Plants with Green or Brown Flowers

Green or brown flowers are most often found on plants that are not insect-pollinated and generally have rather small petals. Many of them are wind-pollinated and so do not need to advertise their wares with bright colors.

This section also includes a number of plants with flowers that are completely petalless (thus appear green) or plants whose flowers may be reddish or whitish in color but appear insignificant because they are so small.

Within the colour sections, the pictures are grouped so that similar-looking (though not necessarily closely-related) plants will be near each other. This should help to reduce your search time. Also, in cases where there are a number of very similar species, a representative species is shown here, but clicking on it will take you to a page that tells you how to tell the more difficult species apart.

If you still can't find your plant, you either have something very interesting that you may wish to tell us about, or we just haven't got a picture of it yet - we're still working on the latter!!

Click on the pictures below to go to the species pages.

No apparent Flowers - aquatic plants (see also Ferns, Clubmosses and Allies)
Greater Duckweed Carolina Mosquito-fern Fennel-leaved Pondweed
duckweeds

mosquito-ferns

pondweeds

No Petals
Russian-thistle Fat-hen Marsh Mermaidweed False Nettle
saltworts
& allies

goosefoots

mermaidweeds

nettles

Mulberry-weed
Mulberry-weed

Virginia Glasswort Tall Sea-blite Slender Parsley-piert Common Box
glassworts

sea-blites

parsley-pierts

Common Box

Green Amaranth Virginia Plantain Ribwort Plantain Ipecac Spurge
amaranths
& pigweeds

plantains

plantains

spurges

Green Arrow Arum Jack-in-the-pulpit Skunk-cabbage
Green Arrow Arum

Jack-in-the-pulpit

Skunk-cabbage

Cattails sweet-flags
cattails

sweet-flags

Four Petals
Spotted Sandmat Common Water-purslane Procumbent Pearlwort Lesser Swinecress
sandmats

Water-purslane

pearlworts

cresses

Five Petals
Annual Knawel Porcelainberry Oriental Bittersweet-vine American Spindle
Annual Knawel

vines

bittersweet-vines

spindles

Purple Pitcherplant
Purple
Pitcherplant

Six Petals
Heath Wood-rush Indian Cucumber-root Glaucous Greenbrier Wild Yam
Heath Wood-rush

Indian
Cucumber-root

greenbriers

Wild Yam

Green False-helleborine
Green
False-helleborine

Tubular Flowers (petals fused into a tube-like form)
Yellow Bartonia Common Asparagus Beechdrops
bartonias

Common Asparagus

Beechdrops

Many-flowered Heads
Cattails Jack-in-the-pulpit Skunk-cabbage Green Arrow Arum
cattails

Jack-in-the-pulpit

Skunk-cabbage

Green Arrow Arum

Southern Twayblade Crane-fly Orchid False Nettle Rafinesque's Pondweed
orchids

orchids

nettles

pondweeds

Common Ragweed Rough Cocklebur Mexican-tea Slender Three-seeded Mercury
green composites

Rough Cocklebur

goosefoots

crotons and
mercuries

American Branched Bur-reed Scirpus-like Rush Wool-grass Brownish Beak-sedge
bur-reeds

rushes

Wool-grass

beak-sedges

Hairy Umbrella-sedge American Bulrush Needle Spikerush Straw-colored Flat-sedge
umbrella-sedges

bulrushes

spikerushes

flat-sedges

Common Ivy Wild Sarsaparilla Hairy Pinweed Common Mugwort
Common Ivy

Wild Sarsaparilla

pinweeds

mugworts

Virginia Plantain Sheep's Sorrel Curled Dock Salad Burnet
plantains

docks & sorrels

docks & sorrels

Salad Burnet

Green False-helleborine Wild Onion
Green
False-helleborine

Wild Onion

Woody Trees, Shrubs & Climbers
Southern Red Oak Mockernut Hickory Sweetfern Box-elder
oaks

hickories &
walnuts

Sweetfern

Box-elder

Northern Bayberry Honey Locust White Mulberry Paper Mulberry
myrtles &
bayberries

Honey Locust

mulberries

mulberries

Missouri Willow Black Willow Summer Grape Eastern Poison-ivy
willows

willows

vines

poison-ivies

American Spindle Winged Spindle Oriental Bittersweet-vine Glaucous Greenbrier
spindles

spindles

bittersweet-vines

greenbriers

Common Virginia-creeper Siberian Elm Common Box
vines

elms

Common Box