A lot of plants this season have been up to three weeks later than usual. In fact some plants that normally bloom in the spring are re-blooming like Redroot or Jersey-tea (Ceanothus herbaceus). Well, on the Tuesday morning outing I found a plant that surprised me.
The Mistflower (Conoclinium coelestinum) looked a bit frayed.
No surprise here with the papery pods of a ground-cherry (Physalis).
The “porcupine eggs” of the Cocklebur (Xanthium strumarium var canadense). 😉 No surprise there either.
The seed pods of a Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis). I had expected to find these too.
Furthermore, the Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis) still had leaves. So I was easily able to get my location data points I had set out to get.
Holy cow, I found one still blooming! It is a fall bloomer but this was late.
Another had just finished!
This Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis) was the freshest bloomer I found!
Isn’t that what we are supposed to do?
Ha ha, it is 😊
That cardinal flower location sure looks familiar! Kinda cool to still see it in bloom.
I thought you might think so. 😊
Is that little creek running? Looks like it. Sure looks like fall.
No it was not running. Just small pools of water here and there.
I recently came across a Ceanothus in bloom too. Everything is confused.
Crazy eh😊
Tough mistflower! Mine still has leaves too.