More flowers I saw in Jacksonville, Florida. The ones on this page and the next are primarily blue or purple.
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Purple flowers with their orange-yellow seeds/fruits (September 18, 2023)
[A close view of both the five petal flowers with white edges on its purple petals and the small tomato-sized light orange globes attached to different parts of the same plant.]

These alligatorflag were growing in the stormwater drainage ditches. The plants are more than four feet tall. (August 1, 2020)
[A close view of flowers with white and purple petals on very long very thin stems protruding from tall wide green leaves. The flower is somewhat trumpet shaped.]

More alligatorflags (September 5, 2021)
[Two photos spliced together. On the left is a very close view of a single bloom. The outward petals are white while the downward ones are light purple. This is almost like two flowers attached to each other. On the right is a green branch with many blooms hanging from it along its length. There is a fuzziness to parts of blooms which have not yet opened.]

This butterfly pea flower is attached to the vine wrapped around the fencing. (September 5, 2020)
[A close view of a single bloom which appears to be one large triangular-shaped petal with a smaller petal in the upper narrow part of the triangle. The flower is mostly deep purple, but has white stripes in the center and some other portions white. The vine is very thin and wrapped around the rusted metal fencing. There are some bright green oval leaves on the other side of the fence.]

These may be Sky Vine flowers (June 9, 2020 on left and July 14, 2020 on right)
[Two photos spliced together. On the left is a front-facing view of three five-petal purple blooms stacked atop each other. The centers of these blooms are a yellow tube extending back to the stem. The topmost bloom is past its prime and the edges of the petals are crinkling and brown. The bottom flower has the deepest color in the petals both due to the fact the others shade it and it appears to be the most recent bloom. On the right are two blooms side-by-side with one facing slightly to the right and the other facing slighlty to the left. These blooms appear more blue than purple and less of their center tubes are visible.]

A dewy Sky Vine flower (December 15, 2021)
[A close view of one purply-blue bloom with its five wide overlapping petals and its purple and white center. All the petals are covered with water droplets in various sizes.]

Both the bluish white flower (March 24, 2019) and the yellow one (April 22, 2017) are blue-eyed grass.
[Two images spliced together. The image on the left is a top-down view of a six-petaled white flower. The center of the flower has a maroon ring and within that is an all-yellow center. The image on the right is a top-down image of one bloom which has small brownish bulbs around it. The flower has six petals and is all yellow except for a ring of brown at the inner edges of the petals before reaching they come together at the center (similar to the maroon ring on the white flower). ]

White (April 14, 2024) and yellow (April 27, 2024) blue-eyed grass
[Two images spliced together. The image on the left is a top-front view of a six-petaled white flower. The center of the flower is yellow with the outer part of ringed with purple. There is some purple extending as a line in the middle of the petal. The image on the right is a top-down image of one bloom with six yellow petals. Its center is also yellow and is ringed with purple and extending in a line down the center of the petal. ]

This is also blue-eyed grass. (May 5, 2019)
[Top-down view of two six-petaled maroonish-brown flowers with right yellow center cups with short yellow stamen. The petals, pointed at the outer end, have a dark stripe down the center and are also darker near the center yellow portion.]

Blue mistflower (July 15, 2017 on left and July 12, 2020 on right)
[Two photos spliced together. On the left the plant is a collection of grouped blooms. Each bloom has a multitude of lilac strands coming from a white sphere. The blooms are grouped together with six to eight per stem. There is an insect crawling along the bottom of the blooms in the image. On the right are several groupings of blooms. Each grouping has some blooms with all strands extended while other blooms are still the purple stubs which have yet to have strands. Each grouping is spherical as well as each blooms in the grouping having a spherical shape.]

Purple wild aster (October 25, 2020)
[Two photos spliced together. On the left is a close view of two blooms fully opened with many others in the completely closed still-green phase. The flowers each have approximately twenty long thin petals which are light purple. The center of the bloom is a plump yellow clump. On the right are three blooms of which two of them have the plump yellow-red center visible. The third bloom has the petals curled over the center.]

Purple wild aster (November 13, 2021)
[A group of so many blooms the petals overlap. A couple have yellow centers, but most have brown centers. These basically look like lilac-colored daisies with puffy brown centers.]

Viola tricolor (April 10, 2017)
[This flower has four wide violet petals attached to a center which is white and yellow. There are an additional two petals behind two petals at the top of the bloom. In the center are also dark violet stripes which run approximately a third the length of the petal.]

