Orange Hawkweed by Erik W. L. Anderson
Cook County, Minnesota - Summer 2000
| Wildflowers August 30, 2000 Found blooming in Cook county by Lorraine Anderson - lorraine@bwca.cc (I would like to her from you who are reading these reports) Roads traveled: Hwy. 61 to Pigeon Point boat landing (on the Canadian border) then to Hovland boat landing. Flowers seen: tansy (Tanacetum vulgare) pearly everlasting mayweed dock birdsfoot trefoil ox-eye daisy rabbits-foot clover common sow thistle (Sonchus asper) orange hawkweed climbing false buckwheat (Polygonum scandens) yarrow goldenrod (Solidago) Aster, purple & white (Aster punicceus) Canada thistle sweet clover: yellow, white panicled hawkweed spotted knapweed clover: red, white Evening Primrose bull thistle rough cinquefoil (Potentilla norvegica) jewelweed (touch-me-not) common burdock (Arctium lappa) daisy fleabane (Erigeron strigosus) lesser stitchwort (Stellaria graminea) pineapple weed bur-marigold (Bidens) arrow-leaved tearthumb (Polygonum sagittatum) harebell butter & eggs (Linaria vulgaris) smartweed Even though they were almost done blooming we spent quite a bit of time identifying and tearing apart wilted blossoms of "campion" We found that the ones that we were looking at with the larger bladders were Evening lychnis (Lychnis alba), the ones with the smaller bladders were Night flowering catchfly (Silene noctiflora). We have had this discussion before and the books tell them apart by the number of styles, but we find them hard to count. Well, next year we can go over this again! Last week I mentioned that the fall color on the shore was later than the maples inland - well we saw a lot of golden birch and aspen on the shore today. Some of that may be due to the dry weather we have been having. Hiking the Superior Hiking trail on Monday we saw a (one) maple in full fall color. It was beautiful.
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