#culver's root

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[bethanythebogwitch]

Native wildflowers collection pt 2

Continued from part 1

Wild white indigo. These grow seed pods and then break off and tumbleweed around to spread their seeds.

Blazing star. There are several species of this and I think this one is prairie blazing star

Culver's root

Daisy fleabane. This was burned and the ashes were used as a flea remedy.

Joe Pye weed

Elderberry. You can chop up the branches of this, put them in the ground, and as long as there's enough water, they will grow into new bushes.

Wild petunia (left), wild geranium (right), and wild hyacinth (bottom). I like them more than the ornamental cultivars

Showy tick trefoil. These seeds are easy to collect. Walk through the prairie for a while and you'll have a few hundred stuck to your clothes.

Tall bellflower

Heal-all

New England aster or aromatic aster. I don't know how to tell them apart. Usually purple, but sometimes you find a bright pink one.

Evening primrose

Wild onion

American bush clover

Rose mallow (left) and halberd-leafed rose mallow (left). The latter gets smaller flowers and different shaped leaves.

Tall boneflower, which is a name I'm totally using for an undead plant in D&D

Great blue lobelia

Smartweed. These are absolutely tiny.

Spring beauty, a cute little spring ephemeral

Bloodroot. These are cool, they have giant rhizomes and bright red sap.

Wild violet. These are usually purple, but sometimes you find a yellow one

Trout lily.

Virginia bluebell

Trillium. You don't get as many of these around here as we'd like because the deer go absolutely wild for them

Woodland phlox

Wild hawthorn

Continued in part 3

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Culver’s Root Veronicastrum virginicum Pleasant Valley Conservancy, WI 22 July 2019

[rjzimmerman]

Summer in the prairie Part 2

Yesterday, I hiked through the restored prairie at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois and the Wolf Road Prairie in Westchester, Illinois. The grasses are getting taller, the birds are flitting around snacking all day, the wildflowers are posing and the floodwaters have finally receded (leaving behind lots of messy spots). Here are some of my photos from Wolf Road Prairie.

You’ll see a monarch butterfly on a prairie blazing star. In addition to the blazing star, you’ll thistle, rattlesnake master, Jerusalem artichoke, nodding wild onion, wood lily, grey-headed coneflower, and Culver’s root.

All photos by rjzimmerman July 31, 2019.

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Grey-headed coneflower, Culver’s root. Fermilab Prairie. Photo by rjzimmerman July 31, 2019.

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One of my photos from my recent hike in the Fermilab Prairie. I think the blurring of the foreground enhances the pastel colors in the background. The flowers are monarda (bee balm) and Culver’s root. Photo by rjzimmerman July 31, 2019

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Culver’s Root (Veronicastrum virginicum)

Schurch-Thomson Prairie, WI, 7-8-17