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

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


Hydrangea macrophylla

Lacecap flower type

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Profile for Hydrangea macrophylla (Bigleaf Hydrangea)
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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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Trifolium repens

Inflorescence

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Profile for Trifolium repens (White Clover)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Low, spreading herbaceous plant
Foliage: Trifoliate
Stem: Creeping, rooting at the nodes
Life Cycle: 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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Saponaria officinalis

A white-flowered variety

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Profile for Saponaria officinalis (Soapwort)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Upright herbaceous plant
Scent: Flowers are sweetly scented
Life Cycle: 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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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

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Daucus carota

Umbel

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Profile for Daucus carota (Carrot, Queen Anne's Lace)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Upright herbaceous plant
Flowers: Umbels of white flowers, with one dark red to black flower in the center.
Foliage: Pinnatifid
Life Cycle: Biennial
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall, Mid Fall

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Plantago lanceolata

Inflorescence

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Profile for Plantago lanceolata (Ribwort Plantain)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Rosette forming
Flowers: Inflorescence on a long stalk held above the foliage
Foliage: Lanceolate
Growing Conditions: Sunny locations, frequent in lawns
Life Cycle: 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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Ocimum basilicum

Inflorescence

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Profile for Ocimum basilicum (Sweet Basil)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Upright, branching herb
Flowers: Tubular, white
Foliage: Simple
Scent: Distinct scent of Basil
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early 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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Abelia x grandiflora

Closeup of flowers

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Profile for Abelia x grandiflora (Glossy Abelia)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Suckering shrub
Flowers: Tubular, white
Foliage: Simple, glossy
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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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Cichorium intybus

Heads

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Profile for Cichorium intybus (Chicory)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Erect perennial, foliage primarily basal but with some cauline leaves
Flowers: Radiate heads, both disk and ray florets typically blue but sometimes white
Life Cycle: perennial
Similar Plants: Basal foliage in spring is often mistaken for Taraxacum officinale
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall, Mid Fall, Late Fall

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Achillea millefolium

Heads

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Profile for Achillea millefolium (Common Yarrow)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Upright, clump-forming
Flowers: Heads
Foliage: Pinnatifid
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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Eupatorium perfoliatum

Flowering plant

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Profile for Eupatorium perfoliatum (Boneset)
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Habit: Erect herbaceous plant
Foliage: Opposite, hairy, clasping the stem
Life Cycle: Perennial
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Solanum carolinense

Flowering plant

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Origanum laevigatum

Search for Origanum laevigatum on commons)

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Dipsacus

Inflorescence of Dipsacus laciniatus

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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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Erigeron annuus

Heads

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Profile for Erigeron annuus (Fleabane)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Upright herbaceous plant
Flowers: Heads with yellow disk florets and white ray florets
Life Cycle: Annual
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Temperate zone season(s): Late Spring, Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer

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Elymus hystrix

Inflorescences

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Fagopyrum esculentum

Flowers and foliage

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Profile for Fagopyrum esculentum (Buckwheat)
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Habit: erect herbaceous plant
Foliage: cordate, alternate
Life Cycle: annual
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Viola tricolor

Flowers

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

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Gladiolus

Flowers of cv. 'Red Crusade'

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Geum canadense

Flowers and foliage

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Mandevilla x amabilis

cv. 'Best Red'

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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
Higher taxa: Viola


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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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Pycnanthemum tenuifolium

Flowers and foliage

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Profile for Pycnanthemum tenuifolium (Small-leaved Mountain Mint)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Bushy herbaceous plant
Flowers: Head-like inflorescences of white, tubular flowers
Foliage: Narrow, stiff
Scent: Mint scent from leaves when crushed
Life Cycle: Perennial
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Temperate zone season(s): Mid Summer, Late Summer, Mid Fall

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Agastache foeniculum

Inflorescences

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Profile for Agastache foeniculum (Wild Hyssop)
Identifying Characteristics
Flowers: Small tubular flowers on an upright spike
Foliage: simple, opposite
Stem: Square in cross section
Life Cycle: Perennial
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Apocynum cannabinum

Inflorescence and leaves

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

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Phytolacca americana

Inflorescence

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Profile for Phytolacca americana (Pokeweed)
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Habit: Upright, bushy, herbaceous plant
Life Cycle: Perennial
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall, Mid Fall

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Yucca filamentosa

Plant with inflorescence

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Profile for Yucca filamentosa (Yucca)
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Foliage: Evergreen, blade-like, with sharp serration and exfoliating threads along the edges.
Life Cycle: perennial
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Summer, Mid Summer

