White Flowers

Below are some of the common white flowers that can be found in the prairie in the Abbey Arboretum. For an extensive list of white flowers that may be found in the Abbey Arboretum, see the prairie plant lists on the Prairie Plant page.

1. Bladder Campion (Silene vulgaris subsp. vulgaris)
   Plant has white flowers with 5 petals that are deeply notched such that it appears there are 10 petals. Base of flowers is swollen. Leaves clasp the stem. Plant is non-native. ↩︎
2. Canada Anemone (Anemone canadensis)
   Plant has white flowers with 5 petals. Leaves are 3 lobed with toothed edges. Lobes are pointed. Plant is native. ↩︎
3. Clasping Dogbane (Apocynum sibiricum)
   Plant has small white flowers with 5 petals. Flowers are arranged in a cluster. Leaves are opposite. Stems are reddish. Plant is native. ↩︎
4. Cream Gentian (Gentiana alba)
   Plant has cream to white flowers with 5 petals arranged in a closed tube. Flowers do not open. Flowers arranged in clusters. Leaves are opposite. Plant is native. ↩︎
5. Common Strawberry (Fragaria virginiana)
   Plant has white flowers with 5 petals and a yellow center. Leaves are 3-lobed and toothed. Lobes are rounded. Plant is native. ↩︎
6. Common Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
   Plant has white flowers with 5 petals that each have 3 teeth. Flowers are arranged in a dense flat-topped cluster. Leaves are feathery. Plant is native. ↩︎
7. Daisy Fleabane (Erigeron strigosus)
   Plant has white flowers with numerous narrow white rays arranged around a yellow head. Flowers are arranged in loose clusters. Leaves are narrow. Plant is native. Photo credit: Outdoor U. ↩︎
8. Culver’s Root (Veronicastrum virginicum)
   Plant has tiny white flowers with 4 petals arranged in dense clustered spikes. Leaves are arranged in whorls of 3-6 leaves encircling the stem. Plant is native. Photo credit: Outdoor U. ↩︎
9. Field Pussytoes (Antennaria neglecta)
   Plant has white flowers (not pictured) that resemble the tip of a paintbrush. The flowers are arranged in dense clusters. Leaves are mostly found near the ground. Plant is native. ↩︎
10. Horseweed (Conyza canadensis)
    Plant has small white flowers arranged in a heavily branched, bush-like flower cluster. Leaves are numerous, linear, and alternately arranged. Plant is native. ↩︎
11. Long-Headed Thimbleweed (Anemone cylindrica)
    Plant has white flowers with 5 petals arranged around an elongated head (petals not pictured). Leaves are shaped palmately shaped and whorled around the stem. Plant is native. ↩︎
12. Hoary Alyssum (Berteroa incana)
    Plant has white flowers with 4 petals each deeply lobed such that it appears there are 8 petals. Flowers arranged in a small, dense cluster. Leaves are small and narrow. Plant is non-native. ↩︎
13. Ox-Eye Daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare)
    Plant has flowers with white rats arranged around a yellow head. Leaves are alternate. Plant is non-native. ↩︎
14. Rattlesnake Master (Eryngium yuccifolium)
    Plant has very small white flowers arranged in rounded balls then arranged in branched clusters. Most leaves arise from a cluster found at the base of the plant. Leaves are thin and have a sharp point and spiny edges. Plant is native. ↩︎
15. Northern Bedstraw (Galium boreale)
    Plant has small white flowers with 4 petals. Flowers are arranged in a many branched cluster. Leaves are very narrow and arranged in whorls of 4 around the stem. Plant is native. ↩︎
16. Round-Headed Bush Clover (Lespedeza capitata)
    Plant has 5-parted cream and pink flowers arranged in dense clusters. Leaves are three-parted and numerous along the stem. Plant is native. ↩︎
17. White Clover (Trifolium repens)
    Plant has white flowers arranged in a circular cluster. Leaves are three-parted with rounded leaflets. Plant is non-native. ↩︎
18. White Campion (Silene latifolia)
    Plant has white flowers with 5 petals that are deeply notched such that it appears there are 10 petals. The base of the flower is tubular and pink to purple. Leaves are paired. Plant is non-native. ↩︎
19. White Prairie Clover (Dalea candida var. candida)
    Plant has tiny white flowers (not pictured) with 5 petals arranged in very thin spikes. Many spikes all branch off the top of the plant. Leaves are opposite. Plant is native.
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20. White Prairie Clover (Dalea candida var. candida)
    Plant has small white flowers arranged in a dense, spike-like cluster. Spike blooms from the bottom up. Leaves are compound and arranged alternately along the stem. Plant is native. ↩︎
21. White Sweet Clover (Melilotus alba)
    Plant has small white flowers arranged in elongated clusters. Stems are many branched and take on a bushy appearance. Leaves are three-parted. Plant is non-native. ↩︎