Wild & Blue
Asiatic Dayflower
Blue-eyed-grass Flower
Sisyrnichium bermudiana L.
& Buttercup
In the language of flowers, the Buttercup traditionally carries the symbolic meaning of growth, youthfulness, good health, and attraction.
Such cool looking flowers.
This plant is toxic to people, pets, and livestock. Though toxic to people, bittersweet nightshade berries provide an important fall and winter food source for birds, who happily eat the fruit and spread the seeds. Bittersweet nightshade has a long history in folk medicine and lore. Used externally in poultices and salves, it was used to remedy psoriasis and other skin afflictions. Mixed with other herbs, small doses were given internally as a diuretic or a purgative—basically to flush the body one way or the other. Sachets of the dried leaves and berries tenderly placed under the pillow were said to help heal a broken heart. And witches, spurned lovers, and farmers alike sought out the plant to protect their animals, homes, and loved ones from the evil eye. Consider the appearance of this witchy weed in your garden an auspicious omen, or at least a boon for our hungry winter birds.
Canada Anemone
Blue Vervain
This plant is toxic to people, pets, and livestock. Though toxic to people, bittersweet nightshade berries provide an important fall and winter food source for birds, who happily eat the fruit and spread the seeds. Bittersweet nightshade has a long history in folk medicine and lore. Used externally in poultices and salves, it was used to remedy psoriasis and other skin afflictions. Mixed with other herbs, small doses were given internally as a diuretic or a purgative—basically to flush the body one way or the other. Sachets of the dried leaves and berries tenderly placed under the pillow were said to help heal a broken heart. And witches, spurned lovers, and farmers alike sought out the plant to protect their animals, homes, and loved ones from the evil eye. Consider the appearance of this witchy weed in your garden an auspicious omen, or at least a boon for our hungry winter birds.
New England Asters
or
Ghost Pipe
False Hellebore
False Solomon's seal
(Eutrochium) is a North American genus of herbaceous flowering plants in the sunflower family. They are commonly referred to as Joe-Pye weeds. They are native to the United States and Canada. Joe Pye (Jopi in the Native tongue), an Indian healer from New England, used E. purpureum to treat a variety of ailments, which led to the name Joe-Pye weed. Folklore says that Joe Pye used this plant to cure fevers, that American colonists used this plant to treat typhus outbreaks, and that the Indians used Joe Pye Weed in the treatment of kidney stones and other urinary tract ailments.
(C. acaule)
Lupine
Mallow
Milkweed
Marsh Hedge Nettle
Common Wood Sorrel
Purple Loostrife
Purple Flowering Raspberry
One of my favorite things in late summer is the pink & yellow of the Joe Pye Weed & the Goldenrod, blooming in the fields.
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Thanks for your visits, favs and comments. As always, appreciated very much!
© all rights reserved by Elise T. Marks.
Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit written permission.
