I will scour the woods in search. It is not nearby. Will also mark this one to watch for seeds. It will be easy as a wild Salvia blooms in Sept and draws my attention.
Springtime Weeds & Wildflowers... Care to share?
Please tell me what this yellow bloomer is... The blooms are a little battered from the rain.
These are the leaves from the yellow bloomer above...
I saw these blue eye grass at a nursery and bought them. I felt silly today when I was out in a field full of them!
Don't feel bad... I would have done the same. They are such a pretty color.
The jessamine, the violets, and this spiderwort are my favorites! I've been thinking about digging some up for the flower beds...
Hi Blueflower ~ like that name! I have dug spiderwort for the wildflower beds. They spread freely. I even find them in the grass but just mow them down.
This is spiderwort, coneflowers and lyre leaf sage.
Thanks! I drive my DH a little nuts every spring because I won't mow until I get to watch them bloom a bit :p
DH is ecstatic! We'd miss these wild beauties if we were to mow the lawn too soon.
Prunella ~ Self heal or Heal All
I don't know what this is , but it seems to like the "amended soil"
What a pretty flower and color. Is it tiny?
I sometimes wonder if I bring some of this home in other soil or plants...
Very small...about the size of my pinky's nailbed. I just noticed another plant in my shade garden. Very adaptable!
This bloom always signals the end of spring and beginning of summer time heat for me.
It was a delightful surprise when I first found it by the pond. Over the years the plant has reseeded and spread. It is Spigelia marilandica ~ Indian pink or pink root.
The open bloom...
OK y'all here's one for ya what is this?
so much stuff coming up I have no idea what all is keepers and what all is pullers.
so before I pull this one do tell pull or keep?
there is so much fungus among us here too mushrooms and such coming up all over the place wondering if I should be looking for something to put on the yard are to control it or what is going on .
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It looks like Poke Weed, a very useful plant indeed.
http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=PHAM4
Josephine.
bananna, that plant looks like Scarlet Pimpernel. And here is Barbara's Buttons, Marshallia caespitosa.
Linda, you are the luckiest, you have the widest variety of native plants, I am envious.
I guess I AM lucky! That one is local....but I have many natives that were shared by so many generous people over time. BTW, our local paper today has an article about a park natural area program put on in S.A. last Saturday on butterflies. I didn't get to go to it, but was so happy to see the title to the article:
"Expert says native flora is most alluring for butterflies laying eggs"
It urges people interested in butterflies to plant native plants...or keep the natives already there that butterflies use. I'm grateful that the natural area parks people are educating people about this.
Me too, there are a lot of different nature preserves around here too.
Last week we had 300 children from a Dallas middle school come to the wildscape on three consecutive days and i got to demonstrate the butterflies.
I was lucky and each day I had a new black swallowtail eclose, so they got to see a live butterfly, plus caterpilars and crysalis, it was very rewarding and a lot of fun.
Josephine.
banana--I think that's purslane in that 'amended soil', probably blew in from a neighbor's yard. I have one particular neighbor that insists on planting those every year, so therefore I pull them from every unmulched area of my property.
since this is the Texas forum, here's 'San Antonio Firecracker'....
=)
I am enjoying all the beautiful pictures. I am happy you had a great display for the kids at the wildscape. I'm sure you have influenced many children to look at nature with greater appreciation. I love that Barbara's buttons. When I walk through the park, I see lots of delicate flowers. Each time I think...why didn't I take my camera. (might have something to do with the dog I'm walking)
Found this growing in my salvia. I am on the lookout for that lifesucking invasive, I hope this is not it.
No it is not the invasive, it is a Larkspur, very pretty indeed.
Thanks. It is really beautiful.I hope it reseeds.
The larkspur will indeed reseed. I always have a stand of them by planting the seeds from a packet in the fall. They come up during our period of Indian summer and live all winter with no difficulty. Then, they bloom very early in the spring. I have pink and blue ones blooming now. They have a tap root; thus, they dislike transplanting. Be sure to keep spent blossoms snipped off and they will rebloom until our weather gets really hot. Regards, Shirley
Every year we get these Clerodendrum bungei popping up in the compost pile corner. So far they haven't spread outside of the corner.... They are SO beautiful, it's a shame they are such a thug if left unchecked.
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Those are such pretty blooms. I understand they are fragrant also?
The blooms remind me of this milkweed Asclepsia variegata. This is the buds.
And opening...
Oh! I wish I had that Milkweed!!!
They grow wild in the woods here. I have never tried to transplant one... does it produce seed? I would gladly try to do either...
You would probably have better luck with seed. They are famous for being hard to transplant.
I'll not make any guarantees but will promise to try for ripened seeds for you. 8 )
Oh! You are so sweet, thank you very much, I sure would like to give them a try. Have to be ready when those Monarchs come by.
Josephine.
That milkweed is so pretty! I took this photo of a sweet little phlox, Golden-Eye Phlox, Phlox Roemeriana. There's also some Rabbit Tobacco, Evax sp.
Very lovely Linda, Phlox is so sweet smelling.
Linda, in that photo, what is the plant with the blue-green rosette foliage? Is that the Phlox? I have it all in my yard, but no flowers.
Oh...that blue-green plant is Rabbit Tobacco. It doesn't have a flower that looks like a flower...just a cottony-looking bloom...quite a few Evax species in Texas. The pink flowers, that's the phlox.
One species of Rabbit Tobacco:
http://uvalde.tamu.edu/herbarium/evve.htm
I like to let it grow in some places around my yard. It adds color and structural interest. Now, I know what it is. Thanks for the great info Linda. Would anyone be interested in starting a thread about non-flowering natives such as Rabbit Tobacco? It would be kinda like the ones that Htop and Frostweed have done with the different colored flowering natives.