10 August 2024
This week a flower lawn stuck my consideration with brilliant yellow-orange cosmos flora. The vegetation have been in 3 levels: flowering, going to seed, and seeds shaped.
Cosmos suphureus petals are somewhat showy to draw pollinators to the central disk. When the small flora within the disk are fertilized the petals fall off and the disk starts to turn into lengthy skinny seedpods.
When whole the seed pods resemble the hitchhiking seeds of beggar ticks (Bidens frondosa). Each are within the Coreopsideae tribe at the side of coreoposis, dahlias and plenty of others.
Additionally noticed …
It’s August and, as anticipated, deer are extra visual in Schenley Park. Two does and two fawns approached Panther Hole Lake on Friday. We will be able to be expecting to peer a lot of deer lounging within the town parks within the days forward. It’s The Calm Ahead of The Rut.
At the cloudy morning of 6 August, daisy fleabane (Erigeron annuus) was once nonetheless opening its flora in Frick Park. Fleabane petals reply to mild ranges. It’s a part of Fleabane’s day by day workout program.
In any case those years I’ve simply came upon that horseweed (Erigeron canadensis) is a fleabane. (That’s what comes of studying vegetation at the fly.)
