Wildflower Blooms

From our morning walk the other day there were these showy, native flowers.

Bee Balm

Black-Eyed Susan

Blue Vervain

Compass Plant

Gray-Headed Coneflower

Joe Pye Weed

Obedient Plant

Prairie Blazing Star

Purple Coneflower 

Purple Prairie Clover

Show-offs

More native plants...

Bee Balm

Big Bluestem

Prairie Blazingstar and Ox-Eye Sunflower

Blue Vervain

Joe-Pye Weed

Compass Plant

Yellow Coneflower

 

Wildflower Walk

In the past week I brushed-out some additional trails to make it easier to get around.  From our walk the other day there was this...

A big patch of Prairie Blazing Star - Liatris

Blue Vervain

Compass Plant - as high as an elephant's eye!

Cardinal Flower

Wildflower Walk

 From one of our recent walks there were these blooming along the trail...

Gray-headed coneflower

Showy Tick-trefoil (amidst the Ox-eye)

Prairie blazing star

And Monarda (bee balm)

Stay-tuned, there's more to come.....

Update From the Butterfly Ranch

From this week we've observed plenty of butterflies flitting-about and visiting the sxplosion of wildflowers out back in the prairie planting.  Including.....

Tiger Swallowtail

Spangled Fritillary

Monarch 

Post Burn

Burn was conducted May 4th of this year leaving a carbonized moonscape that looked like this...

After twelve weeks the verdict is rendered - from our walk this morning it is clear that the green-up is complete... 

Liatris (Prairie Blazing Star)

Gray-Headed Coneflower

ButterFly Ranching Continued

In-coming!

From our walk thru the butterfly ranch is an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail coming in for a landing on a Prairie Blazing Star.

 

Amazing....

 

 

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Liatrus Redux

Cannot get enough of that Prairie Blazing Star. The Frau snapped this pic while out walking the dogs yesterday.  

Now you know why they call it the Queen of the Prairie...

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Prairie Blazing Star

Liatris pycnostachya - Prairie Blazing Star.  

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The stem is made of many tiny flower heads all crowded together.    Pycnostachya is Latin for crowded.

Butterflies are attracted to this plant.  And so are the deer.