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🌸 common blue violet 🌿
Viola sororia

winters over flowers are back 😎

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a small flower with five blue-violet petals, two on top slicked back and three below. of the lower petals, the two lateral petals appear to be of solid color but bear short, thick white hairs in the mouth of the flower. the middle petal is smooth but clearly pales to white and is streaked with dark purple lines. the flower is suspended from a pale nodding stem with purple streaks. several violets seem from the side; the flowers are suspended from pale nodding stems with purple streaks close to the flowers. the flowers have five blue-violet petals, with the upper pair curving back while the bottom three jut forwards. behind the spread petals, the flowers have greenish-purple sepals that form a rounded pale green "butt" behind where the stem attaches. half a dozen violets blooming, growing in a patch of soil among sticks, rocks, and fallen tree leaves. the flowers have five blue-violet petals. the violet's leaves are curled tight, tiny, barely beyond buds. a few other impatient sprouts and green leaves of other plants grow nearby.
January 13, 2026 at 2:04 AM
toxicoradica.bsky.social
🍁 some more nice leaves 🌿

phacelia would be a beautiful name for a baby girl 😌

Phacelia bipinnatifida - purple phacelia
Hydrophyllum appendiculatum - great waterleaf

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Phacelia bipinnatifida - purple phacelia half a dozen or so trifoliate leaves of various sizes radiating from a central point. the terminal leaflet is broader than those lateral, but all are deeply, symmetrically lobed. the leaves, at their margins, are a deep greenish purple, which fades to a dark green mottled with pale green patches in the leaves' interior. Hydrophyllum appendiculatum - great waterleaf broad green leaves with irregular mottled patches of pale green stand above background tan fallen trees leaves. they have five large lobes with many large rounded teeth; many fine hairy line the leaf margins.
January 9, 2026 at 3:50 AM
toxicoradica.bsky.social
🍁 some nice leaves 🌿

Pachysandra procumbens - allegheny spurge
Smilax bona-nox - saw greenbriar
Hepatica acutiloba - sharp-lobed hepatica
Geum canadense - white avens

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Pachysandra procumbens - allegheny spurge: two rosettes of palmate leaves colored dark green but mottled with complex patches of pale green that nearly but do not precisely mirror across the central vein, growing above light brown, tan, orangey colored fallen trees leaves which blanket the forest floor. Smilax bona-nox - saw greenbriar: a wiry green vine with small green thorns growing above light brown fallen tree leaves which blanket the forest floor. triangular leaves grow alternate along the vine, dark green and mottled with irregular patches of pale green and purplish blotches. Hepatica acutiloba - sharp-lobed hepatica: triangular green leaves deeply divided into three pointed lobes, each leaf on its own long, hairy stem often dangling from a shared root. the leaves are dark purplish green, but are mottled with vibrant light green patches. some leaves grow among fallen tree leaves, others hang down a rock ledge and rest upon golden green moss. Geum canadense - white avens: nearly circular, fringed leaves on long, hairy stems growing from a central point, some leaves smaller and on shorter stems than others. the leaves are fuzzy with small white hairs. the larger leaves are dark purplish green, but the veins that radiate throughout the leaf from its stem are pale green. there are brown fallen tree leaves behind the avens' leaves at the top, but bright green moss below.
January 1, 2026 at 11:24 PM
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🌸 blue wood aster 🌿
Symphyotrichum cordifolium

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two light blue and reddish purple composite flowers in the foreground, with half a dozen or so similar but faded flowers surrounding. the blooming flowers have nearly a dozen light blue-purple ray florets with about a dozen or so deep reddish purple disk florets in the middle. these disks would have started out yellow, but have turned red with maturity. a few of the disks still retain their erect split styles, which can resemble the eye of a needle when seen from the right angle. a raceme of well over a dozen blue wood aster flowers, mostly seen from the side. some of the flowerheads are still lively, but most are fairly senescent. the green stems on which the flowers grow are sorta frosty-fuzzy with little hairs. each flowerhead has a pale green involucre with bracts tipped in dark green; the uppermost bracts push up against the bottoms of the light blue-purple rays. above the rays in the center of the flowerhead there is a cluster of reddish purple disks. on some of the fading flowers, the rays have curled up tightly like spools of ribbon. a black, winged aphid is partially obscured behind one of the rays. a blue wood aster growing among fallen tree leaves on the side of a trail through some woods. there is a small rosette of heart-shaped green leaves at the base of the stem, which higher up bears larger, lighter green alternate heart-shaped leaves. at the top of the stunted stem there are over a dozen mostly senescent light blue flowers with purple centers, though a few are still relatively vivacious.
November 5, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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🌼 fragrant ladies'-tresses 🌿
Spiranthes cernua

