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Yellow wildflowers!
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dooley
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| Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 1:50 am Post subject: Yellow wildflowers! |
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These are two wildflowers growing in the yard and pasture around our house. I've looked in my wildflower book and found some possibles but I'm not sure.
The first one grows tall, about 3 to 4 feet tall. The flowers are half an inch to an inch across.
The second one is much smaller and lower to the ground.
I'm wondering if one of them could be causing my allergies.
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| Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 2:29 am Post subject: |
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I'm thinking Bitterweed (Helenium amarum)
http://www.lone-star.net/wildflowers/flowerpopup2103.html but I'm not completely sure.
It's not the Broomweed I first thought it might be when you mentioned it in another topic.
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| Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 2:35 am Post subject: |
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I'm not good at id ing plants, but your first pic looks a lot like the Helianthus microcephalus (Small Woodland Sunflower or perennial sunflower)I got at a plant swap last spring. Look and see if that matches yours. Good luck
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dooley
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| Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 2:36 am Post subject: |
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Toni, there is some Broomweed too but these others are much larger and there are a lot more of them. I am finding they look like Hieracium canadense (Canadian Hawkweed) or maybe Heterotheca subaxillaris ( camphorweed). Those are the only two that have flowers and leaves that match and are the same size. But, I'm not sure that's what they are. I have A field guide to wildflowers but it's an old book. dooley
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cherylad
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| Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 12:56 pm Post subject: |
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I'm glad you posted this Dooley. They're growing like crazy down here too.
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| Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 2:57 am Post subject: |
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Dooley,my dad always called them Yellow Tops.
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dooley
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| Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:59 pm Post subject: |
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I checked out a wildflower book from the library and I think that first one is called Golden Eye Sunflower. Viguiera dentata. They look just like the picture and have the same musky smell as the book says they should have. dooley
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| Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 10:11 am Post subject: |
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The second one looks a bit like a Cistus or maybe a Rock Rose.
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| Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 6:10 pm Post subject: |
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The leaves are wrong for groundsel.
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