Star thistles are not only pesky and sometimes painful weeds; they’re invaders which can take over and spread quickly, crowding out native grasses. This plant may have arrived in California as early as 1848 — and we’ve been fighting those darn “stickers” ever since!
I had no clue what plant this was when I first photographed it, and Google’s image search didn’t provide much help. Part of my trouble was that I couldn’t guess what the flowers would look like once the buds opened. So I waited for about a week and then went back to check on developments. This purple milkweed (Asclepias cordifolia) […]
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of April 18, 2018. This week, show us your interpretation of prolific.
What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet — Gerard Manley Hopkins