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WILDFLOWERS (cont')
The wildflowers continue through the summer. You can find these in July and August.
- Deptford Pink - Named for the notched ("pinked") petals, this species also has pink colored flowers. Their long narrow leaves are almost hidden in the grass until the flowers bloom. It is one of the most ancient of cultivated ornamentals.
- Black-eyed Susan - Familiar yellow-orange flowers with brownish-purple centers.
- Evening Primrose - A common, yellow-flowered weed that is native to America. The flowers open in evening and continue to flower through late autumn.
- Fringed Loosestrife - A familiar, tall, yellow-flowered weed of mid-summer that is a member of the primrose family. Recognizable by the fringes on the leaf stalks.
- Ironweed - Blooming prominently from July through September, it is a tall, stiff plant up to six feet in height with a large cluster of deep purple flowers.
- Lady's Thumb (Smartweed) - Peach-shaped leaves and slender spikes of pink or purple flowers.
- Meadow Buttercup - A common sight in roadside ditches and wet meadows during mid-summer with its glossy yellow cup-shaped flowers.
- Touch-me-not (Jewelweed) - A tall, leafy plant with golden orange flowers splotched with reddish-brown. A great attractor of hummingbirds, bees and butterflies. The stem juice relieves itching from poison ivy. The flower "explodes" at maturity when touched, expelling seeds.