some more from last week or so bc they are v nice, i like them so much, and most flowers ive been finding lately are reruns too anyways

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arising from tall grass turning brown and falling down into thatch, this green stalk has no present leaves, just a few vestigial sheathes around its lower portions. the stalk terminates in a spike of small white flowers arranged in three spiraling rows. each flower has an upper lip sticking forward (composed of one sepal overlapping two petals), a frilly lower lip (one petal hanging down), and two lateral sepals running alongside then curving inwards slightly. a similar flower tower appears blurry in the background. a spiraling flower spike at the top of a green stem l, growing among tall grass. the flowers are white, but a patch of light yellow shows within their mouths. each flower has an upper lip sticking forward (composed of one sepal overlapping two petals), a frilly lower lip (one petal hanging down), and two lateral sepals running alongside then curving inwards slightly. at the top of the spike, the flowers are merely unopened buds sticking out sideways from the stem. a tall, stout, green stem standing above a patch of grass in a limestone cedar glade. an expanse of bare limestone is visible in the background, before a line of eastern redcedars. the ladies'-tresses has three rows of small white flowers running up the side of the stalk; the rows spiral low on the spike, but run mostly straight, just barely twisting higher up. each flower has an upper lip sticking forward (composed of one sepal overlapping two petals), a frilly lower lip (one petal hanging down), and two lateral sepals running alongside then curving inwards slightly. there's a patch of pale yellow inside the mouth of the flower on the bottom petal.
October 28, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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💮 smooth hedgenettle 🌿
Stachys tenuifolia

what the heck is this doing blooming at this time of year?!

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close-up look at the top of the stem of a smooth hedgenettle, a terminal spike with tiered whorls of decidedly bilabiate flowers, white with light purple stripes and spots, clearly a mint sort of flower. the most central & prominent (& well-focused) flower faces the viewer directly. the top lip sticks out forward, acting as a hood over the mouth of the flower. just underneath it, there are four dark purple anthers supported by white stamen filaments. the lower lip is much larger than the upper lip & hangs down quite low. it is divided into three lobes, lateral lobes considerably shorter than the middle lobe. the lower lip has many purple streaks and patches, darker nearer the top & fading further down until the tips of the lobes, which are pale purple-pink. the terminal spike of a smooth hedgenettle. whorls of white and light purple flowers ring the stem, set in smooth calyces with five pointed lobes colored green and mauve. there are many empty calyces from faded flowers especially lower on the stem, while at the very top there are still some budding flowers. the actively blooming flowers have a helmet-like upper lip, hairy on the top side, that covers four stamens with dark purple anthers. the three-lobed lower lip hangs down and is adorned with light purple streaks and dots. hairy, opposite leaf bracts subtend each whorl on the spike. the stem itself is smooth. a smooth hedgenettle growing uncharacteristically bent low to the ground instead of standing upright. wrinkly green leaves grow opposite on its smooth stem, which only bends skyward at its tip, where it bears a whorled spike of white and light purple flowers. the plant grows among wispy short grass just above the sand on the bank of a wide river. forested hills rise up across the water.
October 28, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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🌼 sweet everlasting 🌿
Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium

