Please post any pictures or plant descriptions in this thread for discussion and identification.If you could also add what zone your in it may be easier to ID.
When replying with an answer,let us know if it may be a nectar or pollen producer if you know.Hope this is a help to some of you!! :)
Can anyone ID this flower?
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it may be blue flax
http://www.wildflowerinformation.org/Wildflower.asp?ID=78
or maybe forget-me-nots
http://www.wildflowerinformation.org/Wildflower.asp?ID=74
not sure
could be the flax, definately not forget me nots, leaves are wrong. :)
Ken, kind of leaning towards flax. I know the camera cannot pick up the colour blue very well, and depicts that colour as pink to the human eye. I have taken pictures of the flowers on chives, which are definitely blue (purple I would say, but in gardening jargon, purple is called blue) and the pictures show pink flowers. Eeeks!!! Beautiful, most wonderful days, Cindi
Buzzbee, it could also be a Gentian. There are several different types of Gentian, and they are widely spread across most of the country, and they do attract pollinating insects.
Nope, not flax, not gentian. That looks like a wild dianthus, but the leaves are very fuzzy, I can't see them quite well enough. Can you post a clearer picture of the leaves and flowers?
Hmm, I wonder if it is calibrachoa (million bells), a member of the petunia family? Beautiful day in this great life. Cindi
It doesn't look exactly like it, but what about phlox?
No, phlox looks different. Cindi
OK any one know what this is? My neighbor calls it a firecracker plant.
It's a small tree they grow about 10-12 feet high.
All I know for sure is the bees LOVE it and it stinks to high heaven when we burn the pruned limbs?
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Quote from: irerob on March 23, 2009, 11:32:32 PM
OK any one know what this is? My neighbor calls it a firecracker plant.
It's a small tree they grow about 10-12 feet high.
All I know for sure is the bees LOVE it and it stinks to high heaven when we burn the pruned limbs?
http://img26.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=hpim1393.jpg
Bottlebrush http://floridagardener.com/pom/Callistemon.htm
...JP
Thank you JP could not find any thing about it under firecracker tree
Your welcome irerob!
...JP
I thought these were Dandelions but the dark stigma's make me wonder. What are these flowers?
Flower
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Leaf
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Yep, that's a dandelion, it must be a natural variation.
Quote from: reinbeau on May 05, 2009, 04:52:01 PM
Yep, that's a dandelion, it must be a natural variation.
Wow, my field is filled with this variation. I am very glad they are dandelions. Last year my wife and daughter went to parks and collected dandelion seeds to scatter on my property, but they were the "normal" looking dandelions.
patook- that is called Texas Dandelion (Pyrrhopappus multicaulis), also called false dandelion and pata de Leon.
True dandelion is Taraxacum officionale. This is the one that has edible leaves. The Texas dandelion green is edible, but has to be parboiled due to the bitterness.
Is it as good a pollen/nectar source as the true ?
I have both varieties here, and what I have observed is a definite preference for the common dandelion. I see tiny solitary bees working the Tx variety more often than honeybees.
Here is a plant, weed, flower that came up in my flower patch. It kind of has the look of a dasiy with a small yellow flower that looks like a dandelion. Any suggestions?
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Hard to see, but it looks like one of the hawkweeds (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawkweed). Does it look like this in bloom?
(http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/assets/organicweeds/mouse_ear_hawkweed1.jpg)
What are these three? I think one might be beebalm and one might be clover.
Is this beebalm?
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Is this some kind of clover?
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What is this???
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patook...............the middle pic is yellow or hop clover.
G3
How do you post your pics to make them open in the post??? instead of the links or thumbnails on imageshack, I don't like image shack at all.
Hmm, the middle one, I thought looked like birdsfoot trefoil. Could be the yellow clover though. Beautiful day, love to live life, health. Cindi
The middle one does it have a round prickly seed pod when it's done blooming
Quote from: G3farms on May 25, 2009, 09:10:32 AM
How do you post your pics to make them open in the post??? instead of the links or thumbnails on imageshack, I don't like image shack at all.
