Plants first seen blooming during July, 2014

Natives:

• pokeweed
• swamp thistle
• northern sea oats
• buttonbush
• starry campion
• basil balm
• St. Andrew’s cross
• nodding onion
• bushy St. Johnswort
• naked-flower ticktrefoil
• white vervain
• lizard’s tail
• white-topped aster
• honeyvine
• fogfruit
• wild potato vine
• slender nettle
• common milkweed
• common arrowhead
• spotted St. Johnswort
• swamp milkweed
• Allegheny monkeyflower
• Indian tobacco
• yellow passionflower
• jumpseed
• lopseed
• common agrimony
• American germander
• wood nettle
• false pimpernel
• early goldenrod
• culver’s root
• shrubby St. Johnswort
• smooth sumac
• woodland sunflower
• Indian hemp
• tall coneflower
• wild mint
• Carolina elephantsfoot
• halberd-leaved rosemallow
• sweet joe-pye weed
• seedbox
• blue vervain
• swamp candles
• butterfly pea
• white snakeroot
• hairy boneset
• cranefly orchid

Aliens:

• queen Anne’s lace
• wild parsnip
• yellow sweet clover
• spotted knapweed
• common St. Johnswort
• tumble mustard
• carpetweed
• common mullein
• white sweet clover
• burdock
• bouncing bet
• common plantain
• jimson-weed
• hedge parsley
• Asiatic dayflower

for a year’s total of 269 species in 77 families.

And here’s a picture of a zebra swallowtail on spotted knapweed: