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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Wild Strawberry (Fragaria virginiana) -
Purple Prairie Clover (Dalea Purpurea) -
Pale Purple Coneflower (Echinacea Pallida) -
Late Figwort (Scrophularia Marilandica) -
Common Milkweed (Asclepias Syriaca) -
Prairie Cinquefoil (Drymocallis Arguta) -
Tall Thimbleweed (Anemone Virginiana) -
Hairy Wood Mint (Blephilia hirsuta) -
Orange Coneflower (Rudbeckia Fulgida) -
Ground Plum (Astragalus Crassicarpus) -
Harlequin Blueflag Iris (Iris Versicolor) -
Early Figwort (Scrophularia Lanceolata) -
Blue Wood Aster (Symphyotrichum Cordifolium) -
False Aster (False Aster) -
Jack-in-the-Pulpit (Arisaema Triphyllum) -
Clustered Mountain Mint (Pycnanthemum Muticum) -
Calico Aster (Symphyotrichum Lateriflorum) -
Pale Corydalis (Corydalis Sempervirens) -
Long-bracted Spiderwort (Prairie Spiderwort) (Tradescantia Bracteata) -
Prairie Brome (Bromus Kalmii) -
Lindley's Aster (Symphyotrichum Ciliolatum) -
Rue Anemone (Thalictrum Thalictroides) -
New England Aster (Symphyotrichum Novae-Angliae) -
Wild Hyacinth (Camassia Scilloides)