Sep 07 2014
Hog Peanut or American Hogpeanut [Amphicarpaea bracteata] found near the Blue Ridge Parkway in South Asheville, just off the Mountains-to-Sea Trail, on 7 September 2014. It’s a vine and a member of the Pea (Fabaceae) family. Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide, pages 110-111 states that it blooms in summer and early fall in moist thickets.
USDA Plants Listing: Amphicarpaea bracteata
Hog Peanut on Mountains-to-Sea Trail- 7 September 2014
Hog Peanut (closer) – 7 September 2014
Sep 01 2014
Spiny Sow-Thistle [Sonchus asper] found near Fletcher Park on 1 September 2014. It’s a member of the Aster (Asteraceae) family. Wildflowers of the Carolinas, pages 354-355, states it blooms in spring, summer, and fall in dry soils and disturbed areas and that “cows avoid the annual because it is so spiny, allowing it to overrun fields.”
USDA Plants Listing: Sonchus asper
Spiny Sow-Thistle at Fletcher Park – 1 September 2014
Spiny Sow-Thistle (leaves) – 1 September 2014
Sep 01 2014
Red Morning Glory or Redstar [Ipomoea coccinea] found in a pasture near Fletcher Park on 1 September 2014. It’s a member of the Morning Glory (Convolvulaceae) family. Weeds of the South, pages 166, states that it is a “climbing or twining annual, vining herb” found in cultivated areas, fields, pastures, fencerows, roadsides, disturbed and waste areas.”
USDA Plants Listing: Ipomoea coccinea
Red Morning Glory at Fletcher Park (multiple) – 1 September 2014
Red Morning Glory (leaf detail) – 1 September 2014
Red Morning Glory (sky background) – 1 September 2014
Sep 01 2014
Velvetleaf [Abutilon theophrasti] photo was taken in a cornfield behind Fletcher Park on 1 September 2014. All About Weeds, by Edwin Rollin Spencer says this about the plant, on page 158:
Velvet-leaf, velvet-weed, Indian mallow, butter print, pie plant, Cotton-weed, and Indian hemp are all rather descriptive names of this common weed found in cornfields throughout the Mississippi Valley. The weed has velvety leaves, and its seed pod looks very much like the print block used by farm housewives for stamping their rolls of butter.
You can see the butter print pattern pretty well with these dried pods.
USDA Plants Listing: Abutilon theophrasti
Velvetleaf – 1 September 2014
Velvetleaf (green pods) – 1 September 2014
Velvetleaf from All About Weeds – page 159
Aug 29 2014
Grasshopper on leaf at Fletcher Park- 29 August 2014
Grasshopper (closer) – 29 August 2014
Aug 21 2014
American Goldfinch (male) in Thistles on Mills Gap Road – 21 August 2014
Aug 07 2014
Partridge Pea [Chamaecrista fasciculata] found near Fletcher Park on 7 August 2014. It’s a member of the Pea (Fabaceae) family. Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide, pages 236-237, states it blooms in summer and fall in sandy fields. Newcomb’s lists it under the synonym of Cassia fasciculata.
USDA Plants Listing: Chamaecrista fasciculata
Partridge Pea at Fletcher Park – 7 August 2014
Partridge Pea (detail) – 7 August 2014
Partridge Pea (detail) – 5 September 2015 – Mills River
Jul 20 2014
Groundnut or Wild Bean [Apios americana] found near Fletcher Park on 20 July 2014. It’s a member of the Pea (Fabaceae) family. Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide, pages 108-109, states it blooms in summer in moist thickets.
USDA Plants Listing: Apios americana
Groundnut at Fletcher Park – 20 July 2014
Jul 12 2014
Downy Rattlesnake Plantain [Goodyera pubescens] found near the Blue Ridge Parkway in South Asheville, just off the Mountains-to-Sea Trail, on 1 August 2013, 27 July 2013, and 12 July 2014. It’s a member of the Orchid (Orchidaceae) family. Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide, pages 24-25 states that it blooms in summer in woodlands.
USDA Plants Listing: Goodyera pubescens
Downy Rattlesnake Plantain on the Blue Ridge Parkway – 1 August 2013
Downy Rattlesnake Plantain (lengthwise) – 1 August 2013
Downy Rattlesnake Plantain (leaves) – 27 July 2013
Downy Rattlesnake Plantain – 12 July 2014
Jul 04 2014
