Last page of flowers I saw in Jacksonville, Florida. The ones on this page are primarily blue or purple.
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Morning glories with open blooms and closed buds (August 13, 2015 on left and May 18, 2020 on right)
[Two photos spliced together. On the left the flower has a pale purple tube which leads to an open blue-purple cup at the end facing upward. The blooms come from the main vine at regular intervals. All the leaves are at the base of this plant and not visible in this image. On the right one bloom opens toward the camera light a blue parasol with a light purple inner top section. Just behind the bloom are two tightly folded completely light purple buds.]

The purple hue on the flower can definitely be seen in the closed blooms of these morning glories. (May 11, 2022)
[Two photos spliced together. On the left are four completely folded in purple blooms. One has started expanding so ther is an opening in its center, but the petals are still completely curled inward. On the right is one fully open bloom. It is a deep blue with purple along its edges and in the center of each of the five petals (extending the length of the petal. The center is a light color and appears to be a glowing light.]

Here's a morning glory in the afternoon. After blooming in the morning, the petals curl until the next morning. (September 25, 2016)
[This flower is pinkish-purple and is just the tube with the ends curled inward.]

These appear to be morning glories, but were blooming in the afternoon.(November 16, 2017)
[Two white-purple blooms are fully opened with white ball-topped stamen protruding from the middle. The blooms are dark purple at the center, medium purple at the edge of the bloom and white on the underside and on parts of the petal section. This flower does not have individual petals; they are one continuous surface around the middle.]

Bindweed (April 22, 2017)
[This bloom opens similar to an umbrella except it lays flat. There are raised sections similar to the spokes of an umbrella, but everything is connected and all the same color. It's color is lilac on all portions except for the center center which is a deep purple. The stamen emanating from the deep purple section are the same light color as the rest of the flower.]

A bindweed before it fully opens (May 29, 2022)
[This bloom looks like a partially open umbrella minus the stick in the center. The edges are scalloped so it appears there are five petals, but they are joined so high that there really isn't much of a petal. The color is such a light purple it is nearly white. The center portion is a darker purple mainly because it is shaded from the sun.]

Oxalis with its clover-shaped leaves (April 22, 2017)
[This flower is lilac with five petals and a yellow center. It's tiny with muliple blooms coming from one branch yet nearly all the blooms are smaller than one multi-lobed leaf.]

Apalachicola toadflax (February 21, 2016)
[At the very tip of the stem are two small purple buds. At the next two levels down are fully opened blooms. These blooms seems to open downward and are white in the center and light purple along the four wide petals of each bloom. Below the blooms are light green balls which must be the precursor to future blooms. All the leaves are at the base of this plant and not visible in this image.]

An impressive bee on a pickerelweed (August 16, 2015)
[This flower has a multitude of small purple blooms in a cone shape at the end of the stem. There are lots of long thin stamen. A bee which has black wings, a pale yellow upper, and a black and yellow rest of the body is perched amid the purple.]

Meadow beauty (June 4, 2017)
[This four-petaled lilac flower on a single stem has its petals perpendicular to the ground and its long yellow stamen parellel to the ground. The stamen have two 90 degree bends and stick out a significant distance from the petals. ]

Florida hedgenettle (March 8, 2017)
[This plant has a purplish stem with light purple blooms opening at each vertical level. The topmost blooms are still unopened balls of purple while the lowest level flowers are in full bloom. ]

Marsh hedgenettle (April 17, 2021)
[These small flowers are light purple on the outside and white with light purple markings on the inside. The largest petal on the bottom has the markings while the other three smaller ones above and on the side do not. The flowers grow in a cirle around the stem at different heights along the stem.]

Lyreleaf sage (March 13, 2016)
[This flower has a dark greenish purple stem. At approximately every inch and a half up the stem is a ring of approximately nine light purple flowers around the stem. These small flowers are tubular and have stamen sticking out of them.]

Lyreleaf sage with buds at the top (March 5, 2023)
[This is the top of the plant with light purple tubular blooms coming out the right and back of the plant. Above these blooms are buds of deep blue encased in green leaves.]

An allium-type flower (June 10, 2016)
[A green stem leads to more than a dozen thin stems tipped with light-purple blooms. Each flower has six petals, but some have yet to bloom and so are just a purple bud.]

