Okay, Josephine, I am going to need your help here please.
First is this beautiful white flower. What is it?
Let's see your Natives and Wildflowers
Second is this beautiful blue flower. What is it?
Here is one that I actually know the name of. LOL It is Monarda Fistula. Josephine will probably know the name of the butterfly.
Here is a better pic of the monarda.
Well, the white flower resembles Queen Ann's lace, but the foliage is all wrong, it also resembles Elderberry, but I don't think it is, I think I need to do some research.
The blue flower is Larkspur, not sure if it is a native, but it could be.
I think the butterfly is a male Black Swallowtail.
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Well, I think I found it, it might be Water Hemlock, check it out;
http://wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=CIMA2
http://wildflower.org/gallery/result.php?id_image=8177
Josephine.
All beautiful stuff, everyone!
Flor de San Juan...it's just on a rocky hillside, where it seems to be happy.
I found a native Blue Larkspur here;
http://wildflower.org/gallery/result.php?id_image=22192
These are such small plants you might not notice them, but then they start blooming all over the place and they are kind of impressive! White Evolvulus, Evolvulus sericeus.
Linda, that flower is amazing, you have the most unusual plants.
I have rescued some of the larkspur. I cut the tops way back and potted them up. We'll see how that goes. Since they are a perrenial maybe they will survive the transplanting. I am sure the mowers will be coming soon down my farm road, so I have to get what I can right away. I just got a few as it was rather weedy where they were growing. I am terrified of snakes.
I sometimes wind up with red bugs when I go out to do my rescuing. I read that red bugs are where mice are. I already know that snakes eat mice, so I am always thinking of what may be hiding in tall weeds.
There was an area with several patches of goat's rue, but they were uphill and through a lot of weeds. I left them.
I am going to get some more photos of the white flower that looks like queen Anne's lace or hemlock, so I can find out for sure what that is.
It is already so hot outside, it makes one want to "explore" a little less than I would like. We really need rain. Dallas floods and we are in drought.
I have too many beds of flowers to keep up with watering them all. Thank goodness for the drought tolerant natives.
Charlene
Great plants Charlene. I need to make the trip if you have DGers come your way again. Hopefully the mowers will hold off until you can get some seeds out of some of those.
Btw I think the moth on the coneflower was actually a Buckeye butterfly, I love those.
Sheila, I plan to possibly have an RU next year. I will be sure to let you know. It would be nice to have you here. Late May or June is the best time to see all of the wildflowers, but of course it is also very hot then.
Charlene
Charlene, it would be nice to see your part of Texas again.-
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Linda is that Flor de San Juan scented? if so I just have to have one. I love it.
Josephine.
Boy have I been admiring all of pic's of pretty natives!!
Really nice flower beds charlenesplants! I hope I can be included in that RU invitation?!
LindaTX, is that Flor de San Juan a Texas native?
blueflower19, why do you think that beebalm is a hybrid, peter's purple bee balm? If it is resowing itself every year, maybe it is a native and you can get seeds??? Just a thought.
The natives are looking interesting around here. This flower is hanging out with all of the sneezeweed and looks like sneezeweed... but it's the only plant with orange petals, all the rest have yellow??
And this flower is hanging out with the Black eyed Susan but this one has a print on the petals?? Only this one?!
I'm not sure what this one is. It looks a lot like Sensitive Briar but this one has a yellow flower. All the plant files show a purple or pink flower??
It is called Yellow Puff, Neptunia lutea, very pretty.
http://wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=NELU2
Josephine.
allwild818, Flor de San Juan, formerly Macrosiphonia macrosiphon (now Macrosiphonia lanuginosa) is in Wasowski's Native Texas Plants Landscaping Region by Region. USDA Plants Profile map only shows that it is in Texas. All I know is it grows on hills with rocky ground. It has some fragrance, but not a lot, I believe. It's on one side of my property, where the plants have increased slightly over the years since it showed up. It's also called Plateau Rock Trumpet. I just love those white wildflowers.
Ah-ha thank you so much frostweed, you're amazing !!
btw, I was just admiring your pic of Texas Bluebell-exceptional !!!
Here's another unknown plant growing, various sizes up to around 5' tall. I haven't seen any sort of blooms but it has thorns!! Mesquite?
LindaTX, It is a very pretty flower, thank you for the info. I agree, there is something special about the beauty of the white wildflowers.
Looks like mesquite to me.
these are not all natives, but I sure like how they all work together
Very lovely Lizzy.
Very pretty. Your beds look like mine. A gentle mix of natives and some drought tolerant hybrids.
What is the monarda? I love it. We may have to make a trade on monardas.
I have a red one that is blooming now. I haven't photgraphed it yet. I also have the fistula and the citriodora.
Charlene
Wow, I have to get some of the fuschia monarda, which one is it?
It is Monarda Raspberry Fizz. I will be sure to bring a whole bunch of it to the fall round up.
I found these growing/blooming in the shady areas of my grandmother's place in Blanco on the 7th of June. What are they? They look similar to what DaleTheGardener posted earlier.
(Inset is picture from side, you may have to look at large version to see it. The thumbnail cuts it off.)
It is a Rain Lily
http://wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=COPE
Very pretty Rain Lily!!
The Boxseed plants are blooming...this is my first time seeing the blooms, the rest of the year they are brown with seeds that look just like boxes!!
Is this the one you have?
I have the name of the last post backwards, its supposed to say "Seedbox", Ludwigia alternifolia.
They are known to grow to up to 3 feet tall. These here are around 4 feet tall. Last year, one of the dried plants were almost 6 feet tall!
Must be a Texas thing.
This website shows a great picture of it:
www.ct-botanical-society.org/galleries/ludwigiaalte.html
Wow!! those sure are neat, I love the seed box, could you save me some seed please?
Josephine.
Definitely!! When they go to seed this fall, I will send you some of the seeds so you can wintersow. They look really pretty while they are all blooming and the seedboxes are very interesting looking I think.
They make plenty of seeds, so if anyone else is interested just let me know, I'll be happy to send you some.
You are such a sweetheart!!! and so generous too.
Thank you very much.
Josephine.
If you send a few extras to Josephine she will share with me. Thanks for your offer allwild!
My 7 foot 9 inch Standing Cypress is still standing and making great seeds I hope. If anyone needs some of those, let me know.
I would say, I need some, but I think that my Standing Cypress killing should be over, so I will let others have them.
LOL!! No way...if it can make it at my house, it will be happy at your place. You have some coming. Those weak plants from E. Tx just couldn't handle our heat. LOL!
Funny Josephine! I recall reading about that. I'll send you plenty of seeds to share with Sheila.
I'm so astonished at the height of your Standing Cypress but it looks like it's about to bloom big time. Must be that Texas thing! Please post pics'. I just might like some seeds.... do hummingbirds like it?
No, it is loosing it's blooms now; it blooms from the top down. I haven't noticed hummers, but then I don't have many around right now. But with the tubular red flowers, it would be a draw I think.
Those Standing Cypress are definitely hummingbird nectar plants!