Bloom Clock/Keys/Southeastern Pennsylvania/July/Yellow Flowers

The plants pictured below have been recorded as blooming during the month of July in Southeastern Pennsylvania.


Taraxacum officinale

Head

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Profile for Taraxacum officinale (Common Dandelion)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit:rosette-forming herbaceous plant with a long taproot
Flowers:Head, flowers are all ray-like
Foliage:Basal only, pinnately lobed
Stem:flower stems are hollow with a milky sap
Scent:mild, "sunny"
Growing Conditions:sunny and partly-shaded, well drained soils, drought intolerant
Fruit:achene with a silky pappus
Similar Plants:Hypochoeris radicata, Sonchus
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Temperate zone season(s): Mid Winter, Late Winter, Early Spring, Mid Spring, Late Spring, Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall, Mid Fall, Late Fall, Early Winter


Linaria vulgaris

Inflorescences

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Profile for Linaria vulgaris (Butter and Eggs)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit:spreading herbaceous plant
Flowers:Snapdragon-like, yellow
Foliage:Simple, covered in a white, waxy bloom
Stem:Weak
Scent:None
Fruit:Dry capsules
Life Cycle: Perennial
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Temperate zone season(s): Late Spring, Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, Mid Fall, Late Fall


Rudbeckia fulgida

Plant covered in flowers

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Profile for Rudbeckia fulgida (Blackeyed Susan, Orange Coneflower)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit:colonizing herbaceous plant
Flowers:Heads with cone-shaped black disks and orange rays
Foliage:simple, rough to the touch
Stem:Freely branching
Life Cycle: perennial
Similar Plants:Sometimes confused with Rudbeckia hirta
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Verbascum blattaria

Panicle

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Profile for Verbascum blattaria (Moth Mullein)
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, Mid Fall


Hemerocallis

Flower of H. fulva, one of the most commonly encountered daylilies

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Profile for Hemerocallis (Daylily)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit:clumping herbaceous plant
Flowers:3 petals and 3 sepals nearly equal. Each flower lasts only one day.
Foliage:Basal, straplike
Life Cycle: Perennial
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall


Oxalis stricta

Flowers and foliage

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Profile for Oxalis stricta (Common Yellow Woodsorrel)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit:Upright
Flowers:5 petals, yellow
Foliage:Trifoliate, leaflets heart-shaped
Stem:Slender, green
Fruit:Explosive capsules
Life Cycle: Annual
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Temperate zone season(s): Mid Spring, Late Spring, Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall, Mid Fall, Late Fall


Euphorbia lathyris

Flowering plant

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Profile for Euphorbia lathyris (Caper Spurge)
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Temperate zone season(s): Late Spring, Early Summer, Mid Summer, Early Winter


Viola tricolor

Flowers

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Profile for Viola tricolor (Heartsease, Johnny-jump-up)
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall, Mid Fall


Rudbeckia hirta

Flowering plant

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Profile for Rudbeckia hirta (Gloriosa Daisy)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit:Upright herbaceous plant
Flowers:Heads with brown disk florets and yellow or orange rays
Stem:Hairy
Life Cycle: Perennial
Similar Plants:easily confused with Rudbeckia fulgida
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall, Late Fall


Verbascum thapsus

Flowers on spike

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Profile for Verbascum thapsus (Mullein)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit:Upright herbaceous plant
Flowers:Yellow with 5 petals arranged in clusters on a spike produced in the second year.
Foliage:Rosettes, hairy, thick.
Life Cycle: Biennial
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall


Lactuca serriola

Inflorescence

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Profile for Lactuca serriola (Prickly Lettuce)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit:Upright herbaceous plant
Flowers:Heads
Foliage:Spined, simple
Stem:Spined
Life Cycle: Annual
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Impatiens capensis

Flowers and foliage

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Profile for Impatiens capensis (Jewelweed)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit:Erect
Growing Conditions:Moist soils
Fruit:Explosive capsules
Life Cycle: Annual
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall


Chelidonium majus

Flowers, foliage, and buds

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Profile for Chelidonium majus (Greater Celandine)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit:Upright herbaceous plant
Flowers:4 showy petals, many anthers, yellow.
Foliage:Pinnately compound with lobed leaflets.
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Temperate zone season(s): Mid Spring, Late Spring, Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall


Gladiolus

Flowers of cv. 'Red Crusade'

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Mandevilla x amabilis

cv. 'Best Red'

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Viola x wittrockiana

A Purple-flowered variety

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Profile for Viola x wittrockiana (Pansy)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit:Short-lived, low-growing perennial, with mostly cool season blooms
Higher taxa:Viola


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Temperate zone season(s): Early Spring, Mid Spring, Mid Summer, Early Fall, Mid Fall, Late Fall, Early Winter


Allium flavum

Allium flavum, inflorescence

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Profile for Allium flavum (Yellow flowering onion)
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This page contains recent bloom logs for the plant Allium flavum (Yellow Flowering Onion).

If you saw this plant blooming today (or sometime within the last 3 days), you can help improve the bloom clock by logging it. Just click on "edit" next to the Recent Logs heading, add *~~~~ (an asterisk followed by four tildes) on a new line just below the last signature, and then click "save page". This will add your signature and the date to log the plant.

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Matricaria discoidea

Heads

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Profile for Matricaria discoidea (Pineappleweed)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit:Herbaceous forb
Flowers:Discoid heads
Foliage:The leaves are pinnately dissected and sweet-scented when crushed.
Stem:The plant grows 3 to 12 inches (7.5 - 30 cm) high.
Scent:The flowers exude a chamomile/pineapple aroma when crushed.
Growing Conditions:Disturbed areas, especially those with poor, compacted soil. It can be seen blooming on footpaths, roadsides, and similar places in spring and early summer.
Life Cycle: Annual
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Temperate zone season(s): Late Spring, Early Summer, Mid Summer


Stylophorum diphyllum

Flowers

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Profile for Stylophorum diphyllum (Celandine poppy)
Identifying Characteristics
Flowers:4 showy petals, numerous anthers, all yellow
Foliage:hairy beneath and on the petioles
Fruit:pods
Life Cycle: perennial
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Temperate zone season(s): Mid Spring, Late Spring, Early Summer, Mid Summer


Digitalis lutea

Spike

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Profile for Digitalis lutea (Yellow Foxglove)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit:Upright herbaceous plant
Flowers:On spikes, tubular and yellow
Foliage:Simple
Life Cycle: Perennial
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Sedum kamtschaticum

Flowers and foliage

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Profile for Sedum kamtschaticum (Stonecrop)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit:Creeping succulent plant
Life Cycle: Perennial
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Temperate zone season(s): Late Spring, Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall


Cucumis sativus

Flower and foliage

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Profile for Cucumis sativus (Cucumber)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit:Trailing or climbing vine, tendrilled
Foliage:Palmately lobed
Fruit:A pepo (the cucumber)
Life Cycle: Annual

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Lonicera japonica

Flowers and foliage

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Profile for Lonicera japonica (Japanese Honeysuckle)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit:Twining vine
Flowers:In terminal clusters, tubular, white or yellow (both colors often appearing on the same plant)
Foliage:Simple, opposite
Scent:Flowers are sweetly scented
Life Cycle: Woody perennial
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall, Mid Fall, Late Fall


Antirrhinum majus

Plants in bloom

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Profile for Antirrhinum majus (Snapdragon)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit:Upright herbaceous plant
Foliage:Simple, opposite
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Fall


Tagetes erecta

Head

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Profile for Tagetes erecta (Marigold)
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Summer Mid Summer, Early Fall


Lilium orientale

Flower

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Profile for Lilium orientale (Oriental Lily)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit:Erect herbaceous plant
Flowers:3 petals, 3 sepals, 6 anthers, one style.
Foliage:Simple, waxy
Scent:Strong, floral scent from open flowers
Life Cycle: Perennial
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Rudbeckia laciniata

