It's time once again for me to grace the internet with my mediocre photography! It's been a dry summer so far in the wild lands of Kentucky, but that hasn't stopped the flowers from blooming. Here's the highlights (so I have no excuse not to recognize them when I see them again next year).
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| This awesome little flower of fields and roadsides is Coreopsis tinctoria. It's got an obnoxious amount of common names, most of them some variation of tickseed, coreopsis or calliopsis; one of these, Dyer's Coreopsis, comes from its use as a reddish dye by some Native American tribes. |
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Black-eyed Susans (Rudbeckia hirta)
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| The ornamentally-named Everlasting Pea, Laythrus latifolius. Unfortunately it's an introduced species, but it makes quite a show with those hot pink blossoms and winged stem. |
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| Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) and friend |
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| Passiflora incarnata, Purple Passionflower. I don't know what's going on with this plant. It looks like three different kinds of flowers that tried to smash together into one, or something from Dr. Seuss. |
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| Bonus! Who doesn't love some good fungus? Mushrooms and fungus are something I really struggle with identifying, so when I find flashy ones like this it gives me the warm fuzzies. On the left is a type of Bird's Nest Fungus growing on a bed of mulch, one of its preferred habitats. On the right is Xylaria polymorpha, picturesquely known as "Dead Man's Fingers." It's variable in appearance but always pretty unattractive (sorry fungus). |
