Multicolored Blooms
Multicolored flowers present complex visual signals that most humans ignore. We like simple statements but most flowers don't role that way. Here's a collection of flowers that will boggle your mind, showing multiple hues simultaneously or shifting color as the bloom matures. These pronounced color shifts also offer designers a way to introduce contrast, seasonality, and visual movement within a planting or in other words "cool flower!".
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Ground Plum (Astragalus Crassicarpus) -
Early Meadow Rue (Thalictrum Dioicum) -
Spotted Bee Balm (Monarda Punctata) -
Partridge Pea (Chamaecrista Fasciculata) -
Midland Shooting Star (Dodecatheon Meadia) -
Aromatic Aster (Symphyotruchum Oblongfolium) -
Prairie Cinquefoil (Drymocallis Arguta) -
Prairie Brome (Bromus Kalmii) -
Prairie Alumroot (Heuchera Richardsonii) -
Plantain Sedge (Carex Plantaginea) -
Lindley's Aster (Symphyotrichum Ciliolatum) -
Common Blue Violet (Viola Sororia) -
Late Figwort (Scrophularia Marilandica) -
Blanket Flower (Gaillardia Aristata) -
Early Figwort (Scrophularia Lanceolata) -
Cottonwood (Populus Deltoides) -
Silver Maple (Acer Saccharinum) -
Pale Corydalis (Corydalis Sempervirens) -
Tall Thimbleweed (Anemone Virginiana) -
Prairie Crabapple (Malus Ioensis) -
Calico Beardtongue (Penstemon calycosus) -
Penn Sedge (Carex Pensylvanica) -
Pale Purple Coneflower (Echinacea Pallida) -
Orange Coneflower (Rudbeckia Fulgida)