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Weigela

Flowering branches of Weigelia florida

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

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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.robertianum G. x cantabrigiense 'Biokovo'
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Temperate zone season(s): Mid Spring, Late Spring, Early Summer, Mid Summer

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Circaea lutetiana

Flowering plants

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Profile for Circaea lutetiana (Enchanter's Nightshade)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Erect, colonizing, herbaceous plant
Foliage: Simple, opposite
Stem: Thin, green, easily broken
Fruit: Green burs that stick to fur and clothing
Life Cycle: Perennial
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer

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Sagina subulata

Plant with flowers

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Profile for Sagina subulata (Scottish Moss)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Prostrate, spreading herbaceous plant
Foliage: Moss-like
Life Cycle: Perennial
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  • SBJ 11:47, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
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Temperate zone season(s): Late Spring, Mid Summer

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Leucanthemum x superbum

Leucanthemum x superbum 'Becky' in NH.jpg

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Profile for Leucanthemum x superbum (Shasta Daisy)
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Flowers: Heads with yellow disk florets and white rays
Life Cycle: Perennial
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Mentha suaveolens

Inflorescence and leaves

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Profile for Mentha suaveolens (Apple Mint)
Identifying Characteristics
Flowers: Spikes of tubular flowers.
Foliage: Opposite, hairy.
Stem: Square in cross-section, hairy.
Scent: Like mint and apples
Life Cycle: Perennial
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Antirrhinum majus

Plants in bloom

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Profile for Antirrhinum majus (Snapdragon)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Upright herbaceous plant
Foliage: Simple, opposite
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Fall

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

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Hackelia virginiana

Flowering plant

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Profile for Hackelia virginiana (Beggar's Lice)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Erect herbaceous plant
Foliage: Rough textured
Fruit: Burs
Life Cycle: Biennial
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  • --SB_Johnny | PA! 13:47, 11 August 2007 (UTC) (mostly gone to seed, still blooming on terminals)
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Hydrangea arborescens

Inflorescences, habit, and leaves

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

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Aesculus parviflora

Inflorescence

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Verbena urticifolia

Inflorescence (spike)

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

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Saxifraga stolonifera

Inflorescences and form of cv. 'Harvest Moon'

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Profile for Saxifraga stolonifera (Creeping Saxifrage)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Creeping herbaceous plant
Foliage: Basal
Life Cycle: Perennial
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Temperate zone season(s): Late Spring, Early Summer, Mid Summer

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Pycnanthemum incanum

Early flowers, buds and bracts

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Profile for Pycnanthemum incanum (Mountain Mint)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Upright, spreading herbaceous plant.
Flowers: Head-like clusters of small, tubular, white flowers. The heads are held above powdery bracts.
Foliage: Opposite, roughly textured
Scent: Very strong mint scent from crushed parts.
Life Cycle: Perennial
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Temperate zone season(s): Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall, Mid Fall

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Nandina domestica

Inflorescence

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Tradescantia virginiana

Inflorescence

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Profile for Tradescantia virginiana (Virginia Spiderwort)
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Habit: Upright herbaceous plant
Foliage: Straplike
Stem: Round
Life Cycle: Perennial
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Allium cernuum

Allium cernuum.jpg

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Profile for Allium cernuum (Nodding Onion)
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Habit: Low herbaceous plant, arising from a bulb
Foliage: straplike
Life Cycle: perennial
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Liatris spicata

Inflorescence

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Heuchera americana

Inflorescence

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Conyza canadensis

Heads and fruits

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Profile for Conyza canadensis (Horseweed)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Upright herbaceous plant
Flowers: Heads, usually appearing "closed". Fruits present while later flowers are opening.
Foliage: Simple
Stem: Stiff, densely covered by the leaves
Life Cycle: Annual
General information: Synonymous with Erigeron canadensis
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Temperate zone season(s): Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall

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Ailanthus altissima

Inflorescence and foliage

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

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Calycanthus floridus

Flower and foliage

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Profile for Calycanthus floridus (Sweetshrub)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Multistemmed shrub
Foliage: Opposite, simple
Scent: spicy scent from crushed parts, flowers strongly and sweetly fragrant
Life Cycle: perennial shrub
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Temperate zone season(s): Late Spring, Early Summer, Mid Summer

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Physostegia virginiana

Infloresences

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Clematis

Flowers of a purple cultivar

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Profile for Clematis (Clematis)
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Tanacetum parthenium

