Wildflowers Blooming in the Prairies

Spiderwort

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Bitsy Yellow Hearts All 'Round

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go The https://www.yolascafe.com/2y9y1ahj98 Prairie Rose is another frequent Wisconsin flower, blooms from late May through late July. I love it under a macro lens – lots of bitsy yellow hearts spring out of its center.  In late summer, the flower heads transform into rose hips which are small, edible fruits. They stay on the plant through the winter and provide food  for birds and small mammals during the snowy months.

http://www.mscnantes.org/jbau3mcn5 Native Americans collected the hips and used them medicinally, often as a treatment for headaches or stomach problems. The Native Americans and early pioneers used the wild rose for food, and a “health food” at that. Rose hips have 24 times more Vitamin C per unit than orange juice.  People still collect the hips for vitamin supplements, the rose petals for rose petal soup and rose petal jam is also made using a combination of the petals and lemon.

White Wild Indigo

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https://guelph-real-estate.ca/sofjirq8k5 This is the https://penielenv.com/qriji0oe White Wild Indigo plant. It rises 3 to 6 feet from the prairie floor and is currently waving its long flower covered spires across the prairie landscape.  The sap of the wild indigo has a blue dye and was often used as a substitute for the true indigo plant. It was also used as a treatment for lung diseases by Native Americans in the northcentral United States, though in larger quantities it is poisonous.

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  1. Tramadol Order Online Mexico Hi! Just returned from Alaska to the UK having seen sights to raise the soul. Now you publish these wonderful pictures of plants that are new to me. The wild indigo looks like a member of the lupin family, but what of the spiderwort? I can’t think of an European equivalent.

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  4. https://www.mreavoice.org/7tuf5tv0 Very lovely! I especially like the pink Prairie Rose capture! 🙂

  5. https://guelph-real-estate.ca/ruorcg2l The indigo is actually a legume, or a member of the pea/bean family.

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  6. go here Just beautiful! The spiderwort is such a vivid periwinkle color. Love it!
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  7. https://alldayelectrician.com/jvropelh Very nice shots, Bo! The indigo reminds me just a little of snapdragons, the Spiderwort is beautiful, and the rose looks very much like the ones we have here. Nice to see them!

  8. https://www.mbtn.net/?p=nqh8qg0kpke Your wildflower shots continue to amaze me. Plus I get to learn a little about them too. 🙂

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  10. Tramadol Sverige Online The rose looks like a desert item. It is simply a wonderful image. Crisp & fine in detail – showing the delicay of the flower. Very, very nice.

    https://www.brigantesenglishwalks.com/2ub8lc95 BTW, the spiderwort has a great name, but i’d spell it Spider Warts, but that’s just me. 🙂

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  12. TIM BLAKE says

    follow My friend is getting married next year in Lake Geneva and wants her floral bouquet to be made up of flowers native to Wisconsin that are in bloom during the summer. Any ideas????