Native to Eurasia, Yellow Rocket it is considered a weed here and so I was pulling those weeds off my lawn. Even though if the bees may have collecting pollen from the blossoms, but there are plenty of dandelions for the bees to collect pollen from instead.
Bee on Yellow Rocket
Shoveling snow every morning may be a pain in the butt, but running into stick-tights, burdock, and other burs can be a pain in the finger as I always seem to get them stuck in my fingers when trying to get them off my clothing. And with their little hooks, they do ‘stick’ very well.
Sticking Burs
I might be just as prickly as this dried up wild cucumber pod as I watch the snow falling outside. Spring is supposed to be here and winter over but winter won’t go away so the critters and birds are probably feeling as prickly as me too.
Prickly Wild Cucumber
This flower (or weed) didn’t escape from gardens but most likely came as a stow-away from Europe and Asia in hay or alfalfa seed in the late 1890’s. Since then it has spread to 45 of the 50 states and has rapidly invaded Wisconsin’s prairies and barrens, as well as pastures, hay fields, ditches and other grassland areas.
Well it might look like a pretty purple flower, the spotted knapweed makes and then secretes chemicals into the soil which kill surrounding plants to aid its evasion.
Spotted Knapweed
There is white stuff blowing around but it isn’t the white fluff from sow thistle blossom carrying weed seeds around, but just cold snow flakes.
Blowing White
A field full of weeds can look pretty, but then to some the yellow goldenrod isn’t a weed and is held as a sign of good luck or good fortune. They are good fortune to insects providing a source of nectar and well as historically healing wounds on the skin. Even Thomas Edison experimented with goldenrod to produce rubber, which it contains naturally.
Others might cuss out the goldenrod for allergy problems but another culprit, the ragweed, which blooms at the same time is usually responsible for seasonal allergies.
Pretty Field of Weeds
While the bindweed is considered a problematic weed in agricultural fields, I would rather see this white flower than the falling snow outside.
Different White
