Wildflowers Identified: Carolina or Broad-Leaved Spring Beauty

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Carolina or Broad-Leaved Spring Beauty has these characteristics:

• 5 petals
  
• several flowers on stem
  
• 1/8 to 3/8 inches flower width
  
• 3/8 to 5/8 inches flower width
  
• whitish flower color
  
• pink to red flower color
  
• blooms in April or earlier
  
• blooms in May
  
• blooms in June
  
• plant height one foot or less
  
• leaf petiole present (has a leafstalk)
  
• opposite one another leaf arrangement on the stem
  
• smooth leaf edges
  
• branched leaf veins
  
• simple leaves about 1 1/2 to 5 times as long as wide
  

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