Have to say, I worked pretty hard on the IDs this week, a couple of new finds and a real puzzler.
Here's the first new find, Hypericum boreale, Northern St. Johnswort. This marks the fourth Hypericum species I've found, a fact which I'm sure is of great interest to no one but me.
Here is Spanish needles, Bidens bipinnata. Admittedly, not much to it.
Much of the flowers I've been documenting are on the "itty-bitty" range of the spectrum, so it's always a treat to see something big and bold. Here is the quite impressive Cardinalflower, Lobelia cardinalis.
This was the puzzler. I'm fairly confident it is the common and mundane Partridge pea, Chamaecrista nictitans. This seems to be one of those plants whose flowers are fully open only during certain times of the day, which I always seemed to miss. So the shape of the blossom was throwing me off. It's also smaller than the more noteworthy Showy partridge pea.
This interesting little flower is called Elephant's foot, Elephantopus tomentosus. Gotta love that Latin name! It gets it's name, presumably, from the large flat leaves that lay flat on the ground at the base of the plant, somewhat resembling the footprint of an elephant.
A new find, Monkeyflower (Mimulus alatus).
To see additional posts in this series, click the "yearinthewoods" label in the left column.
Here's a description of my wildflower "hunting" techniques and the references I use to identify them:
Here's a description of how I take photos:
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