Our ride through the back roads continues now that I have looked up and given names to the flowers that I didn't know at the time. Basically I knew a Trillium when I saw them. These following flowers looked familiar but I now know for sure who they are. My main source of information was the fifth edition of "Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers. Where and when to find them."
Here is the common but lovely and charming Meadow Parsnip.
Stonecrop is the only native sedum that is found in the Smokies.
Small flowered Galinsoga (Potato weed, Gallant Soldier) it is considered a noxious weed.
Common Mallow has been used as a medicine and is related to the Musk Mallow.
May I introduce you to the Hairy Buttercup. The petals are waxy.
Foamflowers are common on rich, wooded slopes up to about 4000 feet.
Wild Oats are also known as Small Bellwort and are seldom found in large numbers at any location. (I have seen small clumps in our woods )
Now the chore is to remember these names when I am out and about with other wild flower hunters. To have these names roll trippingly off my tongue would serve me in my imagined roll of elder herb woman or medicine woman.
Here is the common but lovely and charming Meadow Parsnip.
Stonecrop is the only native sedum that is found in the Smokies.
Small flowered Galinsoga (Potato weed, Gallant Soldier) it is considered a noxious weed.
Common Mallow has been used as a medicine and is related to the Musk Mallow.
May I introduce you to the Hairy Buttercup. The petals are waxy.
Foamflowers are common on rich, wooded slopes up to about 4000 feet.
Wild Oats are also known as Small Bellwort and are seldom found in large numbers at any location. (I have seen small clumps in our woods )Now the chore is to remember these names when I am out and about with other wild flower hunters. To have these names roll trippingly off my tongue would serve me in my imagined roll of elder herb woman or medicine woman.
