Literary Wildflowers - Week Three

What a lot of fun this was! :-)

Below:
Purple Coneflower Echinacea purpurea, Black-eyed Susan Rudbeckia hirta,

Below:
Wild Bergamot Monarda Fistulosa in front of raspberries

Below:
Thanks to iboy, a positive i.d. has been made on this plant.
Germander Teucrium canadense is a native perennial.
It grows in colonies, up to 3 feet tall.
There are two horn-like projections
on each flower.

Below:
Purple Coneflower in front of a ?Sunflower? (seems like a lot of petals),
in front of Queen Anne's Lace Daucus carota (Parsley family) and, I believe, a variety of Goldenrod (not blooming).
From one of our field guides re: Q.A.Lace: "This plant is the ancestor of our cultivated carrot. It is considered a weed in Nebraska."

Below:
Thanks to i boy and mjd for identifying the Horsenettle Solanum carolinense
in the foreground. These flowers are white and turn lavendar with age. The plant and its fruit are poisonous to both humans and livestock.
I see some Wild Parsnip Pastinaca sativa (not native), about to bloom on the left. Many people are left with a severe rash (worse than poison ivy) if skin contacts blooming plant. Behind that, I think, is Daisy Fleabane Erigeron strigosus of the Sunflower family.

Some of my "helpers."

I'd Leave
I'd leave all the hurry,

the noise and the fray
For a house full of books
and a garden of flowers
by Andrew Lang

Here at home.


If Flowers Want to Grow

If flowers want to grow
right out of concrete sidewalk cracks
I'm going to bend down to smell them.
by David Ignatow

Or in this case, right in the middle of the front yard! :-)

Thanks to Wildflowers in Winter for the great idea!