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New Jersey tea flowers occur in panicles ("puffballs") up to 5" long and 3" across on peduncles up to 8" long arising from the tip of stems or axils of a leaf. Flowers are 1/4-3/8" across on 1/4-3/4" stalks; each flower has five triangular white sepals folded inwards towards the flower center; five widely spreading, white spoon-shaped petals with narrow bases and broad tips (tips curled in to heighten the "spoon" impression) emerging from between the incurled sepals; five stamens with whitish-purple anthers; and a three-part style.

Ceanothus

Ceanothus americanus

New Jersey tea [Blooms: Jun-Jul]

American bittersweet side branches occasionally produce panicles of flowers (up to 6" long) at their tips. Male flowers are about 1/4" wide with five light green petals with jagged or undulate margins, five green sepals, and five stamens with yellow anthers and a narrow style rudiment.

Celastrus

Celastrus scandens

American bittersweet [Blooms: Jun-Jul]

Common hackberry flowers may be staminate (male), pistillate (female), or perfect (both), all on the same tree. Flowers are about 1/4" across and bloom before the leaves open, often high in the tree (thus, I have no pictures yet). All flowers are wind-pollinated, yellowish-green with 4-6 spreading sepals joined at their bases; there are no petals. Male flowers have 4-5 stamens with green or yellow-brown anthers; female flowers have a green ovary with a large two-part, densely fuzzy style like an umbrella beneath the ovary. Perfect flowers have both.

Celtis

Celtis occidentalis

common hackberry [Blooms: Apr-May]

Wild chervil upper stems terminate in up to three clusters of 3-7 small, white flowers (right image). Individual flowers (upper left) are tiny (1/8" across), each with five white petals, five stamens, and a cylindrical green ovary bearing a split style; the sepals are highly reduced. After fertilization, both the cylindrical ovary and the flower stalk elongate; mature fruits (lower left) are usually hairless, about 1/4" long, and contain a single seed.

Chaerophyllum

Chaerophyllum procumbens

wild chervil [Blooms: May-?]

Lamb's quarters produces inconspicuous star-shaped, yellow-green flowers, <1/8" across, sessile on flower stalks in round, tight clusters; the flowers have no petals, five stamens with yellow anthers, and a single divided style at the tip of a round, green ovary, all cupped in a five-lobed, mealy-white, calyx. The flowers are wind-pollinated and can aggravate hay fever symptoms.

Chenopodium

Chenopodium album

lamb's quarters [Blooms: Jul-Sep]

Chicory flowerheads are an unmistakable clear blue, 1-1.5" across, sessile or on very short stalks, with 10-20 (typically 17) blue ray florets with five tiny teeth at their tips; there are no disc florets. Two series of small bracts covered with glandular hairs cup the base of the flowerhead. In the center of the flowerhead are spike-like, deep-blue stamens (one for each ray floret) fused around a style, each style with a light blue, bifurcated stigma. The flowerheads open in the morning but usually close later in the day.

Cichorium

Cichorium intybus

chicory [Blooms: Jun-Sep]

Upper stems of poison hemlock bear compound umbels 2-5" wide of tiny (1/8") white flowers with five spoon-shaped petals (one often larger than the others), usually with a longitudinal fold and notched; below the umbels are oval bracts with elongate tips, not divided like the leaves.

Conium

Conium maculatum

poison hemlock [Blooms: May-Jun]

Field bindweed stems produce 1-4 funnel-shaped flowers, each arising from a leaf axil, about 1" across and cupped by five small sepals and attached to a flower stalk; the flower stalk bears two small bracts about 1" below the base of the flower. Flowers range from white to pink, with a clear yellow center containing five stamens and a single style with a split stigma. Each bloom lasts only one day.

Convolvulus

Convolvulus arvensis

field bindweed [Blooms: May-Aug]

Horseweed flowering stems form a pyramidal inflorescence covered with numerous flowers and what look like dandelion seedheads. Panicles of flowers up to 1.5' long 6" across arise from the tip of the main stem and from axillary stems that arise from the upper leaves. Individual flowers are small (~1/8" in diameter and 1/4" long), cylindrical or urn-shaped, and covered with multiple layers of phyllaries; they look more like buds than flowers with only the tips of the 25-45 white or pink, pistillate ray florets peeking out the end. The 12-25 disk florets are yellow; they bear both pistils and stamens.

Conyza

Conyza canadensis

horseweed [Blooms: Jul-Aug]

Whorled coreopsis' flowerheads are a bright golden yellow, 1-2" across, with eight yellow, elongate egg-shaped ray flowers and numerous (30-40) yellow disk flowers.

Coreopsis

Coreopsis verticillata

whorled coreopsis [Blooms: Jun-Sep]

Cockspur hawthorn produces flat-topped panicles of flowers 2-3" across that arise from leaf axils; the panicle branches are light green and hairless. Individual flowers are 1/2" across; they have a green calyx with five teeth, five spreading white petals, 10-20 stamens with pink or pale-yellow anthers, and a pistil with 2-3 styles. At least in Jackson Park, the upper surface of the receptacle at the base of the pistil is a shiny greenish-yellow to reddish-yellow. The flower's scent is not pleasant to humans but bees and syrphid flies are not deterred. The fruit is a small (1/2" across) crabapple-like pome, red at maturity.

Crataegus

Crataegus crus-galli

cockspur hawthorn [Blooms: May-Jun]

Downy hawthorn produces clusters of 5-17 flowers; the flower stalks are reddish-green and hairy. Individual flowers are 3/4-1" across with five green, triangular sepals with glandular hairs along the margins that are fused at their base; five round, white petals; 17-20 stamens with pale yellow or white anthers; and 4-5 styles. In Jackson Park, the top of the receptacle (at the center of the flower around the bases of the styles) is reddish-green to deep red and shiny.

Crataegus

Crataegus mollis

downy hawthorn [Blooms: Apr-May]

Common hawthorn produces broad, dense, flattened clusters (cymes) of five to fifteen flowers. Individual flowers are up to 1/2" wide with five reflexed sepals, five white petals, 15-20 stamens with red to purple anthers, and a single style. At least in Jackson Park, the upper surface of the receptacle at the base of the pistil is a shiny yellowish green.

Crataegus

Crataegus monogyna

common hawthorn [Blooms: May-?]

Narrow-leaf hawksbeard is a weedy-looking plant that reaches a size of 8-40". Flowers occur in a panicle (usually arising from a leaf axil) with up to 20 dandelion-like flowerheads. Individual flowerheads are about 1" across with 30-70 yellow ray florets (the "petals"); beneath the ray florets are two layers of green bracts — an inner layer of 12-15 3/8" long, sharply-pointed, keeled bracts covered in wooly or short stiff hairs and an outer layer of bracts half the length of the inner layer, sometimes ridged, with hairs like the inner layer. Narrow-leaf hawksbeard can be distinguished from similar dandelion-like flowers (Crepis pulchera, Crepis capillaris, and various sowthistles and hawksweeds) by the presence of auricles on the stem leaves and a layer of appressed hairs on the inside surface of the inner bracts, best seen with a magnifier.

Crepis

Crepis tectorum

narrow-leaf hawksbeard [Blooms: May-?]

Honewort's inflorescence is a compound umbel 1.5-3" across of tiny (1/8") flowers. Each flower has five stamens with creamy-yellow anthers, and one or two light green, conical pistils; the five petals are usually curled in. In Jackson Park, flowers of honewort have two conical styles, whitish to greenish, that are shorter than the petals.

Cryptotaenia

Cryptotaenia canadensis

honewort [Blooms: May-Jun]

Winged pigweed flowers are whitish-green, sessile, and 1/16" across; the flowers have five inward-curving sepals that cover the ovaries, five stamens, and a flattened ovary with 2-3 styles. Flowers may contain only a pistil or both a pistil and stamens; if the latter, the creamy-yellow anthers are prominent.

Cycloloma

Cycloloma atriplicifolium

winged pigweed [Blooms: Jul-Aug]

White prairie-clover produces 1-3" long spikes of flowers and flower buds which open progressively from the base of the spike to the tip. Individual flowers are tiny (about 1/4" across), pea-like, white, with five petals (one much larger than the other four); five white stamens with pale yellow anthers protrude beyond the edge of the flowers.

Dalea

Dalea candida

white prairie-clover [Blooms: Jun-Jul]

At the apex of a purple prairie-clover stem is a 1-2.5" long spike of flowers and flower buds which open progressively from the base of the spike to the tip. Individual flowers are tiny (1/4" across), pea-like, deep magenta in color, with five purple petals (one much larger than the other four). Five stamens with golden anthers protrude beyond the edge of the flowers.

Dalea

Dalea purpurea

purple prairie-clover [Blooms: Jun-Aug]