Heads

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Profile for Rudbeckia laciniata (Greenheaded Coneflower)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit:Erect herbaceous plant
Flowers:heads
Foliage:deeply lobed on lover leaves, unlobed on upper leaves
Growing Conditions:most common in moist to wet soils
Life Cycle: perennial
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Cucurbita pepo

Female flower

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Rorippa sylvestris

Plant in bloom

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Profile for Rorippa sylvestris (Field Yellowcress)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit:Spreading herb
Flowers:Corymbs of yellow flowers, 4 yellow petals
Foliage:Pinnatifid, dark green
Stem:Purplish, flexible
Scent:mild, mustard-like
Similar Plants:Can be mistaken for Barbarea vulgaris or Barbarea verna
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Temperate zone season(s): Late Spring, Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall, Mid Fall, Late Fall


Lilium canadense

Illustration

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Profile for Lilium canadense (Canada Lily)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit:Erect herbaceous plant
Flowers:Borne on the top of the plant, pointing downward
Foliage:Simple
Life Cycle: Perennial
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Rudbeckia triloba

Flowers covering plant

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Profile for Rudbeckia triloba (Browneyed Susan)
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Habit:upright forb, freely branching
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Tragopogon dubius

Head

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Profile for Tragopogon dubius (Western Salsify)
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Cucumis melo

Flowers

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Profile for Cucumis melo (Melon)
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This page contains recent bloom logs for the plant Cucumis melo (Melon). If you saw this plant blooming today (or sometime within the last 3 days), you can help improve the bloom clock by logging it. Just click on "edit" next to the Recent Logs heading, add *~~~~ (an asterisk followed by four tildes) on a new line just below the last signature, and then click "save page". This will add your signature and the date to log the plant.

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Medicago lupulina

Flowers and foliage

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Profile for Medicago lupulina (Black Medick)
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Habit:spreading herbaceous plant
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Temperate zone season(s): Mid Spring, Late Spring, Early Summer, Mid Summer, Mid Fall, Late Fall


Coreopsis verticillata

Plant in full flower

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Profile for Coreopsis verticillata (Threadleaf Coreopsis)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit:Colonizing herbaceous perennial
Flowers:Heads
Foliage:Narrow
Life Cycle: Perennial
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Senecio vulgaris

Stems and flowers

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Profile for Senecio vulgaris (Common Groundsel)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit:Low growing but upright herbaceous plant
Flowers:Enclosed heads
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Temperate zone season(s): Mid Winter, Late Winter, Early Spring, Mid Spring, Late Spring, Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Fall


Acalypha rhomboidea

Flowering plant

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Profile for Acalypha rhomboidea (Common Three-seeded mercury)
Identifying Characteristics
Flowers:Tiny yellow flowers grow in leaf axils. Four sepals, female flowers are apetalous.
Foliage:Thin, lanceolate leaves with crenate margins. Dark green above, purplish below.
Stem:erect.
Life Cycle: Annual
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Temperate zone season(s): Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall


Sonchus asper

Head and foliage

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Profile for Sonchus asper (Spiny Sowthistle)
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Habit:erect herbaceous plant
Flowers:yellow heads
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Corydalis lutea

Flowers and foliage

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Profile for Corydalis lutea (Yellow Corydalis)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit:Mound-forming, colonizing herbaceous plant
Flowers:Tubular, spurred, yellow
Foliage:Pinnately compound, somewhat glaucus
Stem:Weak, sappy
Fruit:Explosive pods
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Temperate zone season(s): Mid Spring, Late Spring, Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall, Mid Fall, Late Fall, Early Winter


Asclepias tuberosa

Inflorescence of a yellow-flowered form

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Profile for Asclepias tuberosa (Butterfly Weed)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit:Upright herbaceous plant
Stem:hairy
Life Cycle: Perennial
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last updated 11:25, 19 October 2007 (UTC) with 40 plants