Yea...that might be it. All I know is that they hurt!
Springtime Weeds & Wildflowers... Care to share?
Bull nettles do sting. My first introduction to them was in the mid 70s on a dirt bike. Shorts and sandals. Learned what fireants were too. In those days I was told urine would stop the burn. I am sure there is something better than that though...
I do use a pair of leather gloves when I am unsure what I am grabbing these days.
I remember last year people on the rose forum were looking for nettles as a tonic ingredient. http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/1958/ plant files has a recipe for growth stimulant made from nettles. Some people even have them on their "want list"
Wonder if I have them around here? Only time I wear leather gloves is when I have to remove thorny briars.
Pod your red flower is Red Buckeye, Aesculus pavia,
http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=AEPA
I have one of those and I love it.
Josephine.
Blue_eyes ~ I have searched for a good photo of the bull nettle. This is as close as I found. If you look closely at the stem, you will see the fine hairs. The leaves have the same. I really don't know if this is what your are encountering tho... http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.birds-n-garden.com/wf/640_bull_nettle_leaf.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.birds-n-garden.com/wildflowers.html&h=103&w=137&sz=59&tbnid=6_G1ek2LpcAJ:&tbnh=103&tbnw=137&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbull%2Bnettle%2Bphoto&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=1&ct=image&cd=2
Click on the 2nd photo Cnidoscolus texana (plant) It has a pretty good photo.
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Red buckeye is it! Thank you both! These are small about a foot tall but references indicate it can grow to 30 ft. tall.
I have been given a buckeye to be carried for good luck and I'm guessing this is the plant it came from by the description of the fruit in Wildflowers of the Big Thicket. Very neat.
How large is your Buckeye ~ Frostweed?
Mine is a bout 12 feet tall and very pretty just starting to make buds, here is a picture from last year.
Wow! Multiple blooms, how beautiful. Now I need to scour the woods looking for a large one.
This is blooming on the dam ~ not sure if it is a wild plum or ?
It looks like Rusty Blackhaw, Viburnum rudifulum,
http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=VIRU
They are lovely too.
Frostweed, you'd think I'm crazy..but are there seeds that you might be able to send?
Jaye
Hello Heavenscape, no you are not crazy, but the seeds of Red Buckeye are almost the size of a medium egg, but rounder, and on top of that i have already given the ones from last fall away.
They should be planted right away after they mature, but this coming fall if you still want them remind me and i will send you some, if you pay the postage. Deal?
Josephine.
Yeah....even if it's the size of an ostrich egg!!! Got plenty of space it can invade here, Josephine.
All right then, don't forget to remind me in the fall.
Don't know what this is. There's no foilage, just the flowers.
Some kind of mallow?
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Dewberry blooms
Broncbuster, the leaves are certainly different from the hib/mallow family. What's encased may be the true flowers?
Pinkladies
You might be right, Jaye. There is that little bitty flower inside the purple cup.
Our Texas Mountain Laurels are completely done now, so 2 weeks was about right. We have a bunch of other things blooming now, though. Some of them I even planted! LOL
Here's a rose. I don't know its name, but I think it's beautiful. It doesn't bloom very often - I don't think it gets enough sun there under the Mexican Plum. I'd move it, but all of the other roses I moved died. :-/
The Brazos Penstemon that Josephine gave me a couple of years ago is blooming. I need to figure out how to propagate this so I can have more... I love it. :-)
I tried to get a closer photo. This bee (and her friends) weren't too happy with me when I walked too close, though.
Here's another one, sans grumpy bee.
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Salvia (I'm not sure what kind.. ) and dianthus. And lots of dandelions, too.
I detest the cleavers, and I roll my eyes and pull the dandelions, but I leave all of the oxalis that pops up in the garden. I think they are pretty, and they disappear as soon as it gets hot. This year I have 3 different colors, which has been very fun. :-) I tried to get a picture of the one with tiny yellow flowers, but they came out fuzzy. Here are some larger pink ones, though.
And here are some purple leafed ones. I received these in a trade, and I love them. They are spreading very very slowly... I'd be okay with them speeding up a little. LOL
My first propagating success! (I haven't tried very many things yet, obviously. :-) ) I trimmed the butterfly weed last year and stuck one of the "sticks" in the ground on the other side of the rosemary bush. It not only rooted, but it's blooming before the mother plant is! I think that's pretty amazing!
Marylyn, I am very glad the Brazos penstemon is doing do well for you. Be sure you let the bloom stalks with the seedpods dry on the plant to let them mature.
Then you can cut them down to the green rosette, the plant will bloom again next year. Strip the pods off the stalk and scatter them around, mine come up wherever the seed falls, and I don't have to make an effort to plant the seed.
However, they come up a lot of times where I don't want them, so then I dig them up carefully and pot them in little pots to set at the right places or to share.
Off course you could try planting the seed in pots, in that case you should take the seed out of the pods by crushing them, then separate the seed, which is very fine.
I never plant it in pots, because there are always lots of plants come up by themselves. I love those little guys.
Josephine.
T.J. I think your white tiny flowers might be Prairie Bishop, Bifora americana;
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/153072/
I saw those at Tandy hills Prairie in Fort Worth.
The other two, i don't know.
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Oops... I just realized I posted those in the "Weeds and Wildflowers" thread instead of the "Spring flowers" thread. Sorry!!! (blushing...)
Marylyn, no need to be sorry, as far as I am concerned they are all one and the same.
Thanks for the ID, Josephine! I thought for sure you would get them all. Have you ever seen the other two?
Not that I can tell from the picture, and they don't bring anything to mind.
The pink one could be of the winecup family.
Glad to see the Brazos penstemon photos. I was given seeds and look forward to the blooms! Marilyn don't be embarassed. I enjoy the blooms and glad you shared on either thread. I am also excited to hear you had good luck with a cutting of the butterfly weed. There is a wild one that I would like a start of. Never get a chance to bag it for seeds and don't want to dig up as it has been there for years. I will try a cutting this summer. Thank you.
Broncbuster, I believe your "Pink Ladies" are Oenothera speciosa, the pink evening primrose. Kiddos here love to pick them and hold them up to anothers' chin while they ask a question. The yellow pollen left on their chin indicates either answering with the truth or a lie. All in good fun as kids will do... They are a cheerful, pretty bloom.
Frostweed, could I possibly transplant the Red Buckeye when the plant is only a foot tall?
I have never planted it any other way than from a pot, I do know that it has a long taproot so if you want to transplant i would do it in the fall when it is dormant and dig as deep as possible to get the root, it would probably work that way.
Would a plant that small produce a seed pod? That may be the prefered way to start one...
The same here, I can send you one if you like. I don't think that little one will make seeds, but it does have flowers, so it could happen.