They look sort of like black eyed Susan. But they're not. Look closer.
They're taller and have not one but a few flowers on each stem. Aha!
These are sweet coneflower, Rudbeckia subtomentosa on Route 519.
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Thursday, 17 July 2025
They look sort of like black eyed Susan. But they're not. Look closer.
They're taller and have not one but a few flowers on each stem. Aha!
These are sweet coneflower, Rudbeckia subtomentosa on Route 519.
With common names such as mimosa or Persian silk tree, Albizia julibrissin, is an exotic
dainty small tree that may be seen here and there around town. This time, on Route 12.
Monday, 14 July 2025
Black-eyed Susan, Rudbeckia hirta, is an annual, biennial, short lived perennial
native plant adding golden daisies to open fields. Gloriosa daisies were developed
by treating the seeds of black-eyed Susan with colchicine to create tetraploid cultivars.
A small group on Ridge Road. There are more, fileds full of them, elsewhere.
Wednesday, 2 July 2025
Monarda didyma has several common names: bergamot, bee balm, horsemint, and Oswego tea.
Its first common name refers to the fragrance of its leaves, like that of bergamot oranges.
Like others in the mint family it is a rapidly spreading plant. On Tinsman Road.
Tuesday, 1 July 2025
Growing in a flower bed adjacent to the parking lot behind Frenchtown
Home and Hardware store on Kingwood Avenue. Common names include
tritoma,, red hot poker, torch lily and poker plant. I think this is the cultivar
Kniphofia 'Poco Yellow'. There are three very well established plants.
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