Kentucky Wildflowers

[Princess]

Here are a few flowers that I took pictures of this summer. They're common wildflowers found in Kentucky.



Butterfly weed--this is in the milkweed family--which is a host plant to Monarch Butterfly larva.

This one is called Sneezeweed--it was used in the past for making snuff. Looks a lot like a black-eyed Susan.

Jewelweed--often found near poison ivy/poison oak. The sap from jewelweed is a home remedy for the 'bite' from these poisonous plants

This is Nebulous-Pye Weed. I don't know anything about this, but I liked the angle of the shot. It shows Momma's back yard.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Very pretty!

Is that an out house in the last pic?

 

[Princess]

LOL. Nope. It's the well house and the barn in the distance. We enclosed the well, for safety purposes. The outhouse isn't anywhere near the house (sanitation issues)

 

[DanteX]

Nice

 

[Mr. Perfect]

I'm from Kentucky and I have never seen any of these flowers lol....except for the last ones! Maybe its a farm thing or a country thing....



However I have seen the last ones! Pretty flowers tho!

 

[Princess]

I'm surprised you haven't seen the butterfly weed. But the middle two pics are more in the woods, than on the roadside.

I know Nebulous-Pye Weed is everywhere on the side of the Audubon and the West Ky parkway.

 

[Mr. Perfect]

West ky parkway.....(sigh) Gosh I miss Kentucky!

 

[Princess]

Sorry, I didn't mean to make you homesick.....

 

[Mr. Perfect]

Its okay! Just a few more months here in Iraq and then I will be able to visit home!

 

[Princess]

Very cool. I know your family can't wait to see you.....