Monday, July 8, 2019

More pretty Summer Flower Fruit Flora ID photos

This is my third yellow flower - the first one was Cinquefoil and the second one was Tall Buttercup. This one is different - so I need to ID it.  https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/flower/fringed-loosestrife  This appears to be it!!

Should be pretty easy.

I think this is Indian Paintbrush... but I'll ID to be sure. https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/flower/orange-hawkweed  Wow looks like this is "highly invasive"?

There are two native hawkweeds in Minnesota, which differ from non-native hawkweeds as follows: They do not produce runners, the stems are branched and have few clasping leaves; they do not have basal leaf rosettes, and only the upper stem is hairy; they bear flowers in open elongated clusters.
Orange hawkweed occurs in several wetland plant communities. ...white-tailed deer consumed orange hawkweed in old fields in east-central Minnesota [37]. Orange hawkweed was listed as frequently eaten by woodchucks [89].
Orange hawkweed flowers are visited by a variety of insects, including bees [22,34,86,101] and butterflies [47,101].

the leaves on the flower.  the LOWER stem is hairy so it is NOT native.

And there's another similar one to this.



except it's yellow flower.

same kind of leaves....

The Aster photo I took last time - now there's a lot more blooming. A slight purple tinge to the white...  https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/flower/sky-blue-aster  
or maybe Lindley's Aster
So I need to ID these again I think.

What I thought was "wild strawberry" appears to be some kind of raspberry? It tasted too pungent to be strawberry.

 I think the final answer is that it's WOODLAND strawberries (not WILD strawberries).

"the tiny seeds (achenes) raised on the surface" 

https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/flower/woodland-strawberry  and they were not fully grown - but they are known to not taste very good. I'm sure that's it.

So I didn't get many fruits - either it's too cold or not enough sun or not enough water, etc.

So I'll try get a final ID on those also.


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