Here are some shots I got today during my lunchtime walk.
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May 24, 2012
Lunchtime Walk
Posted by jomegat under Bloom Clock, insects, wildflowers | Tags: Amorpha fruticosa, Hesperis matronalis, Robinia pseudoacacia, Tradescantia virginiana |[11] Comments
May 24, 2012 at 11:02 pm
Wonderful pictures as usual! Always enjoy seeing them! You sure see a lot at lunchtime. Do you get time to eat? Thanks for sharing!
May 24, 2012 at 11:12 pm
I eat pretty quickly and then head out the door. The eating is usually about five minutes, and the walking is about 30.
May 25, 2012 at 12:06 am
Enjoy the locust blooms best. In the previous post I found some of the blue-eyed grass by our garden yesterday. I don’t remember seeing it before.
May 25, 2012 at 12:12 am
Blue-eyed grass is easy to miss. It’s not open all the time, and when it’s not, it looks like grass.
May 25, 2012 at 1:44 am
That was a nice lunchtime walk, with some great photos. I think that the single unidentified insect is a stinkbug, the exact species, I’m not sure of.
May 25, 2012 at 7:18 am
It could be some sort of stink bug, yes. I just haven’t had time to crack open the field guide to figure out exactly which species (or genus).
May 25, 2012 at 4:55 am
I like the black swallow wort-that’s a plant I’ve never seen or heard of. I wish I knew that false indigo-mine is a very clear, beautiful blue. I’ll have to keep my eyes peeled for that one.
May 25, 2012 at 7:20 am
Both the swallow-sort and the false indigo are invasive aliens. The swallow-wort is the only plant I know that has a black flower.
The false indigo… spreads quickly. There was one bush growing alongside the tracks three years ago. Now there are a dozen or more. Those orange bits are stamens, and the dark purple are the petals.
May 25, 2012 at 8:40 pm
I realized, after I looked up black swallow wart and saw the seed pods, that I had weeded tons of it out of gardens, but had never seen the flowers.
May 25, 2012 at 8:43 pm
It’s pretty weedy! From what I read, it will take over a garden in one season.
May 25, 2012 at 8:48 pm
Yes, and there isn’t a hope of ever getting rid of it completely unless you dig up the whole garden and go through each plant’s roots, one by one. It is one persistant weed!