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@frwildflowers.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 2:14 PM

Eight years ago today 🌿

Cucurbita foetidissima, our Buffalo Gourd, at Heil Valley Ranch #nativeplants. Another common name is Stinking Gourd. Touching the leaves will stink up your hand so if in doubt about the ID before flowers and fruit you can always verify ID. The smelliest plant in Colorado! 🤪

Viney plant with large gray green leaves creeping across dried grass

@kayontheprairie.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 1:42 PM

One of the last remaining bumbles in the garden 💛🐝

Common Eastern Bumblebee on Purple Giant Hyssop

#nativeplants #gardening

A black and yellow bumblebee with amber wings feeds from a stalk of purple flowers

@smknigh.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 1:24 PM

Bumblebees slurping nectar from vibrant New England Aster plants (in the middle of the city) #nativeplants

Two bumble bees have their proboscis (straw like tongue) extended to slurp nectar from vibrant lavender New England aster flowers in the boulevard between a sidewalk and a street.

@wa-orchids.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 9:26 AM

It’s always a treat when your bush walk ends at a stunning beach but to then find Cowslip Orchids (Caladenia flava subsp flava) growing on the beach makes it extra special 💙💛🌿

#orchids #ozflora #wildoz #Walpole #nativeplants #inaturalist #bloomscrolling

View of a sandy path through thick green bush to a beach and a calm sea ahead

Picture of a single yellow orchid flower with red stripes on the upper sepal and petals. The orchid is growing in a sand

@hdclump.com Oct 4, 2026, 7:43 AM

The National Gallery of Australia's Sculpture Garden has over 900 eucalypts. Gallery Landscape Manager Ben Taylor says they soften harsh light and create intimate interplays throughout the day. The garden is about to change.

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#GardeningAustralia #NativePlants

@toxicoradica.northsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 2:10 AM

🌸 short's aster 🌿
Symphyotrichum shortii

or just called shorties, for short

#nativeplants #ecoregion71

a close-up look into the face of a medium-sized composite flower with around a dozen light blue-violet, elliptic ray florets surrounding several dozen light yellow, tubular disk florets with five pointed, spreading lobes. only the outermost series of florets in the flowerhead's disk are blooming; those in the center have yet to open. the blooming disks have a tan & pale yellow striped column rising from their center, a tube of fused stamens through which the style grows. behind this flowerhead, there are many buds still enclosed within narrow, light green phyllaries.

small, green, elliptic leaf bracts line several panicle branches that run across the bottom of the photo. one of these stems terminates at the base of a blooming flowerhead, seen from the side. the base of the flower is between cylindrical and bell-shaped, and covered in several series of narrow, light green phyllaries with darker green pointed tips. the dozen or two pale blue-violet rays lie on a plane not quite perpendicular to our perspective. above the rays, there are several dozen pale yellow disks, out of which grow fused stamen tubes with pale yellow styles running through them, emerging from the top of the anthers and splitting into two short pale yellow or pale purple stigmas.

two short's asters growing in between fallen tree branches on the forest floor. one runs off towards the bottom left, the other the bottom right. the leaves low on the stems are long & heart-shaped, with long leafstems. further up, the stems develop into a long terminal panicle. the leaves become progressively smaller, grading into lance-shaped bracts. numerous small, slender raceme-like branches angle off the main stem, each terminating in a flowerhead or bud; even smaller sub-branches fork off occasionally too. the flowerheads have up to a couple dozen elliptic, very pale blue-violet rays and a pale yellow disk.

@moistwelldrained.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 1:51 AM

Very satisfying to shake a paw paw tree, hearing the fruit fall through foliage and go thump.

I don't think the smell and taste will ever grow on me.

Really like how easy they are to grow from seed.

#nativeplants

Light green paw paw fruit in a green bag

@moistwelldrained.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 1:44 AM

Fifth year trying dwarf chinkapin oak acorns after reading D. Tallamy. Yield is never great but I do get a couple seedlings every year. Still not convinced there's an oak for every yard (eg we don't have much full sun and our yard is wet), but ask me again in a few years!

#nativeplants

Label for dwarf chinkapin oak acorns from white water native seeds in Iowa.

@moistwelldrained.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 1:36 AM

I suppose this is a white oak mast year?

#nativeplants

Close up of brown white oak acorns on the ground with red and white radicles emerging.

@moistwelldrained.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 1:30 AM

Exploding jewelweed seed pods are so much fun. Great hands-on native plant activity for kids.

#nativeplants

Light green jewelweed seed along with expended seed pod

@pammarrone.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 12:11 AM

I bought too many plants. Mostly CA #nativeplants. But so did my fellow members (lined up waiting to be let in) of the @ucdavis.bsky.social Arboretum. the 1st plant sale of the fall season.

@frwildflowers.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 11:05 PM

Brachythecium erythrorrhizon moss on the Plymouth Creek Trail Thursday #nativeplants 🌿

@forgottenbeauty.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 8:30 PM

Helianthus angustifolias is in bloom 🥰
#gardening #gardeningforwildlife #nativeplants #flowers #bloomscrolling #pollinators

@danisue.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 7:05 PM

An Oak Tree a Day
From the size of the dropped trunk, this tree has most likely seen decades if not more than a century of changes from the Chumash to the ranchers to the weekend bicyclists & their little bells. Waiting to see the next generation & not giving up. California #nativePlants #nature

A fallen trail side oak tree in dappled shade from the morning sun. The background is hilly and the sky is clear and blue.

The backside of this tree has a profusion of new growth coming from the base of the tree.

@jbtheexplorer.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 5:57 PM

Cabbage white on New England aster.

#nativeplants #garden #Wisconsin #autumn

@kayontheprairie.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 4:53 PM

Beautiful morning at Big Sky Nature Reserve ☀️

#illinois #hiking #nativeplants

A clear blue sky over a prairie landscape

A morning sun and blue sky over a fall prairie

A large dog (Beans!) overlooks the prairie with the morning sun shining

@ciabernales.com Oct 3, 2026, 3:43 PM

Beautiful Saturday morning walk in the backyard, October 3, 2026 😀 My phone can’t capture how bright the asters and goldenrods are in our backyard right now! They make me smile!

#ciaheartsgardening #urbangarden #jerseycitygardens #nativeplants

@dignthegarden.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 2:50 PM

Some beauties from the yarden in the past week or so.
#nativebees #nativeplants #pollinatorgarden #bloomscrolling