Once learned, this is a plant one can recognize at a glance even while driving. Its tiny white flowers are best appreciated up close. Cornsalad is edible, though the plants taste best before they flower. It has pretty white flowers and grows from a bulb that looks like a little onion. The flowers of Wild Onion are usually tinged with pink, as below, and the foliage and bulbs smell strongly of onion or garlic.
Windflowers lack a corolla but have a showy lavender and white calyx.
All of the local Buttercups are yellow and produce clusters of achenes when they mature. There are separate male and female flowers, with the ovary of each female flower wrapped in a sack-like structure called a perigynium. Carex is one of the largest genera of flowering plants. C. cherokeensis is one of the species that can tolerate drier conditions. Summer brings a different palette to the roadside near the outcrop.