#camphorweed

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[uncleasad]

Blooms of October 1st

It’s October 1st and “only” 80°F, so summer should be coming to an end soon. The season’s blooms are mostly gone, but I thought I would have a look around the yard to see what was still blooming; this is one of just about everything—and some bonus fauna.

Gardenia, black-eyed Susans, Chinese forget-me-not, phlox, crape myrtle, vervain, marigold, zinnias, beefsteak plant, camphorweed (yellow) and late boneset (white), vinca, spider flower (cleome) with bonus gulf fritillary butterfly, brown-eyed Susans, “volunteer” yellow cherry tomato plant.

And bonus full-sized (red-shouldered, probably) hawk, ~20 feet in the air in a pecan tree, from ~50 ft away through the screen of my bathroom window, max digital zoom. Terrible photo, fun visitor! (This hawk is 3x to 4x the size of the hawk I posted yesterday!)

[euthamia]

Holocarpha virgata / idk Wyethia mollis maybe / some kind of Grindelia / Pseudognaphalium californicum / Trichostema lanceolatum

[the-pasta-pack]

Two of the most common plants in bloom I saw on the dunes: Camphorweed (Heterotheca subaxillaris) and Beach Morning Glory (Ipomoea pes-caprae).

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The whole flower is the size of a nickel, and the wasp is very small.

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