Showing posts with label Cup Plant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cup Plant. Show all posts

Sunday, August 2, 2020

Native Wildflowers

Now that the trails are cleared for ease of passage our walk today was a bit longer than usual.

Three months-plus, post burn, the pollinator acreage is ablaze in flowers.  We observed the expected:  Ox-eye daisy, black-eyed Susan, nodding pink onion, compass plant, prairie blazing star, showy tick trefoil, gray-headed cone flower, along with blue vervain and cardinal flower along Silver Creek.  There was so much more. 

Including this surprise:


Cup plant.  And we didn't plant it with the original seed mix more than twenty years ago.  It just showed-up.

Probably thought it was a nice neighborhood to take-up residence.

And I get a second walk today to swap out the memory cards and perform a battery check on six trail cameras.