First (I know what it is....just want to see if YOU do ;-), can you name this plant without seeing the flowers?
Some nice surprises on my walk today....
Next, here's this pretty blue beauty....dunno what she is though....
edited to say I ID'd this one. It's Alkanna strigosa
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Poppies...
edtied to correct this ID. These aren't poppies. They are Anemone coronaria
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Then this shrub that looks like it'll be aflame with red flowers in a week or so....
Edited to say: I was right. This shrub Sarcopoterium spinosum will indeed be covered with red flowers throughout March and April.
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a pretty yellow pea-type flower
Edited to add ID: Vicia hybrida
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a yellow flowering Salvia (we are working on an ID in the ID forum)
some cute little succulents :-)
edited to add ID: Sedum caespitosa
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some more of the same succulents, a different but similar one and moss :-)
probably considered a weed, but I liked it's form
edited to say this is Anchusa strigosa
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a close-up of the flower head
Oh, these are such wonderful pictures, Salvia_lover! Let's get them all named and into the PF! Of course, none of these are familiar to me, but the top one looks like a plant I have seen before under cultivation.
dunno if this is a Salvia (different from the curly edged leaf one above), but it smells like a Salvia...;-)
edited:
Upon further research, I 'think' this one is Salvia sclarea...but will have to wait for the flowers to open to be sure.
-Julie
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Is this a fig tree?
I love the little sedums!
Thank you Weez.....I'll wait a bit before I post the flowers of #1. I'm sure you'll go "Oh, of COURSE!" when you do see the flowers :-)
-Julie
I'm in love with those succulents Weez :-). I've asked about a name for them...I also assume they are Sedums...but no one on the C&S Forum has been able to ID them for me yet. I snagged some when I was in that area a few days ago and they are fitting in nicely as "ground cover" in some of my succulent pots :-)
-Julie
Do you have a local source for plant I.D.?
Weez, nope I don't. I keep meaning to get a wildflowers field guide book but haven't yet. Thanks for the "kick in the pants" that I needed. I'll try to do that this week.
-Julie
Cyclamin, or, are they cyclamin leaved violets??? And that is one impressive snail!
I love the pea-like flower, such a soft color. what lovely weeds you have!
Yes Kathleen, it's a Cyclamen. The snail is only about 1/2 an inch wide :-). We have other pea-like flowers that are rust color...very pretty too.
Here's a pic of the cyclamen.
Yes, I thought it was a hot house plant here! What a lovely plant with the zonal pattern on the leaves and such a lovely bloom! Yes, you should definitely get yourself a field guide and some links to local indigenous plants. I've just started doing that up here, and it's rather exciting!
He has a nice swirl.
Yeesh, my spelling is rotten today! I love cyclamen, but had to trash the two I had in the house because of spider mites, nasty bugs! I have some hardy cyclamen out inder my FJ Grootendorst rose that pops up at odd times of the year.
Cyclamen is not hardy here, unless we have an indigenous species I'm not familiar with.
Weezin,
You might want to try some Shooting Stars (dodecatheon meadia). They have that cyclamen look, but are actually members of the primrose family. I see their range being as far north as Manitoba, so they might be worth a try.
Here are some that grow in my back yard. April
Yes, April... your namesake! We have our own native variety which are generally a dark pink... this one, I think: http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/577/index.html It grows in the wild here, though I've not found it out of cultivation locally. I've been admiring them for years, but always seem to miss the chance to purchase them. I got seed from a friend's, and they are out in a flat on the porch stratifying now. Thanks for the suggestion!
I knew it, I knew it! I'd just bought a couple of pots of cyclamen at the local home improvement big-box store, and recognized the leaves. Well, only another 20 years or so of experience and I might be dangerous....lolol
Neat to see them growing in the wild. Thanks for the pics, Julie.
Shannon
Ooooo...weezin...yours are very pretty...the ones here tend to be lighter in colour. I've got light pink, and light lavendar ones.
These are all shooting stars, by the way. People come from different states to see these in the spring. I think it's the largest display of native shooting stars in the US. It's on a virgin Prairie remnant in Cary, Illinois. :
Oh, that is just breathtaking, isn't it!
Very nice. Thanks for the photo. There are not too many virgin prairie tracts left... fortunately many of them are recognized as valuable and protected.
Yes, the flowers with specific needs probably go first. Don't shooting star need moist conditions?
Weezin...
