Tall with 4 to 5 whorled leaves. I’ll have to go back when they’re open.
Spotted Joe-Pye Weed (Eupatoriadelphus maculatus)
Update: Here is some in bloom at Longfellow Pond, Late July.
Spotted Joe-Pye Weed
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Category Archives: Pink
Naked-flowered Tick Trefoil
Bouncing Bet
There is a big stand of this at Centennial and I would have called it phlox, but it’s actually called Bouncing Bet or Soapwort. The leaves contain a natural soap. You can lather up with crushed leaves! Must try this. Pink family. Native to Europe.
Bouncing Bet, Soapwort (Saponaria officinalis)
Sweet William
From a distance this resembles Dame’s Rocket and Phlox, but the toothed edges of the petals give it away. This name first recorded in a 1596 garden catalog! (They must mean a different sort of catalog.) Edible flowers. Native to southern Europe and parts of Asia.
Sweet William (Dianthus barbatus)
Oswego Tea
With a bud like a raspberry and purple bracts. Mint family. Bergamot is native, but I think this may be a garden-escapee cultivated variety.
Bergamot, Beebalm, Oswego Tea (Monarda didyma “Raspberry Wine”)
Purple-flowering Raspberry
Has red berries. The leaves are distinctively not like common raspberries, and the flowers look like wild roses. They are flowering when other raspberries are fruiting. Rose family. Native.
Purple-flowering Raspberries (Rubus odoratus)
Queen of the Prairie
In the native plants area at Elm Bank. Spectacular, about 5 feet tall and fluffy pink, like Astilbe on steroids. Rose Family.
Queen of the Prairie, Meadowsweet (Filipendula rubra)
Great Laurel
This big plant and several others, all blooming, are around an area that’s usually swampy but this year it’s dry. I was surprised to see it because all the ones in people’s gardens finished blooming weeks ago. Beautiful! This is the same woods that has the regular mountain laurel. Heath family. Native to eastern North America.
Great Laurel, Great Rhododendron (Rhododendron maximum)
Bonus picture: The rhododendron was along a shady trail, a very short walk from a sunny field full of fleabane, black-eyed susan, and red clover.
Purple Coneflower
This is not in the wild, but in a little garden of native plants right by a road where I drive frequently. A favorite with many insects, and some small songbirds eat the seeds.
Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea)
Curly Dock
This is one of those big unattractive weeds that I’ve always seen but never knew the name for… or noticed that up close, it’s rather pretty. About 3 feet tall. Native to Europe and Asia.
Curly Dock, Sour Dock, Narrow Dock (Rumex crispus)