PHOTOPAGE 396

    

   

 

 Late July 2008

Great conditions for Blackberries this year. I've been able to pick cupfuls in minutes. The canes are laden with tough thorns to make the picking a challenge. Blackberry (bramble) canes impede easy movement in both Winter and in Summer.  

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396.10 Milkweed Seed Asclepias

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396.11 Wooly Aphid? Eriosomatidae  

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396.12 Woodland Sunflower Helianthus divaricatus 

   

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396.1 Groundnut Apios Americana   

The << Groundnut and Blue Vervain >> flowers appear in late mid-Summer and are striking. The Groundnut produces pods with edible beans and the roots They are commercially grown and harvested as food.

  

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396.2 Blue Vervain Verbena hastata

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396.3 My Blackberry Rubus fruticosus 

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396.4 Blackberries   Rubus fruticosus

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396.5 Wild Grape Vitis 
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396.6 Teasel and Carpenter Bee

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 396.7 Queen Anne's Lace (underside) Daucus Carota

 

  

 

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396.8 Teasel  Dipsacus fullorum 

 

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396.9 Aphids  

  Aphid Link

 

  

   
 
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