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

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


Zinnia violacea

Head

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Viola x wittrockiana

A Purple-flowered variety

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Profile for Viola x wittrockiana (Pansy)
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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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Trifolium arvense

Inflorescences and foliage

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Profile for Trifolium arvense (Rabbit's-foot Clover)
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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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Sedum spectabile

Inflorescence

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

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Rosa

Flowers

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Profile for Rosa (Rose)
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Habit: Thorny shrubs
Foliage: alternate, pinnately compound
Stem: thorned
Fruit: small pomes (hips)
Life Cycle: perennial shrub
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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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Chrysanthemum x morifolium

Flowering plants

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

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Phlox paniculata

Inflorescence of a pink variety

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Profile for Phlox paniculata (Garden Phlox)
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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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Lonicera x heckrottii

Flower cluster and foliage

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Profile for Lonicera x heckrottii (Flame Honeysuckle)
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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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Cleome hassleriana

Inflorescence and foliage of cv. 'Violet Queen'

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

Inflorescence

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Profile for Persicaria maculosa (Lady's Thumb)
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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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Polygonum sagittatum

Inflorescences

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Polygonum pensylvanicum

Polygonum pensylvanicum

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Profile for Polygonum pensylvanicum (Pennsylvania Smartweed)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Erect
Flowers: cluster of pink flowers in a spike.
Foliage: long, narrow leaves with prominent midrib. Veins are parallel to one another, originating at the midrib and progressing towards the edge of the leaf. Margin is entire.
Stem: Jointed branches are covered with a papery sheath.
Life Cycle: Annual
Similar Plants: Easily mistaken for Persicaria maculosa
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Buddleja davidii

Inflorescence

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Profile for Buddleja davidii (Butterfly Bush)
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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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Vinca minor

flowers and young foliage

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Profile for Vinca minor (Periwinkle)
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Habit: prostrate vine, rooting at the nodes
Flowers: trumpet-shaped
Foliage: simple, opposite, evergreen
Life Cycle: perennial
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Winter, Mid Winter, Early Spring, Mid Spring, Late Spring, Early Summer, Early Fall, Mid Fall, Late Fall

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Anemone x hybrida

Flowers

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Profile for Anemone x hybrida (Japanese Anemone)
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Habit: Herbaceous perennial with rhizomatous stems
Foliage: Lower leaves trifoliate, upper leaves simple, lobed and rouchly haired
Growing Conditions: Woodland, shade, partshade, tolerant of dry conditions
Life Cycle: perennial
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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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Pentas lanceolata

Flowers of a white variety

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(Updated 11:52, 11 October 2007 (UTC) with 17 plants)

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