Gleaning Facebook: Weedy Wildflowers

These iPhone pics from our walk along the riverwalk this morning cannot compete with Richard and Teresa Ware’s or George Barton’s beautiful wildflower shots, but they do illustrate the plethora of foreign species that populate North America. Can you separate the native species from the immigrant ones? (I know several of them but not all.)

Richard Ware: Vicia villosa ssp. varia (Winter Vetch). Disturbed areas; native of Europe.

Richard Ware: Cirsium vulgare (Bull Thistle) Meadows, pastures, and disturbed areas; native of Europe.

Richard Ware: This is a native sedge, either Carex garyi or Carex intumescens.

Richard Ware: Trifolium pratense (Purple Clover) Fields, roadsides, disturbed areas; native of Europe.

Richard Ware: Ruellia strepens (Limestone Wild-petunia), native plant.

Richard Ware: Daucus carota (Queen-Anne's-Lace).. Pastures, fields, roadsides, waste places; native of Europe.
Christie Hufstedler Boyd
They have cultivars of Queen Anne's Lace in Europe. I've seen it more than once in flower shops in the Spring paired with pink roses. The tame ones there last much longer than the wild ones here.

Laurie Craw
I have tried twice to get a stand of Queen Anne in my backyard meadow by seeds and by transplant. Finally got a couple of stalks, now blooming. Native or not, I want some in my yard!

Richard Ware: Melilotus albus (White Sweetclover). Fields, roadsides, disturbed areas; native of Eurasia.

Richard Ware: Flowers and compound leaves are Sambucus canadensis (Common Elderberry). Large heart-shaped leaves are Ampelopsis cordata Michaux, Raccoon-grape, both natives.

Fruit of native tree Liquidambar styraciflua (Sweetgum).

Fruit of Toxicodendron radicans (Poison Ivy), a native plant.

Packera glabella (Butterweed), formerly Senecio glabellus, a native.

Plantago lanceolata (English Plantain). Lawns, roadsides, disturbed areas; native of Europe.

Galium sherardia (Field-madder. Lawns, disturbed areas, native of Europe.

Blackberry (Rubus sp.) native.

Veronica persica (Bird's-eye Speedwell). Lawns, fields, roadsides, disturbed areas; native of Eurasia. Most leaves in the photo belong to Glechoma hederacea (Gill-over-the-ground, Ground-ivy. Lawns, gardens, disturbed areas, native of Eurasia.

Plantago lanceolata (English Plantain), native of Europe.

Yellow flower, a guess Hypochaeris radicata (Spotted Cat's-ear). Roadsides, fields, disturbed areas; native of Eurasia. and in the background Trifolium repens (White Clover) native of Eurasia

Erigeron philadelphicus (Daisy Fleabane), native plant.

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Hypochaeris radiata (Cat's Ear), native of Eurasia.

Taraxacum officinale (Common Dandelion). Lawns, roadsides, urban areas, pastures, disturbed

areas, native of Eurasia.

Oxalis stricta (Common Yellow Wood-sorrel), native plant.

Top: Ligustrum sinense (Chinese Privet). Moist forests, especially alluvial bottomlands; native of China. Bottom: Lonicera japonica Thunberg, Japanese Honeysuckle. Nearly ubiquitous; native of e. Asia.

Trifolium repens (White Clover), native of Eurasia.

Packera sp. [Senecio] (Ragwort)