I use photobucket and the [ I M G ] tag.
The top one is definately not bee balm, it is a red rounded cluster.
the middle one is out of focus, might be hop clover, wild indigo
still working on the third one
G3
reinbeau, not really. The shoots have what appear to have blooms coming on but they never open. I think UIm just going to pull it because I didnt plant it there so I believe it is some kind of weed.
Ken I can't find start new topic on plant ID so I'll just tag along. This weed started up here last year it gets about 2 to 3 feet tall can anybody tell me what it is and it's loaded with pollen.
http://picasaweb.google.com/irwin453/024?authkey=Gv1sRgCNnXkIi-6rrXJQ#
can not locate it in the field guide for the eastern region.
kind of a funny looking flower with the pistil just laying down on the petals.
Are the bees working it?
G3
Not the one's by the house but I seen one on it out in a field.
Irwin, it's Evening Primrose or Oenothera biennis (http://www.altnature.com/gallery/Evening_Primrose.htm).
Thank you Ann :)
Ann, you never cease to amaze me with your incredibly vast knowledge of plants (the "common" names and the Latin, which you always know), smiling. Good for you girl, you go, girl, go!!! I know many plants by both the common and Latin name, but usually am more intune with the common.
Evening Primrose. I remember growing that when I had my nursery business. Such a beautiful description in the seed catalogue. I was very disappointed when I grew it and it turned out to be such a weedy, huge plant. Part of the description was that it was extremely fragrant. Perhaps my soils do not support this type of plant to have a sweet fragrance, but I never smelled nothing, no sweet scent that I thought would prevail through my gardens. I wound up ripping the many plants out, they were not tame enough for the areas that I chose for them to grow in.
Now Valerian. Holy smokin' smokes!!! I must get a picture of the Valerian out the back of my Sister's place, perhaps today I'll get out there. When you are smelling the flowers up closely, they reak!!! Truly stink. But.....if you are walking anywhere near the area, the sweet fragrance is nothing short of what will take your breath away. Don't understand the dynamics of how something can smell so beautifully that distance away, but stink up close. (By the way, ever smelled Valarian Root capsules, eeeks and more eeks!!!! I recall that stench so clearly, the capsules didn't taste so badly, but never, ever, smell the bottle that they live in, smiling). Beautiful days, to love and live, great health. Cindi
Ah, valerian, yes, dried, it stinks like dirty gym socks! Blech! But I do love the fragrance in the garden, as you say, from a distance :)
I have no idea what this is. (would gallberry be this small?) The bees haven't been paying as much attention to it this year as last, but the bumbles love it.
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This is as big as I can get the image to upload. (It's 4.5 M. but imageshack keeps converting it into a thumbnail - tried settings to no real avail.) hope this is big enough.
It sue looks like the wild strawberry that we have growing under the tulip poplar.
I should have taken a wide shot too, that's a little piece of a small tree
really? could you get a pic of the leaves..up close ?
ok the leaves...(http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/4455/leavesu.jpg) (http://img708.imageshack.us/i/leavesu.jpg/) (the flowers are about 1/4" for scale)
and the tree from a few feet away
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Looks like Ilex vomitoria. Commonly called Yaupon Holly, Yaupon, or Cassina. People used to make tea out of it.
...we do have puke plants around here; that's a possibility that didnt occur to me.
So you have heard of the black drink?
I haven't heard it called that, I did hear somewhere that that the local natives used a tea from it to treat certain ailments.
I can't figure what they'd treat by inducing vomiting - it would mean that someone ate something worse than puke tea to start with.
Native Americans used the leaves and stems to brew a tea called asi or black drink for male-only purification and unity rituals. The ceremony included vomiting, and Europeans incorrectly believed that it was the drink itself that caused it (hence the Latin name). The active ingredient is actually caffeine, and the vomiting was either learned or as a result of the great quantities in which they drank the beverage coupled with fasting.
