A flowering branch of darlingplum in Florida. The thick, rounded leaves are arranged in pairs, and tiny yellow-green flowers cluster where the leaves meet the
Florida clover ash in bloom at Long Pine Key, Everglades National Park. Photo: Patty Palma, National Park Service, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain) Tetrazygia bicolor,
The small, white, urn-shaped flowers open in winter and early spring. Cape San Blas, Florida, December. Photo: Scott Allen Davis, via iNaturalist (CC BY 4.0)
A white indigoberry flower on Munyon Island in the Lake Worth Lagoon, Palm Beach County, Florida. The small, fragrant flowers nestle among clusters of glossy
A rose pogonia flower in Ohio. The three sepals and two petals form a hood above the fringed lip, which is striped with deeper pink
Seven-year apple in bloom. The fragrant white flowers open in small clusters at the branch tips among thick, paddle-shaped leaves. Photo: Louise Wolff (darina), via
A corkystem passionflower in bloom on Guadeloupe in the Lesser Antilles, part of its native Caribbean range. The flowers have no petals, only five pale
West Indian cherry flowers in Miami-Dade County, Florida, in late December. Each small white flower has a ring of long stamens. Photo: Brandon Corder, via
Doctorbush in flower. The five white lobes flare from a slender tube, and the green calyx below is coated in stalked sticky glands. Photo: Prenn,
A clump of wild pennyroyal in bloom in dry flatwoods, with saw palmetto behind. The plant forms a low, bushy mound of short, needle-like leaves,
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