Woodland Sunflower

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Woodland Sunflower

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The Woodland Sunflower is a weed that is attractive and colorful. We live in the woods, so we have given up some plants because of the deer issue (spraying repellant is a sure-fire way to attract rain). We have learned to go with plants that are "volunteers", and this has worked out for us very well. We even have volunteer butterfly bushes. Anyway, these weeds have the potential to grow very tall. I'm six feet tall.
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Re: Woodland Sunflower

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very nice !

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Re: Woodland Sunflower

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Always love the beauty and colors of plants. Thank you for posting.

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Re: Woodland Sunflower

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An appealing collection. The flowering of "weeds" is often most attractive.

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Re: Woodland Sunflower

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leonardturner wrote:
Wed Sep 08, 2021 3:28 am
An appealing collection. The flowering of "weeds" is often most attractive.

Leonard
I prefer to call them wildflowers.

Much of the stuff we ignore outdoors, when viewed close up, takes on an entirely new, often fascinating, look. Take the slime mold fruiting bodies featured this month.

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Re: Woodland Sunflower

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Klevin, it was not my intent to denigrate wildflowers; that's why "weeds" was enclosed in quotation marks.

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Re: Woodland Sunflower

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Beautiful daisies. Though the word weed applies to gardens.
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Re: Woodland Sunflower

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Nice shots. That is Wingstem you have there - Verbesina alternifolia - from the Aster family. It is native to most of the eastern US. They grow very tall. I used a step ladder the last time I shot them. Woodland sunflower Helianthus divaricatus is a different plant. It is native to the eastern US, as well.
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Very nice. Native sunflowers are an interesting and complicated subject. There are some well established species of them that are found to be interspecies hybrids between other species.
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