I made the tea once in college. I used sugar to sweeten it like today's sweet tea. It was ok. The bush I had got cut down a couple of years ago.
Here is a straight stem flower with red flowers clustered at the end. Sorry for no real good pictures. The area where it is planted is the "area of the nuknown." I get packets of seeds in from different places and sow them in this area. Does anyone know what the flower is
(http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/3783/dscf8056y.th.jpg) (http://img195.imageshack.us/i/dscf8056y.jpg/)
(http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/4154/dscf8059f.th.jpg) (http://img690.imageshack.us/i/dscf8059f.jpg/)
(http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/1452/dscf8060.th.jpg) (http://img121.imageshack.us/i/dscf8060.jpg/)
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The red flowers are Sweet William.
A local bee keeper told me that the purple bloom variety of soybeans is a good plant for honey production in our area (north Alabama). He said to avoid the white bloom variety.
Neither my county agent or local Farmer's Exchange Co-Op have been able to identify a purple bloom variety. I've Goggled and can find a picture of not a name.
Anyone familiar with a purple bloom soybean that the bees can use early on and the deer can graze later?
Bama, there's millions of purple flowered soy beans grown here in Michigan. Since there isn't a weed to be seen in the fields, I would assume the purple ones the farmers plant here are GM soybeans (Roundup ready soybeans). I rarely see any bees on them here though. I've been told there are numerous cultivars of soy beans and that bees love some and hate others. The soybeans grown down your way are probably different than the ones grown way up here, but I really don't know.
Good question.
Anybody know what this plant is?
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Does anyone know what's wrong with my apple tree?
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I don't know what the top is, but I think the apple tree might have several problems - I'm no farmer and definitely no apple expert, so I hope I at least invite some more discussion - The spotting and yellowing looks like iron deficiency - the drying (I'm assuming you're making sure it's watered) - could mean a root pest or illness - There's a fruit tree food that may help with root growth. Remember I'm making a - somewhat - educated guess - but if anyone else can say for sure please step up.
My guess on the top plant is its a Clematis Vitalba.
Ken, anyone what is this bloom? wild in the path down to my bees.
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Would like for anyone to identify it.... Joel/JPBEEGETTER
Looks like a fall blooming bulb; Lycoris radiate. AKA as Spider Lily.
Around here we call it a spider lily. It's a backwards plant. It blooms first in the fall then the leaves come out to absorb sunlight for the next year's blooming. Comes up from a bulb. Easy to transplant.
There are some 15-20 feet holly trees at the entrance of Callaway Gardens' azalea bowl, an hour away from me. This spring there were so many honey bees on the inconspicuous flowers, that I could hear a magnificent droning from a good distance. It was not a Needlepoint or Nellie R Steven. Some kind of Opaca holly perhaps? Would anyone know what kind of holly that might be?
Bobil,
Do you have a picture?
Jim Altmiller
Have a plant that I need to identify but can not post the pic. Can someone let me email it to them so they can resize and post?
Here is your plant picture:
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Quote from: Shawn on July 12, 2021, 06:42:36 PM
Have a plant that I need to identify but can not post the pic. Can someone let me email it to them so they can resize and post?
Pm sent.
Shawn,
Did you resize the plant picture?
If not you cannot post large pictures.
Here is the link to do this.
https://beemaster.com/forum/index.php?topic=51631.0
Jim Altmiller
Quote from: Shawn on July 12, 2021, 06:42:36 PM
Have a plant that I need to identify but can not post the pic. Can someone let me email it to them so they can resize and post?
Here is your plant picture:
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I feel sure somewhere will identify your plant.
A little off topic but I would like to say and ask, Shawn you live in a beautiful place! I have to ask, do your bees collect a good amount of honey in your region?
I checked this picture with PlantSnap but it did not find a match. I then sent them the picture, if I receive an answer, I will post it.
Jim Altmiller
Sorry I have not updated my profile for awhile. I am back in Colorado.