Posted on 29 September 2006 by wilde
Driving along the country roads in South Central Pennsylvania in September we see lots of pretty views of yellow goldenrods and purple asters. The scene of a fallow field can be quite beautiful with the natural colors of these native plants shining in the sunlight.
Purple asters along a Pennsylvania country road.
Goldenrod comes in many varieties and most have dazzling, yellow flower stalks. Some are plume-like, while others are flat-topped, club-shaped, or shaped like the branches of an elm tree. There are at least 60 kinds of goldenrod, or Solidago, in the Northeast and Northcentral North America, so certain identification is best left to the experts.
Yellow plumes of goldenrod flowers.
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Posted on 28 September 2006 by wilde
Witch hazel trees are the last blooms that I think we’ll see this season, although I was surprised to see one blooming in September. The long-petaled flowers look a little scraggly. No sepals visible, just thin yellow petals.
Witch hazel blossoms next to last year’s seed pods.
I remember last November, as we tromped through the woods in search of the perfect white pine for a Charlie Brown Christmas Tree, that we saw a whole stand of blooming witch hazel trees. I’ll be on the lookout for them again this year!
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Maple-leaved viburnum is sporting its berries now, too. The black viburnum berries may be a good food source for the birds that stay around during the winter, although I have seen in year’s past that some of the berries last through the winter.
Maple-leaved viburnum provides berries in the oak forest.
Black berries of Maple-Leaved Viburnum.
Some really pretty purple and white asters that we planted at the wood’s edge are starting to bloom now.
Buzzer visits the pretty white flowers.
Pretty purple aster begins blossoming.
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