Close up of white.
Native Plants found in the Wild.
Mixed in with some red.
George
In another week or so I will take pics of the yellow lady slipper orchids,pink,yellow and orange azaleas as well as the rhodos.
George
George, those trilliums are beautiful.
We are suppose to have the red ones here, but have never seen them, but the white ones are spreading nicley.
Gran and Frost, how pretty. I love the pictures. Someday, I may have something half as nice, if I work hard.
Oh, here is another picture of the plant/flower that I thought was rue anenome.
It has the same group of three flowers, only 5 petals, and is low growing. I can't figure out what it is.
Any ideas????
Frostweed, I love the Antelope Horns Milkweed! What a cool flower. Everything here is either drying up or freezing as soon as it opens, it seems like. Very dry and sudden cold nights.
Are the flowers and leaves thick and kind of waxy? Could it be trailing arbutus?
http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=EPRE2
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Kathleen, That is it!
It is in the pink section of my wildflower book, but it does come in white and it is it!
Thanks for helping me out!
Now I'm officially jealous. Trailing arbutus occurs in the county, but not in my little bit of it. I have seen it in pink - the guides need to be more specific about color possibilities - but only once about 20 miles from here on a preserve.
I looked at it last night and It didn't do well with the last three nights of freeze. I am going to mark it today for next year.
Not only was the flower pink in my book, but the picture did not look like my flower.
The pictures on the site you sent me were identical, and very helpful. Thanks again. I will be looking for more of these in the woods now.
This was the first one I have found in 12 years of daily walking the woods. Maybe there are more just under the leaves, or maybe it was just the 3 weeks of warm we had this year.
We found this plant growing wild on a prairie walk at Tandy Hills Nature Preserve,
Fort Worth, Texas.
It has already flowered but the seeds are very interesting,
New Jersey Tea, Ceanothus americanus
http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=CEAM
We also found this one, Trailing Ratany, Krameria lanceolata , I think the flowers are adorable.
http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=KRLA
Those are great. I esp like the last one. So vibrant! That must be an easy one to spot!
Amazing the plants that grow without any help from us.......here are a few from our wild woodlands, first is native wild ginger
wintergreen which is easy to miss as it is very low growing, about 1" high
wild azalea
unknown, a sweet little thing only grows about 1 foot high with little white, bells
It is amazing all the plant diversity!
Yes, native plants are so much fun, when we go and find all these little ones i get so excited I am jumping up and down, it is just so neat!!
I had to laugh at your wintergreen. It is not hard to see here at all, as it is covering the wood's floor right now. And the berries are yummy after the "winter over".
I have to say though that the picture you posted looks more like Rattle Snake Plantation which is much harder to see and a very cool plant indeed. Athough it is probably these eyes of mine. LOL
http://www.main.nc.us/naturenotebook/plants/rattlesnakeplantain.html
DH last night found about 30 more of the round lobed hepatica right by the gate going into our woods. There were both white flowering ones and the light purple. It was like finding a little gold mine.
Funny how we walk thru there thousands of times and missed them. Weather conditions just right maybe? I had moved one that was in a high traffic area many years ago and it is thriving, I will move a couple of these today to an area I can enjoy them better.
Cparts, they sort of resemble but on closer examination, the wintergreen leaves are smooth and don't really form a rosette like the plantain in the hyperlink shows.
While on an outing to the property of a lady who is restoring natives on her property (or letting them return on their own), we saw some plants with this pretty bloom. But nobody knew what it was. This was outside the area we're most familiar with. There was also some milkweed vines, probably Honeyvine, which I didn't get a good photo of. On one vine, there was a Monarch caterpillar.
Linda, is it a vine?
No, Josephine, it was a plant about a foot or so high. The stem coming toward it from above the flower is the plant, I believe. Someone thought it reminded her of a St. John's Wort, although it is not that, of course. This area has sandy soil...used to have nice hardwood forests a long time ago there south of Seguin. Then the hardwood trees were pretty much cleared for farms and ranches. Sad how things happen like that. Now the farms and ranches are fast giving way to smaller lots for people to live on.
Coralbean grows wild out there. I see it used quite a bit in people's yards, but seeing them growing out there...not even being escapes, was very nice!
That Coralbean certainly is an interesting plant. Nice picture!
I was told this was Butterfly Pea....we certainly liked it also.
It reminds me of a sweet pea.
Heres our wintergreen today.
Rattlesnake plantian
Usually one or two will bloom later in the summer.
Trilliums are starting to bloom all over.
Love all the pictures.
The plant Bugme posted and called "Wintergreen" is what we called Wintergreen where I grew up (Maryland),
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/p.php?pid=4893458
Plantfiles calls that one "Spotted" Wintergreen, Striped Pipsissewa, and Striped Prince's Pine
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/561/
I don't remember any name for the Gaultheria wintergreen...lol...is that what your plant is, cpartschick? Just curious about the regional names. Like where in the US do people say Pipsissewa? Anyone know?
There are a few Gaultheria's in PF without pictures, I wonder about them too.
Cparts, your wintergreen is so different from what the extension agent identified as mine......it must be the difference in the regions. I've never seen berries on our's, of course the "critters" could've already gotten them.
Claypa, that pipsissewa is a real mouthful :) and for a southerner to try to say it would probably cause fits of laughter.
It is fascinating to see the various natives from different regions.
Sharon
Our wintergreen is all over the woods. Not all of them have berries, just certian areas.
The only critters that eat them I think are us.
They get white flower like berries in the summer and turn to red berries in the fall. After the winter the berries are very "wintergreen" tasting. The leaves are stronger tasting but just to chew.
You know I have never looked this one up in the book, because it was always "just" wintergreen. I see in the book it is listed as teaberry;wintergreen
Gaultheria procumbens.
Wow, I just love this forum. So much to learn.
We have the pipsissewa too. Not as many plants but this one has the greatest flower. I will take a new picture of the plant today and post.
Here is the flower.
Such an adorable flower!!!
Ah, a cute name and such a cute flower!
Love just love that flower, how very unique and to think it is a gift to us:)
Great to be able to share the love of these plants and knowledge.
And to think, I thought wintergreen was just wintergreen.
It was sprinkling this morning but I got a shot of the pipsissewa plant. A long shoot comes out of the middle (several inches high) and a cluster of the nodding waxy flowers appear. (later in the year)
Here is another plant and another angle of the plant.
As you can see it is quite benign until it flowers.
I took the flower picture (that I posted above) about 2 years ago and never have taken one again I like as well as that one.
Here is a yellow lady slipper coming up. Hopefully I will have a flower picture in a couple weeks.
