Bloom Clock/Keys/Southeastern Pennsylvania/March/Purple Flowers

< Bloom Clock < Keys < Southeastern Pennsylvania < March

This page is part of a dichotomous key for plants recorded as blooming in Southeastern Pennsylvania during the month of March.
These plants have the following traits:

  • Purple flowers

Muscari armeniacum

Flowering plants

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Profile for Muscari armeniacum (Grape Hyacinth)
Identifying Characteristics
Recent Logs
  • --SB_Johnny | talk 11:08, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
  • SB Johnny-LM 11:08, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
  • --SB_Johnny | talk 19:12, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
  • --Luai lashire 21:42, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
  • --SB_Johnny | talk 10:29, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
  • --SB_Johnny | talk 12:14, 4 May 2008 (UTC)


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Global data:
Temperate zone season(s): Early Spring, Mid Spring, Late Spring

Regional data and additional images for Muscari armeniacum

Erica carnea

flowers of a purple variety

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Profile for Erica carnea (Heath)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit:Low-growing, spreading shrub
Foliage:Awn-shaped, small, evergreen
Recent Logs
  • SBJ 13:08, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
  • SBJ 09:00, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
  • SBJ 09:16, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
  • SBJ 14:29, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
  • SBJ 10:00, 26 April 2008 (UTC)


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Global data:
Temperate zone season(s): Late Fall, Late Winter, Early Spring, Mid Spring

Regional data and additional images for Erica carnea

Crocus

Flowering plants

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Profile for Crocus (Crocus)
Identifying Characteristics
Subclass plants:Crocus tommasinianus
Crocus vernus
Recent Logs
  • --Anna reg 18:43, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
  • --Jomegat 15:54, 16 March 2010 (UTC) (first bloom of 2010)


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Crocus tommasinianus

Flowering plants

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Profile for Crocus tommasinianus (Early Crocus)
Identifying Characteristics
Similar Plants:Very hard to tell apart from Crocus vernus
Higher taxa:Crocus
Recent Logs
  • --SB_Johnny | talk 09:24, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
  • SB Johnny-LM 08:35, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
  • SB Johnny-LM 08:35, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Sb f 16:04, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
  • Sb f 20:46, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
  • Sb f 14:44, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
  • --SB_Johnny talk 00:38, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
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Global data:
Temperate zone season(s): Early Spring

Regional data and additional images for Crocus tommasinianus

Helleborus x hybridus

Red flowers (flowers range from whie through purple)

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Profile for Helleborus x hybridus (Hybrid Hellebore)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit:Low herbaceous plant
Foliage:Primarily basal, palmately lobed, evergreen
Fruit:Dry capsules
Life Cycle: Perennial
Recent Logs
  • Anna reg 18:41, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
  • SB Johnny-LM 10:59, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
  • --SB_Johnny | talk 19:13, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
  • SB Johnny-LM 00:24, 17 April 2008 (UTC)


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Global data:
Temperate zone season(s): Mid Winter, Early Spring, Mid Spring

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Crocus vernus

Plants in flower

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Profile for Crocus vernus (Crocus)
Identifying Characteristics
Similar Plants:Very hard to tell apart from Crocus tommasinianus
Higher taxa:Crocus
Recent Logs
  • SB Johnny-LM 11:13, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
  • --SB_Johnny | talk 18:06, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Cormaggio talk 13:16, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
  • --Luai lashire 23:05, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
  • SB Johnny-LM 08:14, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

--Luai lashire 23:42, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

  • Ngravagna 17:44, 27 March 2008 (UTC)



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Global data:
Temperate zone season(s): Early Spring, Mid Spring

Regional data and additional images for Crocus vernus


Lamium purpureum

Plant colony

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Profile for Lamium purpureum (Deadnettle)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit:Low, spreading herbaceous plant , flowering stems rising above the foliage
Flowers:Tubular, 2-lipped, pink or purple
Foliage:Reddish or purplish in early spring, fading to green as the season warms
Stem:square in cross section, densely covered by the leaves
Life Cycle: Winter annual
Recent Logs
  • --SB_Johnny | talk 12:15, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Chemgym 12:48, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
  • --SB_Johnny | talk 10:01, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
  • --Juan Pisek 14:59, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
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Global data:
Temperate zone season(s): Early Spring, Mid Spring, Late Spring

Regional data and additional images for Lamium purpureum


Vinca minor

flowers and young foliage

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Profile for Vinca minor (Periwinkle)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit:prostrate vine, rooting at the nodes
Flowers:trumpet-shaped
Foliage:simple, opposite, evergreen
Life Cycle: perennial
Recent Logs
  • Anna reg 13:04, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
  • Jomegat 20 Apr 2010 (from photos)
  • Anna reg 11:53, 27 March 2011 (UTC) (sporadic)
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Global data:
Temperate zone season(s): Early Winter, Mid Winter, Early Spring, Mid Spring, Late Spring, Early Summer, Early Fall, Mid Fall, Late Fall

Regional data and additional images for Vinca minor


Scilla siberica

Blue-flowered plants in bloom

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Profile for Scilla siberica (Siberian Squill)
Identifying Characteristics
Recent Logs
  • SB Johnny-LM 08:47, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
  • SB Johnny-LM 11:31, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
  • --Luai lashire 00:58, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
  • --SB_Johnny | talk 19:11, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
  • --Luai lashire 22:03, 17 April 2008 (UTC)


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Global data:
Temperate zone season(s): Early Spring, Mid Spring

Regional data and additional images for Scilla siberica

Viola x wittrockiana

A Purple-flowered variety

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Profile for Viola x wittrockiana (Pansy)
Identifying Characteristics
Habit:Short-lived, low-growing perennial, with mostly cool season blooms
Higher taxa:Viola


Recent Logs
  • --Anna reg 12:12, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
  • Anna reg 12:01, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
  • Anna reg 16:35, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
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Global data:
Temperate zone season(s): Early Spring, Mid Spring, Mid Summer, Early Fall, Mid Fall, Late Fall, Early Winter

Regional data and additional images for Viola x wittrockiana
Last updated 11:13, 29 March 2008 (UTC) from the DPL page with 10 plants.
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