Wild Indigo

There are few things more beautiful than a June field full of White Indigo growing several feet tall. This indigenous wild flower belongs with the pea family and blooms with your garden peas.

The plants stems are a blueish color that darkens with the coming autumn. A blue dye can be made out of the plant.

Wild Berries

Just in time for summer...wild berries in abundance.

Life's great!

Spiderwort

Nothing quite says summer than a field colored purplish-blue by an array of spiderwort.

Native to the Americas, these wildflowers are one of the few that were brought back to be cultatived in Europe.    

Monday Morning Deer

She was more interested in me and stood there for a long time; just looking. And as I passed by she continued to breakfast on choice plants.   

Daisy Stowaway

Daisy Oxeye is a beautiful but non indigenous wildflower. Still this daisy variety is beneficial to butterflies and other insects. 

White Campion

White Campion's charm continues long after the flowers have bloomed out. This plant goes to seed by making a tiny pot to enclose its seed. I love going through an autumn field and finding the tiny pots still hanging on the stem.

The plant is not natural to the Americas; it was imported from other areas of the world; native to Europe, Asia, and Africa. It grows anywhere the ground has been disturbed.

Yarrow

Delicious is the lay that sings The haunts of happy lovers, The path that leads them to the grove, The leafy grove that covers: And pity sanctifies the verse That paints, by strength of sorrow, The unconquerable strength of love;— Bear witness, rueful Yarrow!--W. Wordsworth

Yarrow was transplanted from across the ocean to the Americas. Sweet smelling and thought to have medicinal properties for everything from nose bleeds to melancholy, it is a favored flower of poets.