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Wildflowers of RiverPlace
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DESCRIPTION:
Lesser celandine, also known as fig buttercup, is an herbaceous, perennial plant. Plants have a basal rosette of dark green, shiny, stalked leaves that are kidney-to heart-shaped. The flowers open in March and April, have eight glossy, butter¬yellow petals, and are borne singly on delicate stalks that rise above the leaves.
ECOLOGICAL THREAT:
Lesser celandine is an exotic spring ephemeral and a vigorous growing groundcover that forms large, dense patches on the forest floor, displacing and preventing native plants from co-occurring. Lesser celandine is very difficult to control. |
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DESCRIPTION:
Mouse-ear Chickweed
(Cerastium vulgatum)
Pink Family (Caryophyllaceae)
Low, horizontally spreading plant with hairy sticky stems. fuzzy leaves, and small white flowers in clusters at the top of slender stalks.
Flowers: ¼” wide; 5 deeply notched petals.
Leaves: to 1/2" long, paired,
oblong, stalkless.
Fruit: small cylindrical capsule.
Height: 6-12" (15-30 cm).
Flowers from May-September.
Habitat; Waste places, fields, and roadsides. Range; Throughout.
This naturalized European plant takes its common name from the fuzzy leaves.
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DESCRIPTION:
Persian speedwell, also called birdseye speedwell, is an annual with roundish or oval leaves on stems, 4 to 16 inches (10 - 40 cm) long. Upper leaves are arranged alternately along the stem; lower leaves are arranged in pairs. Small, deep blue flowers with white centers are borne on stalks, 3/8 to 1 inch (11 - 25 mm) long. The entire plant is covered with hairs. Mature plants are compressed (low growing) when mowed frequently. |
MERTENSIA VIRGINICA
VIRGINIA BLUEBELLS |
DESCRIPTION:
These plants grow to one or two feet tall in moist areas. They bloom in mid to late spring and produce clusters of bell-shaped light blue flowers about one inch long for about three weeks. The leaves are oval.
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BLUE & WHITE
VIOLETS
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DESCRIPTION:
A low plant found in damp woods or other damp areas. Flowers have five blue and white petals on single stems. Leaves are pointed. Blossoms March to June.
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COMMON BLUE VIOLETS |
DESCRIPTION:
A low plant found in damp woods or other damp areas. Flowers have five blue petals on single stems. Leaves are heart-shaped. Blossoms March to June. |
GARLIC MUSTARD
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DESCRIPTION:
Garlic mustard is an early flowering biennial herb with triangular coarsely toothed leaves. The leaves smell like garlic when crushed. Garlic mustard plants grow to two or more feet in height. They have roundish clusters of small white flowers with four petals.
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CELANDINE - CHELIDONMIUM MAJUS
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DESCRIPTION:
Poppy family
Yellow flowers in small clusters. Four petals. Flowers April to August. Leaves are lobed. Found in moist soils around roadsides and woods. One story is that the name Chelidonium was given because the blossoms it appear and leave with the swallows and that is their Greek name. |
Some Wildflowers at Confluence Park
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