Carolyn, they are often seen in Central Tx on country roads.
Here is what everyone needs: A pincushion Scabiosa
Let's see your Natives and Wildflowers
Here is another one that grows wild around my area. It is Stachys coccinea. It starts in the spring and blooms all season long.
This dear lady is my Aunt Florence. Could it be that the love of wildflowers started here?
Charlene, your cactus looks like a Prickly Pear, bur there are so many varieties that I couldn't really say without more details and comparison.
White yarrow. I know this can be aggressive but I just love those blooms. I even cut some for flower arrangement.
Charlene. that pic of your Aunt made me smile.Did you help her garden?
Actually Banana, I was only able to visit her three or four times a year. I stayed with her for a week or so in the summer sometimes. I wish I had pictures of her cottage garden yard. I can still smell the fragrance of the blooms.
She passed away in '63 so it was quite a while ago when this was taken. I was just 16 at the time, so I didn't get to be around her as much as I would have liked.
When I stayed with her she always had me gathering wildflowers and making boquets for the table. We didn't do much gardening because it was in the summer and so very hot when I stayed and the garden was usually in full bloom and on it's own.
My yard is starting to resemble her yard though. There was certainly an influence.
Charlene
I'm hooked too!! I've enjoyed seeing all of these wildflowers here.
*White Yarrow, Achillea millefolium is a very useful medicinal herb.
I've been waiting for this to bloom so I could see what it is.
I think it's Purple headed sneeze weed, Helenium flexuosum.
Here's another new bloom today.
Prairie Rose Gentian, Sabatia campestris
Beautiful!
Allwild, Gentian is blooming all over the sides of my fm road right now. I tried to transplant one last year, but it was a no go. I am thinking I want to get a few and try again. They are so pretty!
They are so pretty, there used to be a field of them at Pappy Elkins park, but now they have mowed down everything because of the drilling, such a shame.
I should not have napped after church today. I can't go to sleep. Well I have one more pretty bloom to post. I rescued some little wine cups earlier this spring and they are gracing me with nice new blooms.
Such pretty blooms! I tried to grow the Prairie Rose Gentian, but it doesn't like it here. I have this Horsemint that came up in a raised bed...I really like it.
An entire field of them would be very nice to see, but that is true of all wildflowers I think!! The Gentian is such a vibrant pink though. So is that winecup!!
And I see so many different wildflowers growing on our nearby fm that I would love to have growing here... sometimes they are difficult to transplant aren't they! I've found the most success when I get a big shovel and transplant roots, dirt and all. I don't think I could get away with that on the roadways though, could I? LOL But maybe off our county road I could ~
The Texas Dandelion is nice too, I think.
The truth of the matter is that our soil is so sandy, I usually just pull the plants and get the roots with them. Maybe on the gentian, I should get the shovel after them for a better chance of survival.
Charlene
I love them all, keep posting please.
Commelina (not sure what species) Day Flower. Finally got a picture of this guy. Doesn't get open until mid-morning, long after I've gone to work, but managed to catch it this morning around 11am.
I once saw a field full of Day flower on a misty morning and it was beautiful. I took my husband there at lunch time to see them and they were already closed, so he missed out on it. Oh well.
Carlo, I am so glad you love wildflowers too, more people to share the wonderful little miracles with.
Josephine.
Pretty blue Dayflower Carlo, glad you were there to get a pic today.
Many wildflowers love sandy, well draining soil Charlene, because you sure do have lots beautiful wildflowers growing!
This trailing vine just started blooming today. I thought I knew what it was but I'm not sure. I'll have to see if I can find the name.
Okay I'm quite sure the last post is a Butterfly Pea but.... is it Clitoria ternatea or is it a Spurred Butterfly Pea, Centrosema virginianum?
Or something else?
What do you say Josephine?
My sister's yard was woods until about two years ago and while it has been mowed, it has not been scraped or seeded with lawn grass so new things are popping up all over the place all the time. We've been trying to take inventory so we can use what is there first when she is ready to landscape. Here is a pinewood lily:
I think it is this one, Clitoria mariana;
http://wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=TADI2
Josephine.
That Pinewood lily is very beautiful.
Thank you Josephine ~ I was trying to match the leaf and that is it!! (although your link didn't connect right)
blueflower, that is going to be so much fun. Pretty flower.
Sorry, I don't know what happened, here is the correct link
http://wildflower.org/gallery/result.php?id_image=26556
Some Golden-Wave (Coreopsis tinctora) that I dug up earlier this spring and planted in the garden.
Thank you! I also found this on the edge of the woods. It is some kind of sensitive briar (they are so fun!). I cannot figure out which kind they are though.
And there are several trees like this in the woods around her house but I don't know what they are:
Here is a close up of the bloom.
Arrowwood Viburnum, maybe? If so, I'm SO envious!
http://www.hort.uconn.edu/Plants/v/vibden/vibden1.html
That certainly looks like it! It is not as dense as the images in plantfiles, but the ones I photographed were growing in the woods. Thank you so much for the id :)
White milkweed. Not a great photo - the first time I found it I didn't have my camera with me and it was starting to fade by the time I got back out there.
I just got back in from riding back out in the pasture. I found a bunch of obedient flowers growing in a few places. I didn't have my camera. I just traded for some at the ru and I had them here all along. Go Figure! This year my pasture if full of coreopsis. They are so beautiful!. So far, no monarda though. I am glad I rescued it last year and planted it in my yard.
Our roadside has lots of what I suppose is delphinium. I am wanting to try to get some of it. I was surprised to find one plant that upon close inspection turned out to be a mealy cup sage. I got one last June from Josephine, and this one is not far from me. It could be from a bird dropping seed from mine. I hope the roadside gets lots of them growing.
Love this thread Charlene. Thank you for starting it! I've spent this spring photoing as many wildflowers as possible and trying to id them for funsies. I found things in my yard and at my sis's and parent's that I didn't even know existed. It's like a scavenger hunt where seeds are the prize!
Thanks blue, I am glad to find others as fond of the wildflowers as I am. One, they are free, two they don't need any tending, they grow wild in the pastures, so why pamper them in your flower beds? It saves on water, fertilizers and most of all there are so many that you can have continuous blooms in so many colors and sizes.
Josephine, I really am glad that you helped me see the light! I first thought of them as just pretty weeds. Now I hunt for them like a treasure hunt.
My aunt and my grandmother both loved them. I just took them for granted but I remember now how much I enjoyed them when I was a little girl. Then of course all the little bouquets that your children bring you when they are small. What makes them know that you would like that? They do it instinctively. God is so good! He makes great flowers and aunts, grandmothers, children and now good friends to share the joy with.
Charlene
Charlene
Oh Charlene, I am so glad you caught the bug, and I hope I can infect a lot more people with this wonderful obsession.
It is so much fun to explore and learn every day, and to admire God's creation instead of taking it for granted.
We have been blessed with many wonderful native plants, and it is an honor to have them and preserve them from extinction, as so many of them are being destroyed through construction.
Keep up the good work Kid, and have fun Everyday.
Josephine.
I know I haven't been posting many pictures lately, but I wanted to show this lovely flowers from last fall, Texas Bluebells, aren't they gorgeous?
Oh I love Texas Bluebells!