The wild petunias on the right are actually the same light purple color as the ones on the left. (June 28, 2020 on left and July 12, 2020 on right)
[Two photos spliced together. On the left are two fully opened blooms with the lower right one facing the camera and the upper left one facing slightly to the left. These blooms each have five wide petals with the edges touching or overlapping. They are slightly wrinkled in the centers. At the center of each bloom are several short white stamen. The leaves are dark green. On the right are 13 petunias mostly facing upward amid the low greenery on the ground. Several flower have petals touching, but most are surrounded by the plant's green leaves. These flower have more of a light blue tint because of the bright sunlight on them.]

Wild petunias the morning after an overnight rain (September 12, 2020)
[Two fully opened blooms with the lower right one in focus and the one in the upper left is blurred. Both have water droplets of various sizes, ranging from little dots to larger blobs, on their light purple petals.]

Garden petunia is a larger flower. (April 23, 2021)
[One fully-opened bloom has darker purple petals than the wild petunias and rests against a chain-link fence with green leaves around it.]

Phlox buds and fully open blooms (April 21, 2022)
[The flowers bloom at the top of the plant. At the top are thin blue spears which appear to be the very tightly twirls petals of future blooms. Below them is a round of blooming flowers. One fully-open bloom faces the camera. It is like a fully-flat opened-umbrella in that all the petals are joined, but there are creases the length of the petal at regular intervals like the spokes of an umbrella.]

These two flowers were blooming on the grounds of a local office complex (May 6, 2023)
[Two photos spliced together of two different blue flowers. The flowers have five wide petals with a crease in the center of each petal. The center is white with white stamen protruding from it. The image on the left views the flower face on. The image on the right is a side view so it is easier to see the white stamen protruding.]

Venus's Looking Glass (March 24, 2017)
[The petals of this flower emanate in a star shape with five points to the star. At the center is a white section from which a thick stamen with a purple tip extends. There is only one bloom currently on the stalk which also has tightly-twirled small green leaves.]

I've not yet found the name for this. (March 11, 2017)
[At the top of a branch parallel to the ground is a pinwheel of six light violet blooms attached to a center which is dark purple. The blooms have dark purple stripes on their petals.]

Small skullcap (November 29, 2020)
[These small flowers are similar to a snapdragon bloom. One side of the bloom is light purple while the other side is white with purple dots speckled on it. The opening between the two sides is small and the center is not visible. This plant has smooth elongated oval leaves which are much much larger than the blooms.]

The Slender dayflower is a three-petal wildflower. Two petals are blue, and one is white and significantly smaller than the other two. (June 4, 2017)
[This flower has two blue petals which appear to be regular size petals. The white petal is less than one quarter of the size of one blue petal. The white stamen have yellow flower-shaped tips at the end. The leaves are long and thin.]

Side view of a slender dayflower (May 29, 2022)
[The blue petals form a flat vertical surface on the left with the yellow topped white stamen extending to the right. The stamen are at least half a petal length long.]

Side and underside view of a slender dayflower (September 4, 2022)
[One blue petal on the left side is nearly flat so neither the top nor bottom can be easily seen. The underside of most of the blue petal on the right is visible as a paler blue than the top. The stems which suppot the petals are mostly while. The top parts of the stamen are visible including some yellow parts.]

I believe this is a Virginia dayflower. (April 22, 2017)
[This is a side view of the bloom such that the stamen extend to the left. The flower has three blue petals and what appears to be a fourth all-white petal. The white petal is approximately the same size as a blue petal. The stamen are blue with some white tips and some purple tips.]

Zigzag spiderwort (August 14, 2015)
[This flower has three purple petals which have a pointed end and yellow-tipped purple stamen.]

A variant of zigzag spiderwort with drying dew drops and an insect (November 13, 2020)
[This flower has three purple petals with rounded edges and yellow-tipped purple stamen. The petals have many tiny dots where the water is evaporating. This very close view chops off the outer edges of all the petals. There is a brown-eyed fly attached to the underside of one of the stamen. this fly is small enough to be shorter than the stamen of this not very larger flower.]

Two variants of butterfly pea (August 6, 2015 on left and July 11, 2020 on right)
[Two photos spliced together. On the left is one bloom. This flower has one large petal which has a white spot in the center while the rest is light purple. Coming from one side toward the white spot is a pea shaped light purple piece. The sole blooms sits amid a plethora of green leaves. On the right is a single bloom which has a pinkish purple tint and sits just above the sandy ground. This blooms has a smaller white patch than the other bloom. Two long thin green leaves are on the upper right.]

Four o'clock flower (August 25, 2023)
[This red-purple flower has five wide bifold petals with extremely long stamen of the same color which curl back into the bloom. The stamen have reddish-orange tips.]

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