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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Common Persicaria, Pink Knotweed, or Jointweed; Smartweed
Polygonum pennsylvanicum
Flowers–Very small, pink, collected in terminal, dense, narrow obtuse spikes, 1 to 2 in. long. Calyx pink or greenish, 5-parted, like petals; no corolla; stamens
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Yellow Star-grass
Hypoxis hirsuta (H. erecta)
Flowers–Bright yellow within, greenish and hairy outside, about 1/2 in. across, 6-parted; the perianth divisions spreading, narrowly oblong; a few flowers at the summit of a rough, hairy scape
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