These flowers with the shaggy look resembles my hair in the morning on some days. Common names for this flower include bergamot, bee balm, horsemint, and oswego tea.
Pretty Bee Balm
Picture of the Day for August 22, 2016
The spiky petals of this bee balm flower looked like my hairdo this morning.
Spiky Look
Picture of the Day for July 25, 2013
The road ditches are presenting a ray of colors from orange, purple, white, and yellow. And here the yellow and black of the native Black-eyed Susans are sharing the ditch with the purple Bee Balm. The Black-eyed Susans were attracting green inch worms and the Bee Balm was enticing bees and butterflies.
Colorful Ditch
