Especially when you don't know what they are. But we need flowers more than ever - something to take our mind off of our present circumstances.
I should know what these are but I am too lazy to look them up. If you don't know wildflowers, why not stay and admire the beauty of nature?
I do know these. Elderberry flowers. If you don't eat them (you can make fritters with them, although I haven't tried and I don't own the land these are on, anyway), you will get the fruit. When I lived on rural land I made jam with them. Other folks make wine.
My guess is this is a Japanese spirea that escaped from someone's yard.
Here's a mystery. I feel like I will hate myself when someone tells me what this is. Perhaps Blazing Star? (I looked online; I'm no expert!)
I do love a mystery, but some ID's would be even better.
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...I like making elderberry jelly. That looks like spirea. The purple among all of the woodbine has me stumped. That is fleabane!
ReplyDeleteRe the purple flowers I'll need to see if I can find more pictures I can use to identify it. Thank you!
DeleteNothing prettier than wildflowers. Those are all beautiful.
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DeleteI planted three of those dwarf spirea shrubs years ago. Now there are seedlings all over the ground. But since the animals tend to leave them alone, I am just going to let them spread.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a good idea.
DeleteSuch pretty flowers
ReplyDeleteThank you. Guess I should do another wildflower walk soon?
DeleteI don't know if it grows in the US, but the first one looks like hogweed.If it is be very careful around it. The sap can cause nasty burns and scarring
ReplyDeleteHogweed is a major problem in New York State, where I live, and you are absolutely correct in warning of how dangerous those plants are. Please be assured this is not hogweed although the flowers do look similar to hogweed. The leaves are not that visible in the picture but I have seen the blue/black berries on this particular plant when the elderberries mature.
DeleteI have elderberries in my backyard. They spread quickly and I am forever pulling out their "weeds" from my beds. But I let some of them grow because birds and other varmints love the berries. I've never tried using them myself.
ReplyDeleteLindas flores!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful!
It's not blazing star, I have that. The way the flowers are on the stem make me think something in the mint family, a salvia of some sort? I can't see the leaves well enough to see, but if the stem was square it was in the mint family. Which is a huge family. The tops are like purple tansy, but the stem shape isn't and I can't see them forming from a fiddleleaf fern shape like purple tansy.
ReplyDeleteI have heard of elderberry wine. I just saw an ad for an app where you take a picture of a plant and it tells you what it is. Although, it was more focused on weeds...
ReplyDeleteNot sure what wild flowers we have out now.
ReplyDeleteThese wildflowers are so pretty!
ReplyDeleteHappy Thursday, Alana!
Beautiful wildflowers, Alana!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing :)