#Vernonia missurica (Missouri Ironweed)

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Important backyard prairie update!

I am still taller than the purple coneflower

But the Missouri Ironweed has me beat

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Six On Saturday-Short Walk on the Wild Side

Six On Saturday-Short Walk on the Wild Side

Asclepias hirtella (Tall Green Milkweed) Hello everyone! I hope you are all doing well. We had a nice week with temperatures not too unbearable at all. I took a walk through the hayfield a couple of days ago to check on the progress of the Elephantopus carolinianus in the back of the farm. It always amazes me how some wildflowers start growing like mad after the hay is cut. #1-Asclepias hirtella…

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Missouri Ironweed, Vernonia missurica, blooming in a prairie on the SW side of Houston, Texas, USA

photographs by Paxon Kale

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Problem Areas and Wild Weeds, ETC. Part 3...

Problem Areas and Wild Weeds, ETC. Part 3…

Torilis japonica (Japanese Hedge Parsley)… Hello everyone! I hope this post finds you well. October is here once again and some of the wildflowers aren’t looking their best. There are a lot of insects and butterflies feeding right now. I have taken a lot of photos the last few days and I am getting behind. 🙂 I now have 655 observations posted on iNaturalist covering 343 species. This saga of the…

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Wildflowers growing in a prairie on the South side of Houston, TX, USA:

Prairie Plantain, Arnoglossum plantagineum

Missouri Ironweed, Vernonia missurica

Prairie Blazingstar, Liatris pycnostachya

Arrowleaf Sida, Sida rhombifolia  

Photographs by Paxon Kale