They and we will be happier that way.īird’s foot trefoil ( Lotus corniculatus) does well here. Better to leave them in the fields where they belong. They wilted in about 5 minutes and I can still see their sad faces in my mind to this day. We didn’t have much money so we picked hundreds of daisies and put some in a vase on each table. This is a late time for them to be blooming but I was happy to see them. Most of the petals had been eaten off the other one, by what I don’t know. There were two ox-eye daisies ( Leucanthemum vulgare) still blooming and this was the best of the two. They add as much cheer to the landscape in June as they do in September and I should be just as happy to see them then as I am now. That of course, is just an opinion in my mind. I always think of it as a daisy with no petals.īlack eyed Susans ( Rudbeckia hirta) are flowers that I’ve always thought of as fall flowers so when they appear in June I can’t say that I’m overjoyed to see them but on this day, they fit right in. This is one of only three places i’ve ever found this European native in the wild. Tansy ( Tanacetum vulgare) is another plant that always reminds me of fall. It’s often hard to tell if a beggar’s tick blossom is fully opened but I think this one was more open than any I’ve seen. The one in the photo is more typical of its often-sprawling habit. Books say that it reaches 3 1/2 feet tall but I’ve seen some get close to six feet. The plant gets its common name from the way its barbed seeds cling to clothing. In this part of the state this plant grows side by side with the nodding burr marigold ( Bidens Cernua,) which is also called smooth beggar’s ticks and looks very similar. There are nearly 200 species in the genus and many of them look nearly identical. They appear in late July and grow for several weeks before showing flowers. They are the small orange flowers seen here and there in this shot. The Native American Chippewa tribe used the roots of this plant to treat earaches.Īnother plant I find growing at pond and river edges is beggar’s ticks ( Bidens). They grow in the northeastern U.S., west to Michigan’s upper peninsula, and in and parts of Canada in or near cold, acidic ponds and peaty bogs. The small, sword shaped leaves have no stems (petioles) and that’s another way to identify them. Each flower is about half the size of a New England aster. I’ve read that they can stand temperatures as low as minus 40 degrees F. They grow along the shore of this pond in great numbers but this is the only pond I’ve seen that happen in, so there must be something special about this place. The fact that they can grow in standing water and have a single white or purple flower at the top of a foot tall stem makes these asters hard to confuse with any other.īecause bog asters usually grow in thickets in wet, swampy areas many people never see them. I ended up finding more than enough to fill an entire blog post, all from this small piece of land.Īnd there were the rare and beautiful little bog asters ( Oclemena nemoralis) growing in the shallow water at the pond edge. I really had no idea until I started taking photos how many different plants there were. It’s a relatively small area but what a wealth of flowers grow here. Luckily, they hadn’t mowed the earthen dam. I was hoping the mower hadn’t beaten me to it. There is only one place to find bog asters and sneezeweed in this area that I know of, and that is at Meetinghouse Pond in Marlborough, so off I went recently to see what I could find.
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