#nativeplants

The part of trail with more California buckwheat #sanluisobispo #morrobay #mountains #trail #singletrack #flowers #summerblooms #nativeplants #landscape #photography #darktable

Puget Sound gumweed by Highway 1 near Stinson Beach #sfbayarea #flowers #summerblooms #nativeplants #ocean #photography #darktable (I don't like it when Pixelfed's location database does not include unincorporated regions like Stinson Beach and does not show the state/province because at least in the US, there are cities with the same name but are in different states)

Here's a red-spotted purple butterfly (Limenitis arthemis) in our black raspberry patch today #butterflies #Lepidoptera #nativeplants #Illinois #nature #photography #photographylovers #wildlifephotography

A male monarch on our 8-foot-tall sawtooth sunflower (Helianthus grosseserratus) in the backyard today! #butterfly #butterflies #Lepidoptera #nativeplants #sunflowers #Illinois #nature #photography #wildlifephotography #SaveTheMonarch

Was looking at redosier dogwood (Cornus sericea) berries, was visited by this crane fly
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleAutumn #OurNeighborhood #SeattleParks #SacajaweaPark #NativePlants #NativePlantsOfThePNW

This gorgeous female monarch was on one of our last blooming meadow blazing stars this morning. #butterfly #butterflies #Lepidoptera #nativeplants #wildflowers #Illinois #nature #photography #SaveTheMonarch

Monarda citriodora (also called Lemon Beebalm, Purple Horsemint, Lemon Mint, Plains Horsemint, Lemon Horsemint, Horsemint, Purple Lemon Mint) in Norman, Oklahoma, United States on July 6, 2026

Some of the camera settings I used to make this photo are at: https://www.rsok.com/~jrm/2026Aug14_birds_and_cats/IMG_6110c_2026jul06_wildflower.html

#wildflower #nativeplants #naturephotography #Oklahoma #photography

Here's a closeup of the only common buckeye (Junonia coenia) I've seen this year on a sweet black-eyed Susan in the garden. #butterfly #butterflies #Lepidoptera #nativeplants #Illinois #nature #photography #wildlifephotography

After laying eggs on some common milkweed, this beauty landed on one of our pots of meadow blazing star in the back yard. #monarch #butterfly #butterflies #Lepidoptera #nativeplants #wildflowers #Illinois #nature #photography #SaveTheMonarch

I think the western redcedars (Thuja plicata) are competing with banyans for trunk structures
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer #NativePlants #NativePlantsOfThePNW #Trees #TreeTrunkTuesday #ThickTrunkTuesday
The tree roots lift the sidewalk blocks, hence the blue warning stripe.

Here's a closeup of a male monarch on one of our meadow blazing stars in the front yard garden. #butterfly #butterflies #Lepidoptera #nativeplants #wildflowers #Illinois #nature #photography #SaveTheMonarch

Shake the trunk. Take what falls.

Asimina triloba. Our largest native fruit and the only one here that thinks it's tropical — bottomland shade, Georgia to Michigan, late August into September. Ripe means soft, the give of a peach three days past the store. Scoop the custard off the flat seeds and eat it standing up.

Then save a seed, because a pawpaw seed cannot be dried — let it dry and it dies. Rinse it, seal it in a bag with barely damp sphagnum, put it at the back of the refrigerator for ninety to a hundred and twenty days. Plant it an inch down in spring. Five to seven years later you're eating fruit no corporation ever priced.

The light in a kitchen where somebody puts seeds in the fridge for a tree they'll eat from in 2032 is a particular light.

What's the longest thing you've ever planted on purpose?

https://thistleandmoss.com/p/trump-caitlyn-jenner-and-the-gop-are-human-fucking-filth?utm_source=PixelFed&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica

#Pawpaw #Foraging #Gardening #Nature #Georgia #FoodSovereignty #Herbalism #SeedSaving #NativePlants #Solarpunk #Photography #Druid #Folklore #BloomScrolling

Here is a male monarch visiting the butterfly milkweed in our front yard garden. #butterfly #butterflies #Lepidoptera #nativeplants #wildflowers #Illinois #nature #photography #SaveTheMonarch

Here is a hummingbird clearwing moth (Hemaris thysbe) on our meadow blazing star today! #moth #Lepidoptera #pollinators #nativeplants #wildflower #Illinois #nature #photography #wildlifephotography

Even the eastern tiger swallowtails (Papilio glaucus) are loving the meadow blazing stars! #butterfly #butterflies #Lepidoptera #nativeplants #wildflowers #Illinois #nature #photography #wildlifephotography

Joe Pye weed (Eutrochium maculatum)

But who is Joe Pye? It seems to be the anglophone name of a very interesting Mohican, Joseph Shauquethqueat, living at the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century, in Massachusetts and New York. Not clear he had anything to do with the plant, maybe only by association.

A scholarly article about botany, history and First Nations, with Latin names and a critical eye. Perfect 🤓

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/p/pod/dod-idx/joe-pye-joe-pyes-law-and-joe-pye-weed-the-history.pdf?c=mbot;idno=0497763.0056.303;format=pdf

#flowers #bloomscrolling #nativeplants #wildflowers #botany #history #firstnations #photography

Nine feet up in the tallgrass, leaves turned north and south to duck the midday sun. That's how it got the name, and it's how lost people once took a bearing on open ground.

Silphium laciniatum. Blooming right now through September. Children of several Plains nations chewed the hardened resin off the upper stalks as a mouth-cleaning gum; Pawnee practice used the pounded root as a tea. Nineteenth-century doctors made claims I won't repeat as advice — so let me be plain: this is a plant to plant, not a plant to dose.

Everything you can see of it is built to be burned off. The taproot runs fifteen feet down into ground that hasn't been broken since before there was a state there. Some of them live close to a century.

Prairie is among the most destroyed habitats on this continent. Putting one in the ground is a fifteen-foot root laid into soil that will outlive you.

Cha bhris am freumh — the root does not break.

https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-skynet-is-coming-we-are-all-dead#the-nurturing-food-as-medicine?utm_source=PixelFed&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica

#BloomScrolling #GardensOfMastodon #wildflowerhour #NativePlants #Prairie #Gardening #Herbalism #Druid #Folklore #Nature #Botany #Photography #DailyGathering