Harebell or Hairbell; Blue Bells of Scotland; Lady’s Thimble
Campanula rotundifolia
Flowers–Bright blue or violet-blue, bell-shaped, 1/2 in. long, or over, drooping from hair-like stalks. Calyx of 5-pointed, narrow, spreading lobes; 5 slender stamens alternate
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Black-eyed Susan; Yellow or Ox-eye Daisy; Nigger-head; Golden Jerusalem; Purple Cone-flower
Rudbeckia hirta
Flower-heads–From 10 to 20 orange-yellow neutral rays around a conical, dark purplish-brown disk of florets containing both stamens and pistil. Stem:
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Common Daisy; White-weed; White or Ox-eye Daisy; Marguerite; Love-me, Love-me-not
Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum
Flower-heads–Disk florets yellow, tubular, 4 or 5 toothed, containing stamens and pistil; surrounded by white ray florets, which are pistillate, fertile. Stem: Smooth,
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Swamp Rose-mallow; Mallow Rose
Hibiscus Moscheutos
Flowers–Very large, clear rose pink, sometimes white, often with crimson centre, 4 to 7 in. across, solitary, or clustered on peduncles at summit of stems. Calyx 5-cleft, subtended
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Spreading Dogbane; Fly-trap Dogbane; Honey-bloom; Bitter-root
Apocynum androsaemifolium
Flowers–Delicate pink, veined with a deeper shade, fragrant, bell-shaped, about 1/3 in. across, borne in loose terminal cymes. Calyx 5-parted; corolla of 5 spreading, recurved lobes united
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Viper’s Bugloss; Blue-weed; Viper’s Herb or Grass; Snake-flower; Blue Thistle; Blue Devil
Echium vulgare
Flowers–Bright blue, afterward reddish purple, pink in the bud, numerous, clustered on short, 1-sided curved spikes rolled up at first, and
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