Wildflower I.D.

[junk]

I cant find any info on this wildflower I found near Parker Dam . Very small , flower is maybe 1/2" across with plant standing only maybe 6" high.

 

[Nan]

the flower looks similar to chickweed but I am not sure. Try this website and see if you can find it on there,  http://www.mywildflowers.com/index.asp

[junk]

Thanks for the site Nan. But still cant find it. I keep looking.

[wildflowerpa]

I don't know but I thought I was in trouble when I saw the title of the thread lol.

[Pheobe]

It's a Starflower - in the Primrose family.  

[lavender]

I think Phoebe nailed it. I don't think they are very common around here. There is a note in the margin of my wildflower guide that I saw one in May of 1988. I don't remember seeing one since. Wish I had penciled in where. It's a beauty!

[Bon]

it's a northern starflower.

 

The Starflower: A perennial herb, the Starflower is from 3-25 cm tall (average height: 4 inches). The 4-7 leaves are lance shaped, slender and noticeably veined. Individual leaves are 3-11 cm long, and arranged in a whorl at the tip of the stem. The stems typically have several tiny, alternate, leaves. Most plants will have a single flower though there may be as many as three, each on a long, slender stalk 2-5 cm long, that rises well above the whorl of leaves. The corolla is white, deeply 7-lobed, the lobes slenderly pointed, 8-14 mm long, and spreading like a 7-pointed star. The fruit is a round, berry-like capsule, 6-8 mm in diameter, splitting by five valves and having many tiny seeds. Flowering period : May to June; fruiting period: June to July.

 

[junk]

Starflower it is . Thanks all .

[Pheobe]

There are quite a few in the woods along the Clarion River - from Portland Mills to Irwin Run.  

[Bon]

We saw lots of Trillium last night between Sykesville and the Blinker Light.