These are two different allium plants in the stages before blooming. (May 18, 2018)
[Two photos spliced together. The one on the left is the bunched small purple buds before the stems grow and spread the blooms. The one on the right is of two plant heads where the stems have spread, but none of the purple blooms have opened --sort of like a bunch of closed umbrellas. There is upwards of two dozen buds on each flower head.]

The allium plant on the left is fully blooming while the one on the right still has many closed buds. (May 5, 2023)
[Two photos spliced together. The allium bloom on the left has all the tubular blooms open in a sphere at the top of the plant. The bloom on the right has less than a third of the blooms open. The rest are either long closed tubes or even short buds of purple/blue.]

This is a view of the two blooms in the prior photo. The bloom on the left is the one nearest the camera. (May 5, 2023)
[A flower bloom is a the top of a long thin green stems which protrudes from the middle of a bunch of long thin green leaves as the base of the plant. The bloome nearest the camera has all the buds fully open into a sphere around the top of the stem and several five-petal flowers are visible. The bloom in the rear is still basically flat atop the stem as most blooms have not yet opened.]

I presume this is a different variant of allium plants. (June 21, 2020)
[Two photos spliced together. The one on the left has a spent head-dried and brown petals-sticking up through the opening light purple buds of another stem. The stem currently blooming has some flowers on the edge of the sphere which are open and in the center are four completely folded and still growing flower buds. The image the right is a sphere of fully opened six petal light purple flowers. The petals are thin and long and extend from a thin purple tube atop the stem. The visible center of the tube appears to be orange.]

Skunkvine (August 30, 2021)
[The stem of this plant ends in a somewhat globular grouping of flowers, but each bud is on its own little branch. The flowers are long white with a reddish-purple tint tubes which open with four square petals. The dark purple center extends partially on the petals.]

Interesting growing pattern on these yet to be identified buds (September 3, 2021)
[A thick purplish-brown stem has many tiny stem offshoots. Some of the off-shoots have purple buds on them. A few have opened flowers with yellow centers.]

A vine of unopened purple passionflower buds (May 30, 2020)
[Five tightly closed green buds span horizontally across the image amid the long thin green leaves. At the very left of the image is side view of a partially open bloom with bits of purple and blue strings visible.]

A purple passionflower which has yet to fully open on left (August 5, 2018) and one more expanded on the right (May 30, 2020)
[Two photos spliced together. When fully open, this flower appears to have two sets of petals. One set which is very string-like is inside the more traditional petals. In the image on the left the many purple strings are visible amid the purple petals. Both sets are surrounded by the green stem holder. This one bloom is attached to a thin green branch. Several oval leaves from a nearby stem are beside the bloom. In the image on the right the center thicker windmill-like stamen are visible.]

Purple passionflower (June 9, 2020)
[This flower is fully open which means its eight purple petals are horizontal. Eminating from the center atop the petals are thin blueish-purple threads which are somewhat kinked. Each petals has at least a half-dozen threads over it. In the center is what appears to be a three-legged acrobat doing a handstand on a set of short orange bars. The orange is at the center and from it arises three or four stems which support a slightly elongated ball. From the ball extend three thicker stems which extend slightly upward as well as outward in three different directions. The ends of these stems are thicker than the portion coming out of the ball.]

The bougainvillea vine has green leaves. The purple is part of the bloom. (March 21, 2019)
[Two images spliced together. The one on the left is the vine which is vertical in the image. Green leaves grow from the main vine. Offshoots from the vine end in what appear to be purple leaves which surround two purple protrusions which are each capped by a small white flower. It's like there's a flower in the flower. The right image is a close view of the bloom.]

I do not yet know the name of this plant. (August 14, 2021)
[Two images spliced together. The one on the right is a closer view of a section of the plant on the left. The leaves on this are a dark waxy-looking green and go up the entire stem. The multi-petaled purple bloom is a the very end of the stem. There are a profusion of stems and thus purple flowers.]

The left image is a close view of the wisteria blooms on the right. (July 14, 2020)
[Two images spliced together. The blossoms on this plant are a waterfall of white-purple with no leaves amid the blooms. On the left is a close view of the individual blooms which overlap each other as they hang. There appears to be one large petal on one side and two thinner ones on the other side with a purple-tipped white stamen in between. The image on the right is the entire blossom clump which is longer than several leaves of the plant. Guessing the blossom grouping to be 6 to 8 inches long.]

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