Tattered and torn - and still beautiful
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Red River Hog / Potamochoerus porcus
Yesterday's summer hail
Egyptian Walking Onion
Showy Milkweed / Asclepias speciosa
Southern Bald Ibis / Geronticus calvus
Ladybug larva on Showy Milkweed
Hawk in Fish Creek Park - juvenile Northern Goshaw…
Blue Lettuce / Lactuca tatarica
Bold and beautiful
They can't see me
Juvenile Swainson's Hawk
Shakin' all over
Osprey family in the city
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Don't call me 'Gopher'
Popular with the flies
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Swainson's Hawk female, dark-phase
Cream and wine-coloured
A cute little cluster
Lovage / Levisticum officinale
A fun find
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Sainfoin / Onobrychis viciifolia
Breaking through the storm clouds
Mom and her spotted twins
Gathering in the forest
Sowthistle
The arrival of fall
American Kestrel, Falco sparverius
Clay-colored Sparrow / Spizella pallida
Sleeping down at the pond
Grasshopper Sparrow / Ammodramus savannarum - OR i…
Red-edged petals
Needed a change of colour
Hollyhock buds
Such cute little hands and feet
Cow Parsnip / Heracleum maximum
Red-necked Grebe
White-crowned Sparrow / Zonotrichia leucophrys
The purity of white
Flowers of spring
Le Conte's Sparrow
Baby fluff
Striped Coralroot / Corallorhiza striata
Snake's head fritillary / Fritillaria meleagris
Finely iridescent
Red Baneberry
Canada Goose
03 Blowing in the wind
The joy of spring
Periwinkle / Vinca minor
First day out in the big, wide world
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A bird of many colours
Busy parent
Nuttall's Sunflower / Helianthus nuttallii
Snake's Head Fritillary / Fritillaria meleagris
Close-up of bee colony
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Ornamental Spurge / Euphorbia polychroma (Cushion Spurge)
On 27 April 2016, I had a volunteer shift and afterwards, as the sun was peeping through the clouds, I decided to call in at the Reader Rock Garden. There was a reasonable number of plants in bloom. I wasn't sure if I was going to be too early or too late for Tulips, especially as this year has so far been most unusual, weatherwise. There was also a bush of gorgeous pink Hellebore flowers, hanging their heads as they tend to do. The Ornamental Spurge was in bloom, attractive as always. So different rfrom the Leafy Spurge that has taken over so many of our natural areas. There was enough colour and variety of plants to make this visit worthwhile.
"Spurges belong to the quite large Euphorbia genus of plants that contains 2,000 different species, some of which are highly ornamental, and some of which are weeds with little cultivated value. They all, however, are characterized by a lack of true flower petals or sepals, but have instead brightly colored modified leaves known as bracts, which look just like flowers. The most well-known member of this group is the poinsettia, whose red "flowers" are in fact the showy bracts of an ornamental spurge."
www.chicagobotanic.org/plantinfo/spurge
"Spurges belong to the quite large Euphorbia genus of plants that contains 2,000 different species, some of which are highly ornamental, and some of which are weeds with little cultivated value. They all, however, are characterized by a lack of true flower petals or sepals, but have instead brightly colored modified leaves known as bracts, which look just like flowers. The most well-known member of this group is the poinsettia, whose red "flowers" are in fact the showy bracts of an ornamental spurge."
www.chicagobotanic.org/plantinfo/spurge
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