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a cluster of over half a dozen small, conical to cylindrical composite flowers. each flowerhead has a small disk of light yellow florets tightly packed at it's "nose;" there are no ray florets, but the disk surrounded by a steep array of overlapping, feathery, white involucral bracts. they wrap around the disk florets tightly at first, but as the flowerhead matures they start peeling away. there are several still-blooming flowers on the near side of this cluster, but those on the far side have faded and their white bracts are opening up. the flowers in this panicle at the top of the stem of a sweet everlasting are arranging in clusters of around half a dozen or so flowerheads at the tip of each stem branch. few of the flowers are fresh and show a spot of yellow from the disk florets at their tip; mostly, that yellow has faded to tan, and the formerly tightly wrapped bracts around the florets are unfurling, taking on a loose, feathery appearance. a few of the flowerheads have fully gone to seed, developing hairy tufts that disperse on the wind. a sweet everlasting, camouflaged in the drying tall grass of a savanna alongside a thin young tree. its lower stem and the leaves thereupon have turned dry and brown. a few leaves near the top (around knee-high) are still green or yellowing. at the very top, there is a panicle of conical flowers. many of the flowers have gone to seed, becoming loose and fluffy.
October 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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🌼 frost aster 🌿
Symphyotrichum pilosum

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a raceme of white and yellow composite flowers growing on a horizonal hairy purple stem branch, all facing upwards. there are five blooming flowers and five buds, as well as a faded flower at the end of the stem. each blooming flowerhead has around a dozen and a half white ray florets; on many, these seem to have been chewn down into short stubs. in the center, there are a couple dozen bright yellow disk florets which, when fully open as most are, have five pointed lobes and a bright yellow style with a split end. when the yellow disk florets fade, they turn light purple as can be seen on some of the most peripheral disks on the two rightmost blooming flowerheads. another branch of this frost aster, seen more from the side. many small, green, and hairy leaf bracts grow along the purple stem, which is also quite hairy. there are around half a dozen blooming white, yellow, and purple flowerheads. the rays florets are white, while the disk florets start out bright yellow but turn purple with age. several of the foreheads flowerheads are seen from the side, showing their long green phyllaries which press up against and then bend outwards along the bottoms of the rays. pale yellow styles with split tips rise up from the disks. on the flowerhead highest in the center, the sunlight catches the margin of one of the nearer, dark purple disk florets just right to highlight its three facing corolla lobes. a frost aster growing among dry and browning tall grass, much if which has fallen over into thatch. its stout & upright purple stem is covered in dense hairs; glowing like hoarfrost caught in the sunlight from behind. the stem has broken short above knee-height, but still bears a number of flowering branches each with around a dozen blooming or budding white & yellow & purple flowers.
October 22, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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🌸 stiff tick-trefoil 🌿
Desmodium obtusum

or maybe D. ciliare ?

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a close look at part of an airy panicle of pink legume-style flowers. each has a broad upright banner petal with a big crease down the middle, and two small green spots low in the center, mirrored across the crease. the wing petals are held straight fowards, cupped around the pale keel petals which just manage to peek through. half a dozen flowers are visible here, facing in various directions on a slim stems branching off a thicker, hairy, greenish-red-brown stem. a view from a bit further back of the top of a stiff tick-trefoil, a loose panicle of small pink flowers with round, erect banner petals and wings & keels that are held straight forwards. there are around a dozen blooming flowers, with even more budding despite this being so late in the season. no loments / seeds visible, either. a tick-trefoil growing at an angle, leaning to the left, but still approaching head-height regardless. it has a stout green stem coated in fine hairs, bearing nearly-but-not-quite sessile trifoliate green leaves with oval leaflets (the middle leaflet is considerably longer than the other two). the top of the stem branches into many thinner stems, a panicle of small light pink flowers and green flowerbuds. it is growing in a sunny savanna among the tall grass, goldenrod, thoroughwort, and sumac with bright red leaves. a line of taller trees can be seen in the distance, below a clear blue sky.
October 20, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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October 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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thanks for the feedback y'all. it looks like my posts are getting indexed again so im going to throw some tags under posts i made during that "shadow" period so i can find em easier later, hope this is not too annoying
October 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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persimmon #nativeplants #ecoregion71
October 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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October 18, 2025 at 4:35 PM