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Showing posts with label dotted gayfeather. Show all posts

Monday, November 6, 2017

Autumn flowers attract pretty moths and butterflies

This image below is the dried part of a blue wild-indigo wildflower.  I think this part of the flower looks ugly when in bloom, but like it dried and photographed at sunset!

This dried ironweed wildflower took on a pastel hue with their hairy seed pods.  They are normally purple and can take over a country field.

I like the teal-colored, out-of-focus background on this dried purple coneflower taken with my macro lens!

These Hedge-hog prickly-poppy wilflowers bloom late in the year and its name fits it perfectly! Prickly!!!!!

Another late bloomer is the dotted gayfeather wildflowers which attracted this silver-spotted skipper moth.  I read that these moths almost never visit yellow flowers but I caught them in the rare act on the second image below on some yellow goldenrod.


The painted lady butterflies were very much in abundance this past season.  They seemed to be everywhere when driving along our country road.  Here's one on a dried thistle wildflower.

Friday, September 18, 2015

Sunflowers and other beautiful country wildflowers

Sunflowers symbolize adoration, loyalty and longevity. Much of the meaning of sunflowers stems from its namesake, the sun itself. I felt blessed to have the below sunflowers growing nearby in our yard this year.  The fifth sunflower image below is a photo of a sunflower before it bloomed.  It looks quite unique!  Comments about the other wildflowers are included above the images below.  Enjoy!






This white wildflower that comes up every year is called snow-on-the-mountain.

These lavender spiked wildflowers are called Dotted Gayfeather.  They look pretty when in a field with yellow wildflowers.


These tiny lavender wildflowers grew plentiful in our pasture recently.  They are purple false foxglove wildflowers. These would have been a beautiful backdrop for an outside girl's portrait!