I noticed the hawkweed had started to flower last week or the week before. A bunch of them grow right outside my back door but I usually go out the front door for holler walks and miss some of their phase shifts. Today, though, there are so many blooming that they caught my attention...I went out the back door and got this photo:
Hawkweed (Hieracium pratense), 6 May 2011.
I saw my first open ox-eye daisy flower of the year -- just one, surrounded by tons of buds. Since I have many open flower daisy photos, I thought I'd get one of a bud for this post:
Ox-eye daisy (Chrysanthemun leucanthemum), 6 May 2011.
The other flowering plant news is that the some-kind-of-yellow-flower season is upon me. I think I separated out a yellow avens from the crowd today, but I'm going nuts with some others that I think are in the buttercup family but don't quite match up with any of the species in the guide I use...time to surf the net for buttercups, I guess.
Yellow avens (Geum aleppicum) -- I think...6 May 2011.
I walked the holler at midday...not so many birds around at that time, but I saw an eastern phobe and heard a Carolina wren. On my way back up the holler, four or five crows did a noisy flyover.
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