Yes, it is quite something to see. Especially since a barn on that same property has a large bat colony! We go there at dusk sometimes just to watch the "bat volcano." The piece of land in the photo has never been plowed, planted or grazed. It was considered 'too bumpy'. It has been part of some farmland in this same family for many generations. Since 1850, I think. When the former owners became too ill to farm the rest of the land, they turned the whole thing over to the Nature Conservancy.
Shooting stars prefer wet mesic(moist)areas....not wetlands, exactly, just average soil that has a tendency to be moist. However, it's pretty adaptable....I have some growing happily in very dry shade under a silver maple that I water supplementally. I also have some growing in full sun, where the soil is kind of moist...never wet, except in the very earliest spring.
The subdivision I live in used to be a swampy cow pasture, and before that, a swamp. The grade has been changed so much, though....it really doesn't apply for most of the yard. Parts of the back yard I can really tell used to be swamp. April
Spklatt,
Oddly enough..some of the best virgin prairie remnants are old grave yards! Lots and lots of them had really conservative(meaning more established, well established and more difficult, therefore, not common)prairie plants on them.
Lots of excellent prairies have been established along old rail lines...the trains inadvertently brought in native plant seed from further west or further east that may be out of range, but are now a godsend of sorts, because lots of rare native plants have good populations along rail lines. whether or not they are precisely native to that area.
A compass plant can live for 70+ years. It takes them 7 years plus, from seed, to bloom. April
April - great point. That had never occurred to me. Of course graveyards would be uncultivated, between the plots and such.... and same for rail lines.... I'm going to take a closer look next time I get the opportunity. Thanks for mentioning them!
Shannon
Julie:
Did anyone confirm that "Yes, that is a fig" ?
Is it growing *wild*??
There are plenty kinds of figs, varieties and cultivars within F.edulis, though, so I am not attempting WHICH fig.
~'spin!~
Spin, nope no one confirmed it. The fruits sure look like figs, but seeing as the tree is devoid of leaves, I wouldn't expect anyone to ID which fig. We've got at least three types of figs growing in gardens that I've noticed. All with completely different leaves. But this is the only one that I've seen without leaves at all. Yes, it's growing wild. We've got F. palmata, F. sycomorus, F. carica here, but I haven't seen any images of these without leaves. In any case, I thought the tree looked cool witht he fruits and no leaves. Here's a pic of the whole tree (I have a better one on my camera from a sunnier blue sky day, but can't get to it until the camera is fixed).
-Julie
The reason I want to get my camera fixed!:
Synelcosciadium carmeli
Retama raetam
Bellvalia flexvosa
Astragalus cruciatus
Anthemis marismortui
Trifolium resupinatum
Cardus argentatus
Notobasis syriaca
Silene colorata
Malva sylvestris
Malva nicaeensis
Geranium molle
Vicia villosa
Crepsis sancta
Lotus halophilus
Carrichtera annua
Oxalis caprae
Lathyrus hierosolymitanus
Lathyrus blepharicarpus
Anagallis arvensis
Crataegus aronia
Daucus carota
Salvia dominica
Sinapis alba
too many little chamomile type flowers to figure out, several more flowers that I'd already ID'd so didn't bother taking them...and three more flowers that I still can't ID yet.
All of those were found on a single walk on Sunday afternoon. I took a sample of each home in a bag I had with me. It took me all evening and the next evening too to ID all of them. And like I said, I've still got those 3 nagging ones left which I can't figure out.
I wish I could share them all with you. And I wish you could help me with the IDs on those other three! LOL
Soon, I hope.....
-Julie
Julie,
Get that camera fixed. Your tree does look like a fig, BTW. April
Woohoooo! I finaly ID'd one of those 3 nagging ones from a few days ago! Anchusa strigosa! There are really some lovely species in this genus here in Israel. http://www.botanic.co.il/A/CATALOG.asp?qck=GENUS&qcatnr=A I hope to find more of them :-)
Also, I found more flowers to add to the list yesterday, but now I'm running late to go pick up the kids from school. So listing these will have to wait...
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No camera yet? ACK!
You're more impatient than I am John. LOL It's been less than a week and we only found the camera repair shop 2 days ago. And at that point DH said he'd take it "within a week". Then there's the estimated 2 week wait IF it can be repaired. We'll wait and see what the diagnosis is .... hopefully a repair is possible as buying a new one will take MUCH longer.
Thanks for suffering alone with me John ;-)
-Julie