Wildflowers and trees

[thenewbuzwuzz]

I ventured a couple of blocks from home yesterday and saw all kinds of plant friends.

This first pic shows the median strip of a street, in a suburb of Riga, Latvia. I think the yellow flowers might be wild radish, but I'm not sure. There's lots of them everywhere.



This is probably called shepherd's-purse. I'm almost sure.


Bird cherry. :)

Comments

[shirebound]

That shepherd's-purse makes such a delicate picture.

[thenewbuzwuzz]

Thank you! :) I think the sun half-hid behind a cloud just as I was taking the picture, and the shadows turned out softer than I expected.

[rose_griffes]

Oh, shepherd's purse makes a really lovely leaf pattern!

[thenewbuzwuzz]

It does, doesn't it. :) Thank you!

[pameladean]

I think you're right about the shepherd's purse. I've had some in my yard intermittently for years and got a friend who did wildflower walks in local parks to confirm my ID. I really like it; it doesn't look like much from a distance but its detail is all so pretty.

P.

[thenewbuzwuzz]

Cool! Thanks for the confirmation. :))

[yourlibrarian]

Such a nice shot, the sun coming through the trees in the bottom pic :)

[thenewbuzwuzz]

:) Thank you!

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

I think the yellow behind the dandelion is rape/canola, part of the mustard family.

[thenewbuzwuzz]

Ooooh, could be! I wondered earlier, but didn't know those grew wild (or feral, I suppose). Now I know they do.

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

They're pretty endemic in North America from bird seed. (Possibly from before that, but that was pretty sure how one batch in Texas happened and might apply elsewhere.)

[thenewbuzwuzz]

Yeah, and I gather they "escape from cultivation" here in Latvia. People grow a fair amount of them, so I can see how some of them would have opportunities to wander off on their own.

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

I've seen art of the harvest of them, so I can imagine that they do 'roam' off. Corn and soybeans aren't quite as easily spread, and those are the crops I know best, for a given value of urban dweller knows anything Farm.

[turlough]

Bird cherry is so pretty! And I love the way it smells.

[thenewbuzwuzz]

Me too! :)

[earthspirits]

Looks good! We're excited about our veggie garden too!

[thenewbuzwuzz]

Thanks, and good luck with your veggie garden! :)

[earthspirits]

Delightful photos!

[thenewbuzwuzz]

Thank you! :))