James56 Loc: Nashville, Tennessee

Fascinating, great job...really informative and enjoyable.

Earnest Botello Loc: Hockley, Texas

Excellent series, Mike.

Blenheim Orange Loc: Michigan

I am actually not sure about that. I started some from seed here on my property, and there were probably 100 blooms last year. It is probably unlikely that they are all of the same plant, since I was looking for a stage of development through the season rather than tracking a particular individual plant. A botanist I know gave me a few locally collected seeds a few years ago. I wasn't especially interested in the plant, but took the seeds to be polite and then felt obligated to plant them. I sowed the seeds in a gravelly spot near the front door and didn't expect much, but the plants have done really well and are now one of my favorites.

Mike

Blenheim Orange Loc: Michigan

Thanks, James. Good to see you.

Mike

Blenheim Orange Loc: Michigan

Interesting. That one has beautiful flowers, but we are too far north to see it. The taxonomists moved it out of the Alium genus, based on genetic mapping I suppose. Crow poison and False garlic are some common names for it that I am familiar with. Mayapple should be blooming down your way about now, too.

Post a photo if you can!

Mike

Hal81 Loc: Bucks County, Pa.

Great captures.

Blenheim Orange Loc: Michigan

Thanks, Earnest.

Mike

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

Thank you very much Mike
I thought you either had one heck of a memory or staked the plants out to find them again.
That's the great thing about, weeds they grow almost anywhere, try getting rid of them lol,
I had problems with wild garlic when I had milk cows.

Blenheim Orange Loc: Michigan

At one time there was a lot of dairy here in northern Michigan, not no longer. Speaking of plants that are a problem on dairy farms, I am actually growing some White snakeroot here now, which I would never do if there still dairy farms nearby. It is the toxic native North American plant responsible for "milk sickness."

From the Missouri Botanical Garden website:

"Ageratina altissima commonly called white snakeroot, is native to woodland areas in the Eastern United States. It is common throughout Missouri where it typically occurs in rich or rocky woods, thickets, wood margins and rocky areas (Steyermark). It features small fluffy bright white flowers (composites with rays absent) arranged in loose, flattened clusters (corymbs to 3-4” across) atop smooth stems typically rising 3-5’ tall. Blooms from late summer to frost. This is a somewhat weedy perennial that can spread aggressively by rhizomes and self-seeding. Long-stalked, sharp-toothed, taper-pointed, lance-shaped to elliptic-oval, nettle-like, dark green leaves (3-6” long) are paired along the stems. Native Americans reportedly used a decoction of the roots as a remedy for snakebite, hence the common name. Settlers who drank milk from cows that fed on this plant often developed the disease called milk sickness. This plant is synonymous with Eupatorium rugosum."

http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?taxonid=277391

Mike

DeanS Loc: Capital City area of North Carolina

Very nice series.

Blenheim Orange Loc: Michigan

Thanks, Blair, for your generous comments. That whole process took about 6 weeks.

Mike

napabob Loc: Napa CA

well done series

PAR4DCR Loc: A Sunny Place

Very well done!

Don

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

Hum, I have many images of these this plant, taken at the Shaw Nature Reserve , never knew the name. I used to spend a lot of time there but have moved farther southeast.

Blenheim Orange Loc: Michigan

Thanks.

"For the beauty of the earth..."

Mike