Heads

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Profile for Tanacetum parthenium (Feverfew)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Erect, bushy herbaceous plant
Flowers: Heads with yellow centers and white rays
Foliage: Simple, pinnately lobed
Life Cycle: perennial
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall, Mid Fall

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Platycodon grandiflorus

Female flower, flowerbud, and foliage

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Profile for Platycodon grandiflorus (Balloon Flower)
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Hydrangea quercifolia

Plant in flower

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Profile for Hydrangea quercifolia (Oakleaf Hydrangea)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Shrub
Foliage: Pinnately lobed, opposite, simple
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Summer, Mid Summer

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Salvia sclarea

Flowering plant

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Profile for Salvia sclarea (Sage)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: erect herbaceous plant
Flowers: tubular, 2-lipped, white
Life Cycle: biennial
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Datura stramonium

Flower and foliage

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Profile for Datura stramonium (Jimsonweed)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Shrub-like forb
Flowers: Trumpet-shaped, white
Fruit: Spiny capsules
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Temperate zone season(s): Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall, Mid Fall

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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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Origanum majorana

Inflorescence

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Profile for Origanum majorana (Marjoram)
Identifying Characteristics
Flowers: Tubular, in dense spikes.
Life Cycle: Perennial
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Summer, Mid Summer

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Cornus amomum

Inflorescence and foliage

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Profile for Cornus amomum (Silky Dogwood)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Multistemmed shrub
Foliage: Opposite, simple
Growing Conditions: Moist soils
Fruit: Blue drupes
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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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Magnolia grandiflora

Flowers and foliage

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Profile for Magnolia grandiflora (Southern Magnolia)
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Stewartia pseudocamellia

Flower

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Profile for Stewartia pseudocamellia (Stewartia)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: small tree
Foliage: Simple
Stem: zig-zag
Fruit: dry capsules
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Veronicastrum virginicum

Inflorescence

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Profile for Veronicastrum virginicum (Culver's Root)
Identifying Characteristics
Flowers: On dense spikes
Life Cycle: Perennial
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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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Clematis virginiana

Inflorescences

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Profile for Clematis virginiana (Virgin's Bower, Devil's Darning Needle)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Climbing vine
Flowers: White, with 5 petals and many showy anthers
Foliage: Trifoliate
Growing Conditions: Widely adaptable
Life Cycle: Perennial
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Tradescantia

Flowers

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Profile for Tradescantia (Spiderwort)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Erect herbaceous plant
Foliage: Straplike, both basal and on stems
Stem: Round
Life Cycle: Perennial
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Temperate zone season(s): Late Spring, Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer

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Melissa officinalis

Closeup of flowers and foliage

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Profile for Melissa officinalis (Lemon Balm)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Spreading herb
Flowers: Tubular, white
Foliage: Simple, opposite, dark green but cv. 'Aurea' has yellow leaves, and is common in gardens
Stem: Square in cross-section
Scent: Strong citrus scent from foliage
Life Cycle: Perennial
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Anthemis cotula

Illustration

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Profile for Anthemis cotula (Mayweed)
Identifying Characteristics
Flowers: Heads
Foliage: Finely dissected
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer

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Anthemis nobilis

Illustration

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Profile for Anthemis nobilis (Roman Chamomile)
Identifying Characteristics
Flowers: Heads with yellow centers and white rays
Foliage: Finely dissected
Scent: Sweet scent from flowers
Life Cycle: Perennial
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Corydalis ochroleuca

Inflorescence

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Profile for Corydalis ochroleuca (White Corydalis)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: low growing, clumping herbaceous plant
Flowers: clusters of white flowers with yellow throats
Foliage: slightly bluish
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Temperate zone season(s): Mid Spring, Late Spring, Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall, Mid Fall, Late Fall, Early Winter

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Plantago major

Flowering spike

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Profile for Plantago major (Broadleaf Plantain)
Identifying Characteristics
Flowers: On dense spikes
Foliage: Basal, rounded with prominent veins
Growing Conditions: Common on compacted soil
Life Cycle: perennial
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late 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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Hosta

Flowers of cv. 'Blue Crinkles'

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Profile for Hosta (Hosta)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Clump-forming herbaceous plant
Flowers: tubular
Foliage: Basal
Life Cycle: perennial
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Summer, Late Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall

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Galium aristatum

Inflorescence

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Profile for Galium aristatum (Awned Bedstraw, False Baby's Breath)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Sprawling, vine-like herbaceous plant
Foliage: Whorled
Stem: Thin, flexible
Life Cycle: Perennial
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last updated 11:20, 19 October 2007 (UTC) with 80 plants