower

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Profile for Lilium orientale (Oriental Lily)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Erect herbaceous plant
Flowers: 3 petals, 3 sepals, 6 anthers, one style.
Foliage: Simple, waxy
Scent: Strong, floral scent from open flowers
Life Cycle: Perennial
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Geranium

Flowers of Geranium x magnificum

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Profile for Geranium (True Geraniums)
Identifying Characteristics
Flowers: 5 petals
Foliage: palmately veined
Subclass plants: G. macrorrhizum G. maculatum G. phaeum G. pratense G. pyrenaicum G. x cantabrigiense 'Biokovo'
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Temperate zone season(s): Mid Spring, Late Spring, Early Summer, Mid Summer

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Phlox paniculata

Inflorescence of a pink variety

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Profile for Phlox paniculata (Garden Phlox)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Upright herbaceous plant
Flowers: Corolla tubular with 5 showy lobes
Foliage: Simple
Stem: green, stiff
Life Cycle: Perennial
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall, Mid Fall, Late Fall, Early Winter

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Rosa palustris

Flowering branch

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Profile for Rosa palustris (Swamp Rose)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Suckering, layering shrub
Flowers: 5 pink petals, yellow anthers are numerous and showy
Foliage: Pinnately compound
Stem: Thorny, thorns traight or slightly curved
Scent: Strong, clove-like scent
Growing Conditions: Wet soils
Fruit: Hairy red drupes
Life Cycle: Perennial shrub
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Allium cernuum

Allium cernuum.jpg

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Profile for Allium cernuum (Nodding Onion)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Low herbaceous plant, arising from a bulb
Foliage: straplike
Life Cycle: perennial
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Lonicera sempervirens

Inflorescence and foliage

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Profile for Lonicera sempervirens (Coral Honeysuckle)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Twining woody vine
Flowers: Tubular, red to pink
Foliage: Opposite, clasping the stem near the tips of the branches
Stem: Twining, with exfoliating bark on older stems
Scent: Faint
Fruit: Black drupes
Life Cycle: Woody perennial
Similar Plants: Often confused with Lonicera x heckrottii
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Cleome hassleriana

Inflorescence and foliage of cv. 'Violet Queen'

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Profile for Cleome hassleriana (Spider Flower)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Upright herbaceous plant
Stem: Stiff, with sharp thorns, covered in leafy bracts
Fruit: Elongated pods
Life Cycle: Annual
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Hibiscus syriacus

Flowers

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Profile for Hibiscus syriacus (Garden Hibiscus)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Tree or shrub
Foliage: Simple, lobed
Fruit: Dry capsules
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Clematis

Flowers of a purple cultivar

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Albizia julibrissin

f. 'Rosea'

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Profile for Albizia julibrissin (Mimosa)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Small tree
Foliage: Bipinnately compound
Fruit: legumes
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Platycodon grandiflorus

Female flower, flowerbud, and foliage

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Anagallis arvensis

Flower and foliage

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Profile for Anagallis arvensis (Scarlet Pimpernel)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Creeping, mat-forming herbaceous plant
Stem: Weak, green
Life Cycle: Annual
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer

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Achillea sibirica

Heads

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Profile for Achillea sibirica (Sibirian Yarrow)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Upright to mounded
Flowers: Heads
Foliage: pinnately lobed, narrow, dark green
Life Cycle: Perennial
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Liatris spicata

Inflorescence

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Profile for Liatris spicata (Blazing Star)
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Clethra alnifolia

Inflorescences

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Profile for Clethra alnifolia (Summersweet)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Suckering shrub
Flowers: Upright panicles
Foliage: Simple, serrate margins
Life Cycle: Perennial woody shrub
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Asclepias syriaca

Inflorescence

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Profile for Asclepias syriaca (Common Milkweed)
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Summer, Mid Summer

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Physostegia virginiana

Infloresences

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Lonicera x heckrottii

Flower cluster and foliage

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Profile for Lonicera x heckrottii (Flame Honeysuckle)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Twining vine
Flowers: in terminal clusters, tubular, red to pink, with orange to yellow throats
Foliage: opposite, sessile, upper leaves clasping the stems
Fruit: bright red drupes
Life Cycle: perennial woody vine
Similar Plants: sometimes confused with L. sempervirens
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Temperate zone season(s): Mid Winter, Mid Spring, Late Spring, Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall, Mid Fall, Late Fall, Early Winter

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