Water Plantain Family Look for Arrowheads in ponds and slow-moving streams. The male flowers are the yellow-centered ones on the top of the stalk and the female flowers are the green-centered flowers. Perennial Where seen: University of Tennessee Arboretum, Haw Ridge Greenway
Pink Family Elizabethton, TN June 22, 2007 Unfortunately, I was not able to photograph these flowers until late in the afternoon, the petals had curled up already. I found these blooming in a crack in the pavement at a hotel parking lot! Sometimes I don't have to look very far to find flowers!
Burr Reed Family Aquatic Bays Mountain Park - Kingsport, TN June 23, 2007 Monoecious There were lots of these plants growing in the wetland areas along the bank of Bays Mountain Lake. The upper flowers are staminate or male, the green flowers are the pistillate or female flowers.
