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.
The show at the foot of the outcrop doesn't stop in the fall. In fact, some of the season's showiest flowers wait until the days grow shorter to make their debut. The small creamy flowers make several loose spirals around the stalk. That species is listed as endangered. It grows only in scattered openings in Post Oak woods, usually along the drainages of seasonal creeks and streams.