Bloom Clock/Keys/Southeastern Pennsylvania/October/White Flowers/Herbaceous

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This page is part of a dichotomous key for plants recorded as blooming in Southeastern Pennsylvania during the month of October.
These plants have the following traits:

  • White flowers
  • are herbaceous

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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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

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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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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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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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Aster novae-angliae

Head

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Profile for Aster novae-angliae (New England Aster)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Erect, bushy herbaceous plant
Flowers: Heads with yellow disk florets and purple (sometimes pink, white, or red) rays
Foliage: Simple, alternate
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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Lobularia maritima

Inflorescences

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Profile for Lobularia maritima (Sweet Alyssum)
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Summer, Late Summer, Mid Fall, Late Fall

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Aster lateriflorus

Illustration

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Profile for Aster lateriflorus (Calico Aster)
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Salvia nemorosa

Inflorescence

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Profile for Salvia nemorosa (Purple Sage)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Clumping perennial
Flowers: Spikes of tubular flowers
Foliage: Simple, opposite, roughly haired
Stem: Square in cross section
Life Cycle: Perennial
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Temperate zone season(s): Late Spring, Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, 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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Fagopyrum esculentum

Flowers and foliage

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Profile for Fagopyrum esculentum (Buckwheat)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: erect herbaceous plant
Foliage: cordate, alternate
Life Cycle: annual
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Mollugo verticillata

Mollugo verticillata

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Profile for Mollugo verticillata (Carpetweed)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Creeping
Flowers: 5 petals, white to greenish white.
Foliage: Whorled leaves, typically 30 mm long, 5 mm wide.
Life Cycle: Annual
Similar Plants: Galium triflorum (Fragrant bedstraw) which is very similar, but the flowers have four petals instead of five.
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall, Mid Fall

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Nipponanthemum nipponicum

Heads

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Profile for Nipponanthemum nipponicum (Nippon Daisy)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: bushy herbaceous plant or subshrub
Flowers: radiate heads
Life Cycle: perennial
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Fragaria x ananassa

Flower

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Profile for Fragaria x ananassa (Strawberry)
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Temperate zone season(s): Mid Spring, Late Spring, Early Summer, Mid Summer, Mid 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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Impatiens walleriana

Closeup of flower

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Profile for Impatiens walleriana (Busy-lizzie, Impatiens)
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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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Nicotiana sylvestris

Flowering plant

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Profile for Nicotiana sylvestris (Flowering Tobacco)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit: Upright herbaceous plant
Flowers: Tubular, white
Foliage: Large, simple leaves, sticky.
Stem: Sticky
Fruit: sticky, 4-valved capsules.
Life Cycle: Annual
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Pentas lanceolata

Flowers of a white variety

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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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Zinnia violacea

Head

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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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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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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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Begonia

Hybrid begonias

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

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Anemone x hybrida

Flowers

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Profile for Anemone x hybrida (Japanese Anemone)
Identifying Characteristics
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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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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Persicaria polymorpha

Inflorescence

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Profile for Persicaria polymorpha (Knotweed)
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Habit: spreading, freely branched forb
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Temperate zone season(s): Late Spring, Early Summer, Early Fall, Mid 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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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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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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Galinsoga parviflora

Heads and foliage

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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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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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Eupatorium rugosum

Heads

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Euphorbia maculata

flowers and foliage

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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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Lobelia siphilitica

Inflorescences

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

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Aster ericoides

Heads

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Profile for Aster ericoides (Heath Aster)
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Habit: freely branched
Flowers: heads with white ray florets
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