Eastern silver aster in bloom in southwest Florida. The lavender to rose-purple rays surround a disk that starts yellow and turns pinkish-purple with age. Photo:
Frostweed in bloom at Logan County Glade State Nature Preserve, Kentucky. Each small head has a few short white rays around a fuzzy center. Photo:
A mature clump of coontie at Alfred B. Maclay Gardens State Park, Tallahassee, Florida. The stiff, glossy, fern-like leaves rise from a short underground stem.
Wand goldenrod in bloom in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, near the northern end of its range. Each stem ends in a narrow, upright spike
Spanish bayonet in bloom at Pinckney Island National Wildlife Refuge, Beaufort County, South Carolina, in July. Photo: Bobby McCabe, via iNaturalist (CC BY 4.0) Spanish
Skyblue clustervine in winter bloom on Indian Key in the Florida Keys. Photo: Jason Hollinger, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) Jacquemontia pentanthos, the Skyblue
A single littlewoman flower near Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo, Mexico. The flowers are small and open a few at a time above the hairy, dark-striped
Forked bluecurls in bloom along a roadside in the Florida Panhandle, about three miles from the beach. Photo: Barkmaker, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
May hawthorn in bloom at the end of February in a pond swamp in Alachua County, Florida. The flowers open with or just before the
Seashore dropseed with its narrow seed heads on a sandy beach at Kanaha Beach, Maui, Hawaii, where it is a native dune grass. Photo: Forest
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