Colors

• Missouri flowers vary in hues, including bold and understated colors. Violet blooms include the round purple poppy mallow. The musk thistle, a circular and fuzzy flower, also grows in Missouri and is a softer lilac shade. Brightly colored flowers include the sunflower, which has large yellow petals, and the butterfly weed, a flower with small, orange blooms.
  
  

Size

• Missouri flowers are available in a number of sizes. For instance, the milkweed, a plant with clusters of light purple flowers, can grow up to 5-feet tall and has a spread of about three feet. The turtlehead (Chelone glabra), another native Missouri flower with bright white blooms, is slightly smaller; the flower grows to be 3-feet tall, with a 2-1/2 foot spread.
  
  

Blooming Season

• To create a bouquet of Missouri flowers or plant a garden, know which native flowers bloom in which seasons. For instance, the Lois yellow (Iris fulva) flower blooms in the spring or summer, during the months of May or June. The American basket flower grows during this season as well, but also thrives from the month of June until frost; the aromatic aster, a Missouri native that is one of the last wildflowers to blooms during the year, thrives from the month of July until the winter.