I have spent a lot of time in my life searching the woods and fields for plants, trees, etc. and learning how to identify them.   It'...

This was a good year for violets.   They bloom at slightly different times.  The weather was perfect for the white ones in the woods down...

This is a toad trillium in full bloom.   It is a striking flower - mottled trio of leaves and a burgundy trio of petals above.   So prett...

The weather has been so slow to warm up that we've seen the toad trillium buds this year.   Slow is good.

We have huge colonies of these around here.  They are trout lilies - Erythronium americanum. Thousands and thousands of leaves carpeting ...

The orange jewelweed is blooming.   It's freckled and speckled and screaming orange against the dark green leaves.   It's an annu...

Beginning in late July, we see these pop up in the woods.   They're taller than black eyed Susans and they have a yellow center instea...

This is a colony of Joe Pye Weed.   It's tall - about 8' tall.    The flowers are varying shades of mauve. This one is just re...

This is Indian Pipe.  It's one of our more unusual wildflowers - also called Corpse Plant. Cheery, huh? The Latin is Monotropa u...

We have no mountains here, so this is perhaps a strange thing to find here, but it's native and it's happy, mountains or not.   Th...

This is one of the first things to bloom in the spring.  It stays low to the ground and the cooler it is the darker the tops.  It persev...

Its formal name is Verbascum thapsus .  It's a transplant from Europe, brought over for its healing powers. It pops up everywhere ou...

This is Tall Bellflower:  Campanula americana . It's wild around here and pops up everywhere, especially in the shaded edges of t...

It sounds awful, doesn't it?  It's just a flower.  Scutellaria lateriflora.  Blue Scullcap. From the wiki page [link above]:  ...

On the way out of Worthington, Indiana on Hwy 157,  just at a turn in the road, there is a huge field of yellow flowers.  They look ...

Red clover isn't really red.   It's pink. K2 loves it. It smells good.   It's pretty.   See how there's a lighter gr...

Remember when I told you I had a big daisy that had volunteered in the path next to one of the veg beds ? It got big this year.   Re...

Summer mornings dawn misty around here.   The air is a little bit blue.    The dew is abundant.   The cow vetch has been abundant, too t...

It's daisy season.    They're everywhere right now. Fields full of daisies - I love them.   We'll have them in smaller num...

This is our south woods.  The big creek runs right through it.  It's quiet and peaceful and beautiful and we're always finding c...