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@jgryboski.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 1:53 PM

A monarch slurping up some aster juice

#insects #butterflies #wildflowers #nativeplants #FlyDay #wisconsin

@jgryboski.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 1:34 PM

Some photos from this morning at Samuel Myers Park in Racine

#wildflowers #nativeplants #wisconsin

@jp0610.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 12:47 PM

Winterberry Holly (Ilex verticillata). The berries are quickly ripening, as these were green just a week and a half ago. Behind the shrub there’s a few Cardinal Flower and Blue Lobelia that are starting to fade as the seasons turn. #nativeplants

@jp0610.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 12:42 PM

White Snakeroot, New England Aster and Goldenrod are putting on a show. My yard might look green for most of late summer, but it pays off once the fall bloomers start. #nativeplants

@kayontheprairie.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 11:51 AM

Happy #FlyDay! 🪰

Flower Fly on Smooth Blue Aster

#nativeplants #gardening #bugsky

A smooth bodied fly with black and yellow stripes and amber tinted wings feeds on the pale purple flower of a smooth blue aster

@diva-nursery.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 11:42 AM

Детальна характеристика Вероніки довголистої | Veronica longifolia й актуальна ціна в Telegram: t.me/diva_nursery...

#веронікавсаду
#divanursery #keepuniqueness
#outdoorplantcollection #telegram #вероніка #veronica #bloomscrolling #gardening #сад #nativeplants #колекціябагаторічників #розсадникDiva

@wikidgarden.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 11:03 AM

A sweet #FlyDay to all!

#Butterflies #NativePlants #Habitat #BigCypress
Photo by @rmj827.bsky.social

@elisnativeplants.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 4:28 AM

Virgin's Bower (Clematis Virginiana) is our only native vine that will flower in full shade, theoretically. I see it more often in wet meadows and forest edges, draping over a shrub or tall clumping herb, blooming profusely.
#nativeplants #ecoregion58

White 4-petalled, many-stamened flowers on a waxy-leaved Virgin's Bower vine draping a shrub.

@wearegonnafindout.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 2:40 AM

Seeds

🌱 #nativeplants
🦀⛵ #Maryland
🌎 #ecoregion65

Upward facing cups of forked blue curl seeds.

@schnickilfritz.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 1:17 AM

The goldenrod and asters are starting to take off in Northern Illinois. One of my favorite times of the year.

Today's garden visitors 🌱 #nativeplants

@toxicoradica.northsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 12:53 AM

💮 slenderstalk beeblossom 🌿
Oenothera filipes

#nativeplants #ecoregion71

seen from the side, a single blooming flower near the tip of a slender green stalk, with a handful of narrow buds developing above. the flower sits on a very short pink flowerstem that bends to the side and joins to a light purplish-green ovary with an X-shaped cross-section. beyond that, there is a narrow light green tube before the sepals. the four sepals are thin, pink, and strongly reflexed backwards, but they curve back in, too, some of them even pointing back forwardsish at their tips. four white, paddle-shaped petals are arranged across the top half of the flower, above the stamens and style; however, the petals are a bit wilty so lean forwards instead of standing erect. there are eight stamens with thin white filaments and tan yellow anthers that look crumbly and dry. like the petals, the stamens also droop. the thin white style is longer than the stamens and it droops even further down. its four-lobed pale yellow stigma faces the ground.

same flower, seen from the front. this flower is the only blooming member of a long raceme. above, there are around a dozen flowerbuds which get successively smaller the further up you look. below, there is a small gap where slightly older flowers have dropped away, but below that there are some blurry developing fruits. the one active flower has four droopy white paddle-shaped petals; four strongly reflexed thin pink sepals; eight droopy stamens with white filaments and tan yellow anthers; and a long white droopy style with a pale yellow stigma.

slenderstalk beeblossom growing in a patch of prairie by a limestone cedar glade with a treeline in the background dominated by eastern redcedars. the beeblossom is difficult to distinguish in this field of tall dry grass. up to around knee-height or so, it has a red stem with multiple branches, all with thin green leaves near the top. from these branches grow tall green flowerstalks, long racemes with well-spaced flower nodes, rising head-high. little seedpods are growing up most the stalk, but near the top there is one blooming flower, then about a dozen flowerbuds above. the flower has drooping white petals and thin, peeled back pink sepals.

@elisnativeplants.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 12:27 AM

Opening up the field edge for feral apples, Hawthorns (e.g. this Crataegus pruinosa?) and other #nativeplants at my grandparents' place is humbling work. Removing thickets of Alder-leaved Blackthorn.

Tools: A weed wrench, hand saw, and seeds. I'll be back with a hatchet to cut resprouting stumps.

Possibly a Frosted Hawthorn, as it doesn't seem like "Large-seeded" (C. macrocarpa) would be the right epithet.

This just shows some double-toothed hawthorn leaves and twigs, a few thorns...

The Hawthorn from 10m back, trunk centered and completely obscured by artfully draped foliage, even after I've just cleared the surrounding buckthorns.

Hawthorns are subtle. I think that's the fun. You'll notice a lot if you go looking for them.

View from the side, a little down the field, at the pile of Buckthorns, roots and all, and the white steel weed wrench. The near side of the Hawthorn has been cleared, but you can't see the small shrubby cluster of trunks from here

@ontarioblackbirder.bsky.social Sep 17, 2026, 11:20 PM

Presenting the official bee of Toronto, Ontario 🇨🇦

Bicoloured Agapostemon

#pollinators , #nature , #bees , #getoutside , #nativeplants

@kayontheprairie.bsky.social Sep 17, 2026, 9:16 PM

I’ve seen a lot of good bugs this summer, but this Green Stink Bug is one of my favorites. Spotted it hanging out on Common Milkweed. 🪲💚

#nativeplants #bugsky #gardening

A bright green and black bug sits on a milkweed plant leaf

@kristinwyatt.bsky.social Sep 17, 2026, 7:14 PM

My front yard today. Over the last few years we have been ditching lawn and invasive plants and replacing them with native plants and trees. It amazes me how many new butterflies, birds, and animals we see. Don't be afraid to do it, even if just a little, in your yard.
#nativeplants #butterflies

A distant shot of a monarch on goldenrod in a sea of yellow and purple